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Presenters: Baur, Pacheco, Singer, Stram, Young

Alex Pacheco
Founder, 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You

Lessons learned from three first-hand cases:
 1) The birth of PETA.  

 2) The Silver Spring Monkeys case - the first arrest and conviction of an animal experimenter on charges of cruelty to animals.

 3) The Sea Shepherd's first whale campaign, over 30 years ago.

The co-founder of animal rights organization Our Hen House, Jasmin Singer will discuss her history beginning as an AIDS-awareness activist and finding her way to animal activism from there, her interest and journey in blending her freelance writing with animal issues, and how she also used her writing in gay publications to speak up for animals; how she went from a volunteer for Farm Sanctuary to staff to eventually become the campaigns manager; how she became involved as a contributing writer for VegNews Magazine; and how she ultimately left Farm Sanctuary in order to co-found Our Hen House. Jasmin will also tell attendees a bit more about Our Hen House, a multimedia hive of opportunities to change the world for animals.