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Support our Blogathon Bloggers!
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Eastern Shore Sanctuary
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Aug 06, 2005 07:26 PDT
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Today -- Saturday 06 August 2005 -- is the annual "Blogathon" for
charity. We have two bloggers in the event and we hope that our
supporters will cheer them on.
The "blogathon" -- at www.blogathon.org -- requires participants to
post a weblog entry every half hour for 24 hours. If they make it, then
their sponsors donate funds to their designated charity.
You can sponsor a blogger for as little as $1. Even if you don't
sponsor, you can cheer bloggers on by visiting their blogs and leaving
comments or sending them email.
About our bloggers...
Once deemed "the best chicken killer in Arkansas," Virgil Butler quit
his slaughterhouse job in 2002, coming forward with detailed
recollections of extraordinary abuse and everyday cruelty at the
poultry factory. Butler's weblog has drawn national media attention to
the deprivations endured by people, animals, and the environment in the
impoverished rural regions where the meat industries locate most of
their operations.
Butler will be blogging about factory farming throughout the blogathon.
Those posts will be augmented by reports from the sanctuary describing
"a day in the life" of the birds.
Virgil Butler's Blogathon campaign page:
http://www.blogathon.org/blogathon.php?campaign&id=196
(You will need to "register" in order to see the pledge form and make a
pledge.)
Virgil Butler's "Cyberactivist" blog:
http://cyberactivist.blogspot.com/
Heather Singer lives in Reno, NV so she had to get up at dawn (as we do
every day) to make the 9 AM Eastern time start for the Blogathon. She
is blogging in memory of a hen called "Bonnie," who she loved very
much. Heather extends compassion to all animals. Her entries so far
include very cute pictures of Bonnie, a cat called "Skinny" and a
recently rescued mouse.
Heather Singer's Blogathon campaign page:
http://www.blogathon.org/blogathon.php?id=223
(You will need to "register" in order to see the pledge form and make a
pledge.)
Heather Singer's "Blogging for the Birds" blog:
http://forthebirds74.blogspot.com/
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