Good Morning! I hope everyone is enjoying the 3-day holiday!

More than a few days ago I wrote about the documentary ‘The Cove’.  Well…just a few days ago the dophin slaughter was suspended. This is good news. Not to say they won’t start up again, but at least this is a start. See…we canhave an affect onthe world. All it takes is a little dedication from a few people. Think what we can do in collective numbers. Inspiring yes?

Dolphin Slaughter in Taiji’s ‘Cove’ Suspended

Written by Bryan Nelson

Published on September 1st, 2009

Source: EcoWorldly

Ric O’Barry reports that the horrific annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji has been suspended due to publicity from the film, The Cove.

September 1st usually marks the first day of the year for the brutal killings, but for the first time the Japanese media has arrived in Taiji en masse, causing the local fishermen to pause while the world takes notice.

O’Barry has been trying to raise awareness in Japan about the secretive dolphin slaughter that takes place in the small fishing town of Taiji for years, but the Japanese media has refused to cover it. Until now.

“Today is September 1st, the first day of the dolphin slaughter season in Japan. But when I arrived today by bus from Kansai Airport with media representatives from all over the world, the notorious Cove from the movie was empty. There were no dolphin killers in sight. So today is a good day for dolphins!”, wrote O’Barry today in a report for the activist social network, TakePart.

He also said that when the Japanese police arrived, they merely shook his hand and told him they there were not there to support the “dolphin killing fishermen”, then left.

Despite all of his trials in the town, O’Barry believes strongly that Taiji can change its shameful image. He hopes to show the media around the town tomorrow, to encourage a more positive view of its people and potential. O’Barry sees an opportunity to turn the disgraced town into a place where dolphins are cherished rather than slaughtered. In time, he thinks Taiji could become a model for dolphin activism and education, raising awareness about dolphins much in the same way that Nantucket, once the center of the whaling industry in the U.S., has changed its image by stopping the killing and marketing to whale-watchers instead.

Even though the media is finally taking notice, keeping the movement alive over time will still take a great commitment from those who care about dolphins.. You can help by donating to the Save the Dolphins Coalition, which you can do at savejapandolphins.org.

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I hope that everyone had a great weekend!

While getting my mani-pedi on Saturday, the brief comment that the TAO left a few days before about our seas being polluted down to 3600 feet, was something that kept entering my thoughts. What have the mammals done to deserve this?

Then while perusing People Magazine, (the only time I get to read these kinds of mags is when I am being pampered :), I came across a tiny blurb about dolphins, and the 60′s TV series “Flipper”. As a kid, I loved watching Flipper, and even went to a few shows where dolphins ‘performed’.

As I became more of an animal/mammal lover, and more aware, I no longer supported those type of environments that held animals captive. Whenever I read that the circus is coming to town (Barnum and Bailey especially) I send letters to them, telling them exactly how I feel about their ‘treatment’ to the animals. I have read many horror stories of the inhumane ways animals and mammals are treated while in captivity, and it is unacceptable. To me, animals are best left free in their natural environment and habitat.

In fact, I even volunteered for 6 months at the Marine Mammal Center and helped care for sick sea lions that were affected by humans and our carelessness, so that they could return to their natural habitat. It is amazing what a little plastic from a 6-pack can do to our sea life. It was hard work, but knowing that my care helped the mammals to heal and enabled them to be released back out into the sea was worth the cold mornings. And if you have been reading my blog, you know I hate the cold :)

So…this tiny blurb in People Magazine, spoke of a man, activist Richard O’Barry, who has spent his last 40 years of life, advocating for dolphins, recently released his documentary about the plight of dolphins, by the predatory hands of the Japanese. I was not aware of the plight of dolphins in Japan until I read about O’Barry, the dolphin ‘abolitionist’,  and his lifelong commitment to these beautiful, smiling creatures.

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, here’s a clip of The Cove:

Marine Mammal Specialist, Earth Island Institute

Richard O’Barry has worked both sides of the dolphin street, the first 10 years with the dolphin captivity industry, the past 38 against it.

