Pride of place for a pirate ship
By JAMES BROWN
ONE is a federally funded national cultural institution charged with preserving Australia’s maritime heritage; the other is a privately funded international activist group that promotes radical “direct action”. One is governed by an act of parliament; the other operates on a charter “outside the petty cultural chauvinism of the human species” …
The Australian – June 07, 2014 12:00 AM
www.theaustralian.com.au/natio…
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12 years a slave: Abused and tortured elephant ‘Sunder’ is finally released after stars crusade
By Richie Taylor
Campaign headed up by Paul McCartney and Pamela Anderson sees tortured animal released from chains in India
Sunder, the elephant that celebrities including Paul McCartney and Pamela Anderson have called to be freed. He is chained up by all four legs in a shed at the Jyotiba Temple near Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. The animal rights charity PETA have launched the campaign …
Irish Mirror – Jun 06, 2014 05:36 PM
www.irishmirror.ie/news/12-yea…
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PETA protests export permits for Webb City-based circus
By Katie Lamb
An animal rights organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to deny Webb City-based Tarzan Zerbini Circus’s request to renew its traveling exhibition permits to export and re-import two Asian elephants to and from Canada …
Joplin Globe – June 6, 2014
www.joplinglobe.com/topstories…
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