Join In Defense of Animals and Advocates Around The World for Fur Free Friday on November 25th

Check out the list of 2011 events and see if there is one in your community

Fur Free Friday, 2011, this year on November 25th, is fast approaching and momentum is building for a rousing global day of outreach. Fur Free Friday comes on the heels of some good news for fur-bearing animals this year- West Hollywood became the first city in the U.S. to ban fur sales! This is a historic first step in legislation that could put an end to this cruel practice. "O" Magazine also took an anti-fur stance and will not be displaying fur on their pages. Let's keep this positive momentum going and make this the best Fur Free Friday yet!

Save the date and start planning today! There is still plenty of time to organize an event if something is not already planned in your community. Please register an event for Fur Free Friday soon. By doing so, we will post your information on our events page and draw upon other advocates in the area to join you. Even simple actions can be effective with thousands of activists around the world raising our voices collectively on Fur Free Friday. Some suggested activities you could organize include passing out leaflets at a department store that carries fur or other fur retailer, setting up an information table at a public library, organizing a protest in front of a store that sells fur, or arranging a showing of the documentary Skin Trade.

In Defense of Animals is calling on all advocates to stand up on behalf of animals raised and killed for their fur. Their miserable lives and merciless deaths must end. On fur farms, foxes, mink, rabbits, and other species are kept in squalid, tiny cages where they go mad running back and forth, desperate to escape. Their efforts to get out are only realized at the end of their tortured lives, when these terrified and helpless animals are killed by such stunningly crude methods, including gassing, neck-breaking, and anal electrocution. In countries such as China, their skins are peeled from their bodies while they are still alive, writhing in pain. Wild animals trapped for fur fare no better. Steel-jaw leg hold traps are painful and some of the captured are willing to chew off their limbs in order to escape. These helpless and tormented captives linger in these traps for days and sometimes weeks before trappers come to retrieve them.

TAKE ACTION: In 2008, BCBG signed a pledge to not sell fur but BCBG's 2011 holiday line has full rabbit fur ponchos! We are disappointed that BCBG is moving in the wrong direction and has gone back on their word. Please click here to tell high-end fashion brand BCBG to go back to their compassionate stance and not sell fur.

Please begin planning and register your Fur Free Friday event today! Join IDA as we continue efforts to make the world irrevocably fur free. Our staff is here to offer guidance and provide you with the materials you will need to take a stand against the barbarity of killing animals for their fur. Our cut off date for shipping materials is Nov. 17, 2011.

For questions or more information, please contact Hope Bohanec, for more information: hope@idausa.org or call (415) 448-0058.