Working back in the 1960s for Miami Seaquarium, O’Barry captured and trained dolphins, including the five dolphins who played the role of Flipper in the popular American TV-series of the same name. When Kathy, the dolphin who played Flipper most of the time, died in his arms, O?Barry realized that capturing dolphins and training them to perform silly tricks is simply wrong.

From that moment on, O’Barry knew what he must do with his life. On the first Earth Day, 1970, he founded the Dolphin Project, dedicated to freeing captive dolphins who were viable candidates and educating people throughout the world to the plight of dolphins in captivity. He launched a searing campaign against the multi-billion dollar dolphin captivity industry, telling the public what was really going on at dolphin shows and urging people not to buy tickets to see dolphins play the fool.

O’Barry has rescued and released more than 25 captive dolphins in Haiti, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, the Bahamas Islands and the United States. His more than 45 years of experience with dolphins and his firsthand knowledge about the methods used to capture and train them has taken him all over the world to participate in lectures and conferences about the controversial dolphin captivity issue. As he knew it would, this created a lot of hostility toward him by those who stood to profit from the continued exploitation of dolphins.

“They’re in this for money. Take it away, and they’ll quit doing this,” O’Barry says and adds: “Dolphins are free-ranging, intelligent, and complex wild animals, and they belong in the oceans, not playing the clown in our human schemes.”

To recognize his contribution, in 1991 O’Barry received the ‘Environmental Achievement Award’ presented by the United States Committee for the United Nations Environmental Program (US/UNEP).

His book ‘Behind the Dolphin Smile’ was published in 1989, a second book, ‘To Free A Dolphin’ was published in September 2000. Both of them are about his work and dedication.

O’Barry is a Fellow National in The Explorers Club, a multidisciplinary society that links together scientists and explorers from all over the world. Each member is an accomplished individual with at least one fascinating story to tell.

In January, 2007, O’Barry became the Marine Mammal Specialist for Earth Island Institute and Director of Save Japan Dolphins coalition: www.SaveJapanDolphins.org

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Readers:  Have any of you seen this movie? The clip has certainly aroused my curiosity,  and I intend to see the documentary. Perhaps, you too are a lover of mammals and your support of them is the answer to the question that you asked yourself yesterday, and hopefully today…and tomorrow….and… :) “What can I do to make the world a better place?”

I know I ask a lot from my readers and I don’t expect for everyone to advocate everything that needs support on this planet. But what I do expect, is that you find one thing and dedicate time in your life to helping that one thing, or one area, that makes your heart sing. I know that when I give my time and effort, it makes me feel like I am contributing to the planet and our environment in a good way,  instead of just taking and adding to the many environmental problems…..giving, gives my life more meaning and purpose.

Al:  I am a bit confused, as maybe you were about my post yesterday. Not sure if you were referring to my age and your pair of drawers :) I was not the writer of the article that I posted under the heading, “The Dream Lives On: Keeping The Kennedy Fire Alive”. It was just something that I found on the Huff.  I liked it and it inspired me, so I posted it.

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Hello…

I didn’t get the chance yesterday morning to watch the funeral of Sen. Ted Kennedy, nor the eulogy that president Obama gave.  But this morning I have been heavily perusing the net watching videos and reading about it, and feeling the sadness and loss, that I am sure everyone in this country is feeling.

There are a few articles that I read but I came across one that I wanted to post. We can talk about what Sen. Ted Kennedy has done in his long career as a senator, as the list is long and impressive and absolutely worthy of the praise and recognition. Kennedy became the ‘greatest legislator of our time’.

But to me, honoring him best would be to carry on his legacy of care and compassion, and the never-give-up attitude.  How can we keep what he was so passionate about alive and kicking? What can we do?

I like this article because it addresses his many accomplishments, but asks of us, how we can take a little bit of what Ted Kennedy did on a daily basis, and make it a part of our daily lives.

The Dream Lives On: Keeping The Kennedy Fire Alive

As Senator Kennedy was finally laid to rest yesterday, the weight of his passing hit me much harder than I thought. I can feel the collective heartbreak of losing the last of our royal line. It is as if the round table has finally been broken, and all the knight’s swords laid to rest. I am 42 years old, and Ted Kennedy was a state Senator longer than I have been alive. My generation has never known anything else but to live under the legacy of the Kennedy’s ‘American Camelot’ influence. How do we pass this flame of public service to our children, and spark the next generation of leaders?

