Folks:  As the attached flyer details, Attys for Animals is sponsoring what promises to be a moving ceremony.  People will gather in Detroit, and also across the River in Windsor, for a candlelight vigil to commemorate the millions of homeless companion animals, many of whom are killed due to lack of homes for them.
    I am asking for people to attend, if possible, and (whether or not you can attend), whether you can help get others to attend, or to publicize the event.  A press release is also attached.  Please let me know as soon as possible. 
    Thanks.
Bee    

national homeless animal day™

 

“L I G H T S   A C R O S S   T H E   R I V E R”

 

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 2004

8:30 P.M.

 

B E L L E    I S L E   C O N S E R V A T O R Y

DETROIT

 

&

 

R E A U M E   P A R K/C O V E N T R Y  G A R D E N S

WINDSOR

 

Join  Us  For  An  International   Candlelight  Vigil

 

To  Remember  The  Millions  Of

Homeless  Animals 

Killed  In  The   Past  Year  &

To  Focus  Attention  On Our  Responsibility

To  Solve  The  Tragedy  Of 

Unwanted  Companion  Animals

 

 

 

CO-SPONSORED BY:

ATTORNEYS FOR ANIMALS

(MICHIGAN) &

JAZZPURR SOCIETY FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION

(WINDSOR, ONTARIO)

 

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 

BEE FRIEDLANDER, 734.981.6311; BEEFRIEDLANDER@YAHOO.COM

August 9, 2004


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                                                                                           beefriedlander@yahoo.com


”LIGHTS ACROSS THE RIVER” TO GIVE INTERNATIONAL FOCUS TO NATIONAL HOMELESS ANIMALS DAY, AUGUST 21 

A candlelight vigil at dusk, Saturday, August 21, 2004, with animal lovers on both sides of the Detroit River, will commemorate National Homeless Animals Day, co-sponsored by Attorneys for Animals, a Michigan non profit, and Jazzpurr Society for Animal Protection of Windsor, Ontario.  Participants will gather at 8:30 p.m. at Detroit’s Belle Isle Conservatory and directly across the river at Windsor’s Reaume Park, to light candles in memory of the millions of healthy but homeless dogs, cats and other pets  killed in shelters this past year. 

Since 1992, Pennsylvania-based International Society for Animal Rights has coordinated National Homeless Animals Day.  The candlelight vigils are a potent way to illustrate the overpopulation problem and why the killing must stop. The annual vigils increase public awareness about the cause of the tragic killing of healthy dogs and cats: pet overpopulation.  It also highlights the simple solution to end the killing: spaying and neutering.

Jazzpurr promotes love and responsibility toward companion animals.  It operates a no-kill cat shelter and has spearheaded the no-kill movement in Canada.  It promotes “feral fix” as the humane answer to overpopulation of homeless cats.  “For several years in the late 1990s, Jazzpurr commemorated National Homeless Animals Day.  It is an emotional event, but one that gives shelter workers and others who care about animals a real incentive to keep working.  Participants always came away from the candlelight vigil very moved.  This year, with friends in the U.S. also lighting candles, ‘Lights Across the River’ promises to be even more memorable,” said Dorit Girash, the group’s founder and President.

“Attorneys for Animals is co-sponsoring the vigil because we realize this event has great potential to educate people about the plight of animals in our society.  An educated public makes it easier to change the legal system’s treatment of animals,” according to Wanda Nash, a Marshall resident and attorney who founded the group in 1991.  “The Detroit-Windsor partnership for Homeless Animals Day is the only one we know of with international participation,” she added.  

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