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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.

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.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.

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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

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ARM wins again

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

Animal Rights Mobiliza-
tion director Robin Duxbury, com-
ing off a successful campaign to
keep dolphins out of the Colorado’s
Ocean Journey theme park to be
built near Denver, called for a boy-
cott of the grooming salons in the
PetsMart pet supply chain last
September, following the death of
at least five dogs in five different
states when groomers––independent
of each other and of any direction
from PetsMart ––apparently tried to
perform veterinary procedures
and/or mishandled insecticides.

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