Animal Rights Activists

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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I’m teaching a university course this spring. Want to sign up?

You can enroll in Will Potter’s online course, “Investigative Journalism and Social Change:
Reporting on Animal and Environmental Issues” at the University of Southern Maine.

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“I plan on exercising every right that I have” to oppose California grand jury, activist says

Brittany Kenville issues a statement about refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating animal rights activists in California.

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“Do you intend to answer that for every question?”

How activists should respond to a grand jury subpoaena.

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Congressional Report on Domestic Terrorism Addresses the “Green Scare,” Cites Green Is the New Red

A recent Congressional report on domestic terrorism examines the government’s crackdown on animal rights and environmental activists, and asks members of Congress to question why the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act singles out political activists as terrorists when they have not harmed anyone.

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7 Groups the FBI and Corporations Have Classified as “Terrorists”

7 examples of the types of people the government and corporations now routinely label as “terrorists.”

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