98 E&A 11/4 Reports & Announcements AnnouncementsAnnouncements REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTSANNOUNCEMENTS issues. Not only did the program incl ude, as in the previous confer­ REPORT: REPORT: ence, workshops on research and the Mobilization for : Rights:Rights: use of the Freedom of Information Conference '81 '81 Act, legal protection, demonstrations Ocean City, Maryland Maryland and rallies, lobbying, and publications October 10-12, 1981 1981 and use of mass media, but fu Ily half of the time was devoted to plenary Animal rights activists from the sessions in which the details of the United States, Canada, and Britain Animal Rights Mobilization coalition met recently in Ocean City, Maryland were worked out. The quarrels which to establish a national coal ition which took place were thus predominantly of will serve as a clearing house of a pragmatic rather than a philosophi­ information and as a coordinating cal natu reo structure for the animal rights move­ ment as a whole in the United States In spite of crowded conditions and and Canada. The formation of this an extremely heavy schedule of coalition represents a major step for­ events, however, the conference pa r­ ward in the forging of a consolidated ticipants managed to arrive at a demo­ political movement on behalf of ani­ cratic resolution of all the principal mals. In the past the animal rights issues concerning the establishment of movement has suffered all too often the coalition. Coordinators were from fragmentation and duplication of elected and four initial task forces effort. The purpose of Animal Rights were established. These are: blood­ Mobilization (ARM) is to overcome sports, mobilization against laboratory these problems by providing a solid experimentation, legislation and lobby­ base for unified, coordinated, national ing, and use of mass media. All campaigns. organizations which are in general agreement with th a aim of liberating The conference was organized by animals from exploitation and abuse the Animal Rights Network and was will be inv~ted to join the coalition and attended by over two hundred acti­ to pa rticipate in the tas k forces. vists representing some thirty-five Information on the coalition can be organizations. It marked a continua­ obtained by writing to: tion of the effort begun last July with ARM, Projects Office Office the international Action for Life con­ P. O. Box 337 337 ference in Allentown, Pa., and Jonesboro, Tennessee 37659 37659 included similar educational efforts. Training workshops were conducted George P. Cave, President President by experienced animal rights activists Trans-Species Unlimited Unlimited on such key topics as , fac­ tory farming and , domestic animal problems, , and trapping. The program also included talks by such prominent ani­ mal rights activists as Clive Hollands, Jessica Kespohl, Kim Stallwood, Rob­ ert Brown, and Richard Morgan.

On the whole, however, the con­ ference was marked by a greater emphasis on tactics and strategy, and less concern with ideology and moral E&A 11/4 9999 99

CHANGE OF DATES

The dates for the Morl"is Collo­ quium (announced in E&A 11/3) have been changed to April 1 through 3, 1982.

ANNOUNCMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS:

A Conference on onon Theological Issues in inin Envi ronmental Ethics EthicsEthics

The conference will be held at the papers should be sent before Janu­ University of Georgia Center for Con­ a ry 15, 1982 to: tinuing Education, Athens, Georgia, on June 4 through 6, 1982. The con­ ference is jointly sponsored by Envi­ The Editor�Editor Editor ronmental Ethics, The Universi~of Environmental Ethics EthicsEthics Georgia, and the Department of Phi­ Dept. of Philosophy and Religion ReligionReligion losophy and Religion and Center for The University of Georgia�Georgia Georgia Continuing Education of that Univer­ Athens, Georgia 30602 3060230602 sity.

Papers on any aspect of the rela­ tionship between theology and envi­ ronmental ethics are welcome. Except that the submission fee is waived, the guidelines are the same as for publica­ tion in Environmental Ethics. Manu­ scripts and abstracts should be sub­ mitted in triplicate. None of the copies need be an original, but all must be clear and clean. All material, including notes, block quotations, footnotes, and abstract, should be double spaced. Footnotes should be placed at the end on a separate sheet of paper and numbered consecutively. The author's name should not appear on manuscript copies, and reading time shouId not exceed th irty to for­ ty-five minutes. Authors should indi­ cate that their submissions are for the conference, and not for journal con­ sideration.