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http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2009/07/393124.shtml
During the last 8 months there have been weekday demonstrations — Monday-Friday, 1-5 p.m. — out front of the last remaining fur salon downtown because the skin trade includes cage crazed creatures in thousands of pens on fur factory farms or trapping. The methods of killing include neck-breaking, stomping, gassing, anal & vaginal electrocution. That equates to excruciating pain for innocent
beings and is just plain vile cruelty! Several awesome information sites exist
to give full details of the fur industry and a pro fur forum site is also
important to see so that the unconscionably ignorance psychology of fur
enthusiasts is clearly visible.
pro torture & murder for their fur site: thefurden.com
honest portrait of the fur industry: furkills.org
upcoming documentary exposing fur fashion as bloody cruelty:
skintradethemovie.com
For the local back-story:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2009/06/392069.shtml?discuss
And here is the midweek report from SW 12th & Yamhill, outside Nicolas Ungar
Furs:
MONDAY was average, two dozen fresh prunes, Indian cuisine & iced vegan chai
contributed by a local food vendor!D
TUESDAY Kai, (the salon owner’s baby boy, flesh & blood, geeky German genetics)
turned severely upset that the demonstrators were given a generous plate of
chilled strawberries. When he was told that gifts like that come frequently to
those who stand up for innocent lives and kowtow to conscience (and furriers
wouldn’t be offered any), he attempted to take the camera filming him away from
the person using it. Next, his decrepit dad (Horst Grim, owner of Ungar) tried
to get at the camera and also harassed the protester. Touching someone else
despite their expressed opposition is harassment. After being reviewed by
lawyers that video will likely pop up here!
WEDNESDAY we received more strawberries and learned that a cop visited the food
vendor this morning to say that (paraphrased) “the owners of Nicolas Ungar Furs
dislike that you give the protesters free, fresh, chilled strawberries & iced
chai, please cease & desist your generosity henceforth, and in reverence to my
authority on this turf, because I embody the consensus of moral rectitude for
Portland’s diverse citizenship”. Criminalization of dissent and persecution of
mutual aide is the trademark of cruel corporate fascism in “our” U.S.A. today.
The police state exists to enforce the agenda of the corporate welfare state
including the most heinously abusive animal exploitation businesses.
Any action to save innocent lives from suffering is gallant. If a 106 year
local fur salon seems trivial then step it up to the big kahunas. Vivisectors
like Huntingdon Life Sciences- shac.net and shac7.com -are up the status
strata. There is a cultural revolution occurring right now, rise up and act!
See you in the streets!
Or think global, act local:
SW 12th & Yamhill, Monday-Friday, 1-5 p.m.
Things outside of Ungar Furs (SW 12th & Yamhill) escalated today and resulted
in an assault by the owner on an activist.
Around 5pm Horst Grim was walking to his car after a lonely day in the fur salon. He nearly walked into an activist and then proceeded to walk straight into a passerby, who nearly fell over. Along the way Horst littered a piece of paper which the activist picked up and took to him. He was cursing as the person got close and so they backed away. Horst walked closer to the activist, still saying obscenities and the activist still backing up. Unexpectedly, Horst made a quick jab with his right fist into the activists solar plexus, knocking the breath out of him, and he snatched the piece of litter then j-walked across 12th Ave.
Much of the situation is documented on video, the punch is very clear, and the activist is conferring with a renowned Animal Rights attorney to decide how this can be used to benefit the animals.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2009/06/392069.shtml?discuss
“Anonymous Guerrilla Artist Makes Statement About Ungar Furs
author: V
This morning around 9:30am I was traveling on the MAX reading a book and I saw bright red from the corner of my eye. I looked up to see bright red paint splattered across a building like blood. Then I noticed it was Nicholas Ungar Furs. So I got off the train to get some photos and info for this article. The entrance, the sidewalk, the windows, and the sign on the front of the building were significantly splattered. The Police arrived very shortly after I did leading me to believe that perhaps this just happened last night.
This morning around 9:30am I was traveling on the MAX reading a book and I saw bright red from the corner of my eye. I looked up to see bright red paint splattered across a building like blood. Then I noticed it was Nicholas Ungar Furs. So I got off the train to get some photos and info for this article. The entrance, the sidewalk, the windows, and the sign on the front of the building were significantly splattered. The Police arrived very shortly after I did leading me to believe that perhaps this just happened last night. I was not able to get the photos off of my camera but others will hopefully post some soon.
As of this posting I have not seen a communiqué from this anonymous guerrilla artist so I will attempt to piece together an understanding of why such an action has been taken. Ungar Furs, the last remaining furrier shop in downtown Portland located on 1137 SW Yamhill, has been targeted many times by local animal rights advocates. As the name implies they are a furrier shop and a particularly nasty one. They have even been busted by Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife for illegal sales of pelts from endangered/banned species. The profits apparently make the fines look like an acceptable loss. A group recently formed out of the momentum from the Schumacher victory, Portland Animal Defense League, has been organizing an ongoing campaign since Dec of 2008 currently happening every Friday at 1pm to educate fur shoppers on the brutality of the process of taking fur from animals (Including: inhumane living conditions, anal electrocution, gas, neck breaking, skinning alive, etc.). Today’s anonymous guerrilla art action appears to be in solidarity with that campaign but not part of it because it deviates from the stated mission and tactics of the Friday protesters found here http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/12/383411.shtml .
Hopefully someone more directly involved could provide a statement in the “contribution” section below. A communiqué from the artist or artist representative would be cool too.”
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