While many of you have already heard, a 30 year old captive male orca, named Tillikum, grabbed and drowned his trainer, 40 year old Dawn Brancheau on Wednesday morning, February 24, 2010, at Sea World in Orlando. She had been standing in knee-deep water with the 12,000 pound, 23 foot long orca, right after a [...]
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Japan has a new Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety, Ms. Mizuho Fukushima. At a press conference held in Tokyo, Ms. Fukushima agreed to investigate the mercury issue. This gives us hope that the Japanese public will finally be told the truth about the poisonous dolphin meat, and that the meat will [...]
Activists say Miami Seaquarium killer whale Lolita should go free
This is the video from the walk.
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Activists say Miami Seaquarium should free Lolita
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Killer whale at park since 1970 capture
By Susannah Bryan
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
August 8 2009, 7:57 PM EDT
KEY BISCAYNE – It’s a long way from Puget Sound.
But that is where Lolita the killer whale belongs, [...]
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Carole May from is the Puget Sound Marine Life Examiner and is doing a series on Lolita for examiner.com. You can read what she has to say at: http://www.examiner.com/x-15967-Puget-Sound-Marine-Life-Examiner~y2009m7d9-An-Orca-named-Lolita and continue to read her other pieces on Lolita by following the links below the story. Let her know that you appreciate her bringing attention to Lolita’s [...]
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The premier of “The Cove” will happen in cities around the United States on Friday August 7th. “The Cove” is an eye opening documentary about former “Flipper” trainer Ric O’Barry turned activist exposing the dolphin drive fisheries/slaughters that happen in Taiji, Japan every year. It shows how over 23,000 dolphins are killed from these barbaric [...]
http://www.examiner.com/x-8319-Boca-Raton-Animal-Rights-Examiner~y2009m7d15-Chlorinated-cruelty-performing-prisoners-in-Floridas-marine-parks–aquariums?#comments
By: Keith Berger
“There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement” – Jacques Cousteau
You may have remember a recent story here about an ongoing injustice in South Florida:
“The Miami Seaquarium keeps a prisoner in a watery cell [...]
The Legacy of Flipper
Ric O’Barry trained TV’s most famous dolphin. In a new film, he atones for that sin
The idea that “each man kills the thing he loves” has been interpreted by many—from Oscar Wilde to Paulo Coelho—but it’s always had a particular resonance in the environmental movement, where every hiking trail and ecofriendly resort [...]
From Niki:
A vegan shirt salesman, Marc Bennett, contacted me about a week ago asking to sell the Lolita shirts on his site. He gives 5$ of every purchase to a charity of our choice – I picked Orca Network, since they’re helping us so much with the Lolita campaign. I drew the design on my [...]
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http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8319-Boca-Raton-Animal-Rights-Examiner~y2009m5d29-Lolita-Miamis-performing-prisoner-for-39-years-and-counting
A great friend, who often comes to demos wrote this piece on Lolita:
Lolita: Miami’s performing prisoner for 39 years and counting
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. – Mahatma Gandhi
A Sad Situation
The Miami Seaquarium has kept a prisoner in a watery cell for [...]
demo event for Lolita this Saturday from 12-2PM.
LET’S HIT THE SQ HARD EVERYONE!
This is going to be a very important one and we need MORE people! I know everyone is busy but I am personally postponing my trip to Pittsburgh (for a family emergency) to host this demo, because no one can take over for [...]