ACTIONS: Help Bonneville Dam Sea Lions and Dam Guardians

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2012/20120315_sealion.html

Dam Guardian Campaign - Call to Action for the Sea Lions of the Columbia River! Please call M-F between 9-5 PST:

Oregon Governor Kitzhaber 503-378-4582

Washington Governor Inslee #360-902-4111

Tell them that killing sea lions won't save salmon!
http://www.seashepherd.org/dam-guardians/columbia-river-sea-lion-kill.html


Dam Guardians report "Hope", Sea Lion #781 finally gets assessment, but no intervention.
http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/2013/04/26/dam-guardians-report-hope-sea-lion-781-finally-gets-assessment-but-no-intervention-1498

Please help the Dam Guardians by taking the actions listed below.
Thank you!

EMAIL.    FAX.     CALL.   TWEET.   PETITION.  
TELL  Everyone who will listen!

These photos are going to break your heart. Count on it.
http://www.seashepherd.org/dam-guardians

Can you imagine what it does to the sweet pea Sea lion who was simply trying to eat his lunch?
How about what it does to our SSCS Dam Guardians,  and Aaron Hall to be our witness to this?

I wish I could be that strong. I am not.

The BEST thing we all can to do is to follow @DamGuardians .
They are right there, no second hand news.

They recommend that we champion a Sea lion.
http://www.seashepherd.org/dam-guardians/champion-a-sea-lion.html

We need to ramp up the action effort here folks. WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Updated Friday April 26~2013

Astoria - No Help for Hope: We would like thank all of the caring people around the world who have been calling various state and federal agencies asking that someone with authority to do so, come and check on Hope. A biologist from Portland State University did come out this afternoon to assess this wounded sea lion, but offered no intervention. Oregon has no facilities to treat an animal such as this. It is our understanding that in the event that Hope dies, a necropsy will be performed to determine the cause of death. That is all the state of Oregon has to offer for Hope at this time. Meanwhile, as the biologist was on-site, the ODFW worker was nearby scaring the other sea lions off of the docks.

Current federal and state laws permit the branding, harassing and lethal removal of sea lions for eating fish, but do not provide care for injured sea lions like Hope. Something is very fishy in Oregon. Please contact Governor Kitzhaber and NOAA. Tell them it is time to move away from bad policies and to give a damn about the sea lions of the Columbia River. 

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber
State Capitol Building
900 Court Street
Salem, OR 97301
phone: (503) 378-4582
fax: (503) 378-6827
Internet: http://www.oregon.gov/gov/Pages/RequestAssistance.aspx
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnkitzhaber
twitter: @govkitz

Helen Golde
Acting Director
Office of Protected Resources
NOAA Fisheries
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
phone: 301-427-8400
fax: 301-713-0376
helen.golde@noaa.gov

http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/2013/04/23/sea-shepherd-dam-guardians-report-sea-lion-in-severe-distress-at-port-of-astoria-1497


Below courtesy Fins And Flukes
https://www.facebook.com/FinsAndFluke

URGENT CALL TO ACTION! 
We need your daily actions to end the cruel and unjust Sea Lion cull at Bonneville Dam. We must apply constant pressure on Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber and Washington Governor Jay Inslee in hopes that they will end the suffering, cruelty and death of the innocent Sea Lions. Please use hashtag #DamTweet on all correspondence and be sure to follow your Dam Guardians on Twitter, SSCS Dam Guardians @DamGuardians. Please feel free to copy and paste tweets to send to them and please Re-Tweet the Dam Gaurdians. Thank you in advance for your much needed help!

Please also fax, email and call the Governors offices. There is no limit on actions that you may take. Please invite your friends and share this event. Together we can end this!

http://www.seashepherd.org/dam-guardians

https://www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdUSA?fref=ts

https://twitter.com/

http://www.freefaxbutton.com/free_fax_machine.php

WHO TO CONTACT AND HOW TO REACH THEM

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber

State Capitol Building
900 Court Street
Salem, OR 97301
phone: (503) 378-4582
fax: (503) 378-6827
Internet: http://www.oregon.gov/gov/Pages/RequestAssistance.aspx
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnkitzhaber
twitter: @govkitz

Washington Governor Jay Inslee

Office of the Governor
PO Box 40002
Olympia, WA 98504-0002
phone: (360) 902-4111
fax: 360-753-4110
Internet: http://www.governor.wa.gov/contact/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WaStateGov?ref=ts&fref=ts
twitter: @govInslee

EMAIL.   

