Canadian SPCA retiring deficit, but not critics

January 1, 1994 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada– – Parti–

sans disagree vehemently over how far the Canadian

SPCA (a..k.a. the Montreal SPCA) has gotten in

resolving the economic and administrative problems

reported here last March––no surprise, given the

decade of turmoil surrounding Canada’s oldest humane

society. Founded in 1869, the CSPCA handles animal

control for most of the greater Montreal area.

According to public relations officer Johanna

Dupras, “a new management and accounting team has

restructured accounting procedures and reorganized

shelter operations, with the result that the deficit has

been halved over the past year. The objective is to

break even by December 1994.”

American SPCA busts itself

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

NEW YORK CITY– –The New York Post revealed

December 31 that American SPCA chief of law enforcement

Herman Cohen cited the organization on October 24 for cruelty

to animals because a state-of-the-art shelter, opened in April

1992, was a “disaster area.” Cohen was subsequently suspend-

ed for undisclosed reasons, and the cruelty charge, turned over

to the Manhattan district attorney for prosecution, was not

made public.

Inadequate conditions mentioned in Cohen’s com-

plaint included insufficient heating, lack of proper ventilation,

a leaky ceiling, a cracked floor, and cages with an inoperable

automatic flushing system. Repair costs are estimated at

$400,000. Local activists Elizabeth Forel and Patty Adjamine

described essentially the same defects within days after the $5

million shelter debuted. The ASPCA has reportedly been hop-

ing to sell or lease the shelter to New York City when it turns

over animal control duties to the city next November.

The case is to be heard January 25.

Wise Use Wiseguys

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

New England and New York wise-

users met November 30 in Concord, New

Hampshire, at a summit held by the North

East Property Rights Alliance––and then

staged a five-day call-in to the White House,

trying to get Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt

fired for advancing a national biological sur-

vey. The wise-users say the survey, intended

to identify potential conflicts between endan-

gered species and land use before they happen,

would be prelude to “government land grabs.”

The NEPRA helped defeat a proposed Wild

and Scenic designation for 26 miles of the

Pemigewasset River last spring, and now

opposes the Merrimack Wild and Scenic

Rivers Study, the Shoreline Protection Act,

and the Northern Forests Lands Study, as well

as pushing a New Hampshire bill to give prop-

erty rights precedence over species protection.

Sex & money

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

Charities risk losing much of their

skilled workforce because they underpay

women, according to Applied Research and

Development Institute national director Carol

Barbieto. Women make up 68.2% of the non-

profit payroll, including 75% of the people in

executive jobs, Barbieto said, but female

nonprofit executives earn 26% less on average

than men. The average nonprofit salary is

$17,298 a year, far below the average national

wage for non-agricultural workers of $23,433.

.08 of a cent

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

Animal and habitat protection

groups collected just eight tenths of a cent

from each dollar raised by U.S. charities in

1992, says a new study by the National

Center for Charitable Statistics, a think-tank

run by the nonprofit umbrella group Indep-

endent Sector. Religion, at one cent, gets

only slightly more, while 60.8¢ goes to health

care and 17.8¢ to education. Because animal

and habitat protection groups draw relatively

little income from government grants and user

fees (such as hospital charges and tuition),

they rely upon private contributions for 46.8%

of their total revenue––the greatest reliance on

private support of any branch of charity.

ARIES quits

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

The ARIES Newsletter, published by

the Animal Rights Information and Education

Service, ended with the September-December

issue. Editor Peter Hermance, who began

ARIES as a monthly in March 1989, directed

readers to other media, including ANIMAL

PEOPLE, and detailed his repeated exclusion

from the Summit for the Animals, an annual

assembly of group leaders that welcomes

many other heads of essentially one-person

projects. Hermance apparently was barred

––unknown to himself––primarily because for-

mer Summit executive committee member

Wayne Pacelle warned other committee mem-

bers that he might be an “infiltrator.”

Anti-hunter runs for Sierra Club board

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

Margaret Hays Young, an outspoken critic of the Sierra Club’s

neutral stance on hunting, leads a slate of four dissidents who are seeking

seats on the Sierra Club board of directors in this spring’s membership

election. Young, long a leader of the Sierra Club’s 40,000-member

Atlantic Chapter, believes the group should ardently oppose hunting, log-

ging, and other exploitive use of national parks and wildlife refuges. She

is also a leading foe of the annual seagull massacres at New York’s

Kennedy International Airport. In 1990 she led the Atlantic Chapter and

other affiliates in Illinois, Indiana, and Montana in support of a plan to

curtail logging in the Northern Rockies. The Sierra Club board threatened

to oust Young and suspend operation of the Atlantic Chapter, but two

years later did adopt a stronger policy of opposition to old-growth logging.

The logging issue will be central to the spring election, heating

up after William Arthur, chief Sierra Club forest lobbyist in the Pacific

Northwest, sold 10 acres of his own trees to loggers. Sierra Club mem-

bership is down from 627,000 people to 550,000 since 1991, while

income is down from $52 million to $40 million.

IDA staff revolt

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

In Defense of Animals

founder and president Elliot Katz,

DVM, lost his authority to hire and

fire staff at a December 8 board of

directors meeting that also brought

the resignation from the board of

attorney Marjorie Martis. The

remaining board members, Betsy

Swart and Joan Briody, are now to

meet with Katz by telephone once a

month, with the first half hour of

each meeting given to staff to air

their views and complaints. A per-

sonnel director is to be hired to take

over staff management whenever the

depleted IDA budget permits. The

actions followed a staff revolt, after

cash flow problems obliged Katz to

fire development director Raymond

Chavez, and after he tried to set firm

DEAD DOG DID IN RICHARD NIXON

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

The Watergate political

espionage case that forced Richard

Nixon to resign the U.S. presiden-

cy in 1974 had antecedents in a

1945 animal cruelty case at UCLA,

alumnus Clancy Sigal wrote in a

reminiscence of the late H.R.

“Bob” Haldeman, published in the

November 27 New York Times.

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