March 2014 archive

FASEB guide on mitigating risk of animal rights extremism

The Lawyer On 12 March, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) released recommendations regarding response to threats by animal rights (AR) extremists. Counsel and responsible officials at organisations with animal research programmes may find it useful to review FASEB’s guide and consider implementation of its recommendations. Approximately 220 illegal AR extremist incidents …

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Activists target Ronan (Montana) fur farm

by Jessica Stugelmayer Lake County Leader   RONAN — A local fur farm was the target of vandalism from animal right’s advocates earlier this month, when masked suspects trespassed on the property and destroyed breeding records. The Leader received several emails from animal rights groups, Bite Back and the Animal Liberation Front, who forwarded an …

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Why Did the FBI Label Ryan Shapiro’s Dissertation on Animal Rights a Threat to National Security?

Democracy Now Radio Over the past decade, Ryan Shapiro has become a leading freedom of information activist, unearthing tens of thousands of once-secret documents. His work focuses on how the government infiltrates and monitors political movements, in particular those for animal and environmental rights. Today, he has around 700 Freedom of Information Act requests before …

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Breeding Records Destroyed at Fraser Fur Farm in Montana

Received Anonymously In the early morning hours of March the 7th, anonymous individuals breached the property lines of Fraser Fur Farm, a target of anti-fur activists and compassionate individuals for nearly a quarter century. Our motives were borne of a fierce love for wildlife, and a torn heart forced to watch as bobcats and other …

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Fur Farmers Post ALF Wanted Posters

from Animal Liberation Frontline Fur farmers distribute new “Wanted” poster to convenience stores, coffee shops, more. The fur industry’s hunt for the Animal Liberation