Category: Activists & Organizations

ORGANIZATIONS & ISSUES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:

The daily electronic news bulletin
GREENlines, founded as ESA Today, on March 31
announced the departure of lead author Jim Jontz after
nearly 500 editions to become executive director of the
Western Ancient Forest Campaign. Roger
Featherstone remains GREENlines editor and webmaster,
assisted by former Northwest Ecosystem
Alliance staffer Eric Wingerter and outreach coordinator
Megan Delany. GREENlines is a project of the
Grassroots Environmental Effectiveness Network,
a division of Defenders of Wildlife.
The Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting,
founded as a branch of Friends of Animals and then
taken independent in 1975 by the late Luke Dommer,
has again been absorbed by another group, this time
Wildlife Watch Inc., also incorporating the Coalition
to Prevent the Destruction of Canada Geese. All
three are led by Anne and Peter Muller, POB 562,
New Paltz, NY 12561; telephone 914-255-4227; fax
914-256-9113; e-mail >>wildwatch@worldnet.alt.net;
web >>http://www.icu.com/geese/ coalition.html.<<

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Wise-use wiseguys

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:

Alleging trademark violation, the National
Parks and Conservation Association has forced the
Property Rights Alliance, of Washington state, to restructure
the “National Park Watch Homepage,” which NPCA
counsel Libby Fayad contends “sought to sidetrack people
seeking legitimate park information” via ParkWatcher, an
NPCA web page designation, “and expose them to paranoid
fears about the National Park Service and those of us who
work to maintain the parks.” The PRA site reportedly
accused the NPCA, Audubon Society, Sierra Club,
Wilderness Society, and other groups of promoting paganism
and trying to turn over U.S. parks to the United Nations.

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The Summit and the top of the heap

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:

SACRAMENTO––Belton Mouras, founder of both
the Animal Protection Institute and United Animal Nations,
resigned the UAN presidency on March 26 in a seeming replay
of his exit from API almost exactly ten years before.
Mouras founded API in 1968, after about six years as
California representative for the Humane Society of the U.S.,
and went on to found UAN later in 1987.
Former UAN staffer Jeane Westin now chairs the
UAN board, while former vice president Deanna Soares has
become executive director. Mouras almost immediately
accepted a job as development officer for the Performing
Animal Welfare Society, while former UAN program director
Vernon Weir resigned separately to take a similar post with the
Association of Sanctuaries (TAOS).
Mouras told ANIMAL PEOPLE that push came to
shove after UAN received two major bequests and enjoyed an
unusually successful direct mail appeal on behalf of the UANsponsored
Emergency Animal Rescue Service. By fluke, the
appeal reached recipients just as the late January flooding in
California put EARS in the news.

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CHARITY BUREAU REPORTS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:

The Cancer Fund of America, purporting to fund
no animal research, and apparently funding little or no
research of any kind, has again flunked the standards of both
the Council of Better Business Bureaus Philanthropic
Advisory Service and the National Charities Information
Bureau. Both agencies reported that the Cancer Fund failed
to provide sufficient information about itself in financial
statements. The NCIB added that the Cancer Fund does not
meet standards requiring “that promotional, fundraising, and
public information should describe accurately the organization’s
identity, purpose, programs, and financial needs; that
the organization spend at least 60% of annual expenses on
program activities; that the organization insure that fundraising
expenses, in relation to fundraising results, are reasonable
over time; and that the organization not have a persistent
deficit in net current assets.”

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BOOKS: In Your Face

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1997:

In Your Face
by Chris DeRose
Duncan Publishing (order c/o
Last Chance for Animals, 8033
Sunset Blvd., Suite 35, Los
Angeles, CA 90046), 1997.
303 pages, $21.00, paperback.

Chris DeRose rather
enjoys writing about Chris DeRose
and his exploits during the course of
In Your Face. His adventures are
often the type of stuff that without
adequate context can give animal
rights activists a bad name, especially
when direct action comes
across as a shortcut taken because
it’s exciting, bypassing the obligations

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COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1997:

Activism
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals unanimously ruled March 14 that the
U.S. Forest Service had no legal cause to conceal
the location of northern goshawk nests
from the Maricopa Audubon Society, of
Phoenix, Arizona. The Audubon group sought
the data in 1993, alleging that a Southwestern
region forester and his deputy improperly
ignored protection of endangered species. The
forester took early retirement and the deputy
transfered, after then-Forest Service chief Jack
Ward Thomas hired an outside consultant to
do a special inquiry––but the Forest Service
released only an edited edition of the findings.

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ALF bombs mink feed depot

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1997:

SALT LAKE CITY––Five pipe
bombs detonating over 10-15 minutes circa 2
a.m. on March 11 destroyed the main office
and four trucks at the Utah Fur Breeders
Agricultural Collective feed storage depot in
Sandy, Utah, shooting shrapnel into an adjacent
parking lot. A sixth bomb placed under
a truck did not go off.
Living in trailers at the site but
unhurt were truck driver Ben Flitton, his
wife, their two-year-old son, and mechanic
Flaviano Garcia, who apparently left
responding to the blasts to about 60 firefighters.
Slaughterhouse owner Michael
Speechley, of Minsterworth, England, narrowly
escaped injury during a similar attack
on June 24, 1996, when––apparently aware
only of a fire––he drove a truck away from
two burning trucks that police later found
were ignited by Molotov cocktails. A third
Molotov cocktail had been placed on top of
the front off-side wheel of the truck
Speechley moved, but did not explode.

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WHAT’S IN A NAME? NO-KILLS AND THE HEART OF DARKNESS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1997:

PHOENIX––Fast losing public support
for the traditional “full service shelter”
concept, which it has advanced without significant
modification since forming in 1954, the
Humane Society of the U.S. at its Animal Care
Expo in mid-February unveiled a campaign to
persuade no-kill shelters to relabel themselves
“limited access shelters.”
HSUS central/south regional office
director Phil Snyder and Cat Care Society
executive director Kathy Macklem introduced
the “limited access” term in panel discussion,
after which Macklem tried to enlist the
endorsement of No-Kill Directory publisher,
No-Kill Conference founder, and Doing
Things For Animals president Lynda Foro.

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WATCH YOUR PENNIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1997:

“Know what works good?”
homeless Earl asked Mike Barnicle of
the Boston Globe last November, as
Barnicle researched a feature on panhandling.
“Get a can and cover it with pictures
of hurt dogs. People give you
money: they think it’s for hurt dogs.
The ‘feed the family’ sign, that don’t get
you anywhere near as much as a picture
of a hurt dog.”
Pioneered decades ago by the
March of Dimes, the counter change can
is a staple of grassroots fundraising,
especially important to small town
humane societies and neighborhood rescue
groups, who have learned that the
regulars at restaurants and coffee shops
will often chip in to help the feral cats
around the dumpster. The secret, agree
experts, is having lots of attractive cans
out in lots of locations––and visiting
them often, to avoid losses to petty theft.

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