SAVE DARFUR COALITION
www.savedarfur.orgThe Save Darfur Coalition's mission is to raise public awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur and to mobilize a unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of two million people in the Darfur region.We are an alliance of over 180 faith-based, advocacy and humanitarian organizations. The Coalition’s member organizations represent 130 million people of all ages, races, religions and political affiliations united together to help the people of Darfur.
All of our organizational members have signed on to our unity statement demanding peace and security for the people of Darfur.
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PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS
www.peta.org
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with more than 1.6 million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world.
PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds and other "pests," and the abuse of backyard dogs.
PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.
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THE HUNGER SITE
www.TheHungerSite.com
The Hunger Site was founded to focus the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need; the eradication of world hunger. Since its launch in June 1999, the site has established itself as a leader in online activism, helping to feed the world's hungry and food insecure. On average, over 220,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the yellow "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. To date, more that 200 million visitors have given more than 300 million cups of staple food. Its grassroots popularity has been recognized with Web awards in the activism category — the 2000 Cool Site of the Year Award and the People's Voice winner at the 2000 Webby Awards. The staple food funded by clicks at The Hunger Site is paid for by site sponsors and distributed to those in need by Mercy Corps and America's Second Harvest. 100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners. Funds are split between these organizations and go to the aid of hungry people in over 74 countries, including those in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America.
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www.alleycat.orgAlley Cat Allies, is the national nonprofit
clearinghouse for information on feral and stray cats.
For more than a decade Alley Cat Allies has advocated
Trap-Neuter-Return - the most humane and effective
method to reduce feral cat populations.
Alley Cat Allies is located in the lively city of Bethesda,
Maryland. See ourContact
Info page for our address and phone/fax
information.
Alley Cat Allies is dedicated to advocating
for nonlethal methods to reduce outdoorcat populations.
Alley Cat Allies envisions the time when TNR
and other nonlethal control measures for managing outdoor
cat populations are accepted as the standard.
More cats are intentionally killed in the United States than die from any other documented cause.
Who
is responsible? The vast majority of these killings are perpetrated not
by cruel individuals, but by and with the authority of an antiquated
animal control system. These killings are performed by government
employees and contractors, and spill over to private shelter employees.
Everyone
deplores this killing. Many characterize it as “necessary
evil.” Alley Cat Allies knows that there is nothing necessary
about this evil.
Today’s
animal control system developed over 100 years ago to address certain
serious harms that dogs posed to humans. It was, and is still today,
based on ownership of animals. Animal control laws attempt to control
animals by controlling their owners. They are a collection of owner
duties to prevent damage, for example, duties to leash, to muzzle, to
fence, and to vaccinate. Animals who do not have owners (the stray
population) or whose owners cannot comply must be impounded and adopted
or killed.
This
system is widespread and deeply entrenched; it is written into all
state and many local government laws, and it commands government
buildings, equipment, and personnel, and government contracts, budgets,
and revenues.
But
in the past three decades, radical change has taken place in the stray
animal population. Cats, not dogs, now comprise a vast majority of the
stray population. Many, if not most, of these cats are not socialized
to humans because they are offspring of a lost or abandoned owned
animal. They are not owned animals.
Nevertheless,
far too many animal organizations ignore these changed demographics and
insist that the historic system based on owner liability continues to
be a viable way to control the stray animal population. They claim that
the solution lies in broadening existing laws to include cats,
increasing enforcement, imposing more fines - in short, doing more
of the same. And, in the interim, continue to accept that killing is a
necessary evil.
Feral
cats are not socialized to humans. They are not candidates for adoption
into homes. To put them into an animal control system where the only
positive outcome is adoption is to hand these animals a death sentence.
For these reasons, Alley Cat Allies insists that this country must
create a new animal control system - a system that offers positive
outcomes for both owned and unowned animals. In other words, we
recognize that the historic animal control system is the problem, not
the solution.
