Terrorism Legislation

Democracy Now! Debate: After Activists Expose Animal Cruelty, Should They Be Targeted With “Ag-Gag” Laws?

Democracy Now with Amy Goodman devoted its entire program to “ag-gag” bills that criminalize undercover investigators and whistleblowers, including a debate between Will Potter and an industry representative.

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Breaking: New Ag-Gag Bill Introduced in North Carolina on Same Day Butterball Worker Pleads Guilty to Cruelty

North Carolina is the latest state to consider a new law targeting whistleblowers, undercover investigators, and journalists who expose factory farms. The legislation was introduced on the same day that a fifth Butterball employee pled guilty to criminal cruelty to animals — charges that wouldn’t be possible without the undercover investigations that bills like this aim to […]

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Indiana Bill Would Make It Illegal to Expose Factory Farms, Clearcutting and Fracking

Indiana lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it illegal to photograph or videotape things like factory farming, clear-cutting forests, mining, and fracking.

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Court Dismisses Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Lawsuit. Here’s How That Affects You.

A U.S. district court dismissed a lawsuit against the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act brought by animal rights activists who say they are at risk of being labeled terrorists.

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VICE: “New laws make it safer to beat the shit out of chickens”

A detailed look at “ag-gag” bills pushed by the factory farming industry to silence whistleblowers and journalists.

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“This is an industry that wants to operate in total secrecy, and with total immunity” (video)

Abby Martin interviews Will Potter about ag-gag bills for her show “Breaking the Set.”

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NPR Interviews Will Potter on “Ag Gag” Bills, and Labeling Whistleblowers as “Terrorists”

I’m a huge fan of NPR’s “On the Media.” It’s hands-down some of the sharpest, most comprehensive coverage of free speech, privacy, and media issues. So I was thrilled to be back on the program recently talking about “ag gag” bills that threaten undercover investigators, whistleblowers, and even journalists. As NPR’s Brooke Gladstone notes, undercover […]

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Big Ag Wants to Rewrite the Law So That You’ll Never See This

This wave of “ag-gag” bills would criminalize whistleblowers, investigators, and journalists who expose animal welfare abuses at factory farms and slaughterhouses.

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Sam Seder Interviews Will Potter for The Majority Report (audio)

Sam Seder interviews Will Potter about corporations targeting environmental activists as terrorists, and why the FBI is ignoring right-wing groups.

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“These activists make Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’ look tame by comparison”

The Animal Legal Defense Fund interviews Will Potter about Ag Gag legislation targeting undercover investigators.

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