World renowned wildlife preservationist,  leading anti-hunting activist, environmentalist, author and speaker, Anthony Marr, currently on his Compassion for Animals Road Expedition (CARE) speaking tour, will be the guest speaker at Alliance for Animals’ Fall Silent Auction and Chili Festival. This event will be held at Goodman Community Center in Madison WI on Saturday, September 25, 2010 beginning at 5:30 p.m. For more information on this event visit our Events page.

Anthony will be speaking on animal rights, hunting, environmental concerns, and the urgent subject of his second book: Homo Sapiens! SAVE YOUR EARTH.

Marr is the author of two books on environmental issues. A wildlife preservationist since 1995, his work in India garnered him the title of Champion of the Bengal Tiger in the award-winning TV-documentary series Champions of the Wild which aired in 20 countries on Discovery and National Geographic channels.

Anthony has conducted six previous CARE tours. He has traveled to Japan twice for the whales and dolphins, and was recently honored with the title Best All-Around Activist of 2010 by two top U.S. animal rights organizations. Anthony was also honored at the 2010 Animal Rights National Conference in Washington D.C. with the prestigious Henry Spira Grass Roots Activist Award forhis outstanding contribution to animal liberation.  

Anthony has conducted several high-profile campaigns against the seal and grizzly bear hunts in Canada, deer culls, and sea lion exterminations in North America.

Anthony Marr is the founder and president of Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE). For more information on Anthony Marr visit Homo sapiens Save Your Earth.

 

If you live in Columbia, Dane, Green Jefferson, Rock, Sauk or Walworth County, Tammy Baldwin is YOUR representative. This information is important to you!

On Monday, June 7th at Rep. Tammy Baldwin's listening session at Waunakee Village Center, a concerned citizen asked Rep. Baldwin pointed questions as to why she has not co-sponsored the Great Ape Protection Act, H.R. 1326, which would prohibit the conducting of invasive research on great apes (which includes chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos, gibbons, and gorillas).

Rep. Baldwin showed great surprise that she had not yet signed this bill. She stated that the process for deciding on an issue starts by having constituents bring the issue to her attention, and that since it has not been brought to her attention, perhaps it has "fallen through the cracks."

AFA Co-Director Lynn Pauly was then able to follow up by telling Rep. Baldwin that she had, indeed, called her office numerous times and was told by the person answering the phone: "Tammy has been receiving a lot of calls on this issue and she is looking carefully into this bill." We know for a fact that several AFA members have voiced their opinions by calling and e-mailing Rep. Baldwin's office.

Rep. Baldwin responded by telling Lynn that she would look into as soon as she returned to D.C. and would get back to her as soon as possible. That was nearly three months ago. We have not heard back from Tammy even after calling her office.

Watch the video of the listening session here.

Please call Rep. Baldwin's D.C. office at 202.225.2906: Ask her to support the Great Ape Protection Act, H.R. 1326, by signing on as a cosponsor. Tell her that you do not want tax dollars used on research using chimpanzees. Let her know that you appreciate her record on animal issues and that you trust that you will be able to count on her to support this important bill.

Nathan Winograd, outspoken director of the No Kill Advocacy Center, and author of Redemption: The myth of pet overpopulation and the no kill revolution in America is someone worth getting to know (if you haven't already read his books).

If you are concerned with the millions of dogs and cats who are killed every year at animal shelters across the ocuntry, visit his website, simply titled Nathan Winograd.

 

Read Todd Finkelmeyer's story in the Cap Times:
County panel's inaction puts monkey research plan in limbo (July 9, 2010).

See too: County committee pushes for citizen panel to examine monkey research
(The Capital Times. June 30, 2010.)

Scroll down to our video library to watch the two committee meetings and the testimony from activists and university staff.

Get involved. Stay up to date: www.MonkeysInDane.info.

 

Visit our newest website, No Pig Wrestling in Wisconsin.

 

Last year Alliance for Animals brought veganism into the spotlight by educating the public on local televison shows, by handing out copies of Why Vegan, and by encouraging local bookstores to feature vegan cookbooks during the week.

This year we want to step it up a notch, but we need your help to do that! Please come to our World Go Vegan organizing meeting on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 to brainstorm ways to get the word out.

Click here for ideas or come with your own!

When: October 5, 2010, 6:30 p.m.
Where: 122 State Street (Across from Frida's - next to Michaelalgelo Coffee)
4th Floor conference room

Everyone interested is welcome!

AFA launched its Simply Vegan campaign with a splashy billboard and several bus ads which will be seen by thousands of Madisonians every day.

The stunningly beautiful and simple ads will direct people to our new website, www.simplyvegan.net.

“Adopting a vegan diet is the best thing you can do for the planet, for your health, and of course for the animals,” says Lynn Pauly, Co-Director of Alliance for Animals. “We hear people say that they would go vegan if it were easier. Our website is a perfect example of how simple it really is to embrace a plant-based diet.”

The Simply Vegan billboard will be appearing around Madison for the entire year. The bus ads will be posted throughout the summer.

Watch Skinny Bitch authors Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin talk about their book, Skinny Bitch in the Kitch.

Click here for the video.

 

Visit our Simply Vegan store at Cafe Press.

Sign the petition!

Want one of these yard signs?

Contact the AFA office.

 

 

 

If you're thinking about purchasing a new or used bicycle, please do not shop at Budget Bicycle (three locations) or Machinery Row Bicycles. According to Rick Bogle, owner Roger Charly duped him and other actictivists. Charly had promised to sell a piece of real estate--between the UW's Primate Research Center and the Harry Harlow lab--for a handsome sum. He used his false promise to them to parlay a deal for $1,000,000 with the university.

One who values dollars over innocent lives and endless horrific suffering is not to be trusted. Shop elsewhere, please. Even, let Charly know that you won't be shopping at his stores, and why.

Read recent stories:
UW Madison Expanding Primate Labs
Primate Center to Open Lab at UW