[4animals] PETA in town this Thurs and Fri, volunteers urgently needed to wear sheep costume..

[ottawa animal advocates]

URGENT!!
This was a last minute thing for PETA aswell, hence the short notice...
To summarize, the Prime Minister of Australia will be in town and at various events on these two days.
The issue is that 'disposable' Australian sheep that are too old to produce wool are being shipped by boat to Middle Eastern countries like Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan etc. The animals are usually already old and then exposed to weeks of travel with no food or water and a large number of them arrive dead at the destination. The unlucky ones that are barely alive are essentially dragged off the ships and as undercover footage has shown and 'processed' in horrific ways while still concious. 
Australia ALREADY has the facilities to 'process' the sheep in a presumably 'slightly' more humane way and mainly this would avoid the torture of the travel and the aftermath in these countries.

PETA will either be flying a rep in or locating someone from Montreal to speak to media about the issue but a 'Sheep' is needed to trail and presumably embarass the P.M on his roundabouts.I was also assured that the media rep and the costume wearer would not enter any buildings without authority and the costumes offer FULL body coverage.

I am prepared to fill in one of these time slots, but they really need help with the others!!

Please get back to me asap if you can help.

Volunteers are URGENTLY needed for the following time slots:

Thursday >  7:30am- before and after he adresses the House of Commons- to approximately 10:30am (3 hrs)
involves hanging around the Parliament buildings.

Friday >      7:30am- before and during a 'ceremony' at the War Memorial by the Chateau Laurier for about two hours
involves hanging around the War memorial monument.

Friday  >    11:30am-2pm as he lunches near Bank and Queen street (approx 2.5 hours)
involves hanging around the restaurant. 


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