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Last ofthe freebies, ffiyfriendses, it's that time. Time to stoppress on all those additionalcopies. Haven't had any trouble

at all giuing them away. No, on the con-trary I'm delighted to say - in spite ofthe skepticisnr that existed originally

-they're being eaten up bv the dozen. Butnow it's time to get serious if we're evergoing to get serious about having astatewide bullctin board.

We've expanded our mailing list, uppedour volume, added eight newpages; we'veeven broadened our list of contacts, sup-porters and sources - but we're still wait-ing on youl Yes, you. You, the writeq thephotographer, the graphic illustrator. You,the person who knows somebody who's awrite! photographer or graphic illustrator

Tlre Aninrals'$rice has a great potential.I've seen the kind ofpotential it carries inits "cousin," Tbe Animals'Agenda Blut ithasn't even tapped it yet. And, no, you'renot to blame for any lameness you may beable to spot right now But you must re-member that contributors give it thewealth of information it gives back, andthe wealth and variety of information itdelivers, brings in more suppotters, sub-scribers. and contributors. And when the

list grows in those numbers, so will thefrequency of the publication. And rhat willbe its biggest asset.

A monthly Animals' \)oice is our goalhere. There's so much we've had to leavebehind because we're still quarterly andthe animal rights movement is happeningnory not yesterday. Even a bi-monthlywould be better than what we have going,but until our subscribers' list grows (andI have to admit, howevet that it is doingwell this past issue) we'll still only be ableto publish every three months.

To organize and expedite the process ofinformation-gathering, Executive DirectorRick Sorenson has designed a computerprogram that will mail subscribers amonthly "questionnaire," if you will. Allyou have to do are a few pen circles anda couple of notes and drop it back in themail to us, telling us quickly and efficientlywhat you're doing, when and where. Thatway u)e do the reminding and you cankeep your focus on all those other thingsI know keep you busy.

The Anirrrals'\Joice is also accepting dis-play advertising nosz For ad rates, contactRick at'i'l-re Aninrals'loice phone numberor address, or call him at his place of work:

(916) )13-4253. We're also interested inexchange ads. Give us a call.

In short, I am very excited about theprospects for The Animals'\)oice. This pastissue went over better than I thought itwould (am I too much of a cynic,perhaps?), and I think progress can only... well ... can only go forward.

I know we can make this work. I getthis strong feeling we uant it to.

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A very warm thank you to those peoplewho have made a special effort for TheArrimals' loice. Specificall1,, Toni Hopman,Carol Burnett, Virginia Handley, Cres Vel-lucci, Rose Lernberg, Eric Mills, Kim Sturla,Bob Thlbot, Ed Duvin, xnd

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l.egislatirle IiditorsVirginia Handley

Rose Lernberg

The Anirnals' \Coice , tbe calilomia connection( ISSN 0889-6712 ) is published quarterly bv TheAnimals'Voice, Inc., a noo-profir, ta,cxemptCalifornia corporation, in Chico, CA. All corres-pondence should be mailed to PO. Box.1fO5,Chico, CA 95921 | (916) 112-5091. rhe viewsexpressed herein do not necesstrily r€flect theopinions ofThe Animals'\bice, lnc., or its staffl

table of corrtents

letters

trrriard allianceEd Duvin's A Magical Place Called Eartb

tlre califon'ria calendar ... r0hen, v0hat, rOhere

intenOiravOTom Regan talks about civil disobedience

califonria rilrales\il{hat you'll find when you go looking

... and \rlule tiatclring . .Where ro go to flnd whar you're looking for

califonria ne\is ... and abroadWhat's happening in the animal rights/weHare movement

nrore netis arrd notes ... and rrotrau0orth.f

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TIre Arrirrrals' l0oice:"flLtm a fle" of "I{trm antiac" ?

I must say that I am disappointed at theaggressive campaign that you and yourPeninsula Humane Society counterpartshave launched against the idea and exis-tence of the California Spangled Cat,apparently without your having done onebit of research or homework on this sub-iect.

I have been a humane worker for overtwerlry years, am actively involved withrescue groups in the Los Angeles area,

[\Whippet and Greyhound] and have spenthundreds ofhours in hand feeding youngbirds, kittens, puppies, and wild animalsfor pet owners and for eventual releaseto the wild, respectively. I am well awareof the problems of over-population, andI was one of the key people helping towrite the literature that defeated theGreyhound Racing Bill in California a fewyears back. I am also well aware of theproblems of the loss of habitat and popu-lations of our wild creatures, worldwide.

Mr. Casey, the man who developed theSpangled Cat, is also concerned about con-servation, but unlike you, thinks on a muchbroader scale, looking ahead to the whole-earth impact that education can have onsaving our wildlife.

Mr. Casey was the winner of the annualHumane Society Award for Motion Pic-ture and Television Writing on two differ-ent occasions, and he has established a

foundation to further the education of allof us, in the importance of caring forwhat we have and not destroying theeafth's resources through our own ignor-ance. The development of the SpangledCat will help with this goal.

It was the original intention to makepeople aware of the mistake we make bypermitting the wild spotted cats to bekilled for their fur It was both the sellersand buyers of these coats that Mr. Caseywished to reach ... what better way thanthrough Neiman-Marcus? By providingPETS with spotted coats, people will, andindeed have! become aware that these areprecious animals that share our world.

You offer your readers to write "howthey feel" with no statement yourself ofwhy and what you disapprove. Just exactlywhat it is that you find to attack? If so,and if you are indeed anti-pet, then yourreaders should be made aware of that factand you should not repr€sent yourself as

a "friend" of pet owners.

Do you object to the pricc? Certainlyyou cannot believe that the buyers of thiscat, considering how few will be sold,would take au.av in any manner, fromyour placement programs. In fact, thenational coverage of the cats would tendto increase interest in ALL kittens, includ-ing your offerings, during this time.

Do you think there are too many ofthese cats? You should have made in-quiries. You would have found that fewerthan 8O cats were bred over a fifteen-yearperiod. to develop the existing breed. Allthat were not used for breed develop-ment were placed in pet homes, almostall of those were altered before they wereplaced. I personally arranged neuteringand pet homes for over 25 ofthem duringthat fifteen years.

Do 1'ou believe that the cats were notwell cared-for? Mr Casey has NE\rER had

a cat euthanized, unlike the humanesocieties across the country The catshave had veterinary supervision and arechecked on a weekly (or oftener) basis,are up on ALL shots, are checked for para-sites and are wormed if necessary andhave full blood panels done PRIOR to anysale. I rathcr doubt that many cat fanciersor humane societies are so thorough.

Do vou object to their advertisementin a catalogue? Why? They are not mailedby United Parcel! Thev are hand deliv-ered, and Mr Casey has the opportunityto personallv inspect the home and meetthe family. I doubt if ANY humanesocieties ever see the homes they sendtheir cats and kittens to ... for all youknoq your animals could be ending up ina VOKI Also, look at the number of ad-vertisements on thc cat magazines ... holvdoes the advertisement in one publica-tion differ in essence from the advertise-ment in another, except for the level ofaffluence of the readers. there is little dif-ference. Hov, manv cat breeders ship catsand GO WITH THE CATS to their ne*,homes?

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A letter to the grassroots movementregarding a Direct Action Cooperative

Organization and structure isn't neces-sarily my expertise. However, it has comeincreasingly clear that unless we some-how create some structure

- and moremonies - direct action on behalf of ani-mals is in real ieopard.v.

I believe most of r.ou will agree.Therefore, with some thought and

much concern, but little experience,what do you think of the creation of a

Direct Action Cooperatiue (DAC)?Simply, members would be organiza-

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formal (such as In Defense of Ani-mals, l,ast Chance. etc.) and ad-hoc(ARDAC)

- and individuals. Each individual andlor organization would "con-tribute" something to the f)AC - eitherseryices or monies, maybe both in thecase of the larger organizations.

The end result would be the formaliz-ing of our shala, but effective, coalitionto date. We won't be one big group

-all will still maintain their individualstatus, which they apparently want to do.But, in the co-op structure, we will haveto depend on each other even more. And,that is as it should be.

For instance, if someone needs a goodnews release written, call me or someone

else that is offering that service. To a largedegree that is already the case. All we'redoing is formalizing it and offering thisservice and structure formallv to othergroups. And, hopefully, expanding it.

Financially - and this is a big one -member organizations would be asked to

contribute a percentage of their moniesto the DAC for direct action and defenseof activists. That's it. In exchange, theseorganizations can use the activities of theDAC in their fundraising efforts. The dif-ference is that instead of organizationstaking credit for direct action and all themoney going to the organization as a re-sult, a part of it will go to the activists

- the DAC - who have helped createthe situation in the first place.

Elliot Katz and In Defense of Animals,as well as other organizations I am sure,already contribute thousands to the de-fense of activists and the promotion of di-rect action campaigns. He has already en-dorsed the concept of the f)irect ActionCooperative and pledged support, finan-cial and otherwise.

With support like this. small groupsand individuals

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EDWARD DTN'IN ANIMALINES

espitc our movement's unfortu,nate propcnsiq frrr derouringits own. Animalines has

received an extremely thoughtful anclsupportive response over the years fromall the ideological segments of our move-ffrent

- even those who follow a dissimi,

lar path. \While obviously very grateful fbrthis expression of support, Animalinesmeasures its o$/n performance by thesame standards we have repeatedly askedothers to adopt: how have we tangibll,lessened the suft'ering and furthered theprocess of seeking fundamental solutionsto the underlying causes of abuse andexploitation? As inveterate readers ofAnimalines well knowl we continuc tochampion ideals as the brightest sourceof light available t<'t us. Animalines isoften asked how' u.e espouse such a"romantic" philosophy in vieu. of the pre-sent state of thc u'orld, and invariably ouranswer is that we do so very carefull,v!Fecblc humor asidc. the relevance ofideals in an increasingly destructive'w.orld is an important question not onlyt<>r Animalines, but fbr all of us.

()ur rnovement has historically faced a

parade of formiclable challenges -

mostrccentll- the twin "gods" of science andtcchnologl

- bul none more pernicious

thar-r the economic considerations whichlead to the slaughter of countless animals

at the altar of profit. W'e are talking abouthundreds of billions of dollars exchanginghands througfr thc use and abuse of ani-mals, lustified bv a convoluted ethic thatfails to distinguish berrveen suffering andself-interest. There can bc no doubt as tcrthe extraordinan' degree animals arewoven into thc economic fabric of ouravaricious sociery and one doesn't needto ht' ln ctonclrrit' dt'tcrminist t() graspthe enormous impact of this reality- onsocietal values. In vie*, of the almostoverwhelming numLrer of economicchains which perpetuate the unconscion-able enslavement of other beings, thesalient question bccomes how- can idealsmake a significant difference in the n-ridstof such unbridled brutalin-'/

There arc no simplistic pathwavs toNirvana, but the very essence clfAnimalines'u.'ork has been our ferventbelief in the capability of euery person tomake a meaningful dilfercnce

- northrough grandiose programs or dramaticleaps forward, but through the mostpotent revolutionary force in humanhistory: the pow,er all of us have to createa peaceful revolution u.ithin ourselveslFor some this mig;ht appcar romantic inthc extreme, but we implore them toopen anl'history book to any chapter andthcy will soon discover that the "liber-ated" moments humankind has known

originated not from governmental procla-mation or organiztd rcforln nluvetncnts.but from the spiritual force of ideals car-ried forth by individuals of vision. Thecapacit). lies within each of us to nurturefertile idcals so that ther'flourish and mul"tiph'. ultimatelv reaching evcn' commu-nit)' in this land. This. thcn. is the remark-able power of the individual

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to bring an ideai to lil'e br lit'ittg theideal!

