Sep18
Seals Show Up in the Darndest Places
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Sometimes seals are on Sarah McLachlan's shirt. Sometimes they drive tractors. Sometimes they're in Washington, D.C.
And, as it turns out, sometimes they block the entrance to the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City to protest Canada's seal slaughter while the country's prime minister, Stephen Harper, is inside at a meeting … and then they're taken away by the police.
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Take action! Tell Prime Minister Harper that the seal slaughter must end.
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Passive resistance during arrest is a sure fire way to get attention for your cause...if Martin Luther King Jr. were alive I am sure he would agree with me.
Posted by: Rev. Meg Schramm | September 18, 2009 12:50 PM
Do the police actually arrest these heroes???
Posted by: Pamela Ernest | September 18, 2009 04:21 PM
Why don't they go protest where the actual seals are being beaten. Don't forget to take your halloween costume.
Posted by: D.Man | September 18, 2009 06:13 PM
I love what you guys are doing for these poor seals but one of these days an impatient officer will pepper spray you instead of dragging you in handcuffs
Posted by: Brandon | September 18, 2009 07:46 PM
GO TEAM SEALS!
You seals are too cute to be handcuffed! Let them free, let them go, let them fight for the end of the seal slaughter! GO TEAM SEALS!
Posted by: Shari | September 18, 2009 07:54 PM
Cesar Chavez was the civil rights activist who was a vegetarian and abhorred cruelty against animals. Coretta Scott King was a humane vegetarian for the last 15 years of her life. They would have both loathed the seal hunt.
Posted by: Brien Comerford | September 18, 2009 08:26 PM
I support you all the way on this. But the world we live in today isn't going to fix a horrible issue as this by just going out in a costume and sitting outside a hotel where a head honcho is. He's not going to come out and have a heart to heart. Majority of people do know there is cruelty out there, most just choose to ignore it but allow their hearts to go out towrds the suffering.
Costumes and signs won't do anything except get onesself in trouble...and that fixes nothing.
Posted by: natasha | September 18, 2009 11:57 PM
I was in a PETA protest in Winnipeg, Manitoba on August 23rd, but PETA and it's website hasn't said anything about it!
I'm very disappointed, because it was my first demo and it went great!
Posted by: Aneliese | September 19, 2009 11:09 AM
Natasha, you may be right... but do you have any better ideas? Your criticism was not very constructive.
Posted by: Laura | September 19, 2009 08:39 PM
Laura,
Natasha was just making a point, and I agree %100. They demonstrations are creative, but all that is going to do is make people think PETA is wierd. If I was to offer a better solution, I would probably suggest having people hand out fliers and using more billboards. That's more peaceful than blocking traffic in seal suits.
Posted by: Edward | September 20, 2009 12:01 PM
Will the seals be at the G20 this week???
Posted by: Kelley | September 20, 2009 02:45 PM
thank you to all of the endless efforts of all the animal right activists!! your definately not going un noticed!! you rock!! how do you think people are made aware of things they would never even dream of being educated on!! THANKS!!!!
Posted by: kris shulfer | September 20, 2009 09:07 PM
D. Man,
It's illegal (yes, illegal) to witness or photograph a seal being slaughtered in Canada (without governmental permission, and good luck getting that). Just one of the ways the Canadian government tries to suppress the truth.
Posted by: Mike Quinoa | September 20, 2009 10:19 PM
Personally, I would have got my photo taken standing over her with a fench post. Would have been HILARIOUS.
Posted by: Anon | October 8, 2009 09:03 PM