The
new hunt observation distances last year allowed for unprecedented
documentation of the "hunting" techniques.
Photo courtesy of IFAW |
WE
HAVE THE POWER TO END
THE HARP SEAL MASSACRE ONCE AND FOR ALL!
For over half a century, compassionate people
have tried to put an end to the senseless killing of baby harp
seals in Canada; yet it has continued.
But now we have a winning strategy that is embraced by
dozens of organizations in the U.S. and even more around the globe!
1)
HELP US TAKE CANADIAN SEAFOOD OFF EVERYONE’S MENU!
2) PRESSURE CRUEL FASHION HOUSES TO TAKE SEAL SKINS OFF THEIR
SHELVES!
3) TELL THE CANADIAN POLITICIANS AND THE CANADIAN TOURISM COMMISSION WHAT’S UP!
4) New! TELL THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO BAN SEAL IMPORTS INTO EUROPE
Help us spread the word across the country! Sponsor an ad for the seals.
Action Cards
We're making it easy for you to promote the Canadian seafood boycott.
With our free Action Cards, you can tell grocers and restauranteurs in no uncertain terms that you want them to stop selling Canadian seafood and offer alternatives instead. These Action Cards provide you will a powerful yet easy way to have a big impact for the seals.
Volunteer Opportunities
We're looking for a few good Seal Warriors! Now is your chance to join the Harpseals.org team!
Check out our current list of opportunities here.
 Here
are some specific ways of implementing this strategy:
Get out and meet people!
I. Participate in or plan any number of public
awareness events and other actions including:
- setting up information tables at farmers' markets, pedestrian malls, fairs and festivals; See our Spring Into Action page for Spring 2008 Events.
- speaking at schools and civic group meetings; (Order our Lesson Kit today!)
- staging media events, engaging in street activism and performance art;
- handing out leaflets at seafood restaurants, supermarkets, fairs
and festivals and anywhere people are standing in line.
Be creative! Be bold! The seals are depending on us.
 Keep focusing on the RED
LOBSTER RESTAURANT CHAIN! If we can put enough pressure on Red Lobster, we can get this huge restaurant chain to do the right thing for the seals. This could mean the end of the seal slaughter in record time! Continue to focus on supermarkets, too, especially Publix, if you live in an area served by this chain.
If you're shy and have difficulty approaching strangers, you can try using these lines:
“Learn
how you can stop the seal slaughter just by boycotting Canadian
seafood,” or “Read about how you can save seals by boycotting Canadian
seafood,” or even, “Would you like something to read while you wait
in line?”
Part
of the key to success is to get
media attention. If you are planning a media-worthy event, please contact local print and broadcast media. Don't forget the weekly papers and college papers and radio stations! Let us know if you need help crafting a press release.
II. Start or join a Harpseals.org
Meetup group in your area.
 Meet with fellow seal activists to plan events, brainstorm ideas,
go on leafleting outings, etc. It's a great way to meet new people who also care about the seals!
III. Recruit restaurants, supermarkets, and distributors to the boycott! Ask for our Recruitment Kit .
This
project takes the boycott campaign directly to ALL businesses that
sell Canadian Seafood (in addition to Red Lobster). You can focus on restaurants near you, distributors in your area, independent supermarkets or giant retailers. We will guide you and assist you along the way.
Be
creative with our "Do it Yourself" seal advertising projects
Make a banner.
Check our Opposition
Toolbox templates—and hang it outside your apartment or office
window, or anywhere that it will be seen by many people. (Crossed
any busy overpasses lately?)
Turn your car into a Sealmobile! 
You can be your own billboard! It's simple, quick, and inexpensive to make your car a mobile advertisement for
the seal campaign. You can use "Window Chalk"markers (available at party supply and craft stores and commonly used for "for sale" messages). Or you can make your own decals, bumper stickers, and car magnets. You can even create a rooftop
"taxi" billboard. See the Opposition
Toolbox for templates and details. If you'd like printed bumper stickers, you can purchase them from our store or ask for stickers from HSUS.
Make custom seal stickers.
You can get ink jet printable sticker sheets at office supply stores
and then put just about any image and message on them to stick anywhere!
Check out the ideas and templates in the Opposition
Toolbox.
Put
your gift of gab & penmanship skills to use!
Call the media. Get to know local reporters and TV anchors who cover similar stories. Talk to them about the seals, and ask to be interviewed on TV or radio. Provide a local angle, if you can. This can include successful recruitment of local restaurants to the boycott of Canadian seafood.
Call a radio talk show and tell all the listeners about the
seal massacres and the Canadian seafood boycott that will finally
force an end to it.
Tell everyone you know about the seafood
boycott.
Send emails to
listservs you’re on, mention it in chat rooms, talk about it with
friends and relatives, etc.
Phone, email, fax, mail letters, and talk to key targets from
industry and government.
Click here for our list
of targets including managers at supermarkets and restaurants
that sell Canadian seafood, Canadian government officials and politicians,
and newspapers and press. Give 'em a piece of your mind.
Contact fashion houses that use seal skins to tell them you
won’t buy their clothes and accessories until they stop buying seal
skins.
Ask webmasters on sites you frequent to put our eyecatching flash seal banners
up on their web sites. (Or add them to your own site!)
Have
fun…for a good cause!
Purchase and wear our t-shirts and other merchandise.
You can buy them online in our stores (both in-house and off-site Variety Store)! These are great conversation pieces, so you can spread the word about the seal campaign wherever you go!
Organize fundraisers for Harpseals.org in your community. You
can plan them in a Harpseals.org Meetup group (see above), in a
local animal or environmental protection group, or with a bunch
of friends!
Some ways to raise funds include hosting a dinner and asking for
a donation at the door, asking local restaurants and night clubs
to give a percentage of their profits for a Seal Night to Harpseals.org,
arranging a benefit concert with local bands or a talent show, hosting a charity
auction, taking up a collection at your work or school to “adopt
a billboard for the seals” in your community, etc. The sky is the
limit!
If you want to organize an event that might generate media attention,
we can help you write a press release. Let us know what you’re planning,
and be sure to send us pictures to put up on the web site!
Activist Initiatives
Unleash your creativity! These initiatives by seal activists around the globe will inspire you to take creative action for the seals in your town! 
A funeral motorcade for the seals...one of Canadian activist Anthony Marr's projects to end the seal 'hunt'. His motto: "I'm Canadian. Boycott My Country!"
 Read about more inspiring projects caring people have undertaken for the seals here...and then send the links to your friends. With videos, songs, poems, and ads for seals, activists are spreading the word about the slaughter and helping to bring it to an end once and for all. You can help, too!
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