Fw: NEWS RELEASE: Animal Rights Group Opposes Threats Against Art System Employees

[Guest guest]

Hello,

 

Please find enclosed a Freedom for Animals news release stating our

opposition to threats being made against Art System employees. The threats

were widely reported in the media this week. (Following this email are all

the articles written about this and the Jessie Powers and Anthony Wennekers

cruelty to animals case.)

 

Hope you can make the Freedom for Animals meeting tomorrow, Monday July 23,

2001. It's from 7 - 9 p.m. at the 519 Church Street Community Centre (at

Wellesley).

 

 

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F R E E D O M F O R A N I M A L S

 

News Release

July 22, 2001

 

Animal Rights Group Opposes Threats Against Art System Employees

 

Toronto - Freedom for Animals is opposed to the making of threats against

Art System employees. Co-directors Jubal Brown and Daniel Borins have said

they were threatened with being " scalped " by someone calling the Art System

voice-mail box this week. This incident occurred after a newspaper article

published Mr. Brown and Mr. Borins defending their accused friend Jessie

Powers who is charged with skinning a cat alive.

 

Mr. Borins is quoted in media reports as suggesting animal rights activists

may be involved in these threats. There is no evidence that animal rights

activists were involved in this.

 

Freedom for Animals is a no-compromise animal rights group committed to

non-violence. We do not engage in or counsel any acts of violence against

humans or other animals.

 

Freedom for Animals fully supports the boycott campaign of Art System due to

the statements made by Mr. Brown and Mr. Borins about the Jessie Powers and

Anthony Wennekers case that is before the courts. In one instance they say

that they are against cruelty to animals and then in another that it is not

for them to decide whether the video of a cat being skinned alive is art or

not.

 

" Nothing will ever erase the torturing and murdering of this cat. Though

people everywhere are angry, and not just animal rights activists, the

releasing of anger with threats is only going to cause chaos and damage our

chance of getting valid information and justice done. It seems that the

focus is now on Jessie Powers and his friends at Art System and taken away

from the victim, the cat. How is that? The animal rights community will

never let this cat be forgotten, " said Suzanne Lahaie, co-founder of Freedom

for Animals.

 

Contacts:

Suzanne Lahaie 416-596-2331

Susan Krajnc 416-593-9542

 

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Freedom for Animals

P.O. Box 418

704 Spadina Ave.

Toronto, Ont. M5S 2S9

Tel: 416-596-2331

Email: free_animals

 

 

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