Thank you for all you do to protect America's wildlife and wild places.

	Mother of two Margo Pellegrino, 39, will embark on her maiden voyage in an outrigger canoe from Miami to Maine on an 11-week excursion beginning in May. MORE >>
	Roz Savage, 39, a savvy sea venturer who already completed a 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic, hopes to become the first woman ever to row solo across the Pacific on a treacherous three-stage expedition launching from San Francisco in July. MORE >>
	The Jacobi family completed their sail in an armada of sea kayaks April 19, but not without enduring brutal winds and cases of tendonitis. They conquered the Sea of Cortez in hopes that friends and supporters of their perilous undertaking might support ocean conservation. MORE >>

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Labels: conservation, Earth Day, love of life, protect our oceans, wild life

# posted by HealingMindN @ 4/22/2007 06:23:00 PM 0 comments

"May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life."

--United Nations Secretary-General U Thant
March 21, 1971.

What Is Earth Day?

"Earth Day is a time to celebrate gains we have made and create new visions to accelerate environmental progress. Earth Day is a time to unite around new actions. Earth Day and every day is a time to act to protect our planet." (Earthday.gov)

Labels: animal love, conservation, Earth Day, ecology, ecosystem, green energy

# posted by HealingMindN @ 4/21/2007 06:27:00 PM 0 comments

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The seal hunt has officially begun. If they aren't stopped, hunters will club and skin 270,000 seals simply for their pelts. And thousands of baby seals have ALREADY fallen through melting ice and drowned because of the effects of global warming.

But there is still hope. You can send a message to these cruel seal hunters by boycotting Canadian seafood - the source of most of their profits. Pledge to stop the seal hunt using your buying power! >> http://go.care2.com/e/R8AG/hba9/U1cM

Why is a boycott powerful and effective? Seal hunting is an off-season activity for Canada's east coast commercial fishermen. Only a small fraction of their income comes from selling seal skins to the fur industry. [1] The majority of their annual income is made through seafood products such as snow crab, cod, scallops and shrimp.

By boycotting these products from Canadian fishermen, we can play a part in the end to this brutal hunt.

Sign the pledge to boycott Canadian seafood today and help cut off the profits that fuel the seal hunt! We'll send your pledge to Canada's Minister of International Trade.

When you put the pressure on Canada's fishing industry, you'll be joining the more than 350,000 people who have pledged not to buy Canadian seafood products until this cruel hunt ends for good. Together, we are making a difference to these beautiful, intelligent creatures!

Robyn E.

Care2 and
ThePetitionSite Team

Labels: baby seals, Canadians killing for pleasure, ecosystem, wildlife conservation

# posted by HealingMindN @ 4/15/2007 10:08:00 PM 0 comments

So, you took your kids to the circus. Do you think they'd enjoy knowing how such large, proud beasts as elephants submit to such silly tricks for our entertainment? Do you think they'd enjoy knowing how they're beaten into submission? Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is just beginning its 2007 tour across North America. The circus's cruelty to animals is indisputable. Two PETA investigators tracked Ringling at every stop of its 2006 tour. Out of public view, they documented on videotape that Ringling employees were viciously hitting elephants and striking them with bullhooks until the animals bled and cried out—in addition to many other acts of cruelty. According to eyewitness accounts, Ringling's head elephant trainer savagely beat an elephant with a bullhook behind her ear, on her leg, and on her back. The trainer swung the bullhook with such force that its point was embedded inside the elephant's ear canal. The abuses that PETA has uncovered have led to multiple open investigations of Ringling by the U.S. government and have cost the circus a national tour sponsor. PETA's work has left "the greatest show on Earth" with dwindling attendance numbers. But Ringling still refuses to retire its abusive animal acts. I am writing to you today to ask for your help pressuring Ringling and all companies that use animals for "entertainment" to stop their abusive practices. For animals, another Ringling tour means another year of beatings and long days chained or confined to cramped, poorly ventilated boxcars. If we work together, we can hold Ringling accountable for its cruelty to animals. But we need your support. Please make a donation today to support our campaign to get live animals out of circuses and all other forms of entertainment. There is nothing entertaining about animal abuse! Can I count on your support to help stop Ringling's abuse in the name of family entertainment? I sincerely hope that the answer is yes. You and I are the only hope that these animals have. For all animals, Ingrid E. Newkirk President P.S. Your support will help PETA expose the suffering of animals used by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and get animals out of entertainment acts. Please stand with us for the animals' sake by supporting our vital work with as generous a tax-deductible donation as you can afford. Thank you.