It's within this contcxt that -lrtintctlineshas repeatedly pieaded fctr a cessation tothe mean-spirited behar-ior $'ithin ourmovement, behavior vu.hich sorrosfulll,rcflects our lack of tolerancc and respectfor each other Beyond the obvious self-destructive naturc of tl-ris conduct. thcrcis a higher cost to our mindless squabbl-ing

- thc damage *'e do as indir-iduals

to our own integrit)'u'hen s'e lose sightof our personal responsibilirv to affirmthe sanctiry- of life, including human life!Are we so shallow and lacking in moralvision that we have hopelessiy lost ourway by violating the ven' ideals we setout to honor? Even more germane, bywhat miracle do we expcct others to pro-foundly respect the rich diversiry of lifeon this planet whcn we so often fail torespect each other? We simply must holdourselves to a higher standard, a standard

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Re: UC Berkeley's Proposal toBuild Animal lbrture ChamberELLIOT M. KAIZ, DYM IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS

am writing to ask for your help inour on-going struggle to end animalcruelty at the Universiry of Califor.

nia. As vou may already know; the Univer-sitf is asking California taxpayers to fundthe construction of yet another animaltorture chamber on the UC Berkeley cam-pus. California legislators will votc inMarch of 1987 on whether or not toapprove the $1,1 million needed to buildthe underground building termed thel-rCB North West Animal Faciliw.

A full third of this proposed buildingwill be for use b.v the Psychologv Depart-ment -

a department infamous for itsflagrant violations of animal welfare lawsand for its incomprehensibly cruel andfrivolous research. This campaign is partof a nationwide campaign involving all ofthe top animal groups to stop the use ofanimals in psycholog_v experiments.

UC Berkeley has a long history of wasteand negligence. The USDA has fined theunivcrsity $12,OO0 for over five years ofwell-documented animal cruelty and neg-lect. Dr Bruce Max Feldman. former tlCBerkelel' clinical veterinarian, has spokenout about Berkelcy,'s, "general ignoranceand disregard for aseptic surgicaltechnique" and about Bcrkeley's blatant

bits to study senseless perception exper-iments, bab.v rats put on hot plates to seehow hormones alter their threshold ofpain, arc but a fe$' samples of UCBpsychological horrors.

To quote Dr. Ilurn J. Cohen. l)irectorof the Medical Research N{odernizationCommittee:

"The stale exercise in futilit)- called ani-mal-moclcl psvchological research has

become a pathetic embarrassment t<l

those of us in thc mental health prof'es-sion who truly care about understandinghuman psychologv and improvingpeople's psychological u.ell-being. It istime to expose this scientific flaud forwhat it is and to abandon it in favor ofresearch mcthods u,hich f ield results thatapply to and can cffcct the human condi-tion."

'We are commissioning an outside con-sultant, Dr Brandon Reines, to researchand compile data on the rypes of expcr-iments. the amount of tax dollars spent,and the results derir-ed from thc UCBPsvchology L)epartment over the past tenyears. A public relations and media car-n-

paign, a massivc letter w'riting and lobbv-ing campaign arc a1l about to begin,Expert witnesses svill be flo\ur in to

mal Rights Direct Action Coalition andthe Medical Research Modernizatior-rCommittee have openl-v joined the fightto prevent ctinstruction of the proposedtorture facilitv

The final battle u'ill take placc bcfcrrcthe Legislators of the Statc of (lalifornia.Please alert members NOW to the im-mediacv and importance of this fight.(V'hat a victor)' for the animals when wecan prevent this building from beingbuilt! ) Ask 1'our California members towrite, visit and call their legislatorsIMMEDIATELY to oppose the Northw'cstAnimal Facility Ask your non-Californianmernbcrs to \\ritc to thc progrlmmingdirectors of national television showssuch as 60 ,llinutes. 20 i2O. f,fcNeil I

Lebrer Report, antl Tbe Pbil Donabue

and continual refusal to "self-police whenit comes to maintaining humane condi-tions" in animal research.

Dr. Douglas Blaine, former Chair of theAnimal V'elfare Committee of the Califor-nia Veterinary Medical Association hasstated, l'Principal investigators at flCBerkeley have been caught doing outrage-ous things to animals ... attempts by theChancellor's office to rein them in havebeen feeble at best."

The tlCB department of psychology, inparticular, is known for its irresponsibil-iry callousness and cruelty. Baby mon-keys dying of grief and despair in seflse-less mother deprivation studies, sexexperiments to see if female dogs can bemade to urinate standing up, holes drilledinto the brains of monkeys, cats and rab-

testify before the California State Legisla-ture on the needlessness and waste ofpsychological animal experimentation.

The fight has begun. and v,'e are off toa good start. Intensive lobbying hascaused the Berkelev Humane Commis-sion, the Berkeley Board of Adiustments,the Berkeley Planning Commission, theMayor of the City of Berkeley and theBerkeley City Council to go on record as

being opposed to the construction of theUCB underground torture chamber Addi-tionallli they have voted to take everyreasonable action to prevent the con-struction of the proposed facility.

The Association of Veterinarians forAnimal Rights, the Humane Sociery of theUnited States, The Fund for Animals,People for Animal Welfare, SPAY the Ani-

.Silrozr: suggesting that thel' do an investiga-tivc report on psychological animalexperiments in general and about thchighly questionable practices of the UCBpsl,chology departnrcnt in particular

Let's work together to stop the fi-rrtherinstitutionalization of this fbrnr of aninraltorture and cruelqr \With your hclp, u'ccan win this battle and go on to wage a

full-scale campaign against senseless uni-versity mutilation and torture of def-ensc-less animals.

Please contact n-re shoultl vou haye anythoughts or suggestions on additionalways to make this campaign as successfulas possible . For furthcr information,please write Elliot Katz, In Defense of Ani-mals, 21 Thmal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.CA,94925 or call (,(15) 921-1151.

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Direct ActionConference Scheduled

March 7-8: The flrst-ever National DirectAction Conference for animals has beenslated for March 7-8 in Sacramento, justdown the road from where the firstorganized civil disobedience for animalsoccurred in April 1984.

The conference, hosted by a number ofdirect action g.roups and organized by thenewly-formed Direct Action Cooperative(DAC), is designed to help individualsan,d orgaoizations plan civil disobedienceand other direct actions.

According to a spokesperson for theDAC, the conference is a result of numer-ous requests from all around the countryasking for assistance in planning directactions.

Workshops include planning andstrategizing direct actions, the legal con-sequences, solidarity and public relationsramifications. Attendees will be able toask questions of direct action veterans,some of whom have been arrested morethan a dozen times for animals. A keytopic will be planning for the April 2ztthdirect actions.

In addition, organizers say a "major"direct action could take place during theconference at a key California researchfacility.

For more information, call ()16) 418-7122 or write PO Box 162335. Sac-ramento 95816.

(Also see page 3 for'A letter to tbe grass-roots mouement regarding a DAC," urit-ten by CresVellucci.)

State Htrmane OfficersTraining Academy

March 28-April 4: Offers an extensive(65 hours) study oflegal procedures, etc.Cost: S8O, plus required rexr. Held atMarin Humane Society, Novato (two$5OO scholarships available. For furtherinformation, call the Society at (415) 883-4621 or the academy (415) 482 2428.

Tbe truck utas filled uitb cotas,tbeir qtes desperate ubile mine were sad,I apologize for tbeir fate.Wbat good does my sympatbjt doin a uorld tbe cous and Idon't understand?

- Holly Palmer Tfu.rner

Editors note: If lou're ur,trulering at allutbere tbe Winter issue of The Anintals'\hice taent to ... uett, frankQ - fortbose of you ubo knou, tbis tuill be re-elurulant, and fitr tbctse of you uthoclon't, it trill be, perbaps, insulting

- uedon't baue uinter in California. No,actually, due to tbe scbeduling of tbispast issue (a lot of utr,rk toent into tbisonq utitb tbe belp of a lot more people)ute bad to skip Winter and go right oninto Spring. And ubo uouldn't? Well, askier perbaps ... or a masocbistic out-cloor nudist .,. but most of us, I tbink,uould ratber skip it, nou, trouldn't ue?.So, let tbe The Anintals' \bice lead tbeuajt ... eh?

califonria calenclar

As ue go to press, tbe next issue ofI'he Anintals'\)oice uill not be seenagain until May 1987. Lhtilactiuist response u)ar-rants a morefrequent publication, The Anintals'\bice rs publisltecl quarterly. Tbedeadline for tbe calendar section,Summer issue, is April 15, 1987.Submissions must be brief rype-written, clouble-spaced, inclucletubere, uben and utbat, and adclressto llte califon-ria calenclar,

REPORTANIMAL ABUSE

Recent break-ins and undcrcover ac-til,ities at university and research centcrshave brought to lighr graphic evidenceof gross negligence and irresponsibilityin the use ofanimals in research and class-room demonstrations. W'e believe weshouldn't haue to reh, on trreak-ins tolearn about illegal or unethical treatmentof animals. That's why we're invitingthose who work with the animals inschools, laboratories and research cen-ters to report any procedures or condi-tions involving animals that you feel maybe wrong, inappropriate, redundant,wasteful or cruel.

Animal Abuse Hodine(41s1 e24.4s86

ln Defense of Animals2l Tarn l Vista Blvd.

Corte Madera, CA 94925

Action Lines are usually 24-hourrecorded messages concerninganimal rights/welfare issues andevents, produced weekly.

In the Bay Area:Animal Rights Action Line

(4r5) 471-1202

Animal Switchboard(415) 885-2679

(directory)

Animal Abuse Hotline(415) 924_4586

(see their ad in this issue)

In Southern CASUPRESS Action Line

(818) 798-330o

San Diego PETA(619) 91O_145o

PETAi WARN(619) 91U_t45o

NationallyAnimal Righa Hotline

(2t2) 215 4430(federal legislation)

If you know about an organizationsponsoring an animal rights/welfareaction line, please send the name of theorganization and the action line phonenumber to The Aninrals'loice, PO. Box4305, Chico, CA95927.

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Meets monthly atseveral locations

around San Francisco(415) 921_1454

Sonoma People forAnimal Rights

Meets 2nd Monday/mo.(7O7) 576-1415

Support Group forAnimal Activists in

the EastbayMarilyn ( .il5 ) 521 -4tt85

Feminists for ARMeets tw'ice monthlyMarti (4r5) 547-725tEllen (.i15) 5331189

Animal RightsConnection

Meets the 2nd/t+thTiresday each month

(415) 848-1705

Animal Action SGlrd Thursdays/month

(1+t5) 342-3523

Animal AdvocatesWorkshop

through the PeninsulaHumane Society2nd Wednesdays(4t5) 34O-8t29

The Fund for AnimalsLast Saturday/month

(415) 474-4O2O

Peninsula HumaneSociety

First Wednesday 7-9pmContact Vicky

(1t5) 328_0567

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in San FranciscoMarch 26: l'etcr Singcr is the highlight March 23-24: Author/activist Tom Reganof a frce svrnposium entitlcd "Vhat will be appearing in Chico, March, 23-24,Makes a [.ifc Nlorallv Significant." It will to discuss the abolition of vivisection andbe held Thtrrsdal', March 26, 7:30-l0pm to show his film, We Are All Noab (seeir.r the Redwood Room in thc Golden page 27 for details). Regan will speakingGate Holidal lnn in San Francisco (\hn at California State University, Chico at 8Ness near California). It is bcing spon- pm for a philosophy class instructed bysored by tl.re Society fbr the Stud)' of Anne Morrissey [(916) 895-5111]. OnEthics and Animals. A special meeting March 24, a public showing of his filmwith Singer is also being planned prior to will be scheduled. For further informa-or after thc s1'mposium. For further info tion, contact The Animals'\lricz, PO Boxcall John Stock$-ell (115) 726-71+6. 4305, Chico or call (916) 312-5091.

