Memorial For Charlie Beautiful White Horse Tonight!

For Immediate Release -- NYC  - October 27, 2011
 
Contacts:
Elizabeth Forel - Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages -  
Mary Xanthos, DVM - Win Animal Rights 
 
MEDIA ADVISORY
 
CHARLIE HONORED IN A CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL
he will be sent off with love and a vow that his death will
not be in vain.   
(exclusive video of Spotty's death in 2006 is below **)
 
NEW YORK STATE SENATOR TONY AVELLA joins the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages, other animals protection organizations and the 75% of New Yorkers who want an end to the inhumane and unsafe horse-drawn carriage industry for a 
 
Candle Light Vigil to honor the life and death of Charlie, a beautiful white carriage horse who collapsed and died on the mean streets of New York City on Sunday morning , October 23rd – just a few blocks from the stable that he called home. 
 
WHEN:  Friday evening – October 28th – from 7pm to 9 pm
WHERE:  starting at the north/west corner of Central Park South and 5th Avenue (for about one hour) and then marching to W. 54th St. where Charlie died – and then to the W. 52nd St. stable. 
 
Senator Avella is the original sponsor of the historic Intro 658 – the first bill ever introduced into the City Council in 2007 to ban horse-drawn carriages…a bill that went nowhere in the Council  because of the political cover afforded the industry by the Administration and Council Speaker. 
 
Senator Avella has introduced the same bill into the state Senate.   S5013 and A7748.  The assembly bill was introduced by Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal who has also been invited to our rally.  It is hoped to have a much better chance there.  It will shut down this inhumane and unsafe industry in NYC. 
 
We are calling the bill Bobby’s Bill after the NYC carriage horse we rescued from the kill floor of the New Holland live stock auctions in June 2010.  Bobby II Freedom is now living a grand life at Equine Advocates’ Sanctuary in Chatham, NY.  Bobby was a cast off from West Side Livery Stables.
 
 
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Elizabeth Forel
Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages
www.banhdc.org
Horses Without Carriages International
www.horseswithoutcarriages.org