Friday 10th December 2010

11th International Animal Rights Day

Same date each year

Friday
10th December 2010

Uncaged co-ordinate events across the world, calling for fundamental rights to be bestowed upon non-human animals by 2048 (100 years after the Declaration of Human Rights on this date). Groups are encouraged to hold candle-lit vigils outside local sites of animal abuse, (eg. vivisection facility, abbatoir, butcher's etc.) to highlight links between human and animal rights.

Submit your events to the Animal Rights Calendar here

So far, events are scheduled at the following UK locations: Reading, Enfield, Wandsworth, West Wickham (Kent), Cheshire, Truro, Leeds, Belton (Leics, outside Harlan), Hastings, Scarborough, Huntingdon (outside HLS), Newton Abbott, Plymouth, Exeter, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sheffield, Cambridge, Stoke, Liverpool, Bristol, Newcastle, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Wickham, Hampshire (outside the vivisection lab) and Southampton. PLUS, many more people are having displays at work or college, or distributing campaign literature door-to-door in their local communities.

Uncaged Campaigns.
9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield, S1 4EG
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Website: http://www.uncaged.co.uk/iard.htm

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Please unite with us, and thousands of people around the world, for the 10th Annual International Animal Rights Day (IARD) on 10th December 2008, or during the preceeding weekend.

There are 4 main ways you can make your mark on this growing, global Day of Action:

1. sign the Universal Declaration of Animals' Rights (UDAR).
Print off, complete and return the form to Uncaged, 9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield S1 4EG

2. Organise a candlelit vigil at a local place where the rights of animals are abused/ignored
Many were organised last year, and received a good deal of regional media attention (send out those news releases). Sites included: offices and shops of companies, universities, government departments and charities that conduct, support or promote animal testing, factory farms, abattoirs, butchers, fast food outlets, greyhound stadia, racetracks, bookies, live export docks, bull-rings, hunt supporting organisations, or even at a prominent or historical site in the town centre. You will need: candles, lanterns, banners, warm clothes! If you have plenty of candles, lanterns, banners and posters etc. the vigils look very powerful and effective - even if there are only a few of you.

3. Conduct a campaign stall

Inform the public that 'animal rights' is not scary, frightening and irrational, but a logical, well thought out, peaceful and sensible way to think about our relationship with animals. You may wish to conduct your stall on Saturday 8th when it will be busier. Send news releases to your regional media too. We will have leaflets, posters, petitions available.

4. Write letters

Write to national, regional papers (including the freebies), magazines, comments sections of websites, online animal forums etc.

Anything you can do helps. Be part of history!

Why an International Animal Rights Day?

IARD is the focus for our long term campaign for the international acceptance of the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights, which states that humanity must respect all animals' basic moral rights to 'life, liberty and natural enjoyment'. Humans' ability to distinguish right from wrong demands that we act ethically towards other sentient beings. The 10th December is the anniversary of the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Now, we're seeking to demonstrate the moral imperative of extending fundamental rights to all animals.

The Declaration is supported by hundreds of animal protection groups worldwide, with vigils and stalls for IARD.

IARD strengthens the animal rights cause by unifying specific campaigns under a global banner and generating solidarity between compassionate people from Auckland to Aberdeen. Everyone who signs up, writes letters to the media, conducts a candle-lit vigil or campaign stall, or spreads the message in other ways on IARD becomes a comrade with 1000s of activists worldwide in an historic movement for change.

Such peaceful and dignified actions promote the positive nature of animal rights. We are reclaiming our movement's image from the animal abusers who try to discredit us as aggressive and unreasonable. Every positive action helps make the world a better place!

What to do now?

1. Read through the attached Action Guide to getting active on IARD, which also includes a sample letter and news release.

2. Decide what actions you would like to conduct & where.

3. Email max@uncaged.co.uk or write to Max Newton, Uncaged, 9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield S1 4EG to:

* Sign up to the Universal Declaration of Animals' Rights

* Tell us what actions you wish to conduct to support International Animal Rights Day

* Order IARD leaflets, posters, petitions, animal rights essay etc.

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