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Music by Eddie Vedder
This video shows the truth behind fox-coyote enclosures also known as a fox pen. It describes how wildlife is trapped, crated and then shipped to enclosures and then chased, cornered and mauled by "fox hunters".
To learn more about these cruel and inhumane, yet legal, enclosures, please go to TrainingNotTorture.org.Music by Eddie Vedder
This video shows the truth behind fox-coyote enclosures... more
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Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel begins his journey from the Mexican border town of Altar in a run-down van. He describes the bait-and-switch routine used by many coyotes, in which brand-new vehicles are shown to migrants when negotiating the cost of a border crossing. Ultimately, as many as 30 people may be squeezed into a beat-up van for a 60-mile ride.
In "Life And Death On The Border," Putzel travels to the U.S./Mexico border to investigate one of the most contentious issues in America today: immigration. Meeting with "coyotes," the hired smugglers who offer to take immigrants across the border for a fee, Putzel learns the methods used to evade border patrol and the dangers they face on the journey. Arrest and deportation are inherent risks, but the lack of water and scorching temperatures of the desert crossing are far more deadly. Those who do make it safely across the border face tightening immigration laws and an increasingly hostile public. Putzel ultimately crosses the border with a migrant and coyote.
"Life And Death On The Border" premieres on Monday, November 15 at 9/8c on Current TV.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Mondays at 9/8c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel begins his journey from the Mexican border town... more
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In "Life And Death On The Border," Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel travels to the U.S./Mexico border to investigate one of the most contentious issues in America today: immigration. Meeting with "coyotes," the hired smugglers who offer to take immigrants across the border for a fee, Putzel learns the methods used to evade border patrol and the dangers they face on the journey. Arrest and deportation are inherent risks, but the lack of water and scorching temperatures of the desert crossing are far more deadly. Those who do make it safely across the border face tightening immigration laws and an increasingly hostile public. Putzel ultimately crosses the border with a migrant and coyote.
"Life And Death On The Border" premieres on Monday, November 15 at 9/8c on Current TV.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Mondays at 9/8c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.In "Life And Death On The Border," Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel... more
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Christof Putzel is a Vanguard correspondent. As part of his investigation into the immigration debate, he crossed the border from Mexico into the U.S. on foot.
Americans may be preoccupied by the economic hardships they face because of the Great Recession. Unemployment is stuck close to ten percent; poverty claims a larger share of the population each year; many older people without the means to retire fear they’ll never work again.
But for millions of people looking at the United States from afar, America is still worth risking everything just for a shot at a better life.
The presence of illegal immigrants, now estimated at eleven million, is a source of bitter and emotional controversy among us. They build our houses, clean our office buildings, harvest our food, care for our kids, cut our lawns and hire themselves out for a pittance to do odd jobs. They’re fixtures in restaurant kitchens, poultry processing plants and jobs considered too dirty or too menial for others to do. Yet they keep coming, especially from the south, sneaking across the border from Mexico any way they can. It’s a dangerous dash, often into the arms of waiting border patrol.
Nearly all of us are descended from immigrants, of course. But in recent years, as living standards have stagnated or declined for all but the wealthiest and most fortunate Americans, the political pressure to choke off illegal migration has exploded. Billions of dollars are spent on higher, stronger fences, sophisticated sensing technology and more border patrol agents.
Tighter security has pushed would-be migrants to try more and more remote and treacherous areas along the nearly 2,000-mile US/Mexico border. Fewer get through. More die on the way. Yet hundreds of thousands try it every year. This year, officials say, more people have died in the desert on American soil than ever before.
To understand what crossers go through for a shot at the American dream, I went to the small Mexican town of Altar, a hotbed of human smuggling, where migrants pay coyotes—smugglers—to take them across. On assignment for Current TV’s documentary series, Vanguard, I found a coyote willing to allow me to accompany him across the border and into southern Arizona desert.
The trip frequently takes three or four days to reach a road north of the border. The coyotes restrict each traveler to two gallons of water, which often isn’t enough to survive. Authorities have found the remains of more than 250 people already this year, and they estimate that for every body they discover many more lie unfound under the brutal southern sun.
For me it was humbling to experience first hand just what so many people go through for a chance at a better life.
My report, "Life and Death on the Border," premieres Monday, November 15 at 9/8c on Current TV.