C)n April 2O through April 24, thousands of people around the world will takepart in demonstrations, vigils, and civil disobedience actions at American universitiesand commercial laboratories protesting animal research. Last yeaq coast to coast, morethan J,00O people representing over 20 organizations joined together under the um-brella of the April 2.i coalition.

Tl-ris year, spearheaded by In Defense of Animals (IDA), the number of activistsu.ill double. Tb obtain direct action packcts, strateg)' guides, Report Animal Abuseflvers, participation forms, educational materials and any other specific informationyou may need to help plan your activities, write Elliot L1tz, In Defense of Animals,21 Thmal Vista Blvd.. Corte Madera, CA94925 or call (4r5) 921-1151.

The demands requested by animal rights activists from universities are: 1) pub-licly request that the National Institutes of Health increasc funding for developmentand use of research technologies that do not harm or kill animals, 2) issue a clearpolicy statement that science and medical students are not required to vivisect ordissect animals, that their right of conscience not to harm individuals of other specieswill be wholly protected, 3) work out arrangements to allow medically trained people

- physicians, nurses. Ph.D's, veterin21i2n5 - chosen by the animal rights communityscheduled access to research facilities to monitor, document and photograph experi-mental procedures and the conditions in u.hich animals are kept.'1) immediatel_v endthe use of lost and abandoned companion animals as rescarch tools, 5) take immediatestcps to cnd psychological cxpcrirncntatior-r on animals. ancl (r) start rneaningfi-rl dis-cussions with representatives choscr-r bl the anirnal rights conrmunitv to clcvelop aplan to phase out rcliance on experinrcntal usc ancl abusc of enimals.

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NobedienceJWbile speaking at tbe Scbueitzer Centerin Berkelejt on bebalf of animal rigbts,autbor/actiuist Tom Regan granted usan interaieu in retur'n for a leisurelyluncb. We asked bim, due to tbe increas-ing trend in California touard ciuil dis-obedience, utbat bis aiews uere on tbismatteq as utell as on tbe issue of animalliberation.

Are you a supporter of civil disobedi-ence?

I'm a strong supporter of civil disobedi-ence (CD). I engage in it myself. But ithas to be chosen wisely. It can't fill thewhole movement. I mean, the movementhas to be far more than tlrat, it has to bemore diverse than that. Basically, whatCD does is gain publiciry it's a publicityploy.

Do you think tlle kind of publicityweget from CD does more harrn trangood? After all, dont most people seeus as bleeding hearts and Bambi-lovers, and now as temodsts?

Yes and no. I was one ofthe 1Ol peoplewho occupied the eighth floor of Build-ing 39 at the National Institutes of Health.I don't think the media presented uspoorly there at all. I think the mqdia pre-sented us as a real triumph. And that wasbecause the CD was uety well chosen,was uery well organized, uery wellfocused.

I'm a Gandhian. That's how I got into

the movement, from Gandhi. Any move-ment for social iustice has to have civildisobedience. Gandhi was a master atthis. But it wasn't a buckshot approach tocivil disobedience. That does nothing.

So when I say I'm an advocate of it, I'man advocate of it wisely chosen andexpertly executed. It's got to be a uin-nable isste. That's what we risk peoplegetting arested for. If we just go out andprotest that something is going on in aparticular laboratory and get arrested, weget some publicity but we haven'tchanged a thing because there is nofocus.

Civil disobedience should be that to-ward which we work in a campaign, butit shouldn't be the thing that fills the cam-paign. In other words, it should be, again,very Gandhian. rWhat we try to do is coop-erate with the opposition. "We don't wantto do this, we want to find some way toget what we want without resorting tothis," etc. And then - when all else fails

- tben we resort to civil disobedience.It should be the last choice, not the firstchoice, in a campaign. But we've got tohave a campaign. You see, we have tohave some strategy, we have to have somevision, some focus. We have to know whatwe want. Now, if we're going to say,

"\What we want is all those rats out of thatlaboratory I want it shut dowT r," forgetit. That's nothing -But wtrat aboutVodd Day for Labora-

tory Animals? Ttrere's massive clvildisobedience across the country onAprif 24ttr - isnt ttrat strictly for pub-licity?

Not completely. On that day, in part,we're telling the wodd: "Iaboratory ani-mals never have a nice day." But, also, Ithink on April 24th there sbould be na-tional civil disobedience -

just for thesake of disobedience, just because it's tbeday, the one day of the year when we sayto the research establishment, "We'regoing to make your life as miserable as

we can." That's the one day when uiuisec-tionists don't have a nice day.

But the buckshot approach to civil dis-obedience for the sake of publiciry playsinto the hands of the media. The public'sperception of the movement is themedia's perception of the movement. Soif we're iust out there protesting, protest-ing, protesting, and a bunch ofpeople getarrested, it may actually look like "thoseanimal radical crazies," and that's whatthe public sees.

The NIH civil disobedience should bethe recipe for how to use CD. And I can'tthink of any other CD cases like that onethat have been really effective on the re-search establishment and public's opinionregarding the animal rights movement.

For civil disobedience to succeed as

something other than a publicity ploy, wehave to get the sympathy, empathy andmoral backing of the public on our side.The people who are watching will finally

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hal'e to say, 'You know, I think thesepeople are right." And that, again, is whatKing was great at, and Gandhi was espe-cially good at it. Finally, the politicians,the people in power, the public

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believe the protesters are rig)tt. Tbenwe're talking, tben we have power.

But first, I think we've got to create a

kind of reasoned fear in the opposition.The establishment will say, "If you resortto civil disobedience, I'm in trouble."Otherwise, they could care less. We're anuisance, we're like a pest. We're not any-thing politically serious. There's nothingto fear from us.

Sometimes power is just the tbreat ofcivil disobedience. It's no threat if wehaven't got a well-published campaign.Once the people working toward socialchange begin to rcalize that they cancount on CD as a tactic, once they under-stand that the people in power are losingthe confldence of the people who arewatching, then all we have to do is say,"Look, I don't want to have this placeoccupied tomorrow morning," and they'Ilsay, "Oh, well, let's talk then so we canavoid it."

Greenpeace activists have the power,wouldn't you say? There ttrey arebetween harpoon gun and whale ...

Especially when it's a Russian ship outthere, you see. That immediately calls forall the sympathy for these people. Whenthe ordinary John and Jane Doe watchthis, who are they for? They're for thepeople in those boats. It's got to meansomething. \*'e've got to choose theimage, choose the lrrlnerabiliry Where isthe establishment r.rrlnerable? The NIHcase was fabulous in this respect. Andwe'll do it again, we'll do it very effec-tively. And I want to be with my noseright up against the glass of the establish-ment when we do it.

Ttren what are your views about ani-mal liberationists? Havent they re-moved not only animals fromlaboratories, but also videos andphotographs ttrat do more darnagethan anything an individual protestercould ever accomplish? And ttrey'redoing it mostly for ttre publicity,aren't they?

And I think there's a way to avoid ani-mal liberation activities, and that is forthe establishment to do what April 24thasks them to do: Allow unannounced ac-cess into research facilities by qualifiedrepresentatives of the animal rights move-ment, such as MD's, nufses, veterinarians,medical technicians, people who know

what goes on in a laboratory And then,if they'll allow that, it seems like a per-fectly reasonable check against colusionon the part of the government and theresearch establishment. Then peopledon't have to break into labs to find outwhat's going on in there. There's a per-fectly sensible way out of this. They'renot going to give it to us without kickjngand screaming, so until they do, as re-grettable as it is, I rhink we have to doit illegally.

But, what I think is essential - it's iust

like CD again - we have to understandthe public and what we're trying to do.With covert illegal activities we're tryingto rouse empathy, sympathy and concernof the public for what we're talking about.That means we have to deal with the pre-

judices of the public, that's the irony ofit. So if we go in and show a bunch offrogs in a small aquarium or something,the public is not going to turn on this be-cause the public doesn't care a whole lotabout frogs. And I'm not saying that I likeit when all these frogs are being mis-treated, it's ,ust that what we're trying todo is reach the public. So we have tochoose very smartly about what it is wereveal and how we reveal it, what animalswe choose, where the public is l,ulnera-ble. They're going to be responsive.They're going to be responsive aboutdogs and cats, maybe primates a little bit,but they iust don't care much about mostlaboratory animals.

Of course, some of animal liberationdoesnt have anlttring to do with ant-mal cruelty. It has more to do wittrtaking evidence that destroys thecredibility of tl.e research establish-merlt.

Exactly. The thing about the film, Un-necessary Fuss that was so good wasn'tiust that it showed what they were doingto the animals, it was revealing thecharacter and the attitudes of thesepeople who were doing it. It was abso-lutely damning.

What about llberators who lamdalize,destroy research equipment, etc.?

I'm against vandalizing for lots ofreasons, not the least of which is that it'sbad strategy. What happens when youvandalize a lab is that it becomes thestory. The story is not what was in thatlab or what the animals were, it becomes"these vandals went in and stole animals."So it plays right into the hands of the re-search establishment. When we left NIH,we ran the sweepers, we washed the win-dows, we cleaned up, we polished. Wemade it as clean as it could be. All thesigns were taken down, no spray paint,none of that stuff. It would iust be detrimental. We were what I called NormanRockwell radicals. We were middleAmerica in a sit-in, and that's very impor-tant to appeaf that way and to be thatway.

Howeveq what I think is right strategyand right psychology is for the peoplewho liberate animals to come forth andidenti$ themselves as the people whodid it. And this is what is really hard todo and a lot of people are going to turnoff on me right there.

But the reason it's right strategicallyand right psychologically is because whatit says is that they are confident enough

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Elliot Katz, president of InDefense of Animals, is arestedOct. 22, along with 130 otheractivists, for civil disobedienceat Cedars-Sinai Hospital re-search facilities - ttle largestcivil disobedience in the his-tory of the U.S. animal rightsmovemefrt-

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v;:ffiili'ffi:l' ",il',fli:finned pilot whale. Occasionally, Califor-nians spot fin whales, minkes, seis, andorcas, but by far, the most popular whalein California is, of course, the gray whale.

The gray whale is a mysticete, or ba-leen whale, and is the only member ofthe family Eschrictidae. Gray whales are"coastal" whales, closely following theNorth American Pacific coastline in theirannual migration between the Arctic seas

Adult gray males measure 45-46 feet,and adult females measure slightly more,and both sexes weigh 30-40 tons. Thegray whale makes one of the longestmammal migrations, averaging f0,00O-14,0O0 miles round trip. In October, thewhales begin to leave their feedinggrounds in the Bering and Chuckchi seasand head south for their mating and calv-ing lagoons in Baja. The southward jour-ney takes 2-3 months. They remain in thelagoons for 2-3 months also, allowing thecalves to build up a thick layer of blubber

to sustain them during the northwardmigration.

At one time there were three graywhale populations: a north Atlantic popu-lation, now extinct, possibly the victimsof over hunting; a Korean or westernnorth Pacific stock now extinct or veryclose to extinction, also from over hunt-ing; and the eastern north Pacific popula.tion, the only survivors. Hunted to theedge of extinction in the 185Os after thediscovery of the calving lagoons, andagain in the eady 190Os with the intro-duction of floating factories, the grayswere given partial protection in 1937 aodfull protection in 1917 by the Interna,tional Whaling Commission (IVC). Sincethat time the grays have made a remark-able recovery and now number between13,0O0 and 17,000, probably close to theoriginal population size.

The second most popular whale inCalifornia waters - and perhaps the mostpopular in the wodd are thehumpback, or "singing," whales. Theshape and color patterns of both the dor-sal fin and fluke (tail) of humpbackwhales are distinct between each animal,and photographic research has resulted inthe identifications and cataloging of indi.vidual animals. This allows long-term

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and lagoons of the Baja California penin-sula. Frequently visible from shore, thegray whales provide a unique opportuniryfor land and boat obseryation. Commer-cial whale watching boats have becomean economic factor to many areas alongthe migration route. Visitors to the calv-ing lagoons sometimes encounter"friendly" gray whales - a fairly recentphenomena of whales that closely ap-proach small boats and allow themselvesto be touched by humans.

