THE NIO Editorial Collective
Camille Marino
Camille Marino is the Founder & Senior Editor of Negotiation Is Over! (NIO). She is the organizer of In the Streets (ITS), a global collective of decentralized autonomous resistance cells which is dedicated to uniting activists and coordinating aggressive campaigns across continents. As the founder of ITS Florida, she and her co-admins have pooled their resources and aligned themselves to fight exploitation across the state. She is the Founder of the Task Force as well as one of its Directors. The Task Force provides tools and strategies for members of the collective in the ongoing effort to facilitate action. She is also a co-founder of Pro-Test for Science. Camille believes that negotiating with abusers is an exercise in futility and understands that the only action that matters to the imprisoned is the one that imparts freedom. Acutely aware of the fact that the victimized animals do not read blogs, NIO strives to be an instrument of defiance, disruption, and creative & aggressive grassroots action. There is no weaker segment of society than the nonhuman animals who’s voices have been silenced. Total liberation — human animals, nonhuman animals, and the earth — will not happen by politely asking abusers to be decent. Emotion and passion drive action… not sterile debate. (Complete Bio.)
Dr. Steve Best
Dr. Steven Best is NIO’s Senior Editor of Total Liberation. Associate professor of philosophy at UTEP, award-winning writer, noted speaker, public intellectual, and seasoned activist, Dr. Best engages the issues of the day such as animal rights, ecological crisis, biotechnology, liberation politics, terrorism, mass media, globalization, and capitalist domination. Best has published 10 books, over 150 articles and reviews, spoken in over a dozen countries, interviewed with media throughout the world, appeared in numerous documentaries, and was voted by VegNews as one of the nations “25 Most Fascinating Vegetarians.” He has come under fire for his uncompromising advocacy of “total liberation” (humans, animals, and the earth) and has been banned from the UK for the power of his thoughts. From the US to Norway, from Sweden to France, from Germany to Russia to South Africa, Best shows what philosophy means in a world in crisis. (See Dr. Best’s Complete Biography)
Gary Yourofsky
Gary Yourofsky is NIO’s Senior Editor of Vegan Education. Founder of ADAPTT (Animals Deserve Absolute Protection Today and Tomorrow). Yourofsky uses his notoriety (including 13 arrests, a mink liberation in Canada in ‘97, and banishment from five countries) to reach tens of thousands of students through approximately 250 engagements annually in public schools and universities across the country. He uses thought-provoking prose, inspiring stories, indisputable facts, quotes from Pythagoras, William Ralph Inge and other great thinkers, plus graphic footage from slaughterhouses (land and sea), to ask people to be kind to animals and, ultimately, go vegan.
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Peter Young
Peter Young is NIO’s Senior Editor of Animal Liberation and the creator of VoiceOfTheVoiceless.org. Young is a veteran animal liberation activist and former political prisoner convicted for his role in liberating thousands of animals from fur farms across the country. Emerging from a grand jury indictment, 7 years of being wanted by the FBI, a federal prison sentence, and nearly 15 years in the animal liberation movement, today Peter is a frequent lecturer at universities and events, writer on liberation movements, and unapologetic supporter of those who work outside the law to achieve human, earth, and animal liberation.
Katja Bossen
Katja Bossen is NIO’s Senior Editor of Intelligence & Global Resistance. She is the coordinator of Germany’s unit of the NIO In the Streets collective of decentralized autonomous resistance cells, co-founder of Pro-Test for Science, the editor of BiteBack Germany, and, in 2003, Bossen founded “Antijagd-Offensive”, dedicated to abolishing hunting and supporting hunt saboteurs. She is a vegan anarchist and for the past 15 years has helped to provide networking and campaigning platforms for the vegan community, militants and activists. Katja says: “In a global system of exploitation and destruction, abusers are protected by laws. A globally unified movement of animal and earth liberationists is shattering their safety. Militant direct action and civil disobedience are not only legitimate, they are necessary and highly effective. Cyber-warfare and hacktivism are also important tools of political resistance while facing worldwide supression of information.” Katja lives in northern Germany. Contact her: cat@biteback.de .
Phillip Reynes
Phillip Reynes is NIO’s Senior Editor of Insurrectional Anarchism. He is also the U.S. Public Affairs Director for Prison State and site administrator of Anarchy: A Journal of Armed Desire. Reynes is a prison rights activist, and an active member and sight administrator of the Colorado Independent Media Collective (COIMC). He has a book due to come out next winter entitled “Our Times: an Anarchist View.” Reynes’ views on anarchism can be summed up as follows: “It is useless to wait for some sort of breakthrough, for a revolution, for some great apocalypse, or the right moment. To go on waiting is pointless. The catastrophe is here! The apocalypse is now! It’s not coming… it has already arrived. We are in the midst of it. It is within this reality that we must now choose sides and make our stand.”
Jody Sidote
Jody Sidote is NIO’s Senior Editor of Grassroots Initiatives. She is also our Northeast Campaign Director and the coordinator of the New Jersey unit of the NIO In the Streets collective of decentralized autonomous resistance cells. Sidote is an uncompromising and dedicated vegan liberationist who is driven by anger and compassion, selflessness and determination. Her devotion to the animals has made her the target of coordinated and prolonged campaigns of police intimidation which have only served to galvanize her resolve.
Agatha Maksymiak
Agatha Maksymiak is NIO’s Director of Activism Outreach. She is an uncompromising vegan liberationist and an active member of the autonomous NIO Toronto cell. Agatha is a registered nurse who has encountered significant academic repression as a vocal anti-vivisectionist pursuing a medical education. The ease with which she navigates enemy territory has afforded her the opportunity to document and expose horrific cruelty in labs as well as negotiate the liberation of countless victims who have found safety, freedom, and love as members of her family. She continues to rescue animals from many abusive situations as she actively works to spread awareness in her community.
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