AR2009 SPONSORS

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. Located just outside the U.S. capital, FARM works with grassroots with volunteers in all 50 states and two dozen other countries.

IDA
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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.


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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 **

Animal Acres is a farmed animal sanctuary and compassionate living center located just 45 minutes from Los Angeles. Animal Acres works to promote compassionate living through its farmed animal rescue and refuge efforts, public education and outreach, and advocacy projects to prevent cruelty to farmed animals. Since opening their doors in 2005, thousands of people have visited the sanctuary and learned that farmed animals need protection and love.


** Silver Sponsor **
International Primate Protection League (IPPL) is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the world's remaining primates, great and small. Among their many activities, they organize international protest campaigns, conduct investigations, operate a sanctuary for rescued gibbon apes in South Carolina, and offer financial support for other activities that help monkeys and apes.

* 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 *
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.

* Bronze 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.


* Bronze Sponsor *

Eko Zone is a vegan store located in Venice, CA. They offer a variety of items which contain no animal products including Ragazzi Vegan shoes, 100% Organic Cotton Shirts, purses, belts, wallets, and handmade soaps. They also carry an assortment of hemp products including hemp bags, sandals, belts, wallets and body care products. Visit the new store at 1718 Main Street #1, Venice, CA 90291.

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* Bronze 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. 

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.


* 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.


* Bronze Sponsor *
Orange County People for Animals (OCPA) is a Southern California-based, non-profit 503(c) animal advocacy organization founded in 1988 to create a compassionate, healthy and peaceful planet for all living beings. Some of their work involves humane education, educational seminars, tabling events, committee activities, community outreach programs, and legislation involvement.

* Bronze Sponsor *
Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) is a national non-profit animal advocacy organization dedicated to the rights of all animals. Our strength comes from our exclusive focus on eliminating animal experimentation. Through in-depth investigations of laboratories nationwide, SAEN exposes and ends the suffering of animals. Our website and expertise are assets for both national organizations and grassroots activists to lead effective anti-experimentation campaigns. Every year SAEN coordinates World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week (WLALW) and National Primate Liberation Week (NPLW) which both give a voice to the millions of animals suffering in labs.

* Bronze Sponsor *

Skin Trade is the upcoming film from the Director of the empowering, award-winning, and revolutionary documentary Behind the Mask - the story of The Animal Liberation Front. An honest account, Skin Trade will explore every aspect of the hideous fur industry. The film will profile civilian & direct-action activists who have risked their freedom to fight for animal rights.

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* 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.

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.