Watch a preview after the jump.Christof Putzel is a Vanguard correspondent. As part of his investigation into the... more
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Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel travels to the U.S./Mexico border to investigate one of the most contentious issues in America today: immigration. Meeting with "coyotes," the hired smugglers who offer to take illegals across the border for a fee, Putzel learns the methods immigrants use to evade border patrol and the dangers they face on the journey. Arrest and deportation are inherent risks, but the lack of water and scorching temperatures of the desert crossing are far more deadly. Those who do make it safely across the border face tightening immigration laws and an increasingly hostile public. Putzel ultimately crosses the border with a migrant and coyote.
"Life And Death On The Border" premieres Monday, November 15 at 9/8c on Current TV.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Mondays at 9/8c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel travels to the U.S./Mexico border to... more
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In this exclusive clip from the upcoming three-part Vanguard special, "War On the Border," correspondent Christof Putzel visits a Tucson morgue and sees firsthand the danger migrants face to cross from Mexico into the U.S.
In the first part of "War On the Border," Putzel travels to the U.S./Mexico border to investigate one of the most contentious issues in America today: immigration. Meeting with "coyotes," the hired smugglers who offer to take illegals across the border for a fee, Putzel learns the methods immigrants use to evade border patrol and the dangers they face on the journey. Arrest and deportation are inherent risks, but the lack of water and scorching temperatures of the desert crossing are far more deadly. Those who do make it safely across the border face tightening immigration laws and an increasingly hostile public. Putzel ultimately crosses the border with a migrant and coyote.
"War On the Border" premieres on Current TV on Monday, November 15 at 9/8c.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Mondays at 9/8c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.In this exclusive clip from the upcoming three-part Vanguard special, "War On the... more
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Secret footage shows guns, columns of people, and drugs being smuggled into USA by organized groups. The federal government appears unwilling to stop the flow, although politicians all promise "reform". Unfortunately, it will take a huge disaster, such as a terrorist attack, to make our politicians finally act. But some patriotic citizens are hoping to prevent that from happening by displaying this footage to America.Secret footage shows guns, columns of people, and drugs being smuggled into USA by... more
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South Florida Animal Rights Activists Decry Penning
June 20, 9:39 AMWest Palm Beach Animal Rights Examiner Michelle Rivera
Activists from South Florida will be attending The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) meeting on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 to hear arguments for ban on wildlife penning.
"Penning" is the practice of throwing wild animals into pens and setting dogs upon them. Wild foxes and coyotes are trapped in their natural habitats and transported, sometimes across state lines.
Penning involves releasing the foxes or coyotes from their pens into an unfamiliar environment. The dogs, having been worked up into a frenzy to get them started; chase the animals to the point of exhaustion. The event can go on for several hours a day over more than one day, depending on how long the wild animals, and dogs, can hold out. Once the wild fox or coyote is caught, the dogs are free to tear it apart. If the wild animal is lucky enough to survive the chase, it is returned to the pen area so that it can be used for bait once again. It does not matter if they are wounded, they are used again the next day anyway.
The hunters who take part in the blood sport of penning say that it is part of a training program to teach hunting dogs to track target animals. The dogs compete and are judged on how well they perform during the chase, however, so animal activists say it is a cruel blood sport that should be banned.
According to Florida state statute 828.122, also known as The Animal Fighting Act, baiting is illegal in the state of Florida. The pertinent component of the statute defines baiting as “to attack with violence, to provoke, or to harass an animal with one or more animals for the purpose of training an animal for or to cause an animal to engage in fights with or among other animals…”
Since the coyotes, and/or foxes clearly are fighting for their lives, animal rights activists charge that this statute applies to penning. Proponents of penning argue that pens fall under the exemptions to the baiting law. However, if that is true, penning is in the same category of sport as those activities prohibited and the spirit of the law must be taken into consideration.
Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) Legislative Representative Jennifer Hobgood says “Last fall, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission arrested 12 individuals for illegal activity related to fox pens. Also during this time a family living next door to a pen in Holt, Florida witnessed coyotes being repeatedly torn apart by dogs up against fence lines.” The neighborhood has organized an effort to stop coyote and fox penning and has a website called Training Not Torture where people can access a video.
The HSUS asserts that the vast number of Floridians would not condone this activity. “People who participate in fox and coyote penning have attended past meetings in large numbers, which makes it appear that more people support this activity than the few who actually do.” Says Hobgood.
Animal rights advocates and hunters who engage in penning are expected to square off at the meeting which is expected to begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Orlando Marriot in Lake Mary.South Florida Animal Rights Activists Decry Penning
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A brother and sister were amazed to find a living and breathing coyote wedged in their car's grille after they'd hit it at 75mph, 600 miles earlier.
