Anthony Marr’s 36-states-in-6-months

7th Compassion for Animals Road Expedition CARE-7

A. ISSUES – any or all of the following:

1. Lecture on: “Homo Sapiens Save Your Earth” (Anthony Marr’s 2nd book, available at www.Amazon.com)

2. Lecture on: “M-Bomb – Doomsday Machine 2012″

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56979555

3. Forge the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)

Equal Representation For Non-hunters in Wisconsin (and eventually in each state)

Editor’s comment: Hunters and those who advance lethal wildlife management agendas represent a tiny minority of the population in the US, yet due to archaic laws, inane “traditions,” and powerful lobbying machines (like the NRA), they have a virtual stranglehold on determining the fate of our feral friends. And 99% of the time, their answer is kill, kill, kill. It’s time for animal lovers to have a voice in our government! Please sign this petition.

Simulposted with All Creatures.org

FROM Patricia Randolph at madravenbear@dishmail.net

Tell the State of Wisconsin it’s time to establish a Living Wildlife Biodiversity Congress paralleling the pro-hunting DNR (Department of Wildlife Resources).

If hunters have the right to kill, we the non-killing majority have an equal right to steward our commonwealth and protect and honor our wildlife.

Sign an online petition here

INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS

Wisconsin has 2.3 million wildlife watchers who generate ten times the state and local tax revenue of hunters and trappers, yet who have never had a say in how Wisconsin manages wildlife and nature. This taxation without representation has persisted for 75 years, with ZERO voice for the majority who do not hunt or trap our wildlife. Wisconsin has a Department of Natural Resources that is just a killing business, brokering wildlife destruction to a special interest hunting and trapping lobby, through their sole advisory group, the Wisconsin Conservation Congress (WCC). Hunters have delegates (360 statewide – 5 for each of the 72 counties); we who do not harm wildlife have none.

Recognizing the well documented crisis in biodiversity, habitat loss, human-caused species’ extinctions and climate change, we the undersigned silent sports citizens and living wildlife lovers, claim our equal rights and equal responsibilities by requiring the legislature to establish a GENERAL PUBLIC FUND and LIVING WILDLIFE BIODIVERSITY CONGRESS as a parallel organizational advisory structure. We will finally have fair representation when we can elect delegates, propose policy, and direct our taxes to projects that help our wildlife and ecosystems.

If hunters have the right to kill, we the non-killing majority have an equal right to steward our commonwealth, and protect and honor our wildlife.

We the undersigned citizens of Wisconsin petition the legislature to democratize our governance of nature. We ask the legislature to establish this alternate Biodiversity Congress and general public fund for stewarding our most valuable commonwealth, nature and wildlife (ending management funded exclusively by killing licenses which denies democracy).

Safe and transparent annual elections of delegates to represent us, under Wisconsin election law, will serve as a check and balance to the Department of Natural Resources, now solely advised by the WCC hunting/trapping lobby. They have co-opted power that should belong to all citizens.

We petition the congress and senate to address this injustice now, and work together with us, in the progressive tradition of Wisconsin to insure democratic representation, a living world for future generations, and policies generating respect for all life.

Thank you for everything you do for animals!

Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4 and go vegan. Do it for your health, for nonhuman animals and for the Earth!

To support or undertake animal rights and liberation activism in the Kansas City area, visit Bite Club of KC at http://biteclubkc.wordpress.com/ and email us at willpowerful@hotmail.com.

Pennsylvania’s Shame — Live Pigeon Shoots

Killing Contests: Cruel and Cowardly in Pennsylvania

Pigeon shoots are competitions wherein hundreds to thousands of live birds are shot at to win prizes. A typical 3-day shoot contest can kill and injure up to 15,000 birds.

The pigeons are captured and collected for weeks ahead of time, then released from trap boxes only yards away from the so-called “sportsmen”. The birds are generally dazed and suffering from dehydration or starvation as they are sprung out of the boxes.

Rather than mercifully being given a quick death, 70% of the birds are injured when shot and either left to suffer slow deaths or collected and killed by pigeon shoot “trapper boys” or “wringers”, traditionally children, who break their necks, step on them, tear off wings, suffocate them, or cut off their heads with garden shears, among other abuses.

Pigeon shoots are nothing more than a vile excuse for entertainment for the dull-witted or psychopathic. Illegal in other countries and in all but a couple of American states, most people realize the despicable nature of these bird-killing contests.

For more information, visit SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness)

Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4 and go vegan. Do it for your health, for nonhuman animals and for the Earth!

To support or undertake animal rights and liberation activism in the Kansas City area, visit Bite Club of KC at http://biteclubkc.wordpress.com/ and email us at willpowerful@hotmail.com.

Funeral motorcade for the 313 murdered deer at Shawnee Mission Park

Video by Nephesh Angel

12/13/09

Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4 and go vegan. Do it for your health, for nonhuman animals and for the Earth!

To support or undertake animal rights and liberation activism in the Kansas City area, visit Bite Club of KC at http://biteclubkc.wordpress.com/ and email us at willpowerful@hotmail.com.

Taking the Deer Wars into the Courtroom…..

“A two minute conversation with an all-too-common empathy-deficient dullard reveals how morally perverse it is that the prevailing paradigm enables (and even encourages) those who derive pleasure from torturing and murdering defenseless beings.”

Jason Miller and Bite Club of KC vs Michael Meadors and the Johnson County Parks and Recreation District

12/16/09

Journal Entry by Jason Miller

On 12/14/09, my activist allies and I took the deer war in Shawnee Mission Park (aka Death Park) into the courtroom. We filed a Temporary Restraining Order to stop Michael Meadors and the Johnson County Parks and Recreation Division from slaughtering an additional 80 deer with bows and arrows. As is the case with most grass roots animal rights activists and groups, we operate on a severely limited budget, so I filed this action pro se. Acting in that capacity, I could only represent the entity of Bite Club of KC and myself. However, I spoke for billions of wildlife lovers, animal rights activists and nonhuman animals as I sat in that courtroom.

Understand that just as we did throughout this crusade for the deer, when my allies and I entered the courthouse for the hearing on 12/14 we had monumental obstacles to overcome in order to stop the slaughter.

Six months of intense on-the-street activism (during which time I engaged thousands of people in an effort to persuade them that we needed to manage the deer herd via nonlethal means) gave me numerous daily reminders of the ugly reality that many people wear blinders to shield them from the abject cruelty of the war our species is waging on other animals (most of them expressed support for our cause once educated), some simply give an apathetic shrug of the shoulders, and, disturbingly, there are those who take sadistic delight in inflicting misery upon our animal brethren.

FUNERAL MOTORCADE FOR THE DEER

Bambi, immortal mascot of the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition

Project report by Anthony Marr

12/11/09

Urban deer massacre (“culling”), combined with unadulterated fun-killing (bow-hunting), is a national disgrace.

Through my last 6 Compassion for Animals Road Expeditions (CARE-1 – CARE-6, 2003-2008, each covering 25-42 states over 3-7 months), I have worked with activists in no less than 25 states whose by-and-large pro-culling and pro-hunting officials discharge their “deer management” duties by means of bullets and arrows.

The current hottest battle in the “Deer War” is at the Shawnee Mission Park, Kansas City, which local activists have dubbed “Death Park”. There were supposedly some 575 deer living in the 3.7 sq.mi. urban park. Local officials estimate the maximum deer population density to be 50 per sq.mi., which produces the maximum allowable total number of 185 in the park. Up to December 9, 313 deer had been culled by “Dr. Death” Anthony DeNicola. This yields a remaining population of about 260, about 75 higher than the limit of 185, and 75 is about what the Park Board has allocated to the bow-hunters, 15 of whom have been granted permits to do the dirty deed, with pleasure of course.

The purpose of my trip to Kansas City (from Vancouver BC Canada) is 3-fold:

1. To help local activists save these 75 deer if possible

2. To pave the road to non-lethal deer management at Shawnee Mission Park

3. To forge the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)

The means were three:

Direct Action, Liberation and the Need to Persist

Miller (left) poses with “Bambi,” one of the props that he and activists Anthony Marr (right)–the most hated anti-hunting activist in North America–and Anthony Damiano used in a campaign Miller spear-headed against a deer cull as they gathered in Kansas City to found the Global Ant-Hunting Coalition, of which all three are board members.

An interview with Jason Miller exploring radical dissent and animal liberation

11/3/09

By Frank Joseph Smecker

Jason Miller, Senior Editor and Founder of the radical blog, Thomas Paine’s Corner, is a tenacious forty-something vegan straight edge activist who lives in Kansas and who has a boundless passion for animal liberation and anti-capitalism. Addicted to reading and learning, he is mostly an autodidact, but he has also studied liberal arts and philosophy at the University of Missouri Kansas City.

An accomplished and prolific essayist on social and political issues, his writings have appeared on hundreds of alternative media websites over the last few years. He is also a press officer for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office and the founder of Bite Club of KC, a grassroots animal rights activist group.

Miller and Damiano….

Frank Joseph Smecker: You founded Thomas Paine’s Corner in March of 2005 as an act of commitment to “ending the unnecessary suffering of oppressed and exploited sentient beings and to the total liberation of human animals, nonhuman animals, and the Earth.” Can you explain, in further depth, the content managed on the site and its relationship to the direct action that is needed to halt the dominant culture’s destructive behavior?

Jason Miller: Thomas Paine’s Corner (TPC) exists as a platform from which our editors, writers, and I can educate, promote, persuade, convince, criticize, and help evoke profound social change. TPC also helps amplify the press releases of the North American Animal Liberation Press Office by simulposting many of them. These anonymous communiqués from underground activists demonstrate TPC’s support for the “direct action that is needed to halt the dominant culture’s destructive behavior,” as the NAALPO press releases deliver the communiqués in a format that both informs the world of the action and explains why the activists did what they did.

OH DEER!

12/11/09

The Death Park Massacre inspired some students to create a video for their class project. Here is their summary:

“Shawnee Mission Park 2009, the events that led up to the culling of over 75% of the park’s deer. Claymation style.”

Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4 and go vegan. Do it for your health, for nonhuman animals and for the Earth!

To support or undertake animal rights and liberation activism in the Kansas City area, visit Bite Club of KC at http://biteclubkc.wordpress.com/ and email us at willpowerful@hotmail.com.

A Civil Action Against Moral Barbarians….

Above: Preview of a potential winter scene from Death Park, formerly known as Shawnee Mission Park

Journal Entry by Jason Miller

12/7/09

Today Jason Miller and Bite Club of KC, acting pro se, filed a Temporary Restraining Order against Michael Meadors and the Johnson County Parks and Recreation District in the District Court of Johnson County to restrain “Defendants from carrying out a deer herd reduction in Shawnee Mission Park and adjacent park properties through the use of archers or by other lethal means.”

The Petition also stated, “Once presented with the facts, the Court will very likely grant a Permanent Injunction, prohibiting Michael Meadors and the Johnson County Parks and Recreation District from enabling the gratuitous slaughter of any additional deer in Shawnee Mission Park, or any public properties under their jurisdiction.”

OSU Stops Primate Torture: Panties Bunched Up by Baboons

Good job Madeline!

By Rick Bogle

12/2/09

Simulposted with Primate Freedom

You may have read about Oklahoma State University canceling planned anthrax experiments on baboons after Madeleine Pickens apparently threatened to cancel her and her husband’s $5 million donation to the university’s vet school. (Anthrax study rejected by OSU: Euthanasia of primates may be to blame for decision to cancel veterinary school project. NewsOK November 30, 2009.)

Please contact Madeleine Pickens and OSU President Burns Hargis and thank them for sparing our primate friends from torture and death:

http://www.madeleinepickens.com/contact/

osupres@okstate.edu

Good job Madeline and Burns! Pickens is better known for her work on behalf of wild horses.

Unsurprisingly, the vivisection community has been unnerved by this. Paul Browne, of ProTest, commented on The Scientist: