$eal $laughter Bleed$ Million$ In Taxe$

As the final days work up to do your taxes in Canada PETA also geared up for their nationwide protest. PETA has been doing a very lengthy campaign against the Canadian goverment regarding the Seal Slaughter. It started long before the Vancouver Olympics and is constantly evolving to match whatever is top news with Canada itself. One Canadian PETA representive Emily Lavender has been based in Ottawa for a couple of years now with one focus - exposing the Seal Slaughter and either following Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada.

I was able to be apart of the Toronto PETA event organized by Kate Steen. Like I said this is combined with cities all across Canada at the Canadian Revenue buidlng. This event itself was very powerful! Four people laying on the ground over money with fake blood on it and wearing seal masks. Plenty of cameras snappng and shooting video while many were holding sign's stating "$eal $laughter Bleed$ Million$ In Taxe$".

I believe the best part was the coninuous by-passing of young grade school children who were able to view all the signs and props of the people laying on the ground with blood money. One young student yelled out "They're Protesting!" 

As I arrived I was very happy to see Sheryl Fink from IFAW - International Fund for Animal Welfare in attendance. Sheryl just returned from the ice flows of eastern Canada and sadly had to witness more seals being clubbed to death. She told me they have some brand new inhumane actions where Seals were defending themselves and the fishermen would hook the seal in the face alive and drag them to the boat. There are laws against this however when a government puts up laws restricting the average person from witnessing these "HUMANE" events some scenes of cruelty get missed.

So from PETA to IFAW this days event in Toronto was very strong and powerful for the seals!

Ric O'Barry Speaks To Hundreds Of Students In Canada

On April 13th - 2011

This is the third blog for this one day since there was so much positive energy from this event. Christ the King of Georgetown - Ontario - Canada watched the movie The Cove and that set their path! This blog has Ric O Barry speaking to hundreds of students from this Canadian high school and through a satellite viewing students from Mast Academy of Miami - FL - USA. After Ric speaks to everyone a Canadian Author Leah Lemieux that I had met back in January in Taiji - Japan spoke about how these Canadian students can be a voice to the animals of Canada. We are also looking to build a strong support for a Massive Gathering at Marineland this July where Ric O Barry will join us to create a Buzz to shut it down and stop supporting Captivity!!

We want to shutdown MARINELAND and consistency is the key! So please join us on this group https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_140082349397445 in Facebook to build support for ACTION! No Animal should be in Captivity! In July Ric will be here to support too!

Part one of Ric Speaking!

Part Two of Ric's Speech

Leah Lemieux speaks about action in Canada and Marineland!

Artist for the Ocean
http://www.bobtimmons.org%20/

A Canadian High School With Open Eyes To Captivity

On April 13th there was so much to see and absorb! The high school of Christ the King of Georgetown - Canada created this wonderful morning that my daughter and I had the previlege to be apart of amongst the energy. A few students watched the movie `The Cove`and decided they wanted to do something to help. They teamed up with a teacher and a year and a half later this event was created and Ric was honoured to come and be apart of it. It was from 9am to about noon and was non-stop energy being emitted by dozens of students to a handful of icons in the public locally and internationally! Below are a few videos that show a glimpse of the mornings events. The next blog will show the speech from Ric O`barry in more detail.

Ric O'Barry was a special guest to a school just northewest of Toronto called Christ the King in Georgetown - Ontario - Canada. This video shows an overall view of how amazing this morning event was and the energy it created. There was about 100 students listening to the words of Ric, a politician named Michael  Chong, a Canadian Author of Rekindling the Water - Leah Lemieux, a native indian and her song about water, and many student bands and public service announcements! It was an amazing moment for us all when specific words were shared.

 

Michael Chong was the only politician that accepted the invite to the event regarding the slaughtering of dolphins. He put out a great inspiring message to the 700 students to get involved in voting when they are of age and push the message they want. Government does what the people want so get involved in any party you choose! It was a great unbias message about taking care of the environment and especially the fresh water of the great lakes which is 1/5th of the planet's fresh water!

Ric O'Barry directs an answer from a student of Mast Academy of Miami - FL that was "What Can We Do?" Ric was excited that his home town of Miami asked this question and Ric informed them that they can help "RETIRE LOLITA" and stop supporting "CAPTIVITY".

