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President Laura Chinchilla: Help! Costa Rican activists attacked

Last night, another Costa Rican ocean activist was attacked. The details of the attack (and three previous criminal attacks), cannot be published at this time. We are weak. We are losing. We need help. We don’t have enough power to handle the blowback. They might end up in jail. This is the two edged sword of exposure. This person is my friend. It makes me angry. It motivates me to call for more people to get involved.

The group brought together in CR after the Incopesca post, started comparing stories. It looks like they have each been physically assaulted or had property destroyed or their life threatened or all of the above at some recent time. These are regular people under extraordinary stress. They stood up for wildlife or against extradition. It is almost too dangerous for them to work in Costa Rica at this time. They need people in CR who can support them and grow. They need help from people outside of Costa Rica to spread awareness.

If you have any feelings toward the illegal whaling industry, dolphin killers, shark finners, or those that plunder the oceans in other ways, be very aware: violence has started against one of the key people saving our oceans in Costa Rica. Most of us sit safely at our computers, going to work, going to Starbucks, wondering what to do. Very few of us can influence what happens in Costa Rica or with their extradition request to Germany for Paul Watson.

If you do have friends in CR, we need their help. If you have special skills or connections, please use them. I can send you where you can help. I can be easily contacted through the Facebook group: The Taiji Dolphin Action Group.

I know there are a few people holding back, those with special connections or input…I heard about one in our circle who knew a retired pro-baseball player living in CR. If contacting your friends like this speaks to your heart, please do it. Paul needs as much help as he can get.

Another way is to simply call Sea Shepherd and donate to their budding Costa Rica Campaign. I am not a Sea Shepherd member, I just know that they are on the front line on this. It is their ass on the line. This current request by President Laura Chinchilla for extradition could mean Paul locked up in one of her jails, where prisoners are reportedly beaten to death and trial conditions are not far from being a Banana Republic (Please read this Costa Rica-US Dept. of State Document start from page 2).

If you have a contact, please start talking with him or her so that we can be prepared when and if Paul does actually get extradited. At this point I would be surprised if Paul Watson did not stand trial in Costa Rica.

Hold on tight. The next two and a half months, till the extradition is concluded in some way, are sure to be wild.

We will not sit back.

We go to war to fight to save even one.

We have to fight.

Fight together!

For the Oceans and for us!

Posted by Steven Thompson at 10:37 PM

Reblogged via Taiji Dolphin Action Group: President Laura Chinchilla: Help! Costa Rican activists attacked.

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Conservationist arrested in Germany on charges from Costa Rica / Polls / Costa Rica Newspaper, The Tico Times →

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Conservationist groups around the world maintain hope that Costa Rica will drop the charges against Paul Watson, detained in Germany for a 2002 high-seas confrontation involving shark finning.

The Tico Times wants to know:

Do you think Costa Rican authorities should drop the charges against Paul Watson?

VOTE NOW!

— 12 months ago

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Call to Action! Sea Shepherd Supporters!

via Lucy Robinson:

Just in from HQ. They are now asking to start sending email to:

Minister of Foreign Affair Dr. Guido Westerwelle

tel 030/22771636

fax 030/22776562

email: guido.westerwelle@bundestag.de

Remind him that the Taiwanese Shark Fin Mafia has had a $20,000 bounty on Pauls head for years and we don’t think he will survive in Costa Rica long enough to see the inside of a court room.

(Source: facebook.com)

— 1 year ago

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The Barbi Twins: Ten Commandments, King Kong and Paul Watson

Shane and Sia, the Barbi Twins, have always been involved with animals but as they became more aware of the cruelties that were happening to animals they determined to dedicate their lives to the safety of all animals. They became very active in local spay and neuter and Trap, Neuter and Return (TNR) programs, in protests against animal cruelty, vivisection, zoos, puppy mills, circuses and eventually made hands on efforts to rescue animals left behind during natural disasters. They were involved with helping lobby for animal bills, such as the horse slaughter bill, the pet food safety bill and the cat declaw ban. They are involved with volunteering at shelters and help with adoptions - Adopt Don’t Shop!

They collected friends and colleagues to help in their endeavors and decided to give their animal rights movement a name, Twin Bunnies. The twins are involved in every aspect of both animals rights and animal rescue.

~ Barbi Twins Bio at TwinBunnies.com

Barbi Twins Interview

I was honored to have this opportunity. Sia and Shane are forever doing what they can for the voiceless. Whey they are not out raising awareness for precious animals, they are on the web spreading the word for our fellow Earthlings. If you ever have a chance to see or hear them speak, I highly recommend that you do so. These written words cannot come close to conveying the compassion that is evident in their voices.

Holise:When did you decide to make activism your priority in life?

Barbi Twins: We were born as weirdos. As early as watching The Ten Commandments, we were children and we remember being so bothered by the horses being slaves. We thought, “How can this be a spiritual movie when they are slaves?” Then when the Red Sea opened up and fell on them, we were looking for them to rise up and for God to protect them because they didn’t do anything wrong. And we didn’t see that so we wrote a letter to God saying how upset we were with Him that he was so mean to animals.

