Support The Right To Arm Bears Rally
Reject the Slaughter
Defend Black Bears in New Jersey
Friday, Dec. 3, 1pm-3pm
State House, Trenton, NJ
Your presence is urgently needed at a rally organized by Friends of Animals (FoA) and joined by NJ-based group Heart for Animals, on Friday, December 3rd, where we’ll protest New Jersey’s bear hunt directly to Gov. Chris Christie’s (R-NJ) office at the State House in Trenton, New Jersey, during working hours so that critics of the mean-spirited, ignorant hunt are heard.
The black bear massacre is set to start December 6th and the violence continues for six days; in spite of objections, perhaps because Gov. Christie is an apologist for the NRA’s assaults on indigenous wildlife.
Please take an hour or more to join us and demand Gov. Christie cancel the bear hunt.
FoA and New Jersey group Lawyers in Defense of Animals (LIDA) recently joined forces to tell Governor Christie that New Jersey has it all wrong when it comes to bears.
Marie Ansari, Secretary of Lawyers in Defense of Animals (LIDA) said, “If bears might live and thrive in New Jersey, we as state residents are highly fortunate people.”
Lee Hall, Vice-President of Legal Affairs for FoA points out, “Bears have now been encountered in all 21 New Jersey counties. Their population is up from a weak three-figure number to a more viable four-figure number.”
“The governor has got this completely backwards,” said Friends of Animals board member Sally Malanga. “One has to wonder whether Gov. Chris Christie is intentionally ignoring the facts in order to provide a trophy hunt for certain supporters.”
“Rather than teaching our society to kill other living beings, we should be following the proven path of public awareness. Then we win, and our native animals win,” said Malanga, a resident of northern New Jersey.
**Some banners & posters will be provided, but you are encouraged to bring your own, in addition to noisemakers of all kinds.
Friday, Dec. 3, 1pm-3pm
State House Address:
125 West State Street
Trenton, NJ 08625
Public Transportation
Direct rail service to Trenton is provided by both NJ Transit (1-800-582-5946) and Amtrak (1-800-872-7245). NJ Transit also provides bus service to and within the Trenton area. More info.
From the Train Station
Walking: South Clinton Avenue runs along the left side of the train station. Proceed up the avenue (to your right when facing the road) one block and make a left onto East State Street. (You’ll soon pass the Department of Environmental Protection on your left.) At one point, the street becomes a pedestrian mall. After the mall, the street becomes West State Street. The State House is two blocks up on the left. The walk takes 10-15 minutes.
Cabs: Cabs are available at the rear of the station.
To RSVP and if you have any questions, contact Edita Birnkrant, NY Director, Friends of Animals by Email or 212.247.8120, or Dustin Rhodes, by Email or 202.906.0210
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11 Comments
On November 22, 2010, iris s carr wrote:
stop killing bears
On November 22, 2010, Barbara Pearl wrote:
Stop this slaughter, stop this atrocity.
I support humane alternatives to co-exist
peacefully with all wildlife now!
On November 26, 2010, Tono Fonseca wrote:
Black bear hunting is not “slaughter”, nor is it “atrocity”. If it is, then the bears themselves commit “atrocities” every time they run down a deer or an elk or whatever.
I don’t suppose you people realize that large populations of black bears are the reason why grizzly bears are threatened in so many areas of North America; they eat the same foods, but the grizzly needs more to survive, and it is tough to be a grizzly bear when there are 5+ times the number of black bears around you. Hunting black bears will be beneficial to restore the grizzly bear’s population sustainability.
FoA comments:
Bears kill other animals to survive, but that’s hardly the case for humans who kill other animals for sport (fun) and population management. Needless killing is both slaughter and an atrocity.
I hope you realize that any increase in the grizzly bear population will only create a demand from the heartless and uniformed for more slaughter and atrocities.
On November 28, 2010, GUANITA MANISCALCO wrote:
stop bear hunt please! We need black bears!
thank you
On November 28, 2010, Kerry Mahoney wrote:
This is not sport - this is slaughter, massacre and heinous -and done for ego and not out of need. Shame on those involved and who participate!!! This is not survival of the fittest - bears aren’t walking around with guns……
On November 29, 2010, greg Loftus wrote:
I wish you great success with your event. Nice to see you standing up. I live far too far away to attend but am with you in spirit.
I live were hunting is still for many a primary food source and have nothing against hunting to survive. The slaughter of bears and their cubs for pure entertainment however I cannot support.
Good Luck and if he won’t listen vote him out and find someone that will
Sincerely, greg
On December 8, 2010, Elizabeth Forel wrote:
URGENT NJ BEAR HUNT - Your calls matter
December 8th - PLEASE CALL - I just heard on the news that NJ Gov. Christie MAY CUT SHORT the bear hunt, taking the advice of wild life specialists. He would never acknowledge that your calls have pushed this issue - but they may well have..Please stand up and be counted and make that short call. 609.292.6000 (business hours only).
International calls are welcome also — don’t forget the correct codes.
Let them know that this is an atrocity that is being shown around the world. [Is this what he wants if he plans a run for president in 2012?] Just note the time difference. NJ is about 5-6 hours behind most of Europe depending on where you are — 3 hours ahead of the US west coast. New Jersey is on Eastern Standard time. The office is open from about 8am to 6PM taking calls.
On December 10, 2010, Barbara La Rocco wrote:
Maybe this protest did not stop the black bear hunt this time around. Wait’ll next time. We’ll see who wins.
On December 10, 2010, Priscilla Feral wrote:
Update on the massacre of bears in New Jersey by an assortment of sadistic fools:
As of late Thursday, December 9th, 477 bears had been killed, most if not all shot over bait — typically piles of dog food, doughnuts, bacon grease or carcasses. The DEP, the agency that treats hunters like clients, assisted with baiting stations, and locations of tagged bears. They did everything short of caging bears and making this pogrom a canned hunt.
FoA’s rally in Trenton attracted 100+ protesters and a multitude of press. Gov. Christie received thousands of phone calls in protest of the wrong-headed bear slaughter, and did absolutely nothing to end the carnage. Reports are that Gov. Christie ate bear flesh, but there’s likely not much he hasn’t consumed.
Demonstrators have appeared at hunting sites all week to defend bears and object to hunters, such as one from Hackettstown, who puffed his chest out after shooting a 120 lb. cub, boasting he’d make a rug out of the bear. That rug will look more like a bath mat, and if he chokes on the so-called hamburger he’s promised, it’s said that what goes around comes around.
Priscilla Feral
President
Friends of Animals
On December 10, 2010, Dustin Rhodes, Friends of Animals wrote:
Animal advocates and residents of the United States in general should be mortified by this bear massacre, especially because there has been a great public outcry against it, and yet Gov. Christie has chosen not to listen. The “science” is a fraud; the reasons offered for the “hunt” are blatant lies. We should be asking ourselves, “where’s the democracy?” The slaughtered bears represent the power of the corporate state, namely the power wielded by organizations like the corrupt National Rifle Association, to defy the wishes of the people, who have, over and over again, expressed a desire to co-exist peacefully with the black bears of New Jersey.
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