Spring Hunt is coming!

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The gray whale, passing northward through our Pacific waters now, will soon

be in peril from Makah hunters off the coast of Washington state. A legal

appeal has been heard in federal court; we await the decision. Our

Congressional representatives remain silent on this issue, as do the large

national environmental AND animal rights groups (with the exception of HSUS,

who provided an amicus - friend of the court - pleading in the litigation).

Therefore, people will be out on the water, interfering with the hunt. Your

help is desperately needed. See below:

 

Dian

 

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Ocean Defense Int'l <oceandefense2000

<YabisActivists

Saturday, March 11, 2000 2:10 AM

Re: Info for Donations

 

 

> YabisActivists - http://www.stopwhalekill.org

>

> Here is a list of needs for the spring campaign for Ocean Defense

> International. I apologize in advance since most of this is being

repeated.

> Feel free to forward far and wide.

>

> Tax-deductible financial donations for fuel, lodging, repairs, and other

> campaign expenses. - Without funds to run the campaign, its simply

shutdown.

>

> Personal water craft (waverunners, sit-down jetskis, small zodiacs

etc...) -

> During the first hunt of its kind, the hunters were held at bay by

activists

> for 5 days, returning empty handed. It wasn't until the Coast Guard

rounded

> up boats that the Makah suceeded. The more boats, the harder it will be

for

> the Coast Guard and the Makah. To achieve a victory, we must show

physical

> resistance.

>

> Vegan food - a good diet equals lots of energy!

>

> Dry suits, wet suits, other wet water gear - The waters off of the Olympic

> Peninsula aren't always a pretty place...

>

> Hand-held VHF radios - the importance of communicating on private channels

> is important. After it was discovered the Coast Guard was using equipment

> to listen in to activists discussions and using it to aid in the killing

of

> a whale, the need for privacy becomes crucial.

>

> various boating/campaign equipment - we are continually equiping our

vessels

> and campaigns to make them the safest and most effective tools we have.

>

> Ocean Defense Int'l

> PO Box 45275

> Seattle, WA 98145, USA

> (206) 376-8619

> oceandefense2000

>

>

> Ocean Defense International was formed to combat the destruction of the

> oceans and its inhabitants. We embrace the principles of non-violent

direct

> action and veganism. Through education and action we intend to stress the

> importance of a life free of exploitation for all animals.

>

> Ocean Defense Int'l members have spent the last 6 years defending the

> animals of the seas, and the last 15 defending those on land. After

spending

> years striving to protect animals exploited by the fur, laboratory, food,

> and entertainment industries, the need to save those living in the oceans

> became a necessity. After securing a small vessel, we took to the seas

> successfully interrupting a shark hunt, and shutting down low frequency

> sonar blasting that would have resulted in the death of countless sea

> creatures. In 1998 the Makah Nation took to the water to return whaling to

> the continental United States. Ocean Defense Int'l members, working under

> the name Sea Defense Alliance, met them head on. After spending a total of

5

> months on the waters off of the Olympic Peninsula in WA, monitoring the

> situation, patrolling the waters, and dealing with false alerts of

whaling,

> they found themselves head to head with whalers. On May 10th, 1999 ODI

crew,

> Jake Conroy and Josh Harper, were finally detained and arrested after

> spending hours thwarting the Makah's effort of harpooning and shooting a

> gray whale. For the next 5 days, ODI member Jonathan Paul, at the helm of

> the 42 ft Bulletproof, and with the help of other environmental

> organizations and activists, kept the Makah whalers from their killing.

> After the Coast Guard made a sweep of all activists, seizing their

vessels,

> the Makah whalers successfully slaughtered a 3-year-old juvenile female

gray

> whale on May 17th, 1999.

>

> Unfortunately, the battle is far from over. The Makah Nation has vowed to

> send more families and whalers to bloody the waters off the coast of

> Washington State. In the spring of 2000, they will find themselves facing

> off with Ocean Defense International. But we can not do this without your

> help! We have successfully stopped the killing in the past, and we are

> determined to return to stop it once again. We cannot succeed without the

> support of the outraged public.

>

>

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