|
FUR FREE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
Please join area activists as we gather in protest of the use of fur on Fur Free Friday. We are hoping for a great showing for the press.
WHEN: Friday November 27, 2009, 11 A.M. - 1 P.M. - RAIN OR SHINE!
WHERE: 343 Gorham Road, in front of Dino International Furs, South Portland (Corner of Foden Road & Gorham Road at the Cornerbrook Shopping Center).
Activists will park in the Maine Mall lot and gather on the public sidewalk.
Rideshare opportunities are available. Please contact Melissa for more information.
WHAT: We are asking everyone to choose compassion over cruelty this holiday season. With all the luxurious alternatives available, there is absolutely no excuse to contribute to the extreme cruelty of this industry by purchasing or wearing furs.
Please join us for Fur Free Friday this year to ensure that our message of compassion is heard. Signs, posters and leaflets will be available - but we also welcome you to bring your own if you have them.
What is wrong with fur? Frightened animals trapped for fur suffer excruciating pain, often for days, before having their chests crushed or their necks snapped by trappers, who often kill snared animals by jumping up and down on them. Beavers caught in underwater traps struggle frantically for up to 20 minutes before drowning. On factory fur farms, animals spend their lives in tiny, filthy cages, where they suffer physical and psychological distress before being killed by poisoning, gassing, anal electrocution, or neck breaking. This is unacceptable.
Fur Free Friday, an annual event that takes place the Friday after Thanksgiving, aims to educate people about the horrors suffered by fur-bearing animals. Organized originally in 1986 by grassroots activists to abolish the fur trade, Fur Free Friday has grown to be one of the most widely attended annual demonstrations of the animal rights movement. Through protests, education, and the promotion of cruelty-free fashion, Fur Free Friday gives a voice to the millions of animals who suffer and die at the hands of this cruel industry each year.
Unable to attend the protest? You can still help by writing a letter to your local newspaper supporting alternatives to fur. View a sample letter to the editor.
For more information on the protest, please contact:
Melissa Gates (
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
or 207.346.9632).
For more information on the fur industry, please visit FurisDead.com.
|
Maine Friends of Animals focuses its political impetus on state legislative races and seldom endorses national or local candidates.
