Camille Marino | |
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 Marino with her dog Max (2011) | |
| Born | 1964 (age 59–60) |
Camille A. Marino (born 1964) is an American animal rights activist. Marino is known for her extreme tactics against medical researchers that she alleges use animal experimentation, including doxing, harassment and death threats, as well destruction of property. [1]
Negotiation Is Over/Eleventh Hour for Animals
In 2009, she founded Negotiation Is Over (NIO) which advocated diverse tactics including intimidation and violence. The group was composed of small cells of activists working in dozens of countries on several continents. In 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center classified NIO as a domestic hate group. [1] NIO's local campaign to stop animal experimentation at the University of Florida was named Eleventh Hour for Animals.
University of Florida
In 2010, she sued the University of Florida (UF) after they refused to disclose public information about their animal experimentation program. [2] On December 30, 2011, Circuit Court Judge Martha Ann Lott ordered UF to disclose their primate experimentation records. [3] Information that was redacted in those documents was challenged and in February 2013, a precedent was set in Florida when an appeals court ruled that the locations of the University of Florida's animal labs were public record. [4]
On February 4, 2012, Camille Marino was arrested protesting primate experimentation at The University of Florida. She was to be extradited to face charges in Detroit leveled by a Wayne State University researcher. [5]
Wayne State University incident
In October 2011, a Wayne State University (WSU) researcher obtained a restraining order against Camille Marino demanding that she remove his personal information from her NIO website in Florida. She refused and was charged with a misdemeanor count of civil contempt in Detroit. [6] Marino staged an act of civil disobedience on the WSU campus, chaining herself to the library and taping her mouth. [7]
She was charged with trespassing as well as two felonies: aggravated stalking and the unlawful posting of a message with aggravated circumstances. The aggravated stalking charge for violating the restraining order was dropped. To the second charge, which involved threatening the torture and murder of a medical researcher, she pleaded guilty and served six months. [8]
Issue with fellow activist
In 2012, Steven Best, a fellow activist, took out a restraining order in New Mexico which sought to prevent her from contacting him or speaking about him, alleging that Marino had stalked and threatened violence against him. [9]
References
- ^ a b Nelson, Leah (March 1, 2012). "Animal Rights Extremist Camille Marino Calls for Violence". Southern Poverty Law Center.
- ^ Crabbe, Nathan (October 25, 2011). "Activist sues UF over primate research records". Gainesville Sun.
- ^ Crabbe, Nathan (January 9, 2012). "Judge orders UF to give animal rights activist records on primates". Gainesville Sun.
- ^ Flechas, Joey (February 23, 2013). "Court: UF must disclose locations of animal research labs". Gainesville Sun.
- ^ Crabbe, Nathan (February 6, 2012). "Two animal-rights activists arrested at protest". Gainesville Sun.
- ^ Foley, Aaron (March 7, 2012). "Florida animal rights activist on Wayne State researcher: 'Show up at his home and snap pictures of his blood-money mansion'". MLive Michigan.
- ^ Jesse, David (March 18, 2014). "Banned animal-rights activist chains herself to campus library". Standard Examiner.
- ^ Heller, Jordan. "Arson, Cracked Testicles, and Internet Death Threats: How Animal Rights Extremists Are Learning From the People Who Murdered George Tiller". Gawker.
- ^ Shen, Helen (October 26, 2012). "Claws come out in dispute between animal rights activists". Nature.com News Blog.