Campaigns
If you are interested in committing to more than a one-time event, consider joining one of our current campaigns (or start one of your own!). AFA’s campaign meetings are either weekly or monthly depending on the issue. If you would like to attend a meeting, be sure to contact Lynn at alliance@allanimals.org or one of the specific names listed with the campaign for an exact time and location. We always welcome new ideas – perhaps you have an interest in animals in entertainment or wildlife; start your own group. We will support you in any way that we can.
Alliance for Animals Primate Freedom Project - AFAPFP
(Antivivisection Campaign)
This is an active and dedicated group of concerned citizens that has been meeting weekly for over four years. AFAPFP has held monthly presentations throughout Madison, has met with legislators, been published numerous times in the local papers, has held demonstrations, cable television programs, has a table at the Capitol Square Farmer’s Market, and produces literature to educate the public about the horrors taking place at UW Madison and Covance.
The next Primate Freedom meeting will be January 7, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. Contact Rick at 222-2348 for location or e-mail alliance@allanimals.org for information.
Notes and updates.
Friends Not Food
This campaign focuses on promoting cruelty-free food choices through the distribution of literature, advertising campaigns, tabling at Farmer’s Markets and local festivals, vegan community dinners, restaurant outreach, and grassroots activism.
At the last meeting we discussed generating a mission statment, compiling a bibliography of "must read" books, sponsoring lectures, holding vegan cooking classes. writing restaurant reviews, leafleting days, and the list is endless. This group has a lot of enthusiasm and visualizes a world free from animals being farmed for their flesh.
Our next Friends Not Food meeting will be on Tuesday, January 6 at 122 State Street, 4th Floor Conference Room. Contact Melissa or Jim for information.
Companion Animals
The Companion Animal campaign's goal is to raise public awareness about the protection and care of companion animals, including the importance
of spaying and neutering; the direct link between cruelty towards animals and cruelty towards people; alternatives to declawing; and TNR (trap, neuter,
release) as a technique for managing feral cat colonies. Recent and possible future projects include public outreach; publication of a pamphlet encouraging
spaying, neutering and alternatives to declawing, with Spanish and Hmong language versions; providing elementary schools statewide free subscriptions to
Kind News, a humane education newsletter published by the Humane Society of the United States; working to pass legislation prohibiting chaining dogs and
dog fighting; protesting the Thorp, Wisconsin dog auction, in conjunction with the
Wisconsin Puppy Mill Project; and compiling a directory of Wisconsin companion animal services and resources.
Our next Companion Animal meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 13 at 122 State Street, 4th Floor Conference Room. Please come! Contact Betsy for information.