Daniel and Tevyn East knew they'd hit an animal but as they were driving so fast they had no idea it would not only turn out to be still alive, but scooped up by their Honda Fit.
The coyote, nicknamed Tricky, was barely injured - and escaped from a nearby animal shelter three days later.A brother and sister were amazed to find a living and breathing coyote wedged in their... more
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Jorge Carreon blogs: Had enough of Kanye-gate? In this edition of Personalities in Brief, read about the doggone truth of one celebrity's missing pet that is now one of the most covered news stories of an already wacky day.Jorge Carreon blogs: Had enough of Kanye-gate? In this edition of Personalities in... more
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Songstress and overly tanned, lesbian dog owner, Jessica Simpson, has made desperate pleas via Twitter for the return of her much-loved lesbian dog.
Simpson described how, before her eyes, a coyote took her precious Daisy.
It is not known if Daisy's lover Bella, has been informed of the disappearance.Songstress and overly tanned, lesbian dog owner, Jessica Simpson, has made desperate... more
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Ozzy Osbourne's favourite dog has been eaten to death by a coyote, the musician's daughter has revealed on Twitter.
Kelly, 24, told her online followers that the Black Sabbath rocker was upset by its demise.
"My dad's dog Little Bit was eaten by a coyote last night in LA," his daughter 'tweeted'.
"He is devastated she was his other woman!"
It is thought the showbiz couple did not hear the attack because they were watching the Michael Jackson memorial on television.
The Pomeranian, called Little Bit, regularly appeared in reality television show The Osbournes.
Viewers watched Osbourne and his wife, former X Factor judge Sharon, live among 18 dogs in their Los Angeles home.
The Department of Animal Sciences said coyotes often make "opportunistic" attacks.
The 60-year-old singer has not always been such an animal lover.
He famously bit the head off a live bat while on stage in the 1970s.Ozzy Osbourne's favourite dog has been eaten to death by a coyote, the... more
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WildEarth Guardians protects and restores wildlife, wild rivers, and wild places in the American West.
Few taxpayers realize that we help fund an agency called “Wildlife Services,“ a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that wages a dirty war on America’s wildlife.
Between 2004 and 2006, Wildlife Services killed over 6 million animals to protect agribusiness. The agency spends $100 million each year, and Wildlife Services’ job is to “eradicate” and “bring down” wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, bears, prairie dogs, and other wild animals.
In 2007, Wildlife Services killed 2.4 million animals, including 121,520 native carnivores such as coyotes, wolves, bobcats, cougars, badgers, and bears.
(Please note: These species face habitat loss in the wake of suburban sprawl, oil and gas drilling, logging, ski area expansions, and over hunting.)
WildEarth Guardians is holding Wildlife Services accountable by:
* Leading efforts to end shooting wildlife from aircraft, a reckless, life-threatening endeavor; http://www.goAGRO.org
* Asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban the two predator poisons--sodium cyanide and Compound 1080--in part, because Wildlife Services’ handling of these toxicants has harmed federally-protected species such as bald eagles, hurt people, killed pets, and they poses a national security threat. We are also helping Congressman Peter DeFazio in his efforts to ban these poisons through Congressional action.
* Demanding that Wildlife Services publicly account for its abysmal track record involving its mishandling of dangerous poisons, aircraft crashes during aerial gunning activities, and other operations.
Check out this article in the Men’s Journal about our work on the front-lines of this battle this battle against Wildlife Services. http://www.christopherketcham.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/Wildlife%20Services%20final%20version,%20layout%20for%20Mens%20Journal%20Enviro%20Affairs%20Column.pdfWildEarth Guardians protects and restores wildlife, wild rivers, and wild places in... more
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Explosive new video blasts the justification for Alaskas current aerial wolf hunting program and rallies voters to end it. Using testimony from Alaska Department of Fish & Game staff, a master hunting guide, and Board of Game members, this video exposes the fallacy behind Governor Sarah Palins claim that predator control is based on sound science. Declarations that the program is for the benefit of subsistence hunters are shattered with documentation showing that sport and trophy hunters take up to 73% of prey in areas where aerial wolf hunting has taken place. End Aerial Wolf Hunting rallies support for H.R. 3663, legislation now being considered in the U.S. Congress which will close the loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act that has been exploited to allow this practice to continue. Five years in the making, this video exposes the truth about the stranglehold the hunting lobby has on wildlife management in Alaska.To sign the petition to help save Alaska's wolves go to www.savewolves.orgExplosive new video blasts the justification for Alaskas current aerial wolf hunting... more
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