Sentences with phrase «kill movement since»

An authority and leader in the no - kill movement since its founding in 1984, Best Friends runs the nation's largest no - kill sanctuary for companion animals, as well as life - saving programs in partnership with rescue groups and shelters across the country.

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The attack at Santa Fe High School is the deadliest school shooting since a former student was arrested in the killing of 17 people at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day, a massacre that mobilized a nationwide movement for gun reform.

In Rakhine state, sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims (who have been discriminated against since the inception of Myanmar as a country and prohibited from freedom of movement, access to formal employment, and having more than two children), rights groups have made vocal accusations against the government for failing to intervene, and sometimes participating, in human rights atrocities committed against the Rohingya, including the burning down of houses and destruction of property, torture, and mass violence and killings (Human Rights Watch 2013).

The shooting at Santa Fe High School marks the deadliest school shooting since a former student was arrested in the killing of 17 people at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day, a massacre that mobilized a nationwide movement for gun reform.

Since then, the no - kill movement, as it's called, has been credited with greatly reducing the number of dogs and cats that are euthanized, from some 20 million down to about 3 million each year.

Since then, the Austin community has made huge strides in the no - kill movement, becoming the largest no - kill city in the country within less than a year of the plan.

Since its start in 1984, Best Friends Animal Society has become a leader in the no - kill movement.

Since 1944, our tiny shelter and grown by leaps and bounds to become a leader on innovation in the no - kill movement.

Since jumping into the no - kill movement as a volunteer for Best Friends in 1994, I have been involved in just about all aspects of our work to end shelter killing, including pulling together a statewide coalition in Utah, a citywide coalition in Los Angeles, a mobile spay / neuter program that roamed the rural reaches of Utah, super adoptions, local and national fundraising efforts, legislative campaigns, a national conference and, of course, shelter rescue.

What should shock the sheltering community into belated victim awareness, if anything can or will before the victim advocacy movement hits the humane community harder than anything since the rise of «no kill» advocacy in 1995, are the numbers pertaining to attacks by rehomed dogs.

We do know that prospective employees are prescreened for their support of No Kill, and I personally know an individual who many years ago was fired from PETA immediately after saying that the video he was just shown that claimed No Kill resulted in hoarding and abuse was not correct, since he had volunteered at the San Francisco SPCA when it was the crown jewel of the No Kill movement and knew firsthand the high quality care it was offering.

In a desperate bid to drag us back into the isolated darkness where they continue to dwell — a place where facts hold no power, experience no relevance, and the lives of animals no value but where their reputations remain unthreatened by a movement that has since left them behind and rendered their «expertise» irrelevant — there are those who don't want an end to the killing, who continue to argue to other activists, to public officials, and anyone else who will still listen that saving animals instead of killing them is the darker of the two options.

We've come a long way since then — founding the No - Kill movement, building the first cage-less adoption center and advocating on behalf of all animals — to become a global leader in animal welfare and helping to establish San Francisco as one of the most progressively humane cities in the world.

We've come a long way since then — founding the No - Kill movement, building the first cage-less adoption center and advocating on behalf of all animals.

Since 1944, Animal League America has steadily grown into a leader in the no - kill movement, a pioneer in humane relocation, and a shoulder to lean on for companion animals in desperate need of saving.

We've made tremendous progress since the No Kill movement started in 1989.