Posted in Media, Opposition, Terrorism Rhetoric on Dec 15th, 2008
Last week the Center for Consumer Freedom, an industry front group, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times accusing the Humane Society of the United States of supporting “terrorism.” Their crime? A speech at a “holiday gala” for a group called the Humane League. If you’re not following, well, you’re not the [...]
Posted in Opposition on Dec 12th, 2008
As you all are playing “Six Degrees of Consumer Freedom” and investigating CCF’s ties to terrorist organizations (keep posting your entries!), I wanted to follow up on that New York Times ad.
A few things stuck out as being really odd. Of all the images that could have been used for the ad, they chose activists [...]
Posted in Media, Opposition, Terrorism Rhetoric on Dec 11th, 2008
A full-page ad in today’s The New York Times accuses the Humane Society of “helping an animal rights terrorism group.”
The ad was bought by the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a front group that represents the fast food, meat and dairy industries. You might remember CCF from when they attacked Mothers Against Drunk Driving [...]
Posted in Media, Opposition on Nov 26th, 2008
We’ve seen Adidas endorsing “eco-terrorism” in their ads. Now HSBC, one of the largest banks in the world, has an ad that’s an epic terrorist love story complete with tree sitters, folk music, and happy, apolitical ending.
Here’s the summary: Cops are attacking environmental activists, pulling them from tree sits, using pain compliance holds, carting them [...]
Posted in Activism & Activists' Response on May 8th, 2008
I got a kick out of how this Norwegian enviro/animal/anarchist group took a scare-mongering ad campaign, used to label activists as “terrorists” in major media outlets, and spun it into activist propaganda.
[UPDATE: From a comment on this blog post, I learned that this flier was actually created by the UK chapter of the group [...]
Posted in Federal Terrorism Laws, Legislation, Opposition on Sep 22nd, 2006
The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act has been introduced and reintroduced in Congress for years, always floundering, and this year it looks like industry groups are making a full-court press to get the draconian law passed. The Senate and House Judiciary committees may markup the bills as soon as next week.
The National Association for Biomedical Research [...]
Posted in Opposition, Terrorism Rhetoric on May 12th, 2006
The same ad that “mysteriously” appeared in The New York Times earlier this month also ran in The Washington Post this week.
Clearly these folks have big money and they’re not afraid to toss it around. I wasn’t shocked to see another ad in one of the top five newspapers in the country, and won’t be [...]
Posted in Opposition, Terrorism Rhetoric on May 2nd, 2006
As a follow up to yesterday’s post, I thought I’d dig up a bit more on the heroic individuals out to protect the New York Stock Exchange from “terrorists” like the Teamsters, Greenpeace and the Communication Workers of America.
No such luck. The full-page ad placed in The New York Times last week was [...]
Posted in Opposition, Terrorism Rhetoric on May 1st, 2006
An anonymous ad that ran in The New York Times on Friday praised the conviction of activists on “terrorism” charges, and signaled that the Green Scare is only just beginning.
On September 7, the New York Stock exchange announced it would not list Life Sciences Research, the counterpart to the notorious animal-testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences. [...]
The War on Terrorism has come home. Corporations and politicians are labeling activists "eco-terrorists" and national security threats. Think red-baiting, with a green twist. Here you'll find original reporting and analysis of the Green Scare, and history repeating itself.