UPC Action Alerts & Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events:

Friday-Sunday, May 31-June 2: Anti-fur Society Conference, Alexandria, VA UPC president Karen Davis will speak, UPC is a sponsor & will host an exhibit table.
Saturday, June 1: Cleveland VegFest! Sponsored by the Cleveland Vegan Society UPC president Karen Davis will speak & UPC will host an exhibit table.
Friday-Sunday, June 7-9: Left Forum, Pace University, NYC UPC president Karen Davis will sit on a panel, and sign books. Saturday, June 8, Session 1 from 10 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Room W606.
Sunday, June 9: National Animal Rights Day, New York City UPC president Karen Davis will speak & UPC will host an exhibit table.
Saturday, June 15: Richmond Vegetarian Festival, Richmond, VA UPC will host an exhibit table.
Saturday, June 22: Symposium of Animal Liberation, Phoenix, AZ UPC will host an exhibit table, and UPC president Karen Davis will present "Staffing Tables & Leafleting for Animal Rights" and "Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of Apology & Speciesism in Animal Rights."
Thursday June 27-Sunday June 30: Animal Rights National Conference, Alexandria, VA UPC will host an exhibit table & UPC Vice President Liqin Cao will speak on the Humane Hoax of Backyard Chicken-Keeping.
Wednesday-Sunday, July 3-7: North American Vegetarian Society Summerfest, University of Pittsburgh, Johnston, PA. UPC president Karen Davis will speak & UPC will host an exhibit table.

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Latest Alerts:

The Screaming Hen Bill and the Curse of “Enriched” Cages 19 May 2013
Can art go too far? 11 May 2013
The Rotten Egg Bill aka "The Screaming Hen Bill" Needs Our Help To Be Defeated! 8 May 2013
Anti-Fur Society Conference Invites YOU! Exciting Additions! Free Registration! 6 May 2013
Call for Entries: Chicken Run Rescue Photo Contest! 3 May 2013
Breaking 6 News Lawrence: Fraternity Turkey Torture 30 April 2013
International Respect for Chickens Day on Vegan World Radio 29 April 2013
Action for Chickens Urgently Needed: Two Alerts 23 April 2013
Animal Systems Conference, Marlborough, MA - April 20-21, 2013 16 April 2013
Anti-Fur Society Conference Free Registration! Register Now! 10 April 2013
Call for Chicken Photos & Stories - "Un-Cooped: Deconstructing the Domesticated Chicken" 19 March 2013
Please Help "Easter" Chicks - There are things you can do! 18 March 2013
Animal Place Documentary About the Largest Rescue of Egg-laying Hens in California History 25 February 2013
Chickens Revisited by Jon Katz, Thanks to Our Blitz 21 February 2013
Blogger Denigrates Chickens: Please Write a Polite Letter to Him. 7 February 2013
Call for Chicken Photos & Stories 4 February 2013
Urge Brooklyn Business Owners to Stop Renting Out Their Property UPC Winter-Spring 2013 Poultry Press
Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act: Urge Your Member of Congress to Support H.R. 366! 31 January 2013
More Chickens May Be Boiled Alive Under USDA's New Proposed Rule 4 January 2013
Turkey (Allegedly) Tortured by Students at Fraternity Drinking Party: Take Action! 21 December 2012
Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act: Urge Your U.S. House Representative's Support 19 December 2012
Feathers ripped from birds' backs and gaping wounds sewn up with no pain relief: The barbaric cost of your winter coat 30 November 2012
The Killing of Lou and Loneliness of Bill at Green Mountain College, Nov. 11, 2012 13 November 2012
Urge NPR and Its Member Stations to Promote a Compassionate Holiday Season 4 November 2012
Pigeons are Victims of Criminal Depravity in Pennsylvania. Please Take Action, SHARK Urges. 19 October 2012
Protest to Green Mountain College in Vermont: Needless Killing of Two Elderly Oxen, Bill and Lou, Planned. Urge Compassionate Retirement to VINE Sanctuary! 16 October 2012
Buddhist Temple Celebrates Chicken Torture Teriyaki - Please PROTEST! 18 September 2012 (Also in UPC Winter 2012 Poultry Press
Please Sign Our Petition Urging Money Instead of Chickens in Kaporos Rituals 29 August 2012 - www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com
Longstreet Farm in New Jersey Needs to Hear from Animal Activists! 14 August 2012
UPC & Twelve Other Organizations Appeal to the National Fire Protection Association to Uphold the Association's Action Requiring Fire Protection Systems in Farm Animal Housing Facilities 31 July 2012
New Jersey Sanctuary's Participation in Quail Hatching Projects for School Children: Update & Clarification 27 July 2012
Agribusiness Coalition Opposes Fire Safety Controls in Animal Confinement Facilities 19 July 2012
New Jersey Chickens and Quails Need Your Help! Two Alerts: Live Poultry Market Demo; Sanctuary Supplies Quails for Hunters via School Children 10 July 2012
ASPCA Funds Poultry Production Operation; Birds treated "with dignity and compassion" so please eat them. 19 June 2012
Betting Better Fake Chicken Meat Will Be As Good As The Real Thing, NPR's Morning Edition, May 17, 2012 and The ASPCA is now in the chicken and turkey slaughter business - 18 May 2012
Animal Organizations Intensify Opposition to Egg Bill (H.R. 3798) in Anticipation of Senate Version 19 April 2012
Don't Allow Chicks and Rabbits to Be Artificially Colored with Dye 29 March 2012

Ongoing Alerts:

Chicken Abuse by San Francisco’s Live Animal Vendors: An Update Fall-Winter 2009 Poultry Press
A Wing & A Prayer - The Kapparot Chicken-Swinging Ritual - Please Help! Updated 14 September 2011

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