In Detroit, or Know Anyone in Detroit? STOP DETROIT'S Shelter ANIMAL SLAUGHTER

Forwarded to me (hence the > signs)

....Pass on to those you know in Detroit or MI, or respond if you are in the area.

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STOP DETROIT'S ANIMAL SLAUGHTER
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> Urgent bulletin to all animal lovers everywhere: According to Amy
> Wettlaufer of the Michigan Animal Adoption Network, the Detroit Animal
> Control Department plans to euthanize all animals in its custody
> beginning December 17.
>
> Faced with fiscal crisis, the Detroit City Government has elected to cut
> all "non-essential" services. In City Government-speak, this means
> killing all animals and closing the shelters, without any provision
> being made for accelerated adoption programs, placing animals in no-kill
> shelters or other facilities, or other humane solutions. While City
> Council and the Mayor collect their salaries and benefits as usual, ride
> around in chauffeur-driven and city-paid vehicles, and enjoy the
> benefits of lavish expense accounts and expensive personal security
> details, those who are least able to defend themselves - namely, the
> poor, the homeless, and now animals - are expected to suffer for the
> city government's decades of mismanagement and misdeeds.
>
> What we need:
>
> - A good lawyer willing to file for an injunction to stop the slaughter
> - As much publicity afforded to this barbarous decision as it is
> possible to muster
> - TONS of phone calls, letters, faxes, and emails sent to the Mayor's
> office and City Council Members' offices demanding that this sickening,
> inhumane decision be immediately rescinded.
>
> DON'T let them attempt to "solve" this city's problems - the problems
> THEY created - on the backs of Detroit's animal population. DO call,
> write, fax, email, and spread this message around as far and wide as
> humanly possible, and encourage your friends to do the same. We CAN put
> a halt to this senseless, cruel city-sponsored killing spree - IF each
> of us will take the time to act, NOW.
>
> Contact information for Detroit's city "leadership" follows below.
>
>
> *OFFICE OF THE MAYOR *
>
> *Please contact Mayor Kilpatrick at:*
>
> City of Detroit
> Executive Office
> Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
> 2 Woodward Ave., Ste. 1126
> Detroit, MI 48226
> (313) 224-3400
>
>
> Council President Pro Tem
> *Kenneth V. Cockrel, Jr.*
> 1340 Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
> 2 Woodward Ave
> Detroit, MI 48226
> (313) 224-4505 (office)
> (313) 224-0367 (fax)
> E-mail: CockrelK.CNCL.Council@kcockrel.ci.detroit.mi.us
>
> Contact Person: John C. Clark
>
>
> Council Member
> *Sharon McPhail*
> 1340 Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
> 2 Woodward Ave
> Detroit, MI 48226
> (313) 224-4530 (office)
> (313) 224- 2011 (fax)
> E-mail: SMcPhail_MB@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
>
> Contact Person: Calvin T. Hughes, Jr.
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> Council Member
> *Sheila M. Cockrel*1340 Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
>
> 2 Woodward Ave
> Detroit, MI 48226
> (313) 224-1337 (office)
> (313) 224-0369 (fax)
> E-mail: S-Cockrel_mb@ckrl.ci.detroit.mi.us
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> Contact Person: JoAnn Abdenour
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> Council Member
> *Alberta Tinsley-Talabi*
>
> 1340 Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
> 2 Woodward Ave
> Detroit, MI 48226
> (313) 224-1645 (office)
> (313) 224-1787 (fax)
> E-mail: A_Talabi_mb@atwpo.ci.detroit.mi.us
>
> Contact Person: Dorotha Hannah
>
> Council Member
> *Barbara-Rose Collins*
>
> 1340 Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
> 2 Woodward Ave
> Detroit, MI 48226
> (313) 224-1298(office)
> (313) 224-0372(fax)
> E-mail: Collins_MB@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
>
> Contact Person: Renee Baker
>
> Council Member
> *Alonzo W. Bates*
>
> 1340 Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
> 2 Woodward Ave
> Detroit, MI 48226
> (313) 224-1245(office)
> (313) 224- 4095(fax)
> E-mail: Bates_MB@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
>
>
> *Council Member
> JoAnn Watson*
>
> 1340 Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
> 2 Woodward Ave
> Detroit, MI 48226
> (313) 224-4535 (office)
> (313) 224-1524 (fax)
> E-mail: WatsonJ@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
>
> Contact Person: Sandra Epps
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