birth_place awards nationality parents birth_date alt known_for image article_title name alma_mater
joliet , illinois -lsb- -lrb- 2001 -rrb- http://www.arconference.org/hall-of-fame.htm u.s. animal rights hall of fame -rsb- american jimmy and mary pacheco 1958 8 photograph animal stray dogs need you -rsb- co-founder , people for the rights ethical treatment of animals -lrb- peta -rrb- advocacy founder , -lsb- http://600milliondogs.org/ 600 million alex jpg pacheco -lrb- peta -rrb- -lrb- 2 -rrb- . alex pacheco -lrb- activist -rrb-
 alex pacheco ohio university december 2012
alex pacheco -lrb- activist -rrb-

alexander fernando pacheco -lrb- born august 1958 -rrb- is an american animal rights activist .
he is founder of 600 million stray dogs need you , co-founder and former chairman of people for the ethical treatment of animals -lrb- peta -rrb- and a member of the advisory board of the sea shepherd conservation society .
pacheco first crewed with captain paul watson in 1979 on the ship `` sea shepherd '' across the atlantic ocean , during a campaign of opposition to the `` sierra '' , a portuguese pirate whale-killing ship .
both `` the sea shepherd '' and the `` sierra '' were sunk after being seized by the portuguese authorities .
pacheco came to wider public attention in 1981 for his role , along with ingrid newkirk , in what became known as the silver spring monkeys case , a campaign to release 17 crab-eating macaques who were undergoing experiments in the institute of behavioral research in silver spring , maryland .
oliver stone writes that the political campaign to save the monkeys gave birth to the animal rights movement in the united states .
