FBI raid of Salt Lake City house of animal rights activists. Photo by Jordan Halliday.FBI agents and law enforcement from multiple agencies have raided a well-known activist group house in Salt Lake City, Utah, today in connection with an investigation of Animal Liberation Front crimes in Iowa.
I just got off the phone with multiple housemates [...]
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Fifty years ago this month, four black students sat at a Woolworth’s whites-only lunch counter and refused to move. The following day 25 students did the same. A few days later, more than 300 showed up. The sit-ins quickly spread across the South and were a critical component of the civil rights movement. Decades later, [...]
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Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Jan 28th, 2010
A PETA activist pied the Fisheries Minister of Canada, as a publicity stunt to draw attention to Canada’s seal slaughter, and now a member of parliament says the pieing should be investigated as an act of terrorism.
The Globe and Mail reports that the member of parliament, Gerry Byrne, said:
“When someone actually coaches or conducts [...]
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Posted in Opposition on Jan 8th, 2010
McDonald’s has rolled out a new logo in France, replacing the iconic red background of the golden arches with green. Here’s some info from ZLOK design blog, and here is where I saw the story originally (although I can barely stumble through the French!), at TerraEco.net.
There has been so much fluff news lately about “easy [...]
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Scott DeMuth, a Minneapolis activist, has been indicted for conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, apparently in relation to a 2004 Animal Liberation Front raid at the University of Iowa. He faces up to 5 years in prison. His indictment marks a continued expansion of the scope of the new terrorism law, which [...]
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Posted in Legal Issues on Oct 28th, 2009
After being repeatedly exposed for serious, systemic animal cruelty, and now facing a media nightmare, animal agriculture corporations are firing back by calling for the prosecution of undercover activists who expose the abuses.
The Animal Agriculture Alliance says:
As these videos achieve the publicity sought by the groups, the Alliance is concerned that the activist employees providing [...]
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UK police gathered personal information on thousands of activists who simply attend protests or political meetings, and created national databases.
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Animal rights activists shot at Pet Shop protest.
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Posted in Activists Arrested, Legal Issues on Oct 14th, 2009
The conviction of the SHAC 7–animal rights activists hit with “terrorism” charges for publishing a website and vocally, unapologetically supporting direct action–has been upheld by a U.S. appellate court. It is a landmark free speech ruling that lowers the threshold of what types of conduct are protected by the First Amendment, and upholds a law [...]
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Posted in Grand Juries, Legal Issues on Oct 14th, 2009
A Utah animal rights activist has been indicted by a federal grand jury on felony contempt charges for asserting his First and Fifth Amendment rights, and refusing to cooperate with the “animal rights terrorism” witch hunt. His trial is scheduled to begin on November 2.
The grand jury is investigating the release of thousands of [...]
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