Labels: animal cruelty, elephant suffering, PETA, Ringaling Brothers

# posted by HealingMindN @ 4/13/2007 12:07:00 AM 0 comments

Happy (B)Earth Day

And stay tuned throughout the year for more ways to celebrate!

Celebrate Earth Day - for the month of April only receive a free camper bag with membership to Sierra Club.

Labels: Earth Day, ecosystem, love of life, wildlife conservation

# posted by HealingMindN @ 4/09/2007 03:28:00 PM 0 comments

Open-ended support for the occupation of Iraq is a cancer on our politics and a calamity for the people of Iraq and our troops. Nancy Pelosi's and Harry Reid's job should not be to round up Democratic votes to continue to spend hundreds of billions of our tax dollars for another year and a half or more of Bush's war. That's not the mandate for peace the voters delivered last November.

Will you help Peace Action hold Congress accountable to its election campaign promise to end the US occupation of Iraq?

The 'new' Congress has failed its first test. It could have used the power of the purse to end Bush's spectacularly disastrous war on Iraq and it didn't.

The Democrats' version of the supplemental has far too many loopholes in it, which could leave tens of thousands of US troops in Iraq indefinitely, and the timeline for withdrawal is far too lax -- August 31, 2008. The Democrats are going to feel good about it, they'll say this is the best they can do, but the best they can do means the war continues, with their imprimatur, for at least another year and a half. I cannot accept that, and neither should anyone in the peace movement.

Our job as a movement not to accept the Democrats' "this is the best we can do, this is what the traffic will bear" posture.

I ask you to join me in demanding - Troops Home in 2007!

Too many Members of Congress, even ones who initially voted against the war in 2002 and heap deserved criticism on Bush for his policies, voted for the supplemental spending bill funding the war, for fear of being smeared as "not supporting the troops." Some Members even speak as if the troops will be stranded in the desert and have to hitchhike home if they vote down the supplemental appropriations bill.

This is cowardly nonsense, and they know it. Congress has appropriated over $450 billion for the war. If there isn't enough money lying around to bring the troops home safely, Congress could take it out of Star Wars "missile defense" or the "Reliable Replacement Warhead" budget or some other Pentagon boondoggle.

There's only one way to support the troops -- bring them home to the warm embrace of their families as soon as possible.

Congress needs to know we demand action now. We cannot wait while more lives are lost and the price tag for Bush's folly soars toward the trillion dollar mark.

Will you help me make sure they get the message?

Peace Action is not advocating 'cut and run'. We call on Bush to swallow his arrogant pride, go the United Nations and ask the international community to help us extract the US military from this no-win occupation before it spreads to Iran and engulfs the entire region in a far more dangerous and deadly conflict.

NEWS BRIEF: "US to attack Iran by end of April", Yahoo News, April 5, 2007

"Kuwait City, April 4 (Xinhua) The US is planning to attack Iran's nuclear reactors and other nuclear facilities by the end of this month, the Kuwait-based Arab Times newspaper reported Wednesday. Citing anonymous sources in Washington, it said that various White House departments had started preparing the political speech to be delivered by the US president later this month, announcing the military attack on Iran. The speech will provide the 'evidence' and the 'justification' for the US to resort to the military option after failing to persuade Tehran to give up its nuclear ambitions..."

Since June, 2003, President Bush and his Cabinet officials have repeatedly threatened to attack Iran. The President marched soldiers to the Iranian border and then quietly marched them back. The President repeatedly beefed up carrier presence in the oceans off Iran, and then quietly dispersed them once the public threats ceased.

We were told to expect an "October Surprise" in both the 2004 and the 2006 elections, i.e., an attack on Iran.

Therefore, since recent history has truly taught us to be wary, we can only wait to see what will transpire.

Labels: American Troops, Iraq war fiasco, Iraqi quagmire, peace action, soldiers

# posted by HealingMindN @ 4/05/2007 10:07:00 PM 0 comments