I will be speaking at Yale with Andy Stepanian (of the SHAC 7, and a former CMU prisoner) about corporate campaigns to silence non-violent animal rights activists as “terrorists.”
The event is June 13th (see the flier for details). If you’re in the area, please come! Andy is a fantastic speaker. PS: RSVP on Facebook and [...]

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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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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been classified as as a “terrorist threat” in a document created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The USDA created a new “APHIS Facility Security Profile” form to send to animal experimentation facilities. Recipients were asked to answer about their experiences, and return the form to the [...]

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Center for Consumer Freedom Supports TerrorismThe Center for Consumer Freedom, a corporate front group formed by Philip Morris, is warning Dupont Circle businesses that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals may bring “violence” to the Washington, D.C. neighborhood.
CCF’s press release and letter warns neighbors of the “potential for harassment, violence, and mass pet killings” [...]

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Forget the Green Scare, these animal rights activists are busy protesting other animal rights activists.In the 1960s, COINTELPRO was a sweeping government program to monitor, manipulate and disrupt progressive social movements in the United States, including antiwar activists, the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement and Martin Luther King. As part of COINTELPRO, the government [...]

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We’ve got an unholy, hotter’n hell theme going this week. Here’s some of the nuttier “eco-terrorism” scare-mongering going on:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals “is undistinguishable from al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah.” Well, except for the guns. And the tofu.
Meanwhile, an Australian priest says Peta is “the occult.” Praise Seitan!
Keeping with the [...]

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The danger of all this “terrorism” rhetoric is how politically malleable it is: industry groups can mold it into “eco-terrorism,” KFC can hammer it into “corporate terrorism” to smear Peta, and on and on and on. The word can be melted and reformed into a weapon against the latest enemy of the hour.
The flipside [...]

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You might already know that the SHAC 7 were convicted of “animal enterprise terrorism” for running a controversial website that listed personal information about corporations tied to the notorious animal testing lab Huntingdon Life Sciences. You might not know, though, that before that the corporations SHAC targeted hit back with various other legal tactics. Restraining [...]

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The genius of the Red Scare, and now the Green Scare, is that once you have completely demonized an entire group of people (either labeling them “communists” or “eco-terrorists”) you can slowly extend that scare-mongering in ever-wider circles. So first you brand someone who vandalizes an SUV as a “terrorist” (an absurdity in its own [...]

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One reason the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act passed with little opposition, even from liberal groups that have spoken out against the war and the Patriot Act, is because the animal rights movement has made itself a political leper.
A recent example:
Michael Moore’s new film, Sicko, is about the health care industry. Peta’s response? Call him [...]

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