THE NIO Editorial Collective
Camille A. Marino
Camille Marino, Senior Editor & Founder of NIO. Negotiating with abusers is an exercise in futility. The only action that matters to the imprisoned is the one that imparts freedom. It is a moral obligation to protect the innocent whenever we can through any effective means. Free speech needs to be exercised or it shrivels up and dies. Oppression needs to be resisted. And activists need to engage. Emotion and passion drive action, not sterile debate. We need to tear down the hierarchical structures, including capitalism, which demand exploited classes. 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. (Complete Bio.)
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Dr. Steven 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 100 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)
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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 editor of BiteBack Germany and in 2003 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 vegans 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 .
Michael Bishop
Michael Bishop is NIO’s Senior Editor of Tactical Diversity & Direct Action Politics and founder and editor of Radical Abolition Agitator Zone (RAAZ). He is a vegan anarchist, and a passionate animal rights activist who protests various forms of animal exploitation with Animal Rights Maine. He frequently writes in support of tactical diversity and is committed to promoting the philosophy of total liberation for all species through militant opposition to animal exploitation, racism, sexism, homophobia, capitalism, corporate personhood, environmental destruction, organized religion and all systems of hierarchical domination. In addition to this he is a dedicated father and husband who lives with his family in Maine. He can be reached at mdbishop78@gmail.com.
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