The Search for Common Ground for the Greater Good The Coalition Against Misery works to unite people and organizations on specific issues of agreement. One way to make progress in the areas of animal welfare and environmental concerns is to facilitate cooperation between people and organizations who care about these issues. To assist this facilitation, every week the Coalition Against Misery will review hundreds of websites and will communicate with organizations across the world in an effort to review the campaigns that each organization is currently undertaking. We will highlight many of them on this website and in a weekly email alert. You may agree with some of the campaigns and not agree with others but highlighting the issues on this website allows you to easily and quickly choose those issues that are of the greatest interest to you. The purpose of this website and the email alerts is to seek common ground. Choose those issues that you agree with and ignore the ones you don't. Choose the ones you agree with and jump in to help. Click each item for more information

Pet Store Protest

Virginia Tech, NRV-CARE (New River Valley Coalition for Animal Rights and the Environment) will be protesting Zooquatic Pet Center again on Saturday, October 27th from 11 AM to 2 PM. In Christiansburg, VA. Adopted dogs are welcome to join. Zooquatic owner Jonathan Couch reported to the local paper and consumers that his puppies were purchased from the Hunte Corporation. Email for more information

 

Polar Bear SOS Urgent Deadline 10.22.2007

The Fish and Wildlife Service has reopened the comment period on the proposal to list polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Click here for more information and sample language from the World Wildlife Fund

The Animal Legal Defense Fund has launched a campaign to free baby cows who are confined to crates so small they can't even turn around or lie down comfortably. Read more.

 

The Sad Truth about California's Happy Cows

A Farm Sanctuary investigation has unearthed the reality of life on California’s industrialized dairy farms.

Click here to view the videotape.

 

Ventana Wildlife

6th Annual Monarch Butterfly Count Training Saturday November 3. The Monarch Grove Sanctuary Pacific Grove, CA You are invited to participate in a monarch butterfly monitoring workshop. The goal of the workshop is to continue collaboration among monarch butterfly enthusiasts and biologists for conducting long-term monitoring efforts in California. Participants will be trained in standardized monarch butterfly population estimation techniques. Click here for more information

 

 

Another source for information about the Energy Bills that are pending before Congress. As of this writing, the members of the conference committee haven't even been appointed. Will lobbying dollars prevent action on Global Warming? EDF has a sample email to send to Congress. Click here.

 

Gizmo

Michael Lee Davis and Chad Daniel Crawford, who have been charged in the 2004 kicking incident that killed a 17-year-old dog, are now scheduled to stand trial beginning October 22, 2007. Davis was charged with intentionally killing an animal and aggravated cruelty to animals. Crawford had been charged earlier with cruelty to animals and vandalism after allegedly killing a Yorkshire terrier. Both have plead not guilty. The two-pound dog, named Gizmo, belonged to one of Crawford's neighbors.

Crawford is accused of "punting" the animal like a football while Davis held the dog to the ground, laughing when the dog landed, dead. At least one neighbor came forward to offer an eyewitness account of the killing.

For more information and to encourage a long sentence visit the website for the Animal Legal Defense Fund

 

New York Times

Thought provoking article on the loss of a pet. We don't agree with all the points made in the article but it provides an interesting discussion.

Click here to read.

 

Planet in Peril Premieres on CNN Tuesday October 23 and Wednesday 24pm

Don't miss this incredible documentary. For more information and to view a sneak peek click here.

 

Read an article about the amazing California Condor. Governor Schwarzenegger signed legislation to protect the California Condors from the harms described in the article on October 12th.

 

The Elephant Sanctuary featured in this article was just portrayed on CBS Sunday Morning. The story was heartbreaking and heartwarming. If you missed it, you can read about Dulary by clicking here

 

Curious Little Product Can Save You Money and Help the Environment

The cute little blue nodules are magical. Simply toss them in the dryer where they’ll tumble around, lifting and separating fabrics and relaxing fibers so the air can get in and do its thing more efficiently. Each pair of balls does the trick for at least two years.

By reducing drying time by 25 percent these doohickeys will save you both time and money, soften fabrics and do good for the environment! They also rid your garments of wrinkles, so clothing doesn’t need to be ironed.

Can be purchased at Nellies Laundry