Feel the fur rise...

I received some more info about the fur protest in Hyde park on next week Saturday and decided i should share, this is the email i received from Anneke, the head of Fur Free SA -

Hi everyone,



It is now only 8 days before our HUGE 'Fur Free Friday' demo. We are confident that the event will be well attended by the press, and we really need you to be there in your numbers to tell the world


WE SAY 'NO!!!!!!!!' TO FUR!


When? Saturday 27 November 11:00-13:00
Where? On the islands in front of Hyde Park


We will ask you for final RSVPs early next week, so that we will have a good idea of how many of you we can expect.




Right now however we have the following updates and requests for you.


· We still need the following (please contact Tricia at tricia@furfree.net if you can help):
- Artists/make-up artists to help us with painting faces and bodies beforehand
- Someone with a bakkie/trailer to fetch a cage in Midrand and have it at Hyde Park around 10:00 on the day (It would be great if the sides of the bakkie/trailer could be lowered to reveal the entire cage during the demo.)
- Someone to buy drinks and chips for the media and bring it to Hyde Park at 10:00 in an icebox/cooler bag
- Someone to give a member a lift from Pretoria




· Those of you who are going to be placard-bearers and/or flier distributors, please wear only BLACK or your Fur Free 'logo' T-shirt if possible (not the 'poster' T). If you can paint your face like that of a fur animal OR wear an animal mask, GREAT! (We will send you templates of animal faces next week.) Please bring your own placards and be at the islands in front of Hyde Park at 11:00. See bottom and attached examples for placard ideas, or Google some more.


· Volunteers being painted red or being 'caged': Please be at the 'Fur Free house' at 20 Portland Ave, Craighall Park (see attached map), any time from 08:30 but no later than 09:00. If you're going to be a 'red', please wear red, beige or white underwear only. You could also wear a red vest and red skinny shorts. (Remember to apply sunblock beforehand!) If you're going to be 'caged', wear black clothes only.


· Bring your dog! (See attached pic of demo doggie!)




Some ideas for wording:


- Fur hurts – walk away from it!
- Wear your own skin!
- Fur animals skinned alive!
- Stop the torture – don't wear fur!
- Fur is worn by beautiful animals and ugly people!
- They don't wear us, so don't wear them!
- Fur is dead!
- Fur is cruel and old-fashioned!


COME AND HELP US MAKE THIS AWESOME FOR THE ANIMALS!!!!!


See you there!!!!
anneke


So i hope you all felt filled in a bit...let me know what you are doing, whether you are getting painted red or sitting in a cage or even holding a poster...I'm really interested in what you are going to so.


Any who, this was a short one but I'm a busy bee today, i did think that a good piece of information would make up for it :)

Kindness and Hope
Kelly-Leigh