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research on a single animal, which canadd greatly to our knowledge ofhumpback biology, including migration,sexual maturity, and social behavior.

Humpbacks are active, acrobaticwhales. They can throw themselves com-pletely out of the water (breaching), andswim on their backs with both flippers inthe air. They also engage in "tail lobbing"(raising their huge flukes out of the waterand then slapping them on the surface)and "flipper slapping."

Perhaps the most interesting behaviorof humpback whales is their "singing." Dr.Roger Payne discovered that humpbacksin both the Atlantic and the Pacific singlong, involved "songs." He learned thatwhile all the whales in the Pacific popu-lation sing the same songs, and all thewhales in the Atlantic population sing thesame songs, each population has a differ-ent "dialect." The songs last from a fewminutes each to up to 30 minutes; theygradually change as tlme goes on, andeach whale sings the changed version. Itappears that all the singing whales aremales. The purpose of the songs is notknown, but scientists think they may bepart of the mating ritual, or some otherform of communication.

Because their feeding, mating, and calv-

ing grounds are close to shore and be-cause they are slolv swimmers, thehumpbacks were an easy mark for theearly whalers. Between 1905 and 1955,28,000 humpbacks were killed. The IWCplaced them on their endangered specieslist in 1966 and gave them worldwideprotection status. It is believed theynumber about 10-12,O00 at present, orabout lO-2O% of their original popula-tiofl.

The orca, or killer whale, is one of themost well known cetaceans, starring inshows at aquaria and marine parks. Itsstriking black and white coloration isvery distinct. Despite its teeth, the feroc-ity of this whale's name is misleading. Theonly whale that is a carnivore, its well-organized techniques, similar to those of awolf pack, are quite efficient. This fierce-ness in hunting, hower.er, has never beendocumented as occurring with humans.Found in all oceans of the world, theyhave a highly evolved and complex socialstfuctufe.

Occasionally, Californians get a glimpseat the blue whale - believed to be thelargest animal to ever evolve on earth. Re-cently, scientists and whale watchersalike, were astounded bv the number ofblues that visited Monterey Bay, where it

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was believed they had come in after anabundance of food in the area. The bluewhale measures about lOO feet andweighs almost 15O tons. Worldwide it isestimated their population hovers aroundll,2OO, 17O0 of which live in the NorthPacific.

Fin and sei (pronounced "say") whalescan be seen off the California coast as

well. The fin is second in size to the blue,averaging 80 feet in length, and the seiaverages 60. Minkes, seen sporadically inCalifornia waters, are smaller yet, attain-ing 2O-30 feet in length. Like blues, theyare solitary animals, though sometimescan be seen in groups of two or three.

For more information about these andother whales, consult Kenneth Balcomb'sTbe World's Wbales (Smithsonian Books,New York: r$(\fl Norton, 1984) or writeto the American Cetacean Society for anextended recommended reading list.

Other excellent sources of informationabout whales include Tbe GreenpeaceExaminer (of course), Greenpeace, Bldg.E, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco94723; Whale Center Neuslettef 3929Piedmont Avenue, Oakland 94611; T\eOceanic Society and the Marine MammalFund, also at Bldg. E, Fort Mason Center,San Francisco 94123.

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LookoutsNorth and Central California: The

gray whale is mostly migratory in Califor-nia watefs. Yet for an animal "iust passingthrough," it receives an extraordinarywelcome. Hundreds of thousands ofCalifornians and visitors from around theworld watch the whales pass every year

- many from lookouts along the coast.The season is December through Maywith a southward peak in early Januaryand a northward peak in March. Cowswith calves return mostly in May. Certainsites are better on southward migration,others on northward.South California: The modern era ofwhale watching from boat and lookoutbegan in the San Diego area. In the late1940s, Carl Hubbs and his students onthe campus of Scripps Institution ofOceanography watched and counted mig-rating gray whales from [a Jolla, and bythe late 195Os naturalist-guided toursbegan on a regular basis, spreadingthroughout southern California and, even-tually, to northern California and othercoasts. Gray whale season is Januarythrough April, especially January throughFebruary

For more information on the some 27Ostate parks and beaches ( $2 for completeCalifornia parks' guide), contacr: Dept. ofParks and Recreation, Box 239O, Sac-ramento 95811 (916) 445-6477. For moreon interpretive whale programs, call indi-vidual park numbers above or Dept. ofParks and Recreation (916) 415-4624.

For a detailed listing of specific whalelookout points, consult Erich Hoy's illus-trated The Wbale Watcber's Handbook(1984, Doubleday & Co., 2O8 pp.), fromwhich the above has been extracted.

Holt's manual also lists the numeroustour ports up and down the coastline,where to find boat charters, naturalist-guided tours, daily excursions and longer-term expeditions. Beloq we've listed themost commonly-departed ports, but forfurther information on ports nearest yourarea, send a self-addressed, stamped en-velope to California Tourism, Dept. WtN4Suite 20O, fO3O f Sth St., Sacramento95814 (916) 322-1396 or consult 7lreWbale Watcberb Handbook.

AIso contact: For San Francisco tosouttrern Oregon: Redwood EmpireAssoc., 1 Market Pl., Spear St. Tower, Suite1O01, San Francisco 94105 (415) 5438334.

For ttre Mendocino coast: Fort Bragg-Mendocino Coast Chamber of Com-merce, Box 1141, Fort Bragg 95437 (7O7)954-3153.

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For San Francisco Bay Area: SanFrancisco Convention & Visitors Bureau,201 Third, Suite 90O, San Francisco 941O3(415) 974_6900.

For Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz CountyConvention & Visitors Bureau, Box 1476.santa cruz 95061 (408) 123-6927.

For Monterey area: Monterey Penin-sula Chamber of Commerce & Visitors &Convention Bureau, Box 1770, Monterey93940 (1O8) 649-3200.

For Santa Blarbaraz Santa Barbara Con-ference & Visitors Bureau, Box 299, SantaBarbara 93102 (8O5) 965-3023.

For Ventura: Ventura Visitors & Con-vention Bureau, 785 S. Seaward Ave., Ven-tura 93OO1 (8O5) 648-2075.

For Los Angeles: Greater Los AngelesVisitors & Convention Bureau, 5O5 S.

Flower St., Level B, Los Angeles 9O071(213) 488-9l0o.

For San Diego: San Diego Convention& Visitors Bureau, 1200 3rd Ave., Suite824, Sart Diego 92101 (619) 232-3rot.

Tours:From Fort Bragg: Gray whale watch-

ing is by charter only, except during theMendocino Coast Whale Festival inMarch. Anchor Charter Boats, 780 N. Har-bor Dr., Box OO2, Fort Bragg 954)1 1797')964-4889 / 4512; Sportsman's Dock,32100 N. Harbor Dr., Fort Bragg 95437(7O7) 961-26r) /7671; Jerry's Charters,1O2 S. Main, Fort Bragg 95437 (7O7)964-24lO;Yacht Incredible, 5l0A Cypress St.,Fort Bragg 95437 (7O7) 964-O2Ol; NoyoStore, 3245O N. Harbor Dr., Fort Bragg95437 (7o7) 961-9Ba; Lady Irma, Box103, Fort Bragg 95437 (7o7) 961-3851;Helipad Aviatioo, Inc., Box 1563, Ukiah95482 (7O7) 46a-551O; (helicopter toursduring Mendocino Coast Whale Festival).

San Francisco Bay area gray whalecruises depart from Sausalito or from Pil-lar Point, north of Half Moon Bay (southof San Francisco on Hwy. 1), except as

noted below Schedules go from late De-cember through the end of April, mostlyon weekends, though some have dailymidweek tours or charters. Besides mig-rating grays! harbor and Dall's porpoisesare sometimes seen. About $20 fornaturalist-guided 2tz-hour excursions(less for groups, children, senior citizens,members of environmental group ormuseum). First three listed below are themost popular. Contact: The Whale Centeq3929 Piedmont Ave., Oakland 94611(415) 654-6621; Oceanic Society, Bldg. E,

Fort Mason Center, San Francisco 94123(415) 474-3385; Sierra Club, 6O14 CollegeAve., Oakland 94618 (4t5) 658-7470, 7-

hour trips depart St. Francis Yacht Harbor;Marine Mammal Fund, Bldg. E. FortMason Center, San Francisco 94L23 (11r)775 1636, trips depart Bodego Bay; Cap-tain John's, Box 155, Half Moon Bay94019 (415) 72a-3377; American Ceta-cean Society, 210 Garces St., San Francisco91132 (415) 239-60ll; Marin Adventures,Marin Community College, Kentfteld91904 (415) 485-958r; Coyote PointMuseum, San N1ateo 94401 (115) 3427755; YMCA, Point Bonita Center, Bldg.981, Fort Barry GGNRA, Saulsalito 94965(415) 561-7656; Biological Journeys,1OO7 Leneve Pl, El Cerrito 94580 (415)527-9622.

From Monterey: Gray whale tours last112-6 hours, most days from late De-cember through April (best month Janu-ary). Prices range from $8- S30 dependingon length of tour, presence of naturalist,kind of boat. Shearwater Journeys, Box7440, Santa Cruz 95O61 (4O8) 125-8tttGreenpeace, Bldg. E, Fort Mason Center,San Francisco 94123 (415) 425-1416; Na-ture Explorattons, 2253 Park Blvd., PaloAlto, CA 94306 (115) 324-a737; princessMonterey Cruises, 39 Fisherman's Whar{Monterey 93940 (1O8) 372-BO1J/372-2203

In the Los Angeles atea.: Daily 2t/z-hour migration tours depart from SanPedro, Redondo Beach, Long Beach andMarina Del Rey. The season is Christmasthrough mid-April, and besides graywhales, boats sometimes encountefPacific white-sided dolphins, fin, pilot andkiller whales. The Cabrillo MarineMuseum and the American CetaceanSociery co-sponsor most of the whalewatching with 14 boats operating fiomfour landings. They provide naturalistsand have oriented their program towardschool groups, taking up to 2,000 chil-dren a day to meet the whales. Price forschool or other organized groups duringthe week is $4.25/petson CabrilloWhalewatch, 372O Stephen \flhite Dr., SanPedro 907J1 (213) 832-1444 for informa-tion, (213) 832-2476 for reservations;Catalina Cruises, Berth 95-96, Box 948,San Pedro 90733 (213) 547-OaO2/a32-152r.

In San Diego: Gray whale watchinglasts from Christmas through March, withpeak in January. Cruises are 2-3 hours, orlonger by charter. Some full-day cruisesvisit the Coronado Islands on north mig-ration. Adult prices for regularly sched-uled tours start at $7. Gray whale watch-ing pioneer Raymond Gilmore, who hasbeen guiding tours since 1959, still leadsthem for the San Diego Natural HistoryMuseum. Contact: San Diego Natural His-

tory Museum, El Prado in Balboa Park,Box 1390, San Diego 92112 (6t9) 232"3821; H&M Landing, 2803 Emerson St.,San Diego 92tOG (619) 222-1144 or, inLos Angeles (213) 626-80O5; Baja Fron-tier Tours, 3863 Cactusview Dr., SanDiego 921o5 (619) 262-2003.

Weattrer/Sea Notes:In North and Central California: Cold

and often rough at sea during gray whalemigration; tours usually don't operate inroughest weather Rain and fog some-times factors, especially off northernCalifornia and from lookouts. Morningsoften best from lookouts, before windscause whitecaps. In Southern California itis cool and occasionally rough at sea dur-ing gray whale migration. Warm to hot atlookouts.

