July 19, Thursday
Opening Plenary (7:15-9:30pm)
- Prescott
Musical Interlude I -
Marr
Opening Ceremony (the
Three Candles)
[
What the three
candles mean to Anthony Marr: 1. The animals� suffering. 2. Our
struggles to free them from this suffering. 3. Our eventual
victory and their eventual emancipation. He will express this by
means of Chopin�s Nocturne Opus 9 #2 on his electronic keyboard,
while the candles are being lit.
]
July 20, Friday
11:00
Abuse of Animals for Amusement
(videos
and Q&A about circuses, zoos, rodeos, racing, hunting, 'sport'
fishing, fur) - Gorski, Marr
[
Anthony will be
speaking on dolphin captivity being intimately related to
dolphin slaughter, the cost of fur in the context of the
Canadian commercial seal massacre, and the convoluted system of
corruption in the relationship between the hunting tradition and
industry, the culling operators and the almost universally
prohunting governments on all levels, as well as why the
governments are almost always prohunting. �Know
yourself and know your enemy, and in a hundred battles you will
have a hundred victories.�
- Sun Tzu
]
13:30
Amusement Campaigns
(reports on
campaigns to reduce animal abuse for fur, in rodeos, circuses,
zoos, aquariums) - Marr,
Phelps, Rossell, Vincent
[
While the
previous session focuses on the problems, this session focuses
on the solutions. Anthony�s solutions are almost always
unconventional, involving his own inventions (e.g. the Deer
Auto-Conveyor - DAC), and often effective. To gain maximum
benefit from this session, the previous session is strongly
recommended.
]
14:30
Wildlife Campaigns
(reports on
campaigns to reduce extermination of animals in fields and
waterways) - Marr, Mead,
Muller, Ng, Vasic
[
Anthony will be addressing the Canadian commercial seal hunt,
the Japanese commercial dolphin slaughter, Japanese, Norwegian
and Icelandic whaling, and the huge and spreading American deer
massacre. Even if you have been working on these issues for
years, you will still be astounded by some of the internal
mechanisms and new developments.
]
15:30
Abuse of Wildlife on Land
(videos and Q&A
about hunting, trapping, and other abuse of animals in fields
and forests) - Lawson, Marr,
Muller
[
This session will concentrate on the burgeoning, escalating and
proliferating mass slaughter of White-tailed deer, Black-tailed
deer and Mule deer from coast to coast, both in terms of hunting
and culling, as well as the planned extermination of the Fallow
and Axis deer at Point Reyes CA.
]
July 21, Saturday
13:30
Engaging Ethnic Minorities
(African-Americans, Latin Americans, Asian-Americans) -
Garcia, Marr, McPhall, Plump
[
�Back in 1995, I was a Chinese Canadian
not too informed nor passionate about animal issues. Then, one
day in spring, two AR activists in the form of Peter Knights and
David Baker came to Chinatown to talk about the bear gall
bladder trade. They engaged me, and I have never looked back. If
it happened to me, it could happen to the other 1.3 billion
Chinese people in the world, and Indians, and Japanese.�
- Anthony Marr
]
14:30
Keeping Exotic Companions
(problems of
breeding, trading, and keeping exotic companions) -
Fisher, Marr, Tellem
[
Exotic animals
are beautiful and fascinating, but they are not pets. Other than
that adult tigers and crocodiles and anacondas are physically
and temperamentally not viable as companion animals, their
capture from the wild entails a huge amount of deaths and
environmental degradation, and the international wildlife trade,
at $10 billion per year, is second only to, and is closely
intertwined with, the global drug trade. The root cause is the
demand, which stems from America itself.
]
19:30
Plenary
Session III (7:15-9:30pm)
- Moncrief,
Wilkens
New Issues Facing Our Movement
(global
warming, human population growth)
- Dalal, Erenberg, Marr,
Watson
[
Anthony Marr
will first list the 7 Planetary Diseases, all caused by the dual
factors of human population and per capita environmental impact,
which includes global warming. Then, he will use collapsed and
extinct civilizations, including Easter Island, the Pitcairn
Archipelago, the Anasazi (NM/CO) and the Maya civilization (Meso-America),
as microcosms and analogies of the not-too-distant-in-the-future
Earth - an isolated island in space. He will then conclude with
an urgent warning in the form of the parable titled �The Last
Three Days of Earth�.
]
July 22, Sunday
11:00
Engaging Abroad
(affecting public opinion
and policies in other countries) - Clifford,
Marr, Moncrief
[
Anthony Marr loves traveling, but he is not a tourist. Born in
China, he is now a Canadian. Being a Canadian, he travels to
India to save the tiger, to Japan to fight whaling and dolphin
slaughter, and to the United States to battle deer extermination
and even the Canadian commercial seal hunt itself. He finds
campaigning in foreign lands as being much more effective than
working at home, and he�ll tell you why, and how.
]
14:30
Effective Tactics for Wildlife
(tactics
for ending abuse of animals for amusement) - Lawson,
Marr, Muller, Vasic
[ Anthony
Marr�s forte is to think outside of the box and do things in
unconventional ways. He has conceived of a new way involving
interspecies communication to save dolphins from capture and
slaughter, and tested it personally at Taiji, Japan. He has
invented a new and stress-free deer relocation technology called
the Deer Auto-Conveyor (DAC) on which he will experiment in his
upcoming CARE-5 Deer Tour (see blog in
www.MySpace.com/AnthonyMarr).
And he will be using these new technologies in unprecedented
ways.
]
Anthony Marr, founder
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)