On Thursday, October 30, Captain Paul Watson, and Executive Director of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Kim McCoy, were interviewed on NBC's Today Show. If you aren't familiar with the work of Sea Shepherd, you will get a treat learning about our movement's heroes of the high seas when you watch The Today Show segment, or visit the Sea Shepherd Website at www.SeaShepherd.org, and, starting earlier November, when we watch the new Animal Planet series about their mission -- Whale Wars. (More on that next week.)
The interview, which includes shocking information about whaling and video taken of some of Sea Shepherd's missions, while stressing Sea Shepherd's non-violent record, is on line at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9alJxNwlss
You can give it a nice five star rating on that YouTube page, but far more importantly, please send a note to the Today Show letting them know how much we appreciate their coverage. It is vital that major media gets positive feedback for the animal friendly coverage we love to see. The Today Show takes comments at:
today@msnbc.com
(Note: Sea Shepherd supporters who missed Paul Watson's impactful talk at the New York Thanking the Monkey book party can listen to a brief video in which he shares his thoughts on the relationship between protecting the earth, the animals, and human life on earth, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oYlhjC0m8I)
Yours and the animals',
Karen Dawn
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Please go to www.ThankingtheMonkey.com to read reviews of Karen Dawn's new book, "Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals" and watch the fun celebrity studded promo video.