MA DAY OF ACTION FOR ANIMALS

JOIN US FOR A POWERFUL DAY OF ACTION AT THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE. We have an amazing opportunity right now to protect animals from abuse in Massachusetts, and your help is needed. There are a number of animal bills being heard this day, including the following: Bill S.1234 – The Act Prohibiting the Harassment of Animals, is a landmark bill that would outlaw practices that inflict both physical pain and psychological suffering. What You Can Do: 1) Register for Oral Testimony and Testify This bill will be heard by the Massachusetts Legislature Joint Committee on the Judiciary on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 – 1:00pm in the Statehouse - Room A-2. To provide Oral In-Person Testimony - or Oral Remote Testimony - you must pre-register no later than Saturday July 26, 2025 midnight to make sure your voice is heard and counts. 2) Submit Written Testimony In addition to oral testimony, please submit Written Testimony, ideally before or within two weeks after the Hearing date. Written Testimony will be accepted until the Committee decides on the Bill - which could happen before September 14th. Email written testimony to kyle.fields@masenate.gov The language of Bill S.1234 may be found here. https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S1234 3) Contact Your Local Legislators Tell them you support S.1234 “Prohibiting the Harassment of Animals” and urge them to support it too. Ask them to help push it favorably out of the Judiciary Committee and vote to Pass it in the full legislature. 4) Check in during August & September with the Judiciary Committee Leadership asking the Chairs and Vice Chairs when S.1234 will be moved favorably out of Committee: Email or Call: Senator Lydia Edwards (Chair): Lydia.Edwards@masenate.gov Senator James Eldridge (Vice Chair): James.Eldridge@masenate.gov Representative Michael Day (Chair): Michael.Day@mahouse.gov Representative Brandy Fluker-Oakley (Vice Chair): Brandy.FlukerReid@mahouse.gov 5) Raise Public Awareness Use social media, op-eds, community meetings, and conversations to amplify the concepts in this legislation. The more people that are discussing these concepts, the more people become accustomed to them. History shows that is how women won the right to vote in 1920. Bill S.1167/H.1948 - Please join local PETA supporters at the Massachusetts State House for an important hearing on bill S.1167/H.1948, which would prohibit baby monkeys in laboratories from being taken from their mothers for experiments for their first year of life. We will gather outside the Massachusetts State House prior to the hearing for a rally before going into the hearing together. The bill follows PETA’s work exposing the horrific experiments of Harvard Medical School’s Margaret Livingstone, who ripped newborn rhesus macaques from their mothers and forced them to wear vision-distorting goggles for up to 18 months. She even sewed some infants’ eyelids shut. Following PETA’s efforts, federal funding for Harvard’s cruel baby monkey experiments was recently cut, but Massachusetts must enact laws to ensure the same torment never happens again. Your voice is crucial. If there is any way you can attend and comment in support of this bill, we urge you to do so. Your presence at this hearing would demonstrate to lawmakers that Massachusettsans won’t stand for ripping baby monkeys away from their mothers to be used in cruel and worthless experiments. We will provide t-shirts for everyone to wear, and a vegan lunch will be provided after the hearing. PLEASE READ: We have a required dress code! Please dress sharply in a PETA t-shirt, nice pants, and close-toed shoes. We must ensure that the focus remains on the animals without any distractions that could shift people’s attention.