Protect Pets and Wildlife (ProPAW), the political committee organizing the campaign in California to ban cruel traps and poisons, needs volunteers who are registered to vote in California to circulate petitions and gather signatures from mid-September through mid-February. More than 650,000 signatures must be collected during this five-month period.
If enough signatures are gathered, California voters will have the opportunity to vote "YES" in November 1998 to ban the use of the steel-jawed leghold trap; to ban the use of any body-gripping trap (including snares and Conibears) for the purposes of recreation or commerce in fur; to ban the selling of pelts taken in the state with any body-gripping trap; and to ban the use of Compound 1080 and sodium cyanide (commonly used in M-44s).
If you are a REGISTERED CALIFORNIA VOTER and can help collect signatures for this campaign, please send an email message to propaw@ix.netcom.com and provide ProPAW with the following information:
You will be added to a growing list of volunteers who want to make a difference for wildlife, and you will receive a signature-gathering packet of official petitions and instructions in a few weeks.
If you are NOT REGISTERED TO VOTE but live in California and want to help, please respond with the same information as above and let us know how you can help. For instance:
Protect Pets and Wildlife is sponsored by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Animal Protection Institute, The Ark Trust, Doris Day Animal League, The Fund for Animals, The Humane Society of the United States, and the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Aaron Medlock is the ProPAW campaign manager.