Artist for the Ocean

http://www.bobtimmons.org%20/

Ric O'Barry Says Stop The Seal Hunt

On April 13th - 2011

On this day Ric O'Barry was in Canada just northwest of Toronto in a small town called Georgetown at Christ the King high school. It was here amongst his talk that he told the children that raised money for the organization he works for to "keep your money and direct it towards shutting down the seal hunt that just started a few days ago in Canada". I felt this was one of the many great things I heard from Ric's Speech. Please watch the video of this great moment!

I will have another blog shortly with more details on the whole mornings events at the high school with many speakers from Ric O'barry, Michael Chong a local Politician, Leah Lemieux an author and activist for dolphins and other cetaceans.

Artist for the Ocean

http://www.bobtimmons.org/

World Week for Animals In Laboratories - WWAIL

World Week for Animals In Laboratories

WWAIL 2011, Toronto

Every year some amazing people come together worldwide to bring awareness to the amount of animals subjected to horrific testing on consumer products mainly. In Toronto alone we are aware of the University of Toronto testing on animals - mainly rats - and a few hospitals that use beagles for their tests. This is the week to do your research! This is the week to attend an information night! This is the week you expand your mind to all animals since they are all sentient beings and need your support to stop the abuse in all manners.

Below I have the itinerary for the Toronto information events going on all week! Also I have found an amazing event in L.A for April 25th with Steve Best and hundreds of Bikers! Check it out!



Mon. April 18 to Sat. 23, 2011

* 2 films, 2 talks, 1 protest *
...
Goals: to help put an end to the ongoing use of animals in laboratories,
through education (scientific, legal and ethical), and through peaceful
protest; to argue for humane alternatives; to advocate and speak for the
millions of nonhuman animals imprisoned, tortured and killed in frivolous,
repetitive, cruel and unnecessary experiments every year; to call for
compassion and respect for our fellow Earthlings.

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Monday, April 18
Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St., room 1170 - 7pm

Film showing: "Earthlings" (on the topic of animal rights), followed by
guest speakers and discussion.

Trailer: http://www.earthlings.com/

Followed by guest speaker: Anya Yushenko, on the successful campaign against
euthanization of dogs at University of Guelph. See
http://www.lawyersforanimalwelfare.com/victories/view/1

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Tuesday, April 19
Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St., room 1170 - 7pm

Film showing: "Behind the Mask" (on the topic of animal research and
activist resistance to it), followed by guest speakers and discussion.

Trailer: http://www.uncagedfilms.com/trailer.php

Followed by guest speaker: Nick Wright of Lawyers for Animal Welfare, on the
topic of animals and the law, and the legal right of students to opt out of
using animals in research and education. See http://www.lawyersforanima
lwelfare.com/about/

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Wednesday, April 20

OISE, 252 Bloor St. W. room 5170 - 7pm

Organizing a fun and vibrant campaign against research on animals, with
Brian Vincent of STOP UBC.

STOP UBC's website: http://stopubcanimalresearch.org/

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Thursday, April 21

OISE, 252 Bloor St. W., room 2279 - 7pm

The ethical argument against the use of animals in research and education,
with Dr. David Sztybel.

Dr. Sztybel's website: http://sztybel.tripod.com/popular_menu.html

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Saturday April 23

Dundas & Yonge - 7:30 p.m.

Peaceful protest against animal research with various members of the animal
rights movement in Toronto.

See photos of last year's protest:
https://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=100000433249325&aid=15011

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All events are free.

If you would like to volunteer for WWAIL 2011 Toronto please contact <
paulyork.2010@gmail.com> Tel: 647-342-7995.

Please send this notice to others. Thank you!

For more info. on WWAIL: http://www.wwail.org/

For more info. on research on animals at University of Toronto see
http://www.cruelandunnecessary.com/
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On Monday, April 25, 2011, Dr. Steven Best will roll into in Los

Angeles by a massive motorcycle brigade accompanied by a squadron of 300

straight-edge total liberationist Hells Angels pissed off at animal

abuse and declaring war against vivisection. They will roar onto the

UCLA campus where Dr. Best will address demonstrators (with 3,000

confirmed so far) assembling to protest the infamous sadistic

experiments to which the likes of Jentsch, Ringach, and their

psychopathic colleagues subject animals everyday in the medieval

dungeons of the *modern* university

NEGOTIATION IS OVER * April 25 * NIO to Invade UCLA 

http://www.facebook.com/l/db624XUTXhhi5JMIDmZ9gKJQUtw/negotiationisover.comTo 

-- 

Bob Timmons

Artist For The Ocean

http://www.bobtimmons.org 

Toronto Regional Coordinator for Sea Shepherd

http://www.facebook.com/SSCSToronto 

Ocean Activists United Founder

http://www.facebook.com/oceanactivistsunited 

Store:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/MarineArtist 

Youtube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/stalyun2006 

TWITTER:

