Protest/Leaflet Ringling Bros. Circus in Oakland & San Jose Starting August 17

LEAFLETING TIMES AT RINGLING BROS. CIRCUS

(NOT SHOW TIMES)


OAKLAND COLISEUM ARENA - Inside Entrance

Thursday 8\17 ........ 6 PM

Friday 8\18 ........ *1:15 PM & 6 PM

Saturday 8\19 ........ *1:15 PM & 6 PM


SAN JOSE ARENA - Autumn & Santa Clara St. in San Jose
Wednesday 8\23 ........ 6 PM

Thursday 8\24 ........ 6 PM

Friday 8\25 ........ *5:15 PM

Saturday 8\26 ........ *1:15 PM & 6 PM

Sunday 8\27 ........ *1:15 PM & 6 PM



RINGLING WILL NOT BE AT THE COW PALACE THIS YEAR!


To Car Pool or For More Info. Call 650\654-9955 or email deniz_b [at] yahoo.com.

*It's especially important to be prompt, as we leaflet two shows at that time - people coming out of an earlier show and people going into the next show. The people come out all at once, if we're late we'll miss them.



WE APPRECIATE YOUR HELP AT ALL PERFORMANCES YOU CAN ATTEND.





Ringling's "Elephant Department Head" Troy Metzler (aka "Captain Hook") will be here this year -- We have repeatedly videotaped him hitting and hooking elephants with a bullhook.



We have seen Ringling's attendance drop and now that they are reducing their performances here -- Let's make sure they know they are not welcomed here at all.







The Sad Lives Of Ringling's Elephants



Ringling Kills 4 Baby Elephants In 8 Years

Bertha dead at a few months of age. September 2005: Ringling did not announce Bertha's birth or death.



Riccardo dead at 8 months of age. August 4, 2004: Ringling claims he fell off a 19-inch-high-round platform. After making Riccardo suffer all night with two broken legs, Ringling took him to a hospital the next morning where x-rays revealed "severe and irreparable fractures." Riccardo was killed that day.



Benjamin dead at 4 years of age. 1999: Drowned in a pond while attempting to avoid "trainer" Pat Harned, who witnesses said "poked" Benjamin with an ankus. A USDA investigator concluded that seeing and/or being "touched" or "poked" by Harned with an ankus caused physical harm and lead to Benjamin's death. This incident was videotaped but Ringling requested the USDA not release it to the public.



Kenny dead at 3 years of age. 1998: Ringling elephant "trainers" Gunther Gebel-Williams and Mark Gebel, against veterinarian orders, forced Kenny, who was bleeding from his rectum, to perform. Kenny died later that day after passing a large amount of blood from his rectum.



Ringling routinely uses ropes and chains to separate 18-month-old-baby elephants from their mothers. USDA told Ringling that this practice violates Federal law; Ringling defended it calling it "industry standard." In the wild female elephants never leave their mothers; males leave at about age 13-15 years.



Chained Most of Their Lives:
Elephants in the wild can roam up to 50 miles a day. Ringling keeps elephants chained by 1 front and 1 back leg for most of their lives; the rest of the time they are confined in small barren pens in parking lots.



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