Fortunately,
a viable, nonlethal alternative has already been identified and is
being implemented in communities across the world. Since 1990, ACA has
led the nation in humane education about the nature and circumstances
of stray and feral cats and in promoting Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), the
only humane, effective method to reduce their population. Now ACA is
moving forward to advocate for essential reform of animal control
systems and ordinances in communities nationwide.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~RED JELLY FISH
www.redjellyfish.com
Red Jellyfish is a large community of people who are interested in the environment, natural health and fitness, adventure travel, and exploring a happier and more sustainable way of living.
You can support different environmental non-profits automatically by using our Internet service, participating in our cell phone recyclingprogram or buying our posters. We automatically donate a portion of the revenue from these services to protect vital rainforest, feed orphaned chimpanzees, promote solar power and other clean forms of energy, fight for healthier pesticide regulations, and help save endangered wildlife all over the world.
We also have beautiful free nature e-cards, and nature puzzles(they're very addictive!), as well as news and other information to help you live a healthy, natural lifestyle.
You can also visit our free donation center once a day and our partners will make a donation that will feed an orphaned chimpanzee through the Jane Goodall Institute, or buy and protect rainforest land in Mexico through Friends of Calakmul'sland conservation program. To read about the vanishing forests, and why we feel it's so urgent to protect these places, visit ourrainforest factspage.
We believe that businesses are changing the world, and in addition to leading by example we strive to bring together other companies that are working for positive change. Therefore we have put together a natural products mall filled with links to merchants who have healthy, environmentally friendly products, none of which have been tested on animals, and are all available to you in one easy to use format.
The team at Red Jellyfish is passionate about natural living. We have deep roots in all sorts of environmental issues, and are very concerned about our animal friends. We're also into exploring new cultures through eco tourism and adventure travel, and natural health and fitness.
Since we began four years ago, every business decision we have made has been with the environment in mind. In addition to the donations to the non profit groups, we also use clean alternative energy for our facilities, we use only 100% post consumer recycled paper throughout, and buy organically grown cotton for our tote bags and T-shirts. These are just a few examples of our total commitment to the environment - and the future of this amazing planet!
We are proud members of the Co-Op America Business Network and are Green E Certified.
That's it in a nutshell! We hope you find Red Jellyfish useful and fun, and that you visit us often.
Thank you,
The Red Jellyfish Team
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CITIZENS TO END ANIMAL SUFFERING & EXPLOITATION
www.ceaseboston.org
Founded in Massachusetts in 1979, CEASE is a nonprofit, volunteer organization. Over the past several years CEASE has focused primarily on the issues of fur, animals in entertainment, and animals on factory farms. CEASE raises public awareness of these issues through media campaigns and public outreach.
Since there are many ways in which animals suffer and are exploited, and since there are financial constraints to consider, CEASE has chosen to design and implement campaigns one at a time. Rather than attempt to address many complex issues simultaneously, we have found it more effective to concentrate our efforts on specific areas of advocacy. For our voice to be heard, we must make difficult decisions on where to place our time and energy and how best to honor the trust placed in us by our generous and committed membership. And how best to honor the animals, for whom we speak.
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VEGAN SOCIETY
www.vegansociety.com
Today, the Society remains as determined as ever to promote vegan lifestyles - that is, ways of living that seek to exclude, as far as is possible and practical, all forms of exploitation of animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.
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AMERICAN VEGAN SOCIETY
www.americanvegan.org
The American Vegan Society is a nonprofit educational membership organization teaching a compassionate way of living that includes veganism.
Together we explore and apply compassionate living concepts, and reflect on them and ourselves. We learn how to revere the Earth, how to save the animals, and how to care for ourselves. People follow a vegan lifestyle for ethical reasons, for health, for the environment.
The vegan diet excludes flesh, fish, fowl, dairy products (animal milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, etc.), eggs, honey, animal gelatin, and all other foods of animal origin. It is an adventure in taste; and displays an amazing variety, the fundamentals of which are vegetables, grains, fruits, legumes, nuts and seeds. Foods from plants best provide for all people in the world.
Vegans exclude products of cruelty such as leather, wool, fur, and silk, in clothing, upholstery, etc. They dress with care. Fashion with compassion is the style.
The society motto is: Ahimsa lights the way.
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www.chickcorea.com
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www.daveweckl.com
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