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When awareness of eco horrors is too much for the psyche to bear, this is where we come to get a little bit of help from our friends to collect our wits and regroup so we can tarry on.
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A mutilated Sun Bear confiscated from a man's freezer in Maylasia ... a rhino horn and elephant tusks cut from the carcasses of magnificent creatures on the verge of extinction ... tiger skins and dried tiger penises dangling on display at Chinese flea markets, bear bile farms, mountain gorillas hacked to pieces for bushmeat, wild monkeys ripping at chains cinched around their necks as they scream in terror, lions prodded and electrocuted to learn to jump through flaming hoops, seals clubbed, sharks finned, whales massacred, dogs and cats tortured in experimental labs ... it's more than my psyche can bear most days. But I"m committed to working in solidarity with the hardcore activists who are working to end these horrendous abuses against Earth's Beings, and so I tarry.
But I have to be honest, in the privacy of my rooms, where I won't be tied and bound as certified lunatic for the rage I express, I do a lot of screaming and sobbing while organizing charity drives for conservation, signing petitions, writing letters and linking people up for protests and community actions. And when I'm composed and no longer convulsing from the rage coursing through my veins, I turn on the cameras and document what I see.
Whew, just writing this and looking at the faces being mirrored in these pictures has helped release some of the tension. I look at the picture of this wild-eyed man and the hysterical woman and I giggle. I regain perspective and am reminded of balance. And so this Rant Group has served a good deed for me today. Now I can get back to Wildlife Direct and begin some coordination with Siew Te Wong to see how ecopaparazzi and I can help his efforts to keep the Sun Bear from vanishing from the planet.
Thank you, padded room, for this moment of safe release.
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Comment by Jeanette McDermott on January 14, 2009 at 10:06pm - And now there is something more I have to get off my chest in this primal scream clinic. I just joined a Ning network that has the intention of creating a new tomorrow through peace and enlightened lovingness. While visiting member pages to see who I felt connected with, I saw a woman's photo uploads, and in that series of photos was a shot of her smiling between an elephant's head and a lion's head. Her photo is titled Safari. I'm shaken to the core. And I"m left with the question, what kind of person poses with slaughtered critically endangered wild animals on the one hand and joins a social network for peace and enlightenment on the other? As I was leaving the site I glanced at a note on a comment wall and read from a woman how proud she feels to own a rare macaw, a majestic and endangered macaw that once lived its life free in the wild, without its wings clipped and before being captured by poachers and stuffed into a cage. And this woman, too, joined the social network for peace and enlightenment. I don't get it. When did humans become so detached from the natural world that we can call ourselves enlightened and yet steal the freedom of other animals, kidnap them from their family structures and social communities, and murder them in cold blood so our egos can be gratified with "trophies" hanging on walls and stretched on floors or put into gilded cages? How can we take innocent, wondrous creations of God and mutilate them, cutting them up for wallets, coats and potency medicine? My heart is screaming in shear agonized pain and my head is thumping like a bass guitar. How do I find peace amidst the carnage? God Bless the animals of this world and may they one day find the peace we, as humans, seek for one another daily.
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Comment by Jeanette McDermott on January 14, 2009 at 9:27pm
- The sun bear or the moon bear. Or any or all of the 7 of the 8 bear species on Earth that are subjected to the horrific, unbelievable living hell in bear bile farms. The panda is the only one mercifully spared. My heart is aching with such pain and my eyes nearly swollen shut after a 3-day research and interview process to write a story on bear bile farms in China, Korea and Vietnam. I will post the story as soon as the interviews are cleared for quotes. But my God how my soul is crying out for these animals. It is truly more than a caring and compassionate person can take. It will be a hard story for people to read, but read we must. If bear bile farming is to end, we have to be the ones to stop it. Tara Lynn, thank you for giving me a glimmer of hope through your action to do something. I need to know that there are people who care enough to take action and do something, no matter how painful or hard it is for us. Nothing we feel emotionally through awareness can compare to the physical and emotional pain and suffering and abuse of these magnificent animals trafficked in the wildlife trade. I have something to hope for, a better tomorrow for these bears, knowing you will make a jacket in their honor to auction and raise money to save them.
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Comment by Tara Lynn on January 14, 2009 at 3:55pm -
Rant I love it.
Demand a Better Future! That is why we are here.
I have been stuck on this computer all day sucked away from my beloved work, torn from the seams and feeling parted from my mission until I can get my bum back over to the sewing machine! Who should I dedicate the next jacket to? The dodo? Primates? Something from the sea? Or women of the world. Unfortunately there are so many issues to choose from. Signing off -earth bitch
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