Welcome Back! Spring '07

[Body of Animal Rights Campaigners @ UCF]

Body of Animal Rights Campaigners
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1. Circus Protest: Ringling is Back 2. Radical Rush Next Week! 1. It's Not Entertainment — Animal Abuse at Ringling Bros. Circus Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is in the midst of a five-week tour of Florida. While in Central Florida, the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF) will be out to demonstrate against the cruelty of the circus at Ringling's performances. Animals in circuses live miserable lives of deprivation, confinement and abuse. Ringling's animal-care history is riddled with USDA violations and penalties. Videotape and testimony from former Ringling trainers and circus employees reveal that force and abusive training methods are common behind-the-scenes. (Click here to learn more.) Twenty-four Ringling elephants, including four babies, have died since 1992! Orlando Dates and Times: Saturday, January 13, 10:00am, 2:00pm, 6:00pm; Sunday, January 14, 11:30am, 3:30pm ** Location: The Amway Arena (formerly known as the TD Waterhouse Centre), 600 W. Amelia St., Orlando. Click here for directions and parking information. Note: ARFF will be leafleting circusgoers following each performance in Orlando. BARC will be having our own event in conjunction with ARFF's demonstration times. Shortly after the very last circus performance (around 6-6:30pm? on this Sunday evening), Ringling parades their elephants and horses around the streets of downtown Orlando where they end at a train to load up all the animals destined for a new city. They have a police car escort, and naturally, this stops all traffic on the busy roads as the animals go by since it is quite a spectacle! For the last two years, members of BARC have followed this procession, because it becomes the PERFECT opportunity to hold signs and pass out literature to everyone on the streets about the reality of Ringling Bros. Circus and all circuses with animal acts. Anyone is welcome to join in this peaceful and powerful demonstration! If you are free Sunday and interested in helping out, just send a quick email to Sa...@barcdontbite.org for more info on where to meet. Don't forget to bring your camera, because you will get some unforgettable photos... 2. Get Progressive in 2007 with Radical Rush! What? Radical Rush When? Tuesday, Jan 16th - Friday, Jan 19th 10:00 am - 2:00pm Where? Outside the Student Union Since BARC is a member of the Progressive Council--a coalition of student organizations at UCF who are all concerned with social and political change--we take part in Radical Rush at the beginning of every semester. This is a perfect opportunity to expose our club to incoming freshman and talk to others about vegetarianism and other animal rights/welfare issues. BARC will have a table outside the Student Union from 10am-2pm Monday through Friday this week to recruit new members. Come on out, say hello and get some information. There will be events throughout the week, and the following is a list if many of them: Tuesday: 10-2 Eco Advocates showing an "Inconvenient Truth" SU 218CD 12-2 pm FMLA poetry reading on stage 4 pm Eco-Advocates meeting in the gazebo, Focus the Nation guests 6 pm VOX meeting 8 pm CPA movie night at Natura (behind Applebee's at Alafaya and University) Wednesday: 10-2 SDS Free Store, Eco Advocates Photo Day 12- 1 pm on stage 1-2 pm NORML rally 4:30 pm College Democrats meeting 6 pm CPA meeting in gazebo 8:30 NORML meeting BA Auditorium Thursday: 10-2 Eco-Advocates Crafts Recycling 12-2 pm 3000 Too Many anti-war rally and march sponsored by CPA and SDS dinner event 7:30 FMLA meeting Friday: 12-2 pm on stage 4:30 pm SDS meeting in gazebo Hope you all had great break. We'll be sending out information on our first meeting of this semester very soon, so stay tuned. See you at the circus Protest! If you have a question about anything, email copres...@barcdontbite.org, and you should get a relatively prompt response.