A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:
Individual Compensation
(Chief executives &/or 10 top-paid staff & consultants)
The Pay column below combines salaries,
benefit plan contributions (if any), and expense
accounts for the few individuals who are not
required to itemize expenses. Individual
independent contractors such as attorneys,
accountants, and consultants are listed as well
as directors and regular staff.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:
Americans for Medical Progress
TYPE: AEV
GIVEN/EARNED: $ 437,920
BUDGET: $ 455,095
PROGRAMS: $ 313,694
OVERHEAD: $ 141,401
% 31%
ADJ: 31%
TOTAL ASSETS: $ 102,405
TANGIBLE ASSETS: $ 19,564
FUNDS/INVESTMENTS: $ 105,086
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
KANSAS CITY, Mo.–National Society for the Protection of
Animals president Barbara DeGraeve, 55, was charged on October 10
with cruelty, failure to vaccinate, failing to provide adequate
shelter to as many as 60 cats, and letting a dog be a nuisance.
Told by police to obtain veterinary care for several cats who
were sneezing, with runny noses and eyes, “DeGraeve hired a
veterinarian to take care of the sick cats,” Kansas City Star
reporters Richard Espinoza and Brad Cooper wrote, “and people who
said they were NSPA volunteers began taking away the healthy cats,
Kansas City animal control supervisor Ted O’Dell said.”
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
BRIGHTON, U.K.–Under pressure from the British Charities
Commission, with lobbyists for the battered British meat and
livestock export industry possibly lurking in the background, the
British vegetarian charity Viva! is splitting into two separate
affiliates with a common board, both headed by Juliet Gellatley,
who founded Viva! in 1993.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan–“Fleeing families now number in the
millions and the number of horses needing our help grows every day,”
Brooke Hospital for Animals field staff in Pakistan said in
mid-October.
The London-based charity said it had fielded “six mobile
teams and three clinics in Peshawar, treating more than 150 horses
of Afghan refugees a day” since March 2001, and far more after
September 11, when “the situation became even more desperate” as
refugees trying to escape U.S. bombing joined those fleeing the
Taliban.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
Pressured for a decade by the Animal Rights Coalition,
helped in recent months by visits from the SHARK “Tiger” video truck,
the Animal Humane Society in Golden Valley, Minnesota, is to
discontinue using two gas chambers to kill animals, and effective in
October 2001 will instead use injections of sodium pentobarbital,
board president Sharon Decker announced on August 28. Board member
Wayne Popham told Dan Wascoe Jr. of the Minneapolis Star Tribune that
he thought the pivotal protest tactic was publishing board members’
names, addresses, and telephone numbers in a July 10 ad placed by
ARC in the Lakeshore Weekly News, enabling readers to voice their
feelings. Handling about 20,000 animals per year, killing about
40%, AHS was among the largest nongovernmental shelters in the U.S.
still using gas. The switch to injections encouraged similar efforts
by activists trying to stop the use of gas at the city shelters in
St. Joseph, Missouri, and Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
Video crew assaulted in Japan
“Videotaping the capture of whales for broadcast on the
Internet,” BlueVoice.org executive director Hardy Jones, director
Larry Curtis, and Sakae Fujiwara of the Elsa Nature Conservancy, of
Tsukuba, Japan, reported that they were “threatened with knives” on
October 9-10 “by the fishers who killed more than 20 pilot whales,”
in a shallow bay near the village of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture,
Japan.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico; LITCHFIELD, Calif.; SALT LAKE
CITY, Utah; LONDON, U.K.–As if on cue to ensure that animal
rights activism rates a high priority in the “war on terrorism,”
unknown persons on September 21 torched a storage building 200 feet
from the main chimpanzee facility at the Coulston Foundation in
Alamogordo, New Mexico, and on October 15 burned a hay barn at the
Bureau of Land Management’s Litchfield Wild Horse and Burro Corrals,
21 miles northeast of Susanville, California.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2001:
WASHINGTON D.C.–Activism for animals and habitat is abruptly
quieter after the September 11 hijackings of four airliners that left
an estimated 6,333 people dead at crash sites in New York City,
Washington D.C., and Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
Both the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense
Council immediately hushed criticism of the policies of U.S.
President George W. Bush–even on Endangered Species Act enforcement
and oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where their
views and those of the Bush administration are polar opposites.
“In response to the attacks on America,” said a Sierra
Club internal memo disclosed by Counterpunch columnists Alexander
Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, “we have taken our ads off the air;
halted our phone banks; and removed any material from the web that
people could perceive as anti-Bush. We are taking other steps to
keep the Sierra Club from being seen as controversial.”