Tomorrow at noon PETA will bring their Sad Elephant sculpture to Coney Island in protest of the opening of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus opening there (last year they only brought a few signs). The statue was created by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss, and its proper name is "Ella PhantzPeril." It depicts a shackled baby elephant and includes the inscription "See Shackles, Bullhooks, Loneliness—All Under the Big Top." It will remain there all summer.
The organization will also be protesting later in the day, and they tell us they've now released dozens of new images of Ringling's training center, exposing "how still-nursing baby elephants are captured rodeo-style and dragged away from their loving mothers... wrestled, stretched out, slammed to the ground, gouged with steel-tipped bullhooks, and shocked with electric prods."
If you want to partake in tomorrow's sculpture unveiling, it will take place at the intersection of Surf Avenue and West 21st Street.
Thanks www.gothamist.com
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