Peter Gerard hires lawyer, repays a principle

March 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:

WASHINGTON D.C.––Under pressure from
Friends of Animals and other sponsors to provide a full
accounting of funds received and spent in connection with the
June 1996 World Animal Awareness Week and March for the
Animals, National Alliance for Animals executive director
Peter Gerard, formerly known as Peter Linck, recently
retained attorney Roger Galvin, of Rockville, Maryland, to
tell FoA that as of January 8, “the audit is not completed yet,”
and to argue that FoA “received more benefits in terms of participation
and publicity than its $5,000 contribution warranted.”
The March, crowning the week of activities, drew
just 3,000 participants according to the official National Parks
Service count––3% of the 100,000 Gerard’s fundraising letters
predicted would attend, and 21,000 fewer than the crowd at a
similar march that Gerard coordinated in 1990.

Abrupt Kathleen Hunter exit from THS recalls “Toronto Massacre”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:

TORONTO––Kathleen
Hunter, Toronto Humane Society
executive director since 1986,
departed on January 25 under undisclosed
circumstances.
“The board agreed with the
executive of the society that she is no
longer an employee,” Toronto city
councillor Steve Ellis told Toronto
Star reporter Phinjo Gombu.
“Before the meeting, she was an
employee, but after the meeting she
wasn’t.” Ellis, who holds a THS
board seat reserved for a city representative,
claimed he could say no
more because it was “a confidential
labor relations matter.”

Organizations

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:

Humane Society of the U.S. wildlife trade
program director Teresa Telecki, quoted from the
December Utne Reader: “We want to help people rise
from poverty, but not through trophy hunting. We’d
rather see them earning money from cottage industries
such as fish farming and shoemaking.” Along with
overlooking that fish feel pain, too, Telecki failed to
note the role of offshore fish farming in promoting the
killing of seals and sea lions, the frequent massacre of
fish-eating birds at fish farms of all sorts, and habitat
damage by aquaculture ranging from the destruction of
coastal mangrove swamps in Southeast Asia to the pollution
of inland waterways almost everywhere inland
that fish farming has caught on. Telecki also didn’t
stipulate nonleather shoemaking.

Editorial: Instinct vs. education

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:

“A seven-year-old boy and his father were hiking through a cornfield near Green
Bay when they saw two hawks fighting,” Karen Herzog of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
recently reported. “A redtailed hawk fell to the ground, ripped open from her eye to her
beak and down her neck and breast bone. The father told his son to stay by the bird while
he got help. When the father returned, he was surprised to find his small son on the
ground, his body curled over the bird to protect her from the other hawk, who was still targeting
her adversary. The boy’s winter coat was tattered from the dive-bombing hawk
attacks, but both the boy protector and the injured hawk were safe.”

CANADA’S NOT THE THIRD WORLD, EH?

January 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment