Stand By Animals
Animal Rights Conference + Demos Against Huntingdon Life Sciences & Namibia Seal Hunt
Washington DC » National Animal Rights Conference. Nearly 1,100 people attemd AR2013 at Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, by Washington DC, June 27 - 30. People travel from 44 states, 15 other countries…to learn, network, and fight for animal liberation. Kinship Circle Disaster Field Response Manager Cheri Deatsch works with KC volunteers Dan Robinson, Meg York, Jocelyn York and Grady Ballard at our display booth. They distribute animal education and advocacy literature, also available on our website, free for all to download! Also hanging out at Kinship Circle's booth, director Brenda Shoss’ canine kids: Etelah, Liberty, Mabel and Mandy.
Kinship Circle » Is An AR Conference Sponsor. The group's director, Brenda Shoss, creates this half page animal rights ad for the AR Conference program booklet. Kinship Circle Board Member Nora Constance Marino, attorney and activist, is among hundreds of speakers at AR2013. Brenda Shoss presents about Kinship Circle Disaster Animal Response team, plus recent aid for Oklahoma tornado animal victims, Cheri Deatsch, Kinship Circle Field Response Manager on the ground, contributes to this presentation. Brenda also speaks on panels about animal experimentation and direct action.
6/28/13, Lessons From Companion Campaigns
6/28/13, Lessons From Vivisection Campaigns
6/29/13, Applying Direct Action
Kinship Circle » Is An AR Conference Sponsor. The group's director, Brenda Shoss, creates this half page animal rights ad for the AR Conference program booklet. Kinship Circle Board Member Nora Constance Marino, attorney and activist, is among hundreds of speakers at AR2013. Brenda Shoss presents about Kinship Circle Disaster Animal Response team, plus recent aid for Oklahoma tornado animal victims, Cheri Deatsch, Kinship Circle Field Response Manager on the ground, contributes to this presentation. Brenda also speaks on panels about animal experimentation and direct action.
6/28/13, Lessons From Companion Campaigns
- Will Gomaa, Alley Cat Allies
- Scotlund Haisley, Animal Rescue Corps
- Doll Stanley, In Defense Of Animals
- Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle
6/28/13, Lessons From Vivisection Campaigns
- Anthony Bellotti, White Coat Waste
- Michael Budkie, Stop Animal Exploitation Now
- Sharon Strong, International Primate Protection League
- Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle / MOVIE: The Multi-Billion Dollar Lie ~ Animal Experimentation
6/29/13, Applying Direct Action
- Susan Hartland, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
- Andy Stepanian, Sparrow Media Project; Former SHAC-7 Prisoner
- Peter Young, Animal Liberation Frontline
- Brenda Shoss, Kinship Circle / MOVIE: The Campaign That Changed Everything ~ SHAC USA
- Who Is Huntingdon Life Sciences?
- 1999: SHAC-UK begins global effort to end Huntingdon Life Sciences
- 2001: SHAC-USA forms
- 5/26/04: 6 SHAC leaders (and SHAC-USA) are indicted by a New Jersey federal grand jury under the Animal Enterprise Protection Act, an obscure law to protect animal-use profits.
- In 2006, all SHAC-USA defendants are imprisoned.
Kevin Kjonaas: 72 months
Lauren Gazzola: 52 months
Jacob Conroy: 48 months
Andrew Stepanian: 36 months
Darius Fullmer: 12 months, 1 day
Joshua Harper: 36 months
Lauren Gazzola is a former SHAC-7 prisoner, wrongfully imprisoned under the unconstitutional Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. I hadn't seen or spoken to Lauren since she was jailed in 2006… Until AR2013. I cried, as I knew I would the first time I encountered Lauren, Kevin or Jake after release. Seeing Lauren back in her life is the best moment, for me, at this conference.
Brenda ShossKinship Circle Director
Huntingdon Life Sciences is among the world's largest animal testing labs, with sites in the U.K. and New Jersey, USA. HLS kills an average 500 animals each day. To test pesticides, fertilizers, household goods, additives, GMOs, chemicals… Animals vomit, stagger, hyper-salivate, seize and collapse. They're surgically mutilated and cry from the pain of clumsily jabbed needles. Dogs, monkeys, cats, rabbits, pigs, mice, goats and more animals are poisoned by: nasal-gastric tube, forced inhalation, injection. All are killed for tests HLS itself has called: “Only reliable 5-25% of the time.” Multiple investigations have exposed HLS for:
- Violation of the U.S. Animal Welfare Act
- Arrest of personnel on animal cruelty charges
- 600+ infringements of Good Laboratory Practice Laws in U.K.
- Payoffs to the U.S. Agriculture Department for fraudulent records, animal welfare violations…
1997 – Present: Leaked papers, staff testimonials, and undercover video show cruelty and inept science at HLS and its breeders. HLS has nearly closed, while straddled with a $100 million debt. But some financier always seems to bail them out. Currently, a $120 million US Bank loan sustains HLS. Though given proof of animal abuse and fraudulent records, US Bank backs this loan.
- Kinship Circle Joins National Protest Aginst Us Bank & HLS
What › Protest US Bank For Sustaining HLS With $120 Million Loan
Where › Washington DC, Executive Offices on Connecticut Ave
Original Action Alert › Target U.S. Bank: HLS Lender Lets Lab Keep Killing
Kinship Circle members march with activists from around the U.S., for a national protest against US Bank — currently the top debt relief source for Huntingdon Life Sciences. As a primary financial lender to HLS, U.S. Bank keeps the corrupt animal testing lab open for business. We leaflet with Kinship Circle's pamphlet, Huntingdon Life Sciences: Caught. You can download Caught and other fact-based literature about animal experimentation to pass out in your own city. Other activist seen in slideshow: Members of DC-based D.A.R.T.T., the group that organized the demo against U.S. Bank for bankrolling HLS with with a $120 million loan. Alex Graff, of Alliance For Medical Progress, an anti-vivisection group leading the campaign to end cat intubation drills for pediatric training at Washington University in St. Louis. Kinship Circle's Meg York and Jocelyn York, who document and photograph Kinship Circle events for website and social media. Michael Budkie, founder of Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN). And many more…
- Kinship Circle Protests Namibia Seal Slaughter
What › Protest World's Second Largest Seal Massacre
Where › Washington DC, Republic of Namibia Embassy
Related Action › Ask Namibia To End This Violent Seal Slaughter Now
Namibia Seal Slaughter Protest: While in Washington DC, Kinship Circle also joins activists from D.A.R.T.T., Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and others to protest the world's second largest (after Canada) seal slaughter. Nursing Cape fur seals are are clubbed so violently, mother's milk oozes from their mouths as they slowly die. Namibia is the sole nation to allow slaughter of nursing pups, who are yanked from mothers to fatally bludgeon and stab alongside one another. Panic sweeps through breeding colonies as seals brace for daily brutalization during the culls. Pregnant females are so traumatized, some self-abort. Scientists consider Namibia's hunt the cruelest on earth. Some 86,000 seals are killed for markets in Australia and Asia.