Laws/GuidelinesThe National Marine Fisheries Service

(NMFS), the federal agency charged withprotecting whales, has drawn up specificguidelines for gray whale watching off thecoast of California. Aircraft should not flylower than 1,O00 feet while within a horizontal distance of 10O yards from a graywhale. There are five directives for boat-ers. Vessels (f) should not be operatedat speeds faster than a gray whale whileparalleling and within 1O0 yards of awhale; (2) should not be operated atspeeds faster than the slowest whaleswhile paralleling or between groups ofwhales and within lO0 yards of them; (3)should be operated at a constant speedwhile paralleing or following a gray whaleand within 100 yards of the whale; (4)should not be used to separate a whalefrom a calf; (5) should not be used toherd or drive whales.

NMFS guidelines conclude with anattempt to define harassment as any ac-tion that "substantially disrupt(s) the nor-mal behavioral pattern of a gray whale."Such disruptions might be manifested by"a rapid change in direction or speed;escape tactics such as prolonged diving,underwater course changes, underwaterexhalation; or evasive swimming patternssuch as swimming away rapidly at the sur-face; attempts by a female to shield a calffrom a vessel or a human observer by tailswishing or by other movements to pro-tect her calf."

For more information on NMFSguidelines, which are subiect to change,contact; National Marine Fisheries Ser-vice, Southwest Region, 30O S. Ferry St.,Terminal Island 9O731 (213) 548.2518.

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Ttrrkey raid r I27 birdstaken from factory farmsIn a coordinated, pre-dawn raid lastNovember 24, tlre Northern Californiaunit of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF)liberated 127 yorng turkeys and inflictedabout $I2,OOO worth of damage to a

series of turkey factory farms 2O mileseast of Sacramento.

It was only the second known AlF-styleraid of a factory farm in the U.S. Eadierin the year, a group calling itself "FarmFreedom Fighters" Iiberated several chick-ens from a battery farm in Delaware.

The Sacramento-area raid resulted inthe destruction or serious damage to thefarm's equipment, including tractors,

which had their fuel lines cut, sugar putinto engines and tires flattened.

At the Omega Ranch, where an esti-mated S1O,O0O worth of damage occur-red, the ALF put sugar in the transmissionof two tractors and poked holes in theirtires. Several buildings used to house theturkeys were also damaged.

In a note left with news media, the ALFsaid: "We liberated 127 turkeys (and)within hours they were placed in safehomes by caring humans, safe from theperverse'tradition' of Thanksgiving."

The raiders also spray-painted 'AnimalConcentration Camp," "Meat is Murder"

and other messages on many of the build-ings, according to police.

The ALF also said substances, includinghormones and other additives, were givento the turkeys which made them unsafefor consumption. The turkey farms, afterfirst denying this, admitted to some newsmedia they did feed antibiorics to the ani-mals, but only, they said, "in accordancewith federal guidelines."

Spokespersons for the farm said theyhad already slaughtered most of its tur-keys for Thanksgiving. Still, they added,145,000 turkeys remained at the time ofthe AIF action. I

Elijah Christian, acting chairman of theDqrartment of Biology at California StateUniversiry Sacramento, is seeking to opena new dog lab on campus this spring byusing some bureaucratic manueverings toiustify it.

By claiming that the "introductory"physiology dog lab was too "advanced,"he has merely proposed a natne change

- to "advanced physiology" - to iustify

using the dogs in experiments orl. theCSUS campus.

Recently CSUS stopped using live ani-mals in introductory physiology classesafter an investigation by People for theEthical Theatment of Animals (PETA).PETA surveyed other state universitiesand found that four other colleges inNorthern California

- CSU, Hayrvard;CSU, Chico; CSU, Sonoma and San Fran-cisco State University

- did not use livedogs for classroom demonstrations.

In a letter to the college's animal carecommittee, Df. Anita Watson, chairman ofthe nursing program, wrote: "The Divi-sion of Nursing does not support thefrivolous use of any animals in laboratoryexperiments, let alone dogs." Even Dr.Eliiah Christian said computers would beused instead of dogs, saving up to 80 ani-mals in the introductory physiologyclasses at CSUS.

But, apparently, he's changed his mindsomewhat.

For further information about activistparticipation, contact PETA Sacramento,PO Box 420525, Sacramenro 95842 orcall (916) 487-PETA. r

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Mountain Lions May FaceIhe Guns Again ...

The California Fish and Game Commis.sion began a series of three hearings whichstarted in Long Beach on February 6 on aproposed ffophy hunting season on moun-tain lions.

California mountain lions were pro-tected by a legislatively mandatedmoratorium on trophy hunting since 1972,but this protection expired on January l,1986 because Govemor Deukmejian vetoedlegislation in f985 that would have con-tinued protections for lions. This year moun-tain lions were given a reprieve as enorrnouspublic opposition to the reinstitution of alion hunting season and the political climateof an upcoming election forced the Fish andGame Commission to defer a hunting seasonfor one year. The one year deferral is al-

most over and, like the hearings held in 1986, the Fish and Game Commission willonce again hear proposals from "sportsmen" urging a statewide hunting season onmountain lions.

Attempting to capitalize on the unfortunate and tragic attacks on two childenin Orange County, trophy hunting enthusiasts are trying to convince the public thatlions are a threat to public safety and that the lion's already limited population mustbe further reduced by "sport hunting." (Except for these two attacks in OrangeCounry there have been no other mountain lion attacks on humans in California since1909.)

Existing law and Fish and Game Commission regulations give the State,s wildlifeagencies sufficient authority to protect the public from wildlife attacks. In addition,for the past four years the Department has implemented .a depredation control pro-gram to protect the livestock industry from limited mountain lion depredation. Cur-rently the Department, the County of Orange, and the Audubon Society are under-taking a study in the Orange County park where the two children were attacked inorder to determine the cause.

The mountain lion is a symbol for the few remaining wild and remote placesthat still exist in our magnifiicent state. A sport hunting season will only provide afew individuals the opportuniry to shoot one of California's last remaining wild andmajestic predators at point blank range after it has been endlessly chased by a packof hounds.

Two Remaining HearingsNeed Your Participation

March 6 - neddlng (9:OO am, Ciry Council Chambers, 1343 Caltfornia Streer)April 3 - $261266n1o (9:O0 am, Resources Building Auditorium, 1416 Ninth Street)

If you cannot attend the hearings, but would like the Commission to consideryour views you can write to the Commission at:

California Fish and Game Commission1416 9th StreetSacramento, CA 95814

For further information, please call either (213) 457-IION (So. Calif.) or (!16)442-2566 (No. Calif.).

If you would like to contribute to the information and educational work of theMountain Lion Preservation Foundation, please send your tax-deductible donation to:Lion Preservation Fund, PO Box 1896, Sacramento 95809.

Go directly to iail;Do not pass go,Do not collect $200The first modern-day activists involved inorganized civil disobedience have nowdone "hard time."

In California, five women and one manserved from 4o-hour to five-day sen-tences for blocking entrances to researchlaboratories last Aprll 24.

The most dramatic and publicized ofthose to go to iail so far is a group offourwomen in Davis, CA - including twowho participated in the very first or-garuzed civil disobedience for animals inthe U.S. They were tlle first ro take thesystem to jury trial for their belieft andthe first sentenced to iail.

Doris Kight, Sheila t-aracy - *lio *...

both also arrested in April l9a4 x Univer-siry of California, Davis in the first U.S. ar-rests - LaVonne Bishop and LindaSchieve were turned over to Yolo CounfyJail deputies December 1 and were re-leased December 6.

The four, part of an independent ac-tivist group arrested in April 1985 forblocking the entrance to the UC DavisPrimate center, went thfough a year anda haH of trials and appeals before servingtheir time.

But, they made the county pay, and paymightily, for prosecuting them. The courtaction cost the financially-strappedcounty more than S2O,OOO (since then,the county has either dropped charges orreduced them to avoid taking activists tojail. Trials lead to more publicity for theanimals, the county learned, and takestime and money).

The four women, amid more.than 5Osupporters and the bright lighrs of livetelevision c:rmeras, echoed other jailedactivists such as Bill Ferguson

- whoserved five days in Los Angeles

- andMary Bennett - who served 4O hours inSanta Clara

- when they said they would

do it again."I feel just like a dog being taken to

the pound," said Kight, a 60-year-oldgrandmother. 'Noq I know what it feelslike to be a research animal," said Schieve.

After the incarceration, which involvedsleeping on the floor and being in onecell with accused murderers, the foursaid they expected to be back. They maynot have a choice. Deputies and othercounty officials were upset activists con-victed of a simple misdemeanor

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AtF exposes Oregon Hi.3:'3lfiru,*,,

fesearch directorCRESCENZO VELLUCCI, JR. C ALI F O R N I A INDEPEATDENT NE WS

EUGENE, OREGON - The Director ofResearch for a major university here hasshockingly admitted he terrorized a new-born infant monkey as revealed in a seriesof stolen, but startling photographs nowbeing made available by the outlawedAnimal Liberation Front (ALF).

The photos - smuggled out by the ALF

after illegally breaking into University ofOregon research facilities Oct. 26, 1986

- are among those released depictingwhat pro-animal advocates say showsome of the worst atrocitics against re-search animals on record.

The photographs provide the first"hard" evidence that a research directorfor a major U.S. university has partici-pated in cruelty, or terrorism, against ani-mals used in research.

In the photographs, University of Ore-gon research director Greg Stickrod man-handles a screaming newborn monkev ashe smokes a cigarette and drinks beerOne shot also shows him menacing thesquirming infant with a knife. The"staged" shots also show a woman appa-rently "acting" as though she has just "de-livered" the monkey.

Stickrod, in a prepared statement forthe Oregon news media last week, admit-ted his acts were "in bad taste. I regrethaving participated in" the actions, hesaid.

However, pro-animal representatives -who were given the photos by the ALF

- said Stickrod's participation in the "dis-gusting" laboratory hijinks is "terrorism,

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Evidence collected by a Gillette Com-pany employee at their Maryland labora-tory is now available to activists,demonstrating that Gillette lied to con-sumers by denying that the LD5O andDraize Eye Irritancy toxicity tests wereused in their animal laboratories.

Products of Pain, a brief video tapeproduced by ARK II (The InternationalAnimal Rights Cooperative), documentshands-on evidence by Leslie Fain aboutwhat's really been happening inside Gil-lette labs. The company manufactures avariety of personal care products fromRight Guard deodorant to Silkience sham-poo, as well as other products like LiquidPaper correction fluids and Paper Mateink. All Gillette products are tested onanimals in their laboratory by using theLD50 and Draize tests. In complete con-tradiction to the evidence documented inARK II's film, Gillette claimed that "thecompany has not used the LDSO testsince 1977."

Documentation from inside the labora-tory indicates that not only is the LD5Oroutinely used in the lab, along withother death tests like the LD100 and theso-called "Limit Test." but Gillette hasattempted to cover-up the company's useof the test. In the confidential minutes ofa July 25, 1985 Animal Care Committeemeeting, Mr. Kenney and Mr. DiPasquale"again raised the issue of modifying inter-nal documentation and other communica-tions vehicles to eliminate any referencesto the use of the term LD50. This issuerelates to the correspondence with whichthe company is responding to animalrights activists..."

There is no excuse for Gillette's publicmisrepresentations and reluctance to up-grade its facility. Scientific opinion op-poses these archaic animal tests becausethey are crude and unreliable, as well ascruel and unnecessary. Gillette is part ofan industry founded and maintained onthe suffering and death of over 2O millionanimals annually.

Activists can provide Gillette wirh theincentive it needs by using its consumerpower and boycotting Gillette products.Letters to Gillette can be mailed to Gil-lette Headquarters, The Prudential TowerBuilding, Boston, MA 02199.

For further information about GilletteUniversity of Oregon Director of Research Greg Stickrod glares at a frightened products, Gillette's animal research fraud,newborn monkey as he drinks beer and smokes. Voman on table was pre- and the Boycott Gillette Campaign, writetending to have just "delivered" the monkey?(Photo courtesy of ALF. Others ARK II, PO Box llo49, $i/ashington, DCavailable upon request.) 20OO8 or call (lOt) 897-5429. r

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Chimpanzees LiberatedFrom MD Laboratory()n Sirtr.rrdar', Dcccmbcr 7, between 2 p.m. and midnight, four baby chim-panzees (chimps are a threatened species) scheduled to be used forAIDS research werc takcn fiom a Rockville, MD, laboratory by a clan-dcstinc group called Tiue Fricnds. Records documenting dozens of"accidental" animal deaths also were removed.

V,trile inside the SEMA Corporation laboratoryl Tiue Friends filmedthe abysmal conditions undcr which the animals live, and copies of thefilm have been distributed nationw'ide. Thc film, entitled Breaking Bar-riers, is something cverl' caring person sl-rould see. "It focuses on theemotional abuse and trauma that laboratory animals must endure foryears on end," sa1's PETA coordinator Teri Bamato. "Some animals inthe SEMA laboratory have been there, in isolation, for up to 5O ,vears... Some of the chimps have gone mad from loneliness ..."

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The SEMA Corporation laboratorl,. which does chemical. carcinogen and infections disease research (including AIDS), hasused animals, primates almost exclusively, for some 14 years. Thc lab houses more than 70O primates, trut the company cmploysonly one veterinarian. In 1985. 22 animals were steamed to death u'hen a trrokcnvalve sent steam speuing into one of the animal labs. Sick ar-rd dying animals werediscovered at 2:15 p.m., but a veterinarian didn't arrive on the scene until 5:45 p.m.The SEMA Corporation laboratory (formerly Mekry ) has been rcccir.ing taxpay'cr ftrndsthrough the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for years.

The SEMA Corporation has a history of failing to meet even minimum rcquire-ments set forth by the Animal Welfare Act. For example, during a 1985 LISDA inspec-tion, violations were identified in 15 areas, the maiorit)' in "aninral hcalth and husban-dry." A woman calling herself "Emma" spoke for True Friends, sa,ving. "We must brcakthe species barrier ... these experiments are a horrendous crime that displays humar-r

arrogance and irresponsibilitv in its ugliest form."PETA Washington is calling for an investigation of the massive NIH budget, from

which tax monies are allocated to places like SEMA. You can write to your congres-sional representatives (countl'register of voters office will tell you if 1'ou don't kno'w)and ask them to call for an independent government investigation of NIH's budget.Cite SEMA as a classic case of how research laboratories perpetrate and perpetuateanimal cruelty in science.

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Silver Spring Monkey DiesAccording to DELTA, the research lab now "using" the 14 survivors of theinfamous Dr Thub's Silver Spring, MD lab (which was closed down flve yearsago for abuse of these same monkeys), Brooks "died suddenly of pnuemonia."PETA knew that Brooks had been sick from a kidney infection and blooddisorder weeks before he died. Following the primate's death, PETA requestedthe autopsy reports from Delta and asked that the animal's body be preservedfor an independent autopsy. But Brook's body had been incinerated theday after he died.

Delta has been known for abnormally high accidental deaths amongits lab animals, and because no animal rights people have been allowedto see the Silver Spring monkeys since they were shipped to Delta fivemonths ago, PETA Washington is also including the Delta incident in itscampaign to get Congress to look into NIH budget appropriations tolabs like Delta.

'Write to your own representatives, plus Otis Brown, the secretaryof Health and Human Services in D.C., James Wyngaarden, president ofNIH, President Reagan, and Dr. Eamon Kelly, president of Tulane University(Delta is a universiry facility) to also call for an investigation of the NIHbudget. You can call PETA Sacramento for addresses (916) 487-7382.Also write PETA Vashington and PETA Sacramento, addresses above.

For Further InfoAbout lhese Cases

PETA WashingtonPost Office Elox 56272\Washington, DC 2OOl1

PETA SacramentoPost Office Box 120525Sacramento. CA 95812

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Rancher facescruelty chargesSONOMA COUNTY

- In July 1984, veal-er Michael Cambra was arrested by theSheriffs Department in Sonoma Countyfor animal cruelty, animal neglect, andfouling a pound (with the bloated bodyof a dead calf).

Sherifls deputy, Spence Marrin, had dis-covered approximately six dead a;nd 159barely living calves inside a stifling hotbarn. According to the deputy "vealcalves in pens were covered with excre-ment, apparently starving with no wateror food buckets." Dead calves were rot-ting in stalls next to live calves; stray catswere eating the carcasses. Approximately9O decomposing corpses were foundpiled outside the barn.

What makes this horror story evenmore horrible is that this case has yet tocome to trial. In the meantime, MichaelCambra is allowed to continue operatinghis infamous veal operationl

The Humane Farming Association(HFA), however, reporrs thar onNovember 14 Judge Gayle Guvnupdenied Cambra's motion to suppress evi-dence submitted by the Sheriffs depart-ment. Cambra failed to prove that deputySpence Martin's discovery of the dead anddying calves constituted an illegal search.

This case may finally go to trial in lateMarch. Immediately prior to trial, how-ever, Cambra's attorney and the DistrictAttorney's office will have a "readinessconference." At that time Cambra's attor-neys will attempt to plea bargain. Cambramay offer to plead guilty to "fouling apond" in exchange for animal neglect andanimal torture charges being dropped. OrCambra may plead guilry to animal neg-lect in exchange for animal cruelty beingdropped.

rwithout your past letters and support,the charges against Cambra would cer-tainly have been dropped or reduced al-ready. HFAs public campaign has insuredthat charges against Cambra not be lostin a maze of judicial apathy and inatten-tion. To keep those letters rolling, writeMr. Ray Donnelly, Office of rhe DisrricrAttorney, 600 Administration Drive,Room 212-J, Santa Rosa 95402.

For further information about this andother factory farming issues, write theHumane Farming Association at 1550California Street, Suite 6, San Francisco94109 or call (415) 771-2253. r A newborn calf wittr its mother

- t}re one place all calves belong.

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Pet SterilizationCampaign

A national campaign to promote publicawareness of the pet overpopulation prob-lem is the prime mission of UnitedHumanitarians. Its leaflet, Born to be Kill"ed, is available from them by writing POBox 14587, Philadelphia, PA 19115.

Mountain Lions T-ShirtProtect California Mountain Lions T:shirt- has a lovely drawing of two cats toaccompany words. $1O.50 plus $l.OOpostage and handling fiom the MountainLion Coalition, PO Box 1896, Sacramento95ao9 / (916) +22-2666.

Leffers NeededOn animal research: Students UnitedProtesting Research on Sentient Subjects(SUPPRESS) urges letters to KCET TVChannel 28, Attn. Ellen Geigeq NationalProductions, 44Ol Sunset Blvd., LosAngeles 9OO27 to encourage the showingof Hidden Crimes on public television.

One WoddOne World is published by Thans-SpeciesUnlimited (TSU), a journal about social jus-tice. Contributors of $10 or more can.receive a subscription, as well as periodicbulletins on animal rights issues. Write TSU,PO Box 1553, Williamsport, PA 177O3.

notes & rrotrar,OortlrrfFor an accurate relql ofyour infor-mation, please include area codesuitb pbone numbers, street addres-ses, suite and floor numbers, etc. Ifyou prefer more detailed d.escrip-tions of your projects, campaigns,needs, etc., please ulrite a briefparagrapb, Apeun'itten, double-spaced, utitb all of tbe necessary in-formation (ubat, ubere, tuben andtoby) and mail to: Thz Anintals'\bic!z, PO. Box 4305, Cbico 95927(916) 342-5o91.

Anirnal RightsYellow Pages

A complete guide on how and where tofind the goods and services we most oftenneed

- with comforting assurance thatour business and our bucks are going tofolks who share our concern for animals.The Fund for Animals Yellow Pages can beobtained by sending $5.0O to The Fundfor Animals, l2548YentraBlvd., Suite 141 -

\?, Studio City 91601.

Consumer AlertsFactory farming. Concise and effective.Many photos. Great for educating family,friends and others. Opportunities arealways arising - be sure to have some onhand. Buddhists Concerned for Animals,__

30O Page Street, San Francisco 941O2.

Rock Stars SupportAnimal Rights

The rock groups KCB Band and Bostonsupport animal rights, and Boston has aheartwarming message for animal rightsrypes and others on the cover of thegroup's latest album. It says: "Tom, Bradand others with Boston are vegetarians. Ifyou would like information about chang-ing to a vegetarian diet, write to VegetarianInformation Service, Dept. ! Box 5888,Bethesda, MD 2OAl4. Boston commendsthe work done by several organizations inprotecting life. You can help by contactingthe following organizations, or by simplynot purchasing a fur coat: Greenpeace, TheFund for Animals, International Fund forAnimal Welfare, Tbe Animals' Agenda,People for the Ethical Theatment of Ani-mals." Noq if we could iust get them todo an Animal-Aid, what say?

To Kill a CoyoteA l5-minute program traces the history ofthe predator control program from itsearly years to today Accompanied by 73color and black and white slides, the pro-gram is professionally narrated and set tomusic. It is appropriate for junior high stu-dents and older, is designed to be shownto conservation and animal welfare organi-zations and others concerned aboutwildlife and the environment. Contact Bar-bara Ruben of Defenders of Wildlife b,vwriting 1244 l9th St. NW Washington, DC20O36 or by calling (2O2) 659-9510.

... ancl not{ailortlrrf"Broken Promises"

ABroken Prorazses video which shows thecruelties of vivisection, specifically exper-iments conducted at UCLA., is availablewith an educational package that includestape, photographs and written documenta-tion. The tape is available onVHS and BETAVz" for $45.OO. t/<" is available to televisionstations. Full-color brochures are also avail-able for 20c apiece. Contact Lifeforce atBox 825, North Holllqzood 91603 (818)985-LIFE and Box 210354, San Francisco94121 (4r5) 441-3339.

National GeographicThe January 1987 issue of National Geo-grapbic features an article entitled,"Medicine's New Vision," which exploresand celebrates the use ofhigh-technologycomputers which are helping physicianssave human lives. The article was writtenby veteran journalist Howard Sochurekand a copy of which can be obtained bywriting The Anirrrals'10oice. PO Box 43O5,Chico 95927.

Animal RightsResources Catalog

A compilation of literature, films, books,lesson plans, and merchandise from overl2O organizations. Available for S10 fromThe Fund for Animals, Fort Mason Center,San Francisco 94123. (415) 474-4O2O.

Captive Audienceat Rose Bowl

LOS ANGELES - On November 22, anairplane flew over the Rose Bowl stadium,carrying a banner that read, "USC torturesanimals. Help us stop it." The airplane cir-cled the stadium for about one hour dur-ing the football game between the Univer-sity of Southern California and the Univer-sity of California at Los Angeles. Therewere approximately f00,OO0 in atten-dance.

Fact Vs. FictionThe Mountain Lion Preservation Founda-tion has a flyer covering the myhs andmisconceptions the public holds aboutmountain lions. Copies are available fromthe Foundation at PO Box 1896, Sac-ramento 95809.

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legislatiorrThe following bills of importance to ani-

mals have been introduced so far. Manymore will be introduced in the next twomonths. If you do not knowwho your StateSenator and/or Assembly Members are,call your County Registrar ofVoters or TheFund for Animals (415) 474-4O2O.

Address for all state legislators: StateCapitol, Sacramento 95814 (916) 3229900.

Wildlife FlabitatSB 4 Supportby Senator Robert Presley

Provides for an $85 million bond issue forthe acquisition and protection of highlyrare natural areas and wildlife habitat. Thiswould be submitted to the voters at theJune 1988 election. Write to your StateSenator urging his/her support. Write toSenator Presley thanking him for introduc-ing SB 4.

Lost & Found PetsSB 10 Supportby Senator AIan Robbins

Requires public animal shelters to providehelpful information to the owners and fin-ders of lost pets and to maintain a "[ostand Found" list. Write to your State Senatorurging his/her support. Write to SenatorRobbins thanking him for introducing it.

Endangered SpeciesAB 33 Opposeby Assemblyman Elihi HarrisEliminates the check-off program for en-dangered wildlife. AB 33 is the CaliforniaSimple Thx Law and in addition ro eliminat,ing the voluntary contributions to the Rareand Endangered Species PreservationProgram, it also eliminates check-oft forsenior citizens, child abuse prevention andthe Olympics. Write to your AssemblyMember uring his/her opposition. Writeto Assemblyman Harris expressing oppos-irion to AB 33.

Dog & Cat LicensesSB 39 Supportby Senator Alan RobbinsRequires cities and counties that adminis-ter licenses to add the owner's telephonenumber to the name and address kept onrecord. write to your State Senator urginghis/her support. \P'rite ro Senator Robbinsthanking him for introducing SB 39.

Gill NetsSB 40 Supportby Senators [Iilton Marks &Dan McCorquodale

Makes additional prohibitions on gill netsused in waters less than twenfv fathoms

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Wtrat ts PAW PAC? We're a uniqueorganization registered with the Sec-retary ofState to help elect state can-didates who defend animals -whether pets, wildlife or farm ani-mals

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Why is PAW PAC unique? We arean all-volunteer organization. Wehave NO paid staff and NO officerent, so ALL receipts go to humanecandidates and to raise money fortheir campaigns.

ls PAW PAC affiliated wlth a poltt-ical party or ottrer organizatlon?No. However, many of us work withother organizations which, becauseof their tax-exempt status, cannotcontribute money to political cam-paigns.

It doesn't matter whether a candi-date is a Democrat or Republican-as long as he or she helps animals!

Who runs PAWPAC? Our Board iscomposed of animal activists, lob-byists, educators, lawyers, and otherprofessionals and citizens who rec-ogrize that to make California a bet-ter place for animals, we must bepolitical. Collectively, our Boardmembers have a century of practicalexperience in politics and lobbyingfor animals in Sacramento!

How does PAW PAC work?Thousands of Californians havejoined together to donate overSSO,OOO to date for humane candi-dates through PAWPAC. We carefullyanalyze over lO0 state campaignsand concentrate our resources onthe close races where pro-animalcandidates are opposed by thosehostile to animals.

Ve also prepare the annual votingchart, which shows how each StateSenator and Assembly Membervoted on bills affecting animals. Weprovide thousands of voting chartsto the public and news media freeof charge. If you would like a votingchart showing how all 120 legis-lators voted on key animal bills in1985 and 1986, please ask us for oneand we'll be happy to mail one toyou.

Our election successes not onlyhelp elect good candidates - theyalso remind all incumbents thatCalifornians care about animals andare watching the voting records oftheir representatives ... and are pre-pared to replace them if they do notvote appropriately.

deep in certain areas. Gill nets killthousands of marine animals. Write to yourState Senator urging his/her support. Writeto Senators Marks and McCorquodalethanking them for introducing SB 40.

Dogs in TrucksAB 12E Supportby Assemblyman Jack O'Connell

Prohibits dogs, and any animals exceptlivestock and working dogs, from beingcarried in the back of trucks unless certainprecautions afe taken to protect them.Write to your Assembly Member urginghis/her support. Write to AssemblymanO'Connell thanking him for introducingAB 128.

Berkeley NorthwestAnimal Facility

Budget Bill Oppose

Item #6440-30l-782. Appropriates$752pOO for further planning of the newUniversity of California at Berkeley animallaboratory. In addition to be entirely under-ground, much of it will be used forpsychological experimentation, which canbe especially cruel and useless. (See page

5 this issue for further information). Writeto your Assembly Member, your State Sen-

ato! Assemblyman Robert Campbell,Chairman, Assembly Ways and Means Sub-committee #2, and Chairman, SenateBudget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee#f (this post has not yet been filled) urg-ing their opposition to this $14 millionfaciliry

For alerts on state legislation, send atax-deductible contribution to The Fundfor Animals, c/o Rose Lemberg, 831 BalraDrive, El Cerrito 94530 (415) 527-2194.

For alerts on federal legtslation, senda non-deductible contribution to Societyfor Animal Protective Legislation, PO Box3719, Georgetown Station, Washington,DC 2OOo7 (2O2) 337'2334) and/otNational Alliance for Animal Legislation,PO Box 75116, Washington, DC 20013(7o3) 684-0654.

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a concomitant responsibiliry to reject an?-thing which diminishes that beaury

Some in our movement find the verymention of the word spiritual to be dis-concerting, but Animalines believes thatour ultimate success will largely be con-tingent on whether we touch the soul ofthe average person - obviously not inthe theological sense, but in enabling thepopulace to truly understand the mostliteral and fundamental meaning ofspiritual: the breath of life. As stated ear-lier, the movement's limited resourcespale in contrast to the powerful forcesthat oppose us, and the future is trleak ifwe relv predominantly on conventionalmethods; however, if we stop thinking inthe structured terms of an <-rrganizedmovement and begin seeing ourselves as

a peaceful army of individuals committedto liuing an ideal, then we can impartthat ideal to others through the sheerspiritual force of our own example. Thisis the spiritualiq Animalines speaks of -the spirituality of life!

How many times must we relearn thehistorical lesson that the antidote forhatred and cruelty is not more hatred andcruelty, but caring and committed peoplegoing forth to ignite the flame of lifeinside each person. The concept of oneearth, one family is not some romanticfantasy, but a biological and ecologicalreality - as for billions of years the samelife'supporting chemical elements havebeen recycled fiom the earth through a//living organisms and back to the earthagain. If we are ever to succeed in ourquest for a just and peaceful earth, eachof us must begin to transform animalrights from an abstract expression to a

liuing philosophy - a philosophy spreadnot by centralized campaigns, but bycreating a dynamic for change throughpeople "touching" people , beginning withourselves and moving outward to family,friends and communiry We have a com-pelling story to tell about a magical placecalled Earth that is being devastated bya desperately troubled species. Let usbegin now!

Please address all correspondence to:Animalines, ll Millwood, Mill Valley, CA9491t1, (415) 381-0838. comments areinvited and additional copies are availablewithout charge upon request. We wouldappreciate being advised of any change inyour mailing address.

A Magical Place Called Earth (cont.)

that exemplifies the conduct we wishothers to follovr

We also need to examine our attitudetoward our adversaries, for the animals we respect and cherish, our adver-saries are also members of the family oflife

- tragic victims of a virulent diseasethat has destroyed their capacity forgenuine love and compassion. Those whoknow Animallzes understand we makeno excuses for the pathological behaviorwhich desecrates everything we holdsacred; however, Animalines distin-guishes between heinous acts and the in-dividuals who commit them, for whilethose who brutalize and maim zre _ful|yresponsible for their reprehensible con-duct, they are also victims of a worldgone mad that is rapidly devastating theprecious life and beauty ofour earth. Canwe not embrace our adversaries as fellowbeings while at the same time expendingevery ounce of our energy combattingthe cancer they spread? We not only canbut we must, not iust for their sake butfor ourselves and the animals we serve -as unconditional Love of life is conta-gious if only we would practice it our-selves.

It's in this same vein that Animalineshas persistently raised the issue of a com-passionate lifesryle regarding dietary andconsumer choices, for if our personalhabits don't reflect the values we seek toconYey to others, we run the risk ofappearing hypocritical to the public andlimiting our possibilities for peacefulchange from within. The opportuoity toexperience the boundless joys from livingin concert with all life is a recurrenttheme of Animalines, for it requires nosacrifice to adopt a cruelty-free lifestyleas peaceful journeys invariably providetheir own rewards! We have the greatprivilege to experience and express thebeauty of life, and with that privilege goes

Tbe illustration featured on page Iuras drautn bjt Jude Westenberg. It is ac-companied uitb a beautiful poem (seepage 6) by Holllt P Turner on greetingcard.s measuring 5" x7". For 1/z dozen, tbeprice is ff5.OO; a full dozen is fi9,O0. Allproceeds benefit Buddbists Concentedfor Animals (BCA) and tbe HumaneFarming Association. To purcbase tbecards, utrite BCA at JOO Page Street, SanFrancisco 94102.

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Htrmane of Humantiac?Continuerl from page J

Do you think that thcre are alreadvcrlough cat breeds? Do you reallv thinkthat there will be no more after this? Who:rre you to make this decision?

As a long-timc humane worker I amashamed of you. It is people like y,ou vghoare making the term "humaniac" the re"placcment for "humane." It is n()t cnoughfor vou give the appearance of caring, -voumust carc enough, both about what yotrdo, and about the publicatior-r vou rcpre-scnt, (not to mention the readcrs) to rc-search what you write BEFORE you go topress. There is enough carelcssly re-searched and hastilv written material, andwhat 1.ou are doing is pure editiorial irres-ponsibilitlr

You are condemning a \TRY worth-while venture. and a foundation backedb-v caring and influential people, andthrorning rocks at it becausc no onc"asked vou first."

To brir-rg your education up to level ...

there are fewer than 35 cats in the brced-ing colony, inclucling sevcral geriatric catsfrom the earlv )'ears, that are no longerbeing bred. Delivery of kittens beforeChristmas will involve no more than tenkittens. All :rc to bc or have been handdelivered, and ALL are going to excellenthomes (all cat lovers) and no "fad" follow-ers are in the group. Thesc are live ani-mals. and there are caring, intelligent, andresponsible people managing the proiect.I find you incredibly presumptive toassume or imply otherwise, and to followup on your unwarranted and uneducatedattack, I am arranging for all of your rcad-ers who DO follow your advicc, to re-ceive a copy of this letter so they willknow the dcpth of your research andhopefully, revise their estimation of 1.oureditorial opinions.

Your readers depend on vou to do tl'rehomework on these cditorials so thatthev don't have to. To trick them intowriting whcn YOU are so uninformed, isa cruel disservice to them all. You ox.cthem better than that.

- Kathy Lyon, Ou,nerEditor ancl PublisberBird Worlcl Magazine

cc: Neiman-Marcus, Paul Case1,

Eclitors note: Katb! L1,ton's letter utasulritten in response to a "noteuortby" u:epublisbed cc.tnceruting tbe Neiman-Mar-cus California Spangled Cat, ancl a pro-test campaign ubich uus undertaken by

tbe Peninsula Humane Society (pHS)ancl tbe Marin Count! Humane Society(MCHS). Tlte Anintals' \fuicg tthoseeclitor is )'ours trub,, added a feu' o.f itsou,n sarcastic remarks (just my nature,I guess) and sent tlte fur flying. Ms, Lyonresponrlecl to us but also infonneel ussbe had sent copies of ber letter to pHSarul MCHS, tbe former of ubose responserutut follott:s:

It was with great regrct I read vour defen-sive response to Peninsula Humane Soci-ety's (PHS) objection to Neiman-Marcus,live new winter line advertised in its'Winter Book Catalogue, the Spangled Cat.

\i/e at the PHS can appreciate thc ,,hur-r-

dreds of hours" you have given selflesslvto the animals, for over the past 35 yearswe have been doing the same for all ani-mals, both wild and domestic (purebreed and mix). And it is because we dealwith the grislv realitv of the pet over-population crisis that wc cannot condoneor commend Mr. Casey's new cat crea-tions. and the means bv u,hich he choseto "advertise" and "sell" thenr.