http://twitter.com/activistartist 

Facebook Page:

http://www.facebook.com/aartistfortheocean

Ric O'Barry Interview in Japan 2011

It was earlier this year that I was in Taiji - Japan where I met Ric O'Barry for the first time. Ric is a former dolphin trainer switched to an activists to save any dolphin in trouble! He has been doing this type of direct action for over 35 years and is well known in the captivity world of cetaceans. The rest of the world found out who he was when the movie The Cove came out and won many awards including an Oscar.

In Japan, I was honoured not only to meet Ric but to get some of his amazing words on camera to share with everyone. The following videos would have been out months ago but due to my own busy life I was not able to edit it. So here they are and share as much as you like! Lets shut down Animal Captivity forever & together!!!

Mass Gathering Against Captivity

Captivity is one word that can stretch across the globe and so many people can have comments about. The comments can be of a human relation to an animal relation. They are all true! Captivity is holding a being against their will, removing the freedom they were born with and allowing them to have a slow painful suffering death. Captivity comes in many flavours depending on which part of the world you are in with jails, prisons, zoos, marineland/seaworld parks, swim with dolphins, roadside zoos/circuses, traveling circuses, and aquariums of any size. All of these flavours house beings against their will.

Now you may already be thinking that jails and prisons are not captivity and are much needed. Yes, I agree and yes they are a form of captivity and they are held against their will but the difference from these to the ones holding animals is that they were convicted of a violent crime. The animals in captivity have not been convicted of a crime yet they are removed from their "Natural" habitat and confined into a space that destroys them mentally and physically.

In Miami, about 40 people came to push the message about captivity in front of a marine prison called the Seaquarium. This property houses about 154 marine animals including one very lonely orca named Lolita. There are also many other animals here against their will like different species of birds and even alligators. Now I came from Canada and people have excuses like "We don't live near an ocean" or "May never get the chance to see them in the wild". Here I am in Florida - surrounded by the ocean - and people are going into this marine park to watch dolphins, the lonely orca, and seals, etc.. I have an issue with this when the Ocean that does surround the Seaquarium has resident dolphins that you can easily locate! I have been to 4 different areas of Florida in the past 2 months and seen dolphins at every spot from both coastlines - Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.

We had two - Yes Two - X- Marine Animal Trainers at the protest in Miami that came out to support the message that "Captivity Kills"! The Seattle protest had about Six Cove Guardians in attendance supporting these words with a 10 year old boy named Trevor who is founder of "LLL - Let Lolita Live".

Ric O'barry of SaveJapanDolphins.org was right at the front entrance of the Seaquarium when I arrived. Ric has been going around the world saving dolphins ever since he had worked at the Miami Seaquarium over 35 years ago. I have known Ric for over a year now but only just met him a few short months ago in person in Taiji Japan. Ric was there to meet some Japanese folks to discuss the matter of the slaughtering of dolphins and the exporting of certain dolphins for marine parks around the world. I interviewed Ric in Japan and one thing he said was we don't need to save the dolphins - we need to Protect the Dolphins. The video I took of my interview with Ric will be on the next blog.

Russ Rector was the other trainer now runs MiamiSeaPrison.com. Russ worked at the Fort Lauderdale's Ocean World and now is the founder and president of  the Dolphin Freedom Foundation. Russ has done plenty for dolphins and other marine animals since he left Ocean World. One thing Russ does stress about shutting down parks like this is to get them on infractions from the inside. Russ had the Miami Seaquarium shutdown due to safety infractions which you can read here Seaquarium .

There were other cities around the world that took part in this day of April 3rd - 2011 to stress unity in the message against Captivity. A few of these locations were Melbourne - AUS, Toronto - CAN, Seattle - USA, San Diego - USA, and San Francisco - USA to state a few. This is a message that needs to be taught in our schools of all ages. The time is now! The radical changed needs to start where we do not think this is right anymore but seriously WRONG! All animals confined in any manner for any reason needs to end! I even consider farm animals as a confinement when they are horrifically used as if they are a car on an assembly line.

CAPTIVITY KILLS. PERIOD.