Sample email from Danette:
Borrow, steal, edit.
It's a good write!

I'm very concerned about the less than humane way the sealions at Astoria are being treated. Hazing and harassing is one thing, but to shoot at, and then leave to suffer...that's far beyond the call of conservation and safe-guarding of the precious salmon of the Columbia River.
Please take some time to consider the plight of for instance "Hope" a sealion currently suffering from gunshots, bleeding on the shore of the river!
I urge you to help this animal, and to re-consider how you go about saving salmons for the enjoyment of the public. Nature usually very well manages to balance itself, without interference like this. Or is it perhaps another agenda behind this? To extinguish any competition for the precious salmon?..
yeah I know I'm public, but I can't be bothered... help please?
Still, I hereby request that assistance is forwarded to  the fitting instances so this sealion "Hope" and others like him will not need to suffer needlessly like this.
Than you for your time, and with the hope of a swift and positive action to follow.....

Contact form to submit to Governor John Kitzhaber
http://www.oregon.gov/gov/Pages/RequestAssistance.aspx


TWEET.

You may also follow Governor John Kitzhaber on Twitter at @GovKitz
I do. And I talk to him via tweet.
I'm not very polite though, and I don't set a decent precedent for diplomacy. At all.

If you do care to tweet to him, Steve Jack has compiled a list of tweets for #DamTweet storms here:
https://sites.google.com/site/sealioncampaign/

Rock The #DamTweet  for Sea Lions
https://www.facebook.com/events/619998414681442/620443061303644/?comment_id=626119637402653&notif_t=like

Sample Tweets-
SEA LIONS BRANDED WITH HOT IRONS The crime? Eating Fish! Tweet @GovKitz & @JayInslee Tell them to stop it! #DamTweet pic.twitter.com/rxjAHfzZRE

STOP #hazing sea lions in #Astoria NOW !!! @GovKitz @govInslee have you no #compassion? #DamTweet

@GovKitz @GovInslee PLEASE SHARE THE RIVER WITH THE SEA LIONS! There are better options than #Killing #DamTweet @DamGuardians #sealions

@GovKitz @jayinslee There's no excuse for animal abuse! Save the #SeaLions at #BonnevilleDam! You can stop this! #DamTweet

@govkitz Branding Sea Lions for doing what they do naturally is a disgusting case of animal cruelty. #DamTweet #YouShouldBeAshamed

DFW employee Matt Tennis https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=539960852693793&set=a.510751328948079.107668.507053622651183&type=1&theater … burning the flesh of#sealions #DamTweet

Rock The #DamTweet for Sea Lions! Event to help them on FB! Plz join!https://www.facebook.com/events/619998414681442/?notif_t=plan_user_joined …

#Oregon @GovKitz grants clemency to #murderers but not 2 #California sea lions who eat #Salmon #WTH #DamTweet @DamGuardians @SeaShepherd

@DamGuardians @seashepherd branded, bleeding & burnt #California sea lions brought 2 you courtesy of @GovKitz & our #Taxpayer $$$ #DamTweet

Plz support #DamTweet & Sea Shepherd @DamGuardians as they fight to protect Sea Lions being tortured & killed in USA

@GovKitz STOP THE TORTURE TAKING PLACE IN YOUR STATE! #DAMTWEET

@JayInslee STOP THE TORTURE TAKING PLACE IN YOUR STATE! #damtweet

Plz support #DamTweet & @SeaShepherd @DamGuardians as they fight to protect Sea Lions being tortured & killed in USA !

@govkitz Branding Sea Lions for doing what they do naturally is a disgusting case of animal cruelty. #DamTweet #YouShouldBeAshamed

FAX.
http://www.freefaxbutton.com/free_fax_machine.php

https://www.facebook.com/events/619998414681442/620443061303644/?comment_id=626119637402653&notif_t=like

Sample Letter to fax both Governor John Kitzhaber (Oregon) Fax# 5033786827 and Governor Jay Inslee (Washington) Fax# 3607534110.

I am contacting you to take immediate action to stop the hazing, branding, and death of Sea Lions. I strongly urge you to find alternative and humane solutions to save the endangered salmon and halt the lethal removal of California Sea Lions at the Bonneville Dam. Thank you.

