March for the Animals

The March for the Animals on 10 June 1990 was a significant early protest by the Animal Rights Movement in Washington D.C. An estimated 25,000 animal rights activists gathered for the march. ^[1] The event however did not immediately attract significant media attention, and was relatively small among List of rallies and protest marches in Washington, D.C. compared, for example, to the Rally for Life in January 1990 which had gathered 700,000 people. ^[2] Among the celebrity supporters of the march was singer Grace Slick who performed the Jefferson Airplane song "Panda" from the band's final album of the previous year. The majority of marchers were women, but female activists were not the majority of speakers on the roster. ^[3]

References

1. Laura Perdew Animal Rights Movement 2014- Page 65 "The 1990 March for the Animals was a milestone event showing how much the animal rights movement had grown. ... 1990, when an estimated 25,000 animal rights activists gathered in Washington, DC, for the March for the Animals."
2. Animal Rights Activists March on Washington - AP Newsapnews "10 Jun 1990 — Organizers said ″March for the Animals″ - the first event of its kind - was a milestone in a movement they said was once viewed as outside ..."
3. Helena Silverstein Unleashing Rights: Law, Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement 1996 p35 "This gender disparity was apparent at the national March for the Animals, in June 1990, where the majority of marchers were women yet “Fewer than ten female activists were on the roster" (Animals' Agenda, September 1990, 39)."