Category: Activists & Organizations

Korean activists remind that it’s about cats, too

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

DAEGU, South Korea–“Please ask our President to make a
strong law banning dog and cat meat,” Korea Animal Protection
Society founder Sunnan Kum begged U.S. President George W. Bush in an
open letter on the eve of his February 20-21 visit to South Korea.
Sunnan Kum knew there was little chance that her letter would
reach Bush–but she has learned to try to leave no Bush unshaken in
her lifelong struggle against the customs of torturing dogs to death
to get adrenalin-soaked meat with reputed aphrodisiacal qualities for
men, and boiling cats alive to make a tonic for aging women.

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Will the end of Spring bring change to the Humane Society of Indianapolis?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

INDIANAPOLIS–Marsha Spring, 59, executive director of the
Humane Society of Indianapolis since 1988, resigned on February 21,
four days after Indianapolis Star reporters Bill Theobald and Bonnie
Harris revealed that Spring had used credit cards and checks issued
by the humane society to pay for “purchases from high-end women’s
clothing stores, gas stations, a spa, and animal product
suppliers, among others, including items bought during personal
vacations on Florida’s Sanibel Island.”
Spring even used a humane society check to pay for
reupholstering her dining room chairs in November 1996, Theobald and
Harris reported.

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Animal advocacy meets The War on Terror

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

SALT LAKE CITY–Utah County coyotes got a break from
terrorism during the Winter Olympic Games held in and around Salt
Lake City.
“Because of the no-fly restriction in effect withn 45 miles
of the Games from midnight on February 7 through midnight on February
24, USDA Wildlife Services could not conduct aerial coyote control,”
Deseret News staff writer Sharon Hadlock reported.
Those weeks are usually peak coyote-strafing time for
Wildlife Services, as snow makes their tracks visible to helicopter
gunners.

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Shelters & labs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

The Inland Valley Humane Society, of Pomona, California,
has ceased supplying dogs and cats to veterinary technician training
programs at Mount San Antonio College, after 30 years, and to Cal
Poly Pomona, after four years, executive director Bill Harford
confirmed in mid-February 2002 to Los Angeles Times reporter Danielle
Samniego. Harford blamed criticism from PETA for ending the
arrangements, which he said often led to the animals finding homes
with the vet tech trainees–a contention PETA disputes.

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Sentenced

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

Religious conservative Mark Warren Sands, 50, of Phoenix,
Arizona, drew an 18-year prison sentence on February 11 for burning
seven luxury homes under construction between April 2000 and January
2001. Sands claimed credit for the ELF-like arsons in communiques
from environmental advocacy activist cells that existed only in his
own imagination. A former publicist for University Hospital in Salt
Lake City and a Phoenix-area health care organization, Sands more
nearly fit the profile of an agent provocateur than that of a radical
activist, having no public history of the open space advocacy that
he said was his motive. But Sands also acknowledged committing the
arsons to obtain a sense of adventure, and no evidence emerged to
link him to any kind of conspiracy.

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When the dogs are away, the monkeys will play

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

HONG KONG, BANGKOK, KUALA LUMPUR, BUCHAREST, NEW DELHI–
Celebrating 99 years as the first and biggest humane society west of
San Francisco and east of Mumbai, the Hong Kong SPCA will go no-kill
in June 2002, executive director Chris Hanselman announced on
January 1.
The Hong Kong SPCA has handled dog and cat sheltering and
population control killing for much of the city since 1921–like the
San Francisco SPCA, which held the San Francisco animal control
contract from 1895 until 1984, when it began a five-year phase-out
while the S.F. Department of Animal Care and Control geared up to
take over.

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B.C. grizzly hunt is “difficult to defend,” warns biologist hired by the Safari Club

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

VANCOUVER, B.C.–Animal rights groups, a European Union
scientific panel, and a top bear biologist hired by Safari Club
International are agreed: British Columbia grizzly bears could
disappear if hunters keep killing them at the current rate.
But, aligned with the hunting and guiding industry, the
governments of Canada and British Columbia are still determined to
keep grizzly bear hunting open.
The European Union suspended issuing import permits for B.C.
grizzly bear trophies in November 2001.

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Editorial: Humane nation-building

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

Flying into Afghanistan on January 13, World Society for the
Protection of Animals international projects director John Walsh
drove straight to the Kabul Zoo with two colleagues and several
suitcases of veterinary supplies.
Few if any humane workers have helped more animals in more
places, under more dramatic circumstances, than John Walsh. A
former field officer for the Massachusetts SPCA, Walsh transferred
to the International Society for Animal Protection when it was spun
off as a subsidiary in 1964, and was soon literally immersed in
helping to carry an estimated 10,000 animals to safety from the
floodwaters behind a new dam in Surinam.

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Bulldogging the Olympic Rodeo

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

SALT LAKE CITY–“The Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the
forthcoming Winter Olympic Games was expected to drop the scheduled
February 9-11 Command Performance Rodeo from the Cultural Olympiad
at a January 3 meeting with rodeo foes,” ANIMAL PEOPLE reported in
our December edition, citing coverage from both the Salt Lake
Tribune and the Deseret News, and quoting rodeo protest leader Steve
Hindi, who flew to Salt Lake City in anticipation of the
announcement.

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