Name
City, State
Country

http://www.freefaxbutton.com/free_fax_machine.php
(Two free faxes per day)

Courtesy Fins and Flukes
https://www.facebook.com/FinsAndFluke


PETITION
Petition to STOP Hazing, Branding and Killing Columbia River Sea Lions
http://signon.org/sign/stop-hazing-branding

PETITION: U.S. District Judge Boasberg: #Oregon — Stop Killing Sea Lions  http://www.thepetitionsite.com/871/540/062/oregon-stop-killing-sea-lions/

BACKGROUND
http://www.idausa.org/saving-oregons-sea-lions/

This news was from March 5, 2010 so you can see how long this has been going on.

From Captain Paul Watson:


"To be a Conservation Activist, one must be prepared to say things some people do not wish to hear, to do things many people do not like to see being done, and to provoke controversies many people would rather remain ignorant of. An Activist is like an acupuncture needle poking about for a reaction in an attempt to cure a problem. To do this we need to rock the boat, we need to get people's attention. We need to harness imagination and passion with courage and practicality. In truth I really don't care what people think of me. I represent my clients and their interests and my clients are whales, sharks, dolphins, seals, turtles, birds and fish. Not people."


Thank you to AdriaticDawn for sharing the words of Captain Paul Watson in this graphic work by Tom O'Brien
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=555161711172112&set=a.100829143272040.1705.100000348641195&type=1



The White House Government Petition to lift the Interpol Red Notice
for Captain Paul Watson. 

Why did this petition not reach it's fulfillment goal of 100,000 signatures?

This issue still has me shaking my head, and based on recent conversations with a few
wonderful folks on Twitter, I'm not alone with my confusion.


SSCS had stated flat out that they don't usually work through petitions, so that in and of itself
implies that they are asking for some help from their supporters, us, and not merely suggesting that it might be a good idea to sign these petitions, if we could remember to, if we could get around to it sometime.

From what I can see on Captain Paul Watson's Facebook page, there are .........."likes", and
over on the Sea Shepherd Conversation Society Facebook page, there are......."likes".

That support was not visible when time came to sign this petition as far as I could see. When SO many "die hard" supporters would not sign and circulate that one action that would have had an impact, how are we going to rally 5 times that many folks to sign another one that is floating around?

Rumor has it many SSCS supporters were reticent to register their name or have their IP address logged at the White House petition site.

Come on folks, that was the flimsiest excuse I can think of, and it just doesn't hold water.

What, do we think for a moment that the USA government doesn't already have our IP address?
Heck, any savvy techie could probably figure out how to find it in minutes.

The White House Government petition site is cumbersome.
I had to ask for my password to go through 3 times, but it finally did, and then it took 30 seconds tops
to register my name.

Even SSCS issued an action that would enable supporters to register their name and address, in the
event that they had encountered difficulty accessing the WH GOV petition site, and their would be counted as being signed.

We are supposed to be supporting a global network of folks, our SSCS heroes, who literally
not only risk being rammed by a ship many times the size the size of the vessel they are on, they
do and did get rammed.
We're not speculating about the possibility, it already happened and it has been well documented on film.

All you have to do is visit youtube, punch in Sea Shepherd + Nisshan Maru and see the videos for yourself.
Again, and again, and again.
From many angles.
Take your pick.

So, my frustration stems from the fact that the discomfort level of having to register a name and an email with the White House Government petition site appears to be greater than the discomfort of living on a ship at sea, being rammed by bigger ships at sea, in order to make sure that justice is done for the Cetacean clients.

How did we not ponder what the ramifications of arrest and extradition for are for the man who would have benefitted from the action that drove that petition?

Namely at lot of days in a prison cell, probably not a very comfy one at that.
And that would be the best case scenario.

Good thing that it appears to be that we all have plenty of time now to ponder what could have been, had the armchair been less of burden.

The only comfort here is that Captain Paul Watson and SSCS are too darned smart and have been burned too many times to walk into a trap. They are under no obligation to inform you and I about their plans, and yet when they did, and asked for a very small token of support ~ a name and an email address on a petition site ~ we indisputably let them down.

I realize that this is probably the end of the line for quite a few of my "social media relationships"
that have developed during Operation Zero Tolerance.

That's just fine, nothing I can or am willing to do about it.


Disclaimer.

This one is mine.
Adelheid16