Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty

The Birth of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, and the Arrest of the SHAC 7

The latest issue of Bite Back magazine includes an excerpt from my new book. The excerpt takes place on the day of the SHAC 7 arrests, and also looks at the campaigns against Consort Beagle Breeders, Shamrock Farms, and the rise of Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty. You can download the excerpt here (1M, .pdf). But […]

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Activism Labeled “Blackmail,” UK Animal Activists Sentenced to 4-11 Years in Prison

Seven animal rights activists in the U.K. were sentenced to up to 11 years in prison Wednesday for “conspiracy to blackmail” in their campaign to shut down the notorious animal testing laboratory Huntingdon Life Sciences.

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Herbivore Magazine Article on the SHAC 7: “The World Takes? How corporations and politicians turned animal rights activists into terrorists”

[This was published by Herbivore Magazine in one of their mini-books a while back. I realized I hadn’t posted it here, and it’s not available anywhere else online. Hope you enjoy it.] "The World Takes? How corporations and politicians turned animal rights activists into terrorists," Herbivore, Volume 13, 26-48. By WILL POTTER On some days […]

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Recap of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty “Terrorism” Appeal in Philadelphia

When the animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) posted news of both legal and illegal conduct on its website, and publicly supported a variety of tactics in the movement to shut down the notorious animal testing lab Huntingdon Life Sciences, they were acting as “generals” in a campaign of “terrorism,” the U.S. government […]

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Audio of SHAC 7 Panel Discussion

This is an excerpt from the SHAC 7 panel discussion at the recent animal rights conference, with me and Andrea Lindsay discussing the trial and what it means for activists of all social movements. I cut out some of the back-and-forth near the end, because the sound quality wasn’t so hot. [Audio clip: view full […]

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Head of Pro-Vivisection Group Opposes Green-Baiting Laws

The head of a prominent pro-vivisection group in England published an op-ed opposing bans on animal rights activism in the name of combating “extremism.”

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Posting Personal Info to Web Not Harassment, State Supreme Court Says

Posting names, addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers and photographs on a personal website doesn’t violate an anti-harassment court order, the Supreme Court of the State of Washington decided last week. The case doesn’t involve animal rights, but it’s worth noting because the SHAC 7 were recently convicted on “animal enterprise terrorism” charges for running […]

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