ANIMALS
In progress (Jan 2010) Various Misc Projects, Letters, Actions & Videos
mostly related to my work in behalf of animals
by Nikki Craft

I work through education and confrontation using creative radical political art and strategies aimed especially to contribute to the energization, radicalization (i.e. to develop a deep, comprehensive political analysis towards methods and actions), education and entertainment, of other activists and then society in general. Here are some video video and graphic projects I have created over the years with regards to my work for animals.

Nikki twenty something with a little stray puppy, 1977.

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This drawing turned up in Jan 2009 with some of my childhood stuff. Here's what I remember about it: I drew it when I was five. I was sad because a bird had died outside in the snow that I had been playing in all day the day before. I found a note on the back of the drawing that was written when I was in my teens to explain what the drawing was in detail while I still remembered what it meant. The note said the red line going down the page was the window pane.

My intense love and caring for animals goes back to my early childhood. My first grief and concern for animals that I can remember was intensely expressed in this drawing and poem (left) when I was five. The little pencil figure at the very bottom of the page was my dog. At that time I realized I could not draw. My mom was an artist and I would have had her work that I was exposed to daily to compare it to. I knew I could only draw a stick figure and I was embarrassed that I couldn't do any better. It was a very hard drawing for me to do. Still, I felt compelled, even at five, that I had to document the grief I had felt about the death of the little bird. I even wrote in the corner "drew this 2-14-55". It was Valentines Day and the drawing was written on the back of a large Valentine. In 1971 I wrote in an article that the bad treatment of animals has "weighed heavily on my mind" since I was seven years old. This drawing documents that it went back to when I was five. Years later, when I was 15 I wrote this poem (below) about the bird and the experience I had. What was important to me to get across was that we got so much enjoyment from the cold and snow and yet the bird was killed by the same factors and to me--even at five--it was most important to remember the bird, always. Only Sparkling Beauty Gazing from the frosty pane I saw that there was snow. But, seeing only sparkling beauty that covered streets below, hurriedly I dressed up warm and the minute I was done, being a child I ran outside, lest I should miss the fun. All day I played as most children do and went inside when the day was through. I slept with dreams of snowmen and things and all the fun that a snowfall brings. And in the morning I found outside, A frozen sparrow who had died.

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Here are a very few of the other video and graphic projects and websites I have created over the years, particularly with regards to my work for animals. These projects show my caring for animals and nature.

Resist Do Not Comply The video I did in collaboration with Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen about direct action in behalf of animals and the environment. (2009)
Taiji The Ultimate Seaworld Fantasy (TM)
Interview with Louie Psihoyos (2010) The Cove Director Part I of 2
Interview with Louie Psihoyos (2010) The Cove Director Part 2 of 2

The Dallas Times Herald spelled my name wrong, but here's a letter I wrote in defense of sharks in 1976.

A few misc graphic design projects, websites and letters about animals that I have written and created.
Taiji Japan: The Ultimate SeaWorld Fantasy
Big Petroleum: "We care about the small people."
My Real Men Are Kind To Animals Series
At A McDonalds Near You
The Scared Little Cow
All Lives Are Precious Vegan Graphic
Happy U.S. Imperialism Genocide And Murdered Turkey Day!
What Has More Intrinsic Value?
The Whale's Eye
A letter I wrote to the Montreal Aquarium in 1987
A Banned Letter I Wrote in 1987 About A Baby Lamb Killed in a Fraternity Hazing Stunt
A Girl's Best Friend Created in Summer 2002 for a Graphic Design class. Chico and Samantha are now old dogs but I still have them and they are living very happy lives.
Doggies: Little Bit, Katie and Samantha Created in 2005 and I still have all three dogs in the slideshow.
My Puppies at 3 weeks ultra kawaii These puppies were born in 2009. Among myself and my immediate family members we still have all of them. They have all been spayed and neutered, as have been all my dogs and non will ever reproduce, they have had all their shots and are microchipped. They are very much loved and doted over. They are happy little doggies and I consider them among my dearest family members.
Seal Shepherd/Michael McDade
Ed Bertolas
Stop! McDonalds
PeTA: Where Only Women Are Treated Like Meat
Boycott HSUS (for their collaboration with Michael Vick)

	Nikki, Casper , Squirt, 1980s. Texas, Big Sur, California
	I have lived closely with animals my whole life, with love and empathy for everyone of them as individuals. There are few times I have passed a dog without stopping to kneel down and greet it. When I am around animals I don't hardly take my hands off them with massages

Posters I have designed for the campaign against severe dog abuser Noelle Stanbridge
Noelle Stanbridge: Animal Abuser
Noelle Stanbridge: Just Just Stop Liar
Noelle Stanbridge: Multiple Offender Animal Abuser

Posters I have designed for the campaign against Michael Vick
Real Heroes don't help sadistic dog fighters get into the nfl
Ted Bundy/Michael Vick
HSUS says up yours to ARAs
HSUS Systemic Systematic Institutional Racism
Think Pepsi
Boycott Anything Michael Vick
National Felons League
He deserves a Second Chance
A public service announcement from The Humane Society of the United States
Michael Vick'$ sentence should have been in dog years
Michael Vick'$ dogs never got to play ball
HSUS Let This Sadist Go!

Websites I've Created About My Work and Interests In General
All About Nikki Craft
No Status Quo

Other small acts
Dead Animal in the Road Tape
Helping the Armadillo Across the Blanco River
Way out past the great beyond is a place called Rainbow Bridge In 2009 I made small changes to the story of Rainbow Bridge and took out the Christian references and used instead Native American Legend where the animal decides what human crosses the bridge.
Wore a bloodied mink coat at 1985 San Diego Miss California to protest contestant winners getting minks for prizes

I'm going to post some misc comments and wall posts from youtube and my disabled facebook account relating to animals.

The graphic below was from April 2009 when facebook asked me to pick my five favorite breeds.

Continued on Part II