You see, Ms. Lyon, we at PHS and otheranimal protection/rights organizationsare thinking on a much broacler scalethan Mr. Casey and yourself. Ii in tact, NIr.Casey onlv created 80 cats in the yearshc worked to perfect this iunS;le-like dc-signer cat, which is highl.v unlikely thetragedy is that while he created morecats, animal shelters throughout thcl.lnited States were killing 8 to 10 milliona year. Many of these millions werehealthy, lovablc, adoptablc animals, butbecause there were too few homes forthem. thev were killed. And, now as theorders lbr Mr. Cascy's Spangled Cat con-tinue to roll in

- even if he only receivcs5O a vear

- millions of adoptable sheltercats u'ill continue to be destroved.

No, Mr Casey's slick Neiman-N{arcuscatalogue advertisement for his new catrvill not take away from our placemcntprof1ram. Vrhat he has done, hower,.er, isdesensitize a captive and large portion ofthe population toward animals. First ofall, animals should not be "solcl', topeople. Rather thev should be adoptedinto a home that offers a lifetin-re of lovcand care. Promoting the idea that vou canpick out a cat, in the color or look that-you want, as long as you pav over $1O00is exploitive and it certainlv does not con-vey any consefvation or human ethic. Iwill grant you that people come into pHS

looking for certain breeds or breed mix-tures, certain looks or colorations, butthese biases are discouraged by our adop-tion specialists and a thorough examina-tion of the p()tential adopter's lifestyle isconducted. Only after a person is willingto take a look at the reasons why they$'ant to adopt an animal, do we seek tofind the perfect companion for them andvice versa.

Animal shelters like PHS do not con-sider themselves in competition with Mr.Casey, nor any other animal shelter. Find-ing thc most suitablc home for unwantedanimals, animal protection and educationis what we are all about. We work to edu-cate children and adults about pet over-population and other existing situationsin which animals are exploited or mis-treated. I'm afraid that unless Mr. Casey,sSpangled Cat arrives at its new home witha packet of information on pet overpopu-lation, endangered species, the fur tradetactics, and why this cat's wild cousin'sexistence is threatened, then his "educa-tional" endeavor is mute. Surely, you arenot naivc enough to think that peoplewill make the connection between order-ing designer cats, in the color and lookof their choice, with the fact that there

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lettersare wild spotted cats being exploited b.v

the fur indr-rstryAlso, if Mr. Case1, insists on a con-

tracted agreement that the animal is tobe spayed or neutered he is to be com-mended. If he does not. or makes excep-tions for particularly beautiful cats, he isthe one doing the disservice to animals,pet owners ancl the general public. Allou.ing even one ofhis adopted or not-so-per-fected cats to breed means variations ofhis newly-created breed will soon bearriving at animal shelters like PHS. It isquite possible that we are already dealingwith variations of the Spangled brecd. \busaid that only "most" of the cats Mr Caseybred over his 15-year perfecting periodwere altered, but all clf them u.'erc placedin homes. You, I'm sure, are aware thatit only takes one unaltered cat and oneirresponsible pet owner to bcgin cor-r-

tributing to the pet overpopulation prob-lem at hand.

Our concern is that this new breed andthe Neiman-Marcus ad to "have" and"buy" is not in the best interest of all ani-mals.

- Susan ReganEducation Department

Peninsula Humane Society

Direct ActionConferenceContinued from page Jon the picket lines not at ga:ra:ge sales -can concentfate on their service to theDAC, not fundraising.

For instance, Animal Rights DirectAction Coalition (ARDAC) - in Sac-

ramento and san Francisco - stages

direct actions. The-v need money for court,bail, etc. They could try to raise monevBut, if they do, they are competing withother groups and using their valuabletime fundraising when they could beorganizing a direct action.

As it is now, direct action g.roups suchas Last Chance - which has staged manl'dramatic civil disobedi6n66 261i6n5 * 216

at a virtual standstill. Not becausc theycan't conduct a civil disobedience, butbecause they don't have the monies to doit. And, that's wrong.

How much organizations would con-tribute is up in the air What should it be?Don't know But. I'm sure if we sit downand talk about it, we can agree to some-thing. If it doesn't work, then we try agairi.

In fact, not only can we enhance ouractivities in the direct action area withthe DAC, but we can perform new func-

tiofls with the ne$,cooperation and com-munication, such as:

l. A National Direct Action Confer-ence, which several of us have alreadydiscussed and planned (see page 6 fordetails). I'rc talked to more than two doz-en individuals and organizations fromaround the tl.S. who want to attend sucha conference to learn how to do success-ful direct actions. The cost for somethinglike this is minimal. We have the staff

-us. The DAC could sponsor this, and hope-fully, be instrumental in spreading directaction nationally. Something like this hasto happen. Currently, direct action isoccurring primarily in California - itmust grow We can help that happenthrough structure such a^s this.

2. A Direct Action Newspaper, whichwould - immediately

- communicatedirect action successes nationwide. Wecould produce a tabloid size newspaper(like on the newstands) for less than 5cents each ( S50 a thousand). Turnaroundtime is about a week.

3. The April 24th Protests, which lastyear went under the coalition name.

I'm sure you have other ideas. But, wehave to act fast. Please get with me ASAPif you think this has some merit. Re-member, if we do this, we can solidify ourcurrent relationships, maybe eliminatefuture problems because of the nature ofthe structure, expand direct actionnationwide, and - this is the best thingabout it - we wouldn't have to use theword coalition, which in this movementis greatly overused in name, but seldomreally works.

In the name, and true spirit, of cooper-ation, - Cres Uellucci

Califontia Independent Neus (CIN)1O25 Nintb Street, Suite 225

Sacramento 95811(916) 141.5628

Loves Tlre Anirrrals'

I have read your second issue and Ilove it. It is exactly the uni$ring force thatis needed amonfa all the diverse grolrpsthat exist in California.

- Lau/rence E. Weiss

Sononta People for Animal Rigltts

As an animal rights, welfarist, protec-tionist. libcrati()nist protector and defen-der and just about every other "ist" thatexists vis-a-vis the human-animal relation-

\)oice - a lot

ship, may I add my voice to the manyothers who applaud your magazine's exis-tence. Its time has certainly come, sinceCalifornia is a state that leads most othersifl innovative thinking.

In animal rights activity, California stillfalls behind the more unified, efficient anddemonstrative East, but we're movingahead fast. We need to learn more aboutour issue, so that we can write more in-formed letters to our legislature, conversemore potently with the unenlightened andrely on facts rather than our very justifiablyworthy moral and ethical ground. Whilewe are all overburdened with literatureand current-issue information about thissubfect to which we are so committed, wewill welcome your specific data as it relatesto California issues. So much demands ourattention, but we should focus on our"home" state where we have more cloutwith legislators as our elected representa-tives.

Hope springs eternall

- Elaine F. Liuesey-Fassel

Lonely CryI just uoke up tonigbt.Anotber loflg nigbtArul a feut uortlJless dreams.

Arul I uonrler ...

Vbat lays outside ofTb is mdnufactured nightmare.

I traded tbe steets of m;y youtbPdtrolled b! police carsn)r lbe deset'ted streets of Americ&

I traded mucb timeFor mucb sotrouAnd as I get closeiiIt's aluays fartber au)ayl

I cdn neither presenENor cultiudteM! t)isionsWbile being pollutedBy the menial and ouerbearingCbores of tbis society.

Cun you see lhe bloodM1t friend?Yes, I am dyingOf a time bemorbage.

Ilnspoken messdgesFrom a rabbit in a cageTbru tbe coldAnd dark uindotu ofTbe prison.

Coukl you run rabbitIf I let you freeOr utoukl yo4 like me,Sit dumbfouruledAnd auait death.

- Philippe Lapotre

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ALF hits Oregonwhether it was yesterday or today."

Headed by celebrity/animal rights ac-tivist Bob Barkeq the organizations sayOregon animal cruelty laws were brokenand that there were numerous violationsof the Irederal Animal Welfare Act and Na-tional Institutes of Health Guide for lab-oratory animals.

They are calling for Stickrod's firing byOregon and fullscale state and federal in-vestigations against the University of Ore-gon and any other uniyersities "who maybe involved in a conspiracy to commitcrimes against research animals."

The ALF attacked several research

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facilities at the University of Oregon(Eugene) Iast Oct. 26, liberating 264 ani-mals, causing more than $5O,OOO in dam-age and stealing slides and photographs.The documentation

- more than 40Oslides, and tapes

- was made availableDec. 29, 1986 to pro-animal organizationswhich often speak for the outlawed ALF.

Other photographs - many too grue-

some to show the public - come from

an instructional slide presentation usedby Oregon. Still under investigation, thesephotos could be even more damaging be-cause Oregon insists many were taken atother universities located throughout theU.S. However, they refuse to say which re-search labs are responsible.

Those photos indicate "serious de-ficiencies ... (and) inhumane treatment ofanimals and the causing of suffering bar-red by the Animal Welfare Act and the Na-tional Institutes of Health," according toDr. Gary Francione, University of Pennsyl-vania law professor and American Bar As-sociation vice chairperson for animal pro-tection.

The ALF raid has stunned the univer-sity, which later admitted most experi-ments have been halted for severalmonths and that some ended forever tre-cause of the damage sustained during theattack.

In a statement released by the ALF, theOregon raid was described as "first andforemost, a mission of mercy; a nonvio-lent direct action caried out solely onbehalf of the animals which were rescued... it was also our intention to de-monstrate our unwillingness to acceptthe status quo of animal use and exploi-tation."

The ALF admitted ir caused physicaldamage to the facilities, noting that "Wehave neveq nor will we ever, knowinglyharm any living being(s), human ornonhuman. (but) To act in a manner con-sistent with our policy of peaceful andnon-violent resistance, we must destroythe instruments of death and destruc-tion."

Among the equipment desrroyed bythe ALF was a $10.O00 microscope, anelectrocardiogram machine, an incubator,a sterilizer, sterotaxic devices and otherlaboratory machinery

The ALF said 264 animals - nor includ-ing six kittens born later to one of thecats - were liberated in the raid, includ-ing rats, rabbits, hamsters, pigeons, cats

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Tom Regan talks about civil disobedienceContinued from page 9when they broke in, that what they weregoing to reveal was going to be so pow-erful in terms of turning public opinionthat the public is going to sympathizewith them. \When thel. come forward andsay, "We're the ones q.ho did this," nowit's really civil disobedience. They'vecome back and are saying, "Punish us."Here's this devastingly horrible stuff thatthe system denys, covers up, and herethey are, risking arrest, trial and imprison-ment, but that's the price I think thosekind of activists have to face.

If they're really going to perform the

most important function for the move-ment, that is, to continue to sustain thestory that's why it's right srrategy. As itis now; there's a break in, some stuffcomes out, it gets dispersed, it gets for-gotten. Now what sustains the story?What sustains the story is someone is get-ting punished. The story stays alive. Ir'sright strategy. And what it says to the pub-lic is, 'You cannot trust the government.You cannot trust the researchers. Here weare, up against the system. What the re-search establishment is doing to animalsis so wrong, we're willing to go to jailover it." And the public will be more sym-pathetic. (Iaughing) But I don't know any-body else who believes this.

Any advice fot lrpril 24tliYes. Because of the media's interest, we

have to be mindful of why we are thereand what we hope to accomplish. We'lIbe watched as much as we'll tle listenedto. Perhaps moreso. The last thing animalsneed is another person to ignore what'sin their best interest. We must be abso-lutely certain we do not provide one.

Shall we be peaceful, civil, non-violent?Yes. That is the order of the day. But obe-dient? Not on this occasion. The spirit ofAprll 24th demands that we go that onestep further in our activism. \Y'e must beready to violate the laq risk arrest, go tolail - not alone. Together. Throughoutthe entire nation. For the animals. On thatday we join hands across America and dis-rupt the daily business of vivisection.

Be there.

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