Saving Lives - One Bite at a Time -- May 2006
- AR2006 Program Schedule Posted
- Cards For Current Films Available
- More Letters to Editor Published
- New Staff Members Added
- Some of FARM's Favorite Links
AR2006 Program Schedule Posted
The Preliminary Program Schedule for the Animal Rights 2006 National Conference is now posted.
The discounted $120 registration fee for the AnimaI Rights 2006 National Conference has been extended to June 15.
Here are three ways to register:
Register on-line with your credit card or check
- Call 888-327-6872 and have credit card handy
- Send payment & Registration Form to AR2006/FARM, 10101 Ashburton Lane, Bethesda, MD 20817
Upon registering, you will be admitted to the fascinating Conference Community System (CCS), where you can:
- Set up your own profile listing your interests and photo
- Review and search the profiles of other registrants
- Chat with other registrants and the AR2006 Management Team
- Seek or offer rides, housing, employment, and even dinner dates
- Arrange special-interest meetings during meal breaks or on Monday
- Get the latest updates on the conference
The CCS will be your virtual conference to visit often before the real thing.
Be sure to visit the AR2006 website and to register before June 15.
Cards For Current Films Available
Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" is opening in 200 theaters in June. Please check City Listing or Moviefone for specific locations and screening times.
These screenings offer a wonderful opportunity to show moviegoers the connection between global warming and animal agriculture by distributing our Global Warming postcards.
Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation," starring Bruce Willis. Patricia Arquette, Greg Kinnear, and Kris Kristofferson, is due to open in the near future. It provides a dramatic indictment of the meat industry and the health impacts of a meat diet. It will present another opportunity to distribute our colorful Kick the Meat Habit postcards.
Contact us to request these and other colorful postcards to distribute at your events. A small donation to cover costs is always appreciated.
More Letters to Editor Published
In the past three months, FARM reps published more than 400 letters to the editor on 5 topics in 185 U.S. newspapers. The topics included Meatout, water shortages, Earth Day, bird flu, and horse slaughter. 
Letters to the editor are the second most read section of the newspaper after the front page. They are a most effective vehicle for bringing our message to millions of middle Americans that we would not reach in other ways.
Please contact us to join our Letters network or to obtain the full text of selected letters, or visit our Letters page.
Since the beginning of this year, we have added three new members to our staff. Our new Outreach Coordinator Caroline Cherry has been employed as writer/editor for several local associations and serves as a board member of the Vegetarian Society of DC. Our Membership Coordinator William Sidman hails from New Jersey and gained his experience with the Nader for President campaign. Our new Office Manager Adam Ortberg has held several public interest positions before signing on.
They join President Alex Hershaft, Executive Director Dawn Moncrief, Program Manager Jen Riley, and Graphic Designer Robert LeMar in Bethesda, as well as CHOICE Director Susan Wieland, California CHOICE Coordinator Nora Kramer, and Outreach Associate Shemirah Brachah working remotely.
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AR2006 Stars
This space features key speakers at this summer's Animal Rights 2006 National Conference in DC.
Veda Stram has been active in our movement since 1980s, first with the Orange County People for Animals and, more recently, with the Animals' Voice website and newsletter. She will be chairing Newcomer Orientation at AR2006.
Matt Ball is co-founder of Vegan Outreach, which has distributed hundreds of thousands of vegan brochures on college campuses. He will address outreach to youth and the vegan lifestyle at AR2006.
What is FARM
FARM is a national nonprofit 501(c)(3) public interest organization that advocates vegan eating and humane treatment of farmed animals. To learn more about our national programs, visit us on the web.
FARM is supported by donations from caring folks like you. Because our staffers get reduced or no compensation, our overhead is below 5%, and your donations go directly to support our programs.
Please sign up your friends to keep them abreast of our work.
Caring Gifts
For t-shirts, books, and other fun stuff, check out our gifts page.
New FARM shirt - $12
FARM Mousepad - $4
"Animal Rights Now!" awareness bracelets in pink and burgundy - $2
Bumper sticker - $1
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