Posted by Nathan J. Winograd
Introducing a New Tool for No Kill Advocacy: The No Kill Flash Mob
Beginning November 23 at 6 pm ET and continuing over the holiday weekend when our posts are less likely to be deleted, please join us in a No Kill flash mob on the ASPCA facebook page. Please share.
The ASPCA Facebook page is filled with uninformed animal lovers who erroneously believe that the ASPCA is a legitimate force for good. We must educate these people about what the ASPCA really represents: a continuation of killing in our nation’s shelters and the neglect of animals in the New York City pound just down the street from the ASPCA, the wealthiest animal protection organization in the nation.
Although single comments can be deleted, and although single comments can be easily dismissed by their Facebook followers, a flood of comments posted by No Kill advocates is harder for the ASPCA to manage, and less likely to be ignored by their Facebook followers as an aberration.
Beginning November 23 at 6 pm ET and continuing over the holiday weekend when our posts are less likely to be deleted, please join us in a No Kill flash mob on the ASPCA facebook page. Please comment on the 5 most recent wall postings, not just the most current one. Although you will have to “like” the page to comment, you can “unlike” it after the flash mob ends. Let’s educate their followers about what supporting the ASPCA really means!
The Real ASPCA
Over the past several weeks, the ASPCA has released a playbook on how to fight No Kill reform efforts and has referred to animal lovers who want to end the killing as “extremists.” At a national conference of shelter directors, one of their paid consultants referred to No Kill groups as “terrorist” organizations, and No Kill advocates as “psychos.” And they are fighting shelter reform legislation in New York and Florida which would save shelter animals on death row who have a place to go—all while taking in roughly $140,000,000 per year through commercials that prey on the emotions of animal lovers with the false message that the ASPCA will fight for animals, rather than against them.
Although the pace of the ASPCA’s anti-no Kill efforts seems to have accelerated over the past few weeks, the ASPCA has a long sordid history of not only fighting reform efforts nationwide, but of neglecting the needs of the animals suffering in the city shelter down the street, even sending animals to be killed there. As they muster their forces against our expanding No Kill efforts nationwide, we need to fight back by hitting them where it matters most: in the pocketbook. We need to reach out to their donors with the truth. And the best place to do that is to go where they are: the ASPCA Facebook page.
Following are some talking points and links you can consider providing in your post:
- The ASPCA killed an abused dog who had a place to go and then fought legislation that would have saved 25,000 animals per year in NYC: www.yesonoreoslaw.com
- ASPCA commits fraud in fundraising by pretending it is your local SPCA: www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=6325
- The ASPCA is educating kill shelters on how to stop No Kill reforms: http://cruelcrazybeautifulworld.com/2011/11/09/the-aspca-and-the-case-of-the-extremely-elusive-documents/
- ASPCA “rescues” animals by sending to kill shelters: http://johnsibley.com/2011/11/15/aspca-saves-dogs-by-transporting-them-to-kill-shelters/
- The Truth About the ASPCA:www.nathanwinograd.com/?cat=8
Dr. Steve Best 
I BELIEVE IT. I HAVE STATED LOUDLY THAT SOMEBODY IS GETTING RICH THROUGH THIS.
WHILE I WAS ABLE TO SVE 5 CATS, I’VE SEEN QUITEA FEW (MORE THAN 10) INA FEW WEEKS GET KILLED EVEN WHEN THE PULL WAS MADE TO SAVE THEM, WITHA HOME WAITING FOR THEIR DELIVERY. AC IS FILLED WITH ILLITERATE RUDE ANTISOCIAL MISFITS.
Leading “animal advocacy” groups are a scam, profit whores, and collaborators with the enemy and an enemy to grass roots initiaties and radicals in their own alleged movement; shelters are a digrace, where lazy directors kill and take money rather than work hard to adopt and move to no kill in the best possible sense; and breeders are criminals, every one of which ought to be made illegal and shut down by any means necessary.
ASPCA, like most animal advocacy orgs, are indeed in it for profit. Thus the non-profit-industrial complex.
On a different note, I am able to view your Facebook page, but I am not able to comment there as someone who does not have a Facebook account. Regularly checking to see what you post there is probably the closest I’ll ever have to do with Facebook. In any case, I read the link on your FB page to Huff Post on the welfarist/abolitionist debate. Hopefully you won’t mind, but I would like to quickly respond to that here.
I find it sad that there is still “debate” on welfare/abolition at any level. It feels stale and pointless. I no longer bother to discuss it. I was not much interested in reading all the comments (I guess it’s just my “poverty of ambition”), but I did browse quickly through. I saw that some of the usual abolitionists were pushing along on their walkers, wheezing out the usual comments.
What I didn’t see (tho I did only browse the comments, so maybe I missed it), was any discussion on the state of the planet. So, these people (on both sides) still live in a bubble without making broader connections to the outside world.
As an example, today, again, I read in the alt news about permafrost releasing methane at an accelerated rate. The “welfarists” better speed up those reforms lightening speed. Same with the “abolitionists” handing out fliers (i.e., educating people).
Do they have any conception of what they are up against?
Nature is not waiting for reforms and fliers.
Do they understand climate change? Peak resources? Military agenda? Elite agenda? Industry? Technology? Capitalism/economics? Surveillance/police state? Shared oppressions? Extinctions? Anything apart from the bubble they are in? Where are their minds?
I object not so much to people’s tactics/methods/etc., but to the lack of independent thought behind them as they try to pontificate and push their limited ideas on others, all without seemingly ever picking up a newspaper once in a while. That’s the “poverty of ambition” that I see. Some like yourself have moved along…and continue to move along, incorporating new ideas, keeping an open mind, and striving to understand what is happening in the world. And understanding how dire things are – the reality. But for many other animal advocates, the needle seems to be infinitely stuck on their own record.
One more thing…I admittedly got really disgusted with Bruce F. when he wrote that Frederick Douglass owed his freedom to his more benign slaveholders. I shouldn’t even have to explain why this is so fucked up to say.
I couldnt agree more, dogmatists on both sides, although as I’ve said many times, they are more in the same paradigm of legality, anti-radicalism, and head-in-the-sand ignorance and denialism about structural power issues and the enormity and details of the ecological crisis, than any differences they have. The Vegan Outreach people and mainstream organizations never talk about China or ecological crisis, they can’t, it would be the turds in the punchbowl at their donor party and ruin that feel good glib optimism that all things are good, we have all the time in the world, and veganism will deliver us from evil. Never forget — the world is vegean — and peacefel, safe, harmonious, blissful, and utopian — if you want it.
“they are more in the same paradigm of legality, anti-radicalism, and head-in-the-sand ignorance and denialism about structural power issues and the enormity and details of the ecological crisis, than any differences they have.”
Yes. This is true.
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