I think Andy Ostroy said it best in his piece, featured on HuffPo earlier this week:

“Ted Kennedy’s contribution to American culture and society can be seen in virtually every historic issue fought in modern American politics, including health care, social security and Medicare, minimum wages, education, immigration, aid for senior citizens, civil rights, voter’s rights, women’s rights, gay rights and human rights. And he accomplished all this as a gentleman and a respected bi-partisan leader, with civility, grace and humor. A larger-than-life Washington character. Sadly, there’s no one to step in and fill his shoes….on either side of the aisle.”

I was sobbing listening to Vice President Joe Biden give the best speech of his life remembering his old friend at the memorial service, held at the Kennedy library. He spoke of the countless times Teddy had been there for him, and for so many. Beyond his historic accomplishments, it was in the ‘little things’ that Senator Kennedy shined his humanity onto all who were in his giant wake and, “makes you want to be better than you are,” as Biden said.

The grief floating around America this week has been palpable. We have spent a lifetime grieving again and again with the Kennedy family through the years of unending tragedies. Losing Eunice Kennedy Shriver earlier this month reminded us what a fiery feminist can do; and her gift of the Special Olympics is as a legacy beyond measure. When Maria Shriver spoke at her funeral a few weeks ago, she said her mother would have pounded her fist at the podium – asking what we did today to make the world a better place.

The tenacity, compassion and drive to champion the under privileged moves me to want to be a better citizen, and a better parent. All of the Kennedy siblings, and so many of their children, are working in public service. We may never see such a family again. They had their faults, their mistakes and their issues, just like the rest of us. But there is one thing they did not do: stop or give up.

Senator Joseph Kennedy, Teddy’s nephew, reflected on this determination at the memorial.

“He was telling me, never, ever, ever, ever give up. You stay in the race. And if people don’t have health care, you stay in the race. If people don’t have adequate housing, you stay in the race. If people aren’t being treated properly you stay in the race,” he said.

In contemplating the death of Eunice and Teddy, I asked my four kids this week, while driving to get school supplies, what we were doing as a family to make the world a better place. The six year old twins slurped their organic juice boxes and gave me a blank stare, while the older ones tossed it around. My 14 year-old son offered up, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?” This seemed to be his attempt to show me the full scale of his Kennedy knowledge.

We finally decided the best way they can “give” to their country, is to develop their character. To try their best, to help someone out that needs it, and to be grateful for what we have. The new generation of children will never know the Kennedy influence. Who is their champion now? Who is going to dare us to be the first to fly to the moon? Who is going to stand up and pound their fist, roar like a lion, and make us want to be better? Where is our fire, our sense of competition, our collective conscience that serving the lesser among us is a right and a responsibility?

The answer for leadership is not just in Barack Obama, although he has the potential – it is in all of us. Everyone must do their part. The current first family is laying the foundations to inspire a new generation in big ways, as well as small ones. From planting an organic garden outside the White House, daring to touch the Queen of England, or encouraging American’s to volunteer – the legacy or making a difference does not have to die.

On Memorial Day, the White House offered a call to service, and at the HuffPo, on the right hand side of this page, you can find links for the “All for Good” campaign. Check it out for opportunities to be in service within your zip code as a great way to get your kid’s engaged.

Arianna Huffington wrote a fantastic piece earlier this week, reminding us that the national conversation about helping the least among us needs to remain the center of bipartisan attention.

Right now, Kennedy’s Health Care Bill is on the precipice, just like the Civil Rights Bill, when JFK was shot. Ted Kennedy introduced the first legislation for health care in 1969, when I was two years old. Let’s get it done as a tribute to our favorite family, and revitalize our momentum as a country. Teddy said,

“the dream lives on.”

Let’s all work together to make sure it does.

-Kari Henley, President of the Board of Directors at the Women & Family Life Center Posted: August 30, 2009 09:09 AM. Huffington Post

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Readers:  What if we all made a commitment to ask ourselves every day, “What can I do to make the world a better place today?”, and actually do something that does? How grand life would be….

