I can't say how sorry I am for being absent from this special place, the safest place I've been in years...but suffice it to say I have been out 'there', bruised and not really bloodied, (yet) but needed to come and get some encouragement, a brief respite, and charge back out to keep fighting! Please...help with me, his has been (and still is) one hell of a fight! Elephants matter, and everyone is applauding, and yet nothing is changing...
The ongoing intensity of our campaign to raise awareness of the poaching and illegal sale of Ivory and Rhino horn has only grown stronger and our voices have gotten louder. Where there once were 100 soldiers, there are now 10,000!
After banging on the door of State Senator Hoylman (New York 27th District: Manhattan) for over 6 months, I finally sat with him and explained the severity of this crisis and asked for his help staging an Ivory Crush in New York City.
He liked the idea and I went to work researching all salient facts about the Ivory Crush in Denver in November 2013. Everything about rock crushers vs. steam rollers, confiscated Ivory with the criminal cases still pending, and many other issues....then I spoke to writers from the Denver Post who had witnessed and written about the event, and from there I pursued the USFWS in Colorado. I cannot even say how helpful and eager they were to help me get this done.
From there I was working my way up the web at USFWS in D.C. and again doors opened readily and I was gaining valuable information, including the fact that the Denver Crush had received the Ivory from everywhere in the U.S.....with the exception of New York! Sometimes you just get lucky.
Pursuit of the facts and related issues changed my path from one of cooperation and support to an ironclad door with adamant “no's" regarding attaining this store of Ivory to be 'crushed'.
Never hindered by closed doors and “no’s” I re-routed and found many other hidden doors that were accessible and opened with less difficulty. The journey did however become one that required much more tenacity doused with both confidence and honey. Twenty-plus years in sales and sales management truly paid off.
Well, I am proud to announce that the Ivory Crush will take place! June 19th at Times Square in New York City! The New York Times will make the official announcement this week, so keep an eye out!
I truly believe that when New York sneezes, the world catches a cold. So please spread the word, and sneeze along with us on the 19th!
There will be at least one major follow up event in October, so stay tuned.
Finally, I'd like to ask you to sign my petition which is posted below. And please, understand that this has nothing to do with religion at all....but the one world leader that is totally free from any political affiliation, who speaks and the entire world hears and respects: Pope Francis.
My petition is to ask him to speak out on this crisis. That will have more impact on this situation than all the marches, protests, photo ops with politicians, and everything else.
Despite our world-wide efforts the numbers have not changed in two years. It is time to bring in the Big Gun!
Thank you for your interest and support! Sherman54
Please sign and share if you care!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/...
Tue Jun 09, 2015 at 7:36 PM PT: Please! This cannot wait!