Protesters Greet Obama in Las Vegas
February 22nd, 2010 | 
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Just two of the dedicated protesters in Las Vegas . . .
Yesterday and today, President Obama was greeted in Las Vegas by wild horse advocates calling for a halt to the roundups and reform of the Wild Horse & Burro program. With much hard work and determination, the wild horse advocates were able to get four up close encounters with President Obama in his motorcade. Each time, they were holding different versions of the awesome banners that organizer Arlene Gawne produced and they are certain that Obama and his aides saw them and registered the message.
Yesterday, Gina Griesen of Nevada Voters for Animals and her daughter held banners as the Obama motorcade entered a housing development where the President was attending a $35,000 a plate fundraising dinner. Gina and her daughter stayed late and also caught the motorcade on its way out.
Today a number of advocates tracked Obama around Las Vegas catching up with the motorcade twice. On at least one of these occasions, they were in close proximity to the President’s limo, which was traveling very slowly and they could see him look straight at them holding their mustang freedom banners.
Advocates have also done numerous media interviews over these past few days.
These folks have worked really hard this week to bring the plight of wild horses to the President’s attention – and their hard work has paid off. Special thanks and kudos to Arlene for organizing this spectacular effort and to everyone who took to the streets to help the horses!
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Tags: Burros, Demonstrations, Horses, Nevada, Wildlife
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Wild horses represent American freedom & they don’t have that.
Yes so happy to see the protest.
I am so glad to hear that Obama saw the protestors and their signs. I have called the White House comment line but you just never know if the President gets any of those messages. He’s so insulated. He had to have seen this one.
Larry, I think you’re right about the President being so insulated. We can’t know if his aids have even given him any of our messages. I know one person who called several days after leaving a message, and the aid said she hadn’t even given it to him yet. Probably never did.
Obama had a very good humane record as a Senator. Let’s just hope we got to him this time.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Ghandi
We demand the inhuman brutal unnecessary wild horse round ups stop now ! We need our wild horses protected NOW from the BLM liars -it is unacceptable for this brutal corrupt agency that only serves the interests of the cattle industry to continue their brutal abuse and genocide of the horses they were supposed to be protecting. We demand our horses be protected now and that the BLM be held accountable for the brutal abuse and genocide of our wild horses!
I have to tell the BLM – we are not all idiots here in America and they will be held accountable for their lies and brutal abuse and murder of our wild horses and their criminal acts and destruction of our public lands, water and wildlife.. The BLM are corrupt liars who only serve the cattle industry. The BLM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR BRUTALLY ABUSING WILD HORSES and SENDING TENS of THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS BELOVED WILD HORSES TO SLAUGHTER AGAINST THEIR SWORN DUTY TO PROTECT AMERICAS HORSES. They lie to the American people and to congress and then steal land set aside for horses and other wildlife and put their privately welfare owned cattle on our public lands.They are thieving lying thugs and need to be prosecuted and put on prison.