Do it.

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Alexander: Thank you for telling us what really happened in the civil war; it is fascinating and repulsive at the same time. I appreciate your tellings because the history of our country never interested me much in high school, thanks to a very dry history teacher, and welcoming distractions :) Sneaking out of class was something I did when the opportunity presented itself, and quite frankly, the teacher didn’t seem to mind much. I guess I wasn’t really missing much as I am sure the history books weren’t exactly written as you have just chronicled to us. Over the years, I have had a growing desire to learn more and the challenge was finding the truth.

You say, “To be Still around 252 years after I was born is amazing.”  I can’t imagine. And what is amazing to me is that the confederate flag, and what it truly represents,  is still flying to this day after all of these years.

Readers: Here’s an article that was sent to me in regards to the flying of the Confederate flag.

IN 1962 the Confederate battle flag was placed on top of the South Carolina statehouse by vote of the all-white legislature. While other Southern states removed the flag from their statehouses, South Carolina refused to follow suit. This prompted the NAACP to organize a national economic boycott against South Carolina’s $14 billion-a-year tourism industry, and since the summer of 1999, more than 100 conventions and business organizations have participated in the boycott. The boycott is considered one of the largest since the 1970s. The NAACP’s president, Kweisi Mfume, said of the boycott, “this is a trigger you don’t want to pull until all else has failed. In the case of South Carolina, after 38 years of negotiating even the NAACP has a limit to its patience.”

Inflammatory remarks by state senator Arthur Ravenel made national headlines in Jan. 2000 when he defended the flying of the Southern Cross, referring to the NAACP as the “the National Association of Retarded People.” He then apologized to “retarded people” for associating them with the NAACP. At the time of the the February Republican presidential primary, party differences on the issue were thrown in sharp relief: the Republican contenders declined to take a stand except to say that the issue was a state matter; the Democrats were outspokenly against the flag remaining.

On April 12, 2000, the South Carolina state senate finally passed a bill to remove the flag by a majority of 36-7. The bill specified that a more traditional version of the battle flag (square shaped as opposed to the rectangular flag now flying above the statehouse) would be flown in front of the Capitol next to a monument honoring fallen Confederate soldiers. The bill then went to the House, where it encountered some difficulty. But on May 18, 2000, after the bill was modified to ensure that the height of the flag’s new pole would be 30 feet, it was passed by a majority of 66 to 43, and Governor Jim Hodges signed the bill five days later. On July 1, the flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse.

The bill has not appeased everyone, however: the NAACP has not called off its boycott because they feel that the flag’s new position on the Capitol lawn is still too prominent.

This article was written in the year 2000, but today, not only is the flag still flying, most of the seats of government have civil war memorabilia displayed all over it. Disgusting. I can’t imagine black people having to see this flag daily, flying in their faces, knowing the meaning and the history behind it.

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Cheirika:  :) Thank you.

Anonymous: I hope for that too. Sen. Ted Kennedy is greatly missed.

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A little over a week ago President Obama posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the highest civilian award in the United States – to San Francisco’s legendary former Supervisor Harvey Milk. In honoring Milk, Obama repeated Harvey’s immortal standard: “You gotta give ‘em hope.”

As I read his mantra this morning, it is all I want to think about after reading Alexander’s account of the atrocities of slavery, that not only left me sick to my stomach, but left me feeling hopeless and with little faith in humanity. Not a good place to be, but knowing myself I know those feelings won’t last. It only fuels my fire. There is always hope.

And speaking of slavery….Did you see the comment of Governor Sanford of SC this morning talking about the flying of the confederate flag of their state capital? Some whites don’t have the sensitivity one would expect a normal human to have towards others. I mean we are all human….all from the same planet, and yet they seem abnormally fixated on their own self interest, with no interest, in any way, shape, or form, for the otw’s on this planet.

I write here everyday hoping to inspire and bring about change and I wonder constantly if I am doing enough. Much of the time I feel that I am not, and I wonder what more can I do.

Harvey lived his entire life creating opportunity for others.  How can we do the same in our own lives? What steps can we take to create opportunity in other people’s lives and “give ‘em hope”?

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