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December 2006 - Vol. # 13
What's in this issue
our year in review **
holiday cards **
volunteer
OUR YEAR IN
REVIEW
Remember Spotty and Juliet
As
2006 comes to a close, we would like to thank everyone who supported
our efforts for the carriage horses this past year - whether
monetarily or through volunteering your time and talents. It is
greatly and deeply appreciated. With your generous help, we were
able to gather a significant and respectable number of signatures to
ban this industry and we will be able to do an advertising campaign
in the New Year. (We are on a temporary hold due to legal issues,
which we hope to have resolved soon.) We have also been blessed to
have met and developed relationships with the most wonderful people
- not only in New York City, but in other states and countries as
well.
The Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages has been in existence
since January, 2006 - formed in response to a
horrific
accident that took the life of
Spotty, a young five year old gelding who had been working in
the City for only a few months, pictured above. It has been a
challenge to get the media interested in the plight of the carriage
horse. However, in the past year we have had coverage in the major
media - in the form of articles, letters and a radio interview - in
New York City, Virginia, New Jersey, in national publications - and
in New Zealand, England and Canada. Our on-line petition has been
around the world and together with our paper petition, it represents
all 50 states and over 40 countries.
This year we began two web sites -
www.nycanimals.org and
www.banhdc.org. The information
on these web sites is quite extensive and we hope people reference
them and use the information to further the issue -- whether in New
York City or elsewhere where the carriage horse industry exists. We
also began an e- newsletter, which goes out to many people whom we
hope forward it on to others to learn of the plight of the NYC
carriage horse and related issues.
Our Coalition operates on a shoe string budget. All of us are
volunteers and need to coordinate the demands of an active campaign
with our day jobs. But it is a labor of love and we are all very
committed. It is seeing those sad horses on Central Park South and
knowing that we cannot let them down. Our Wish List for 2007
is: Legal help; Accounting and Record Keeping help; Public Relations
and Media help;
Donations
to help us continue our work, and more Volunteers. If you can
provide any, please contact us at
