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Bethesda MD 20817
AR2008 SPONSORS
Special thanks to the following sponsors for making AR2008 possible!

FARM
*** Gold Sponsor ***

FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement) is a national non-profit advocacy organization promoting plant-based (vegan) diets to save animals, reduce global warming, conserve environmental resources, and improve public health. With less than 5% overhead, member contributions directly support our life-saving campaigns.

IDA
*** Gold Sponsor ***

In Defense of Animals (IDA) is a non-profit organization working to end animal exploitation, cruelty, and abuse by protecting for the rights, welfare, and habitats of animals, as well as to raise their status beyond mere property, commodities, or things. IDA’s campaigns cover animals around the world through investigation, rescue & rehabilitation, public education, political & consumer advocacy and litigation.


*** Gold Sponsor ***

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization whose mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. Sea Shepherd uses innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas.


** Silver Sponsor **

Healing Species is an 11-week Compassion Education and Violence Intervention Program for school children, adults, and incarcerated teens. The magic that makes Healing Species so effective is that rescued dogs accompany Healing Species instructors in the classrooms.  The dogs bring unconditional love, healing, and lessons on the importance and POWER of mercy and empathy in everyday life. 


** Silver Sponsor **

E/The Environmental Magazine, published by the nonprofit (501-c-3) Earth Action Network, Inc., is a bimonthly “clearinghouse” of information, news and resources for people concerned about the environment who want to know “What can I do?” to make a difference. A 13-time Independent Press Awards winner and nominee, and now in its 18th year, E is chock full of everything environmental -- from recycling to rainforests, and from the global village to our own backyards.

League of Humane Voters
* Bronze Sponsor *

League of Humane Voters works to create, unite and strengthen local political action committees throughout the United States of America.  A national political agenda requires continuous local political action to continuously elect officials to all legislatures who will advocate on behalf of the animals and oppose the forces that abuse and exploit them. It is our mission to see that these local action organizations spread, persist and thrive in a competent, organized and professional way.

VegNews
* Bronze Sponsor *

VegNews Magazine is the premier magazine to focus on a vegetarian lifestyle. Since beginning publication in 2000, VegNews has been offering its more than 180,000 readers up-to-date information on living a compassionate and healthy lifestyle with features such as vegetarian news, interviews, travel tales, food & health, celebrity buzz, vegan recipes, and much more. We're proud to print on 75% post-consumer, recycled paper.


* Bronze Sponsor *

United Poultry Concerns (UPC) is a national non-profit organization that addresses the treatment of domestic fowl in food production, science, education, entertainment, and human companionship situations and promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl. United Poultry Concerns seeks to make the public aware of the ways poultry are treated by our society and elsewhere in the world.


* Bronze Sponsor *

Cosmo's Vegan Shoppe is a vegan owned, vegan operated online/retail store in Atlanta, GA. We are passionate about being vegan and are committed to providing the best cruelty-free, vegan products. All of our products are 100% vegan, cruelty-free and sweat-shop free.


* Bronze Sponsor *

ACT Radio (Animal Concerns of Texas) is an outreach project of the Vegetarian Society of El Paso; a National Public Radio program that focuses on animal rights and vegan issues.  With co-hosts Greg Lawson and Elizabeth Walsh, ACT brings you the latest news about animals, from local concerns to global issues, from vegetarianism to animal rights activism.


* Bronze Sponsor *

Mercy For Animals (MFA) is a non-profit animal advocacy organization that believes non-human animals are irreplaceable individuals who have morally significant interests and hence rights, including the right to live free of unnecessary suffering. MFA is dedicated to promoting nonviolence towards all sentient beings through public education campaigns and demonstrations, undercover investigations, and open rescues.

Animals Voice
* Bronze Sponsor *

AnimalsVoice.com is the premiere online resource for helping animals. We are an award-winning, independent, networking source of recent media coverage with the largest online image gallery of animal abuse and an incalculable volume of resources for animals and their defenders.



* Bronze Sponsor *

Alley Cat Allies is the national nonprofit clearinghouse for information on feral and stray cats. For more than a decade Alley Cat Allies has advocated Trap-Neuter-Return - the most humane and effective method to reduce feral cat populations. The mission of Alley Cat Allies is to end the killing of cats and lead the movement for their humane care.

* Bronze Sponsor *
The Anti-Fur Society is a member of the International Anti-fur Coalition, a group of organizations in over 30 countries, working together to end the fur trade. By informing consumers globally, we hope to help compassionate citizens become aware that they might be supporting cruelty that goes beyond human decency. By making conscientious decisions, citizens will help defeat an industry that exists only to cater to the vanity of many and enrich themselves at a rather immoral cost.
Natural Living Magaine
* Bronze Sponsor *
Natural Living Magazine brings readers the most natural, authentic, environmentally and socially responsible information – both in the selection of our advertisers and our editorial content. Printed locally on 100% recycled paper, using soy ink, Natural Living spreads the word and delivers it directly to affluent, conscious, educated LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) individuals, readers who are actively seeking and living a natural lifestyle.
Ms. Magazine
* Bronze Sponsor *
Ms. Magazine is unique, outspoken, and hard-hitting. It was the first national magazine to make feminist voices audible, feminist journalism tenable, and a feminist worldview available to the public. The magazine is an interactive enterprise in which an unusually diverse readership is simultaneously engaged with each other and the world. The modern Ms. boasts the most extensive coverage of international women's issues of any magazine available in the United States.
Bicycle City
* Bronze Sponsor *
Bicycle City is an environmentally-responsible, car-free community designed to foster an active and healthy lifestyle, support organic agriculture and integrate sustainable development. We respect the rights of animals and consider their welfare in all we do, with policies, programs and education to make our community great for all creatures. Animals will be able to remain in their homes, while our residents will be able to observe them in their natural habitat. Please visit our website. We welcome comments and support!