Category: Activists & Organizations

Infiltration and disruption of activism

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August, 2002:

A federal court jury in Oakland, California, on June 11
ordered the FBI and the Oakland Police Department to pay $4.4 million
in reparations and damages to Earth First! activist Darryl Cherney,
46, and the estate of Judi Bari, who died of cancer at age 47 in
March 1997. On May 24, 1990, as Bari and Cherney drove through
Oakland on their way to Santa Cruz to rally fellow anti-old growth
logging activists, a nail bomb detonated under the seat of Bari’s
car. Cherney escaped with minor injuries, but a shattered pelvis and
lower back injuries left Bari permanently disabled. Although no
evidence ever linked Bari and Cherney to the bomb, both were
arrested within hours for allegedly possessing it.

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The costs versus benefits of making a big bust

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August, 2002:

Four almost simultaneous June cases spotlighted the costs and
often unpredictable risks to humane societies of confiscating large
numbers of animals in cruelty and neglect cases:

On June 6, the city of Edgewater, Florida, severed an
animal control impoundment contract with the Southeast Volusia Humane
Society because the shelter killed 14 dogs and cats who were taken in
April from the home of Valerie White, 38. The animals were killed
within hours after Volusia County Judge Mary Jane Henderson issued a
handwritten order that, “The City of Edgewater may advise the Humane
Society that those animals are available for adoption.” Edgewater
officials disputed the contention of shelter director Suzy Soule that
the animals were in poor health. White was charged nearly two weeks
later with three counts of unlawful abandonment or confinement of
animals, and one county of cruelty.

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20th century leaders squandered the 19th century humane movement legacy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August, 2002:

BOSTON–Animal Welfare Insti-tute founder Christine Stevens,
introduced as “Mrs. Roger Stevens,” may be the only person still
alive who was noted as a humane movement leader by William Allen
Swallow in The Quality of Mercy, a 1963 “history of the humane
movement in the United States” published by the Mary Mitchell Humane
Fund, a subsidiary of the Massachusetts SPCA.
Stevens may also be the only person whom Swallow mentioned as
a contemporary humane movement leader whose name is still widely
recognized.

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GAO hits nonprofits for hiding professional fundraising fees

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August, 2002:

WASHINGTON D.C.–Echoing criticisms of IRS disclosure
standards often voiced by ANIMAL PEOPLE, the General Accounting
Office urged a crackdown on misleading declarations of fundraising
expense in a new report formally known as GAO-02-526: Tax-Exempt
Organizations: Improvements Possible in Public, IRS, and State
Oversight of Charities.
“Public watchdog groups have expressed concerns about expense
reporting, and the IRS has found and acted on instances of
inaccurate reporting,” the GAO acknowledged. “However, the IRS has
not assessed, and is just beginning to develop plans to assess, the
extent to which charities are properly reporting expenses.”

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Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August, 2002:

Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes
by Andy Goodman
Cause Communications, 2002.
Free for downloading at <www.agoodmanonline.com>.

Anti-hunting activists may be transiently comforted to know
that the ads designed by the anti-gun proliferation group CeaseFire
tend to be more effective, as measured by readership surveys, than
the ads of the National Rifle Association.

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Baja Animal Sanctuary is blown away by storm

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

ROSARITO, Mexico–“The Baja Animal Sanctuary [as described
in the June 1999 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE] is virtually gone, gone,
gone,” founder Sunny Benedict told volunteers and donors in a
February 11 letter distributed by volunteer Maureen Quinn.
“The same horrible Santa Ana winds that created the canyon
fires in the vicinity of Fallbrook, California,” causing
evacuations of people and animals, “came through Rosarito,”
Benedict explained. “All of the fencing, tarpaulins for shade,
dog houses, aluminum roofing, and even the roof on the house are
gone. And there was nothing we could do but watch.

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The dog on the burning deck inspires the world

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2002:

HONOLULU, SEOUL, TAIPEI, BANGKOK– Rescuing just one
little two-year-old Taiwanese female mixed-breed terrier named Hokget
from the burned-out drifting hulk of the Indonesian fuel tanker
Insiko 1907 cost the Hawaii Humane Society, Humane Society of the
U.S., private donors, and the U.S. Coast Guard as much as $185,000,
spokespersons acknowledged after the seagoing tugboat American Quest
brought her into Honolulu.

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Will wild orca capture and Makah whaling resume on Puget Sound?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2002:

SEATTLE, SHIMONSEKI– Decisions announced on May 24, 2002
by the National Marine Fisheries Service in Washington D.C. and the
International Whaling Commission in Shimonseki, Japan, hint that
the next big battles over both whale captivity and whale-hunting
might be fought on Puget Sound, Washington state.
But again, maybe not, as the issues of captivity and
“cultural subsistence” whaling that sparked high-profile protest in
the mid-1990s have all but dropped from public view.

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When mobile units work, and when they do not

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2002:

WESTBROOK, Connecticut; ST. LOUIS, Missouri–Mobile
neutering project results could scarcely contrast more than those of
the TEAM Mobile Feline Unit and a similar unit recently deployed in
St. Louis.
Sponsored since 1997 by the Vernon A. Tait All-Animal
Adoption, Preservation, & Rescue Fund, TEAM in May 2002 announced
completion of more than 50,000 cat sterilizations, at the rate of
about 12,000 surgeries per year.

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