We always felt alone in our feelings and we started seeing that we were a little odd because people would always say, “They’re only animals.” We went to the extent of stealing animals from school that we felt needed to be free. We had this thing where we were, kind of, small ALFers. We let them free and we would take them to the park, thinking that was the best thing to do.

As a child we knew what jail was. We think all kids know what jail is and that we punish kids by making them go to a corner and that as an adult you go to jail. We didn’t understand the concept of a cage for an animal, whether it was a zoo or a cage at school. We thought freedom was what an animal should have and not to be a slave for humans. We couldn’t understand that if we got rid of slavery for people, why weren’t we transferring that to animals? We didn’t understand why we [humans] were so arrogant!

When people would watch a circus they thought it was cute, but it’s not cute seeing wild animals do tricks —- like the elephants. It just didn’t look cute to us when they were doing unnatural things. It looked like they were being punished with a whip to do very abnormal stunts. It just didn’t look right and they were in an environment that they weren’t meant to be.

The movie we most related to, though differently than other people, was King Kong. We just thought, “Can’t people see the message here?” We are so selfish that we take an animal, for entertainment and profit, out of it’s environment and place it in an unnatural environment for exploitation and money. Then when it gets upset because it is scared, we shoot the poor thing! We kill it and we think that’s alright even though it’s reacting because it’s frightened. It got to us that people saw that as a monster movie and no one saw the message and thought that maybe we should just leave animals alone, so we always called that “The King Kong Syndrome.”

Holise: How long have you been vegan?

Barbi Twins: We grew up with hippies. It was very easy, when growing up on a ranch and naming your animals, to be a vegetarian. We didn’t become vegan until we met Chris Derose, who heads Last Chance for Animals, in 1989. He was wonderful! He would show us these awful undercover videos, ie. UCLA and at hospitals. We were already fanatical but we didn’t know that was hidden from the public.

In our first book, we shared how we had an eating disorder and how doctors were trying to brainwash us about how we don’t have enough protein, don’t have enough iron and we were anemic. We found that the more greens we had and the more raw foods we had, (that’s why our second book went into raw veganism), that can fix all health problems. We went from vegetarian to vegan to raw vegan. Our second book, “The Eco Anti-Diet,” is about gradually incorporating a raw vegan lifestyle that anyone can do.

Holise: You have been fighting for animal rights. In the process, you constantly see these horrific videos and images. You see some really graphic stuff! I’ll admit that I try not to even look at some of that because it’s so disturbing. How do you deal with it?

Barbi Twins: We used to think, “What kind of person can actually deal with this?” Ken, for example, can’t bring himself to see these things. We questioned ourselves too, on that, of how much is normal. But you know what is really funny? We got to say the reason why —- and we can’t always do it —- we watch it because we feel that the animal has suffered and the more that we feel, the more we feel obligated to contribute [to do something.] We don’t want to choose to be in denial; we want to choose to see the crime totally in its fullest! But because we keep seeing this stuff, we almost feel like we take on the pain of the animals.

The things that got us the most, that was so damaging, was the crush videos with the kittens, the bait videos (with dogs and cats) and the horses being gored to death in Spanish bullfights, where they were galloping away with intestines hanging out—-dying slowly while running for their lives. Those three things were the most damaging and it almost feels like there’s no coming back and we don’t recommend it. But at the same time, we think people that are continuing to choose to contribute to their suffering should see it.

We believe that we definitely, definitely need a movement of compassion! With some people, its like changing their religion. So we can only do this with the youth, trying to establish a culture through the youth with a movement of compassion through humane education.

Holise: What do you think about Sea Shepherd?

Barbi Twins: We gotta say, one of the few organizations that really walk the walk is Sea Shepherd. We can’t really name any other organization that does it all. They are proactive a hundred percent in every which way. That’s why we call Sea Shepherd the Godfather of all animal organizations. You can’t have conservation without animal activism and vice versa. And we laugh at these people called “conservationists,” that have no respect or regard for animals. They actually believe in killing for maintenance and the balancing of nature.

How can you balance out nature when we’re at the top of the food chain and we are unbalancing nature? It’s stupid to say, “Oh, it’s okay to kill more seals because they eat too much salmon.” What! For us? So we can be gluttons and over-breed? We are taking the resources from these animals and endangering them. We are ruining that balance of nature.

Holise: You met Captain Watson. What did you think of him?

Barbi Twins: Captain Watson! You know what’s funny? Just like big movie stars, it’s always the biggest icons that are the most humble, gracious people that we’ve ever met. I can’t even believe that someone of his stature complimented our Eco Anti-Diet book!! The guy is a hero and an icon and he’s not short of complimenting others. Bottom line, he is the most famous Captain that loves and protects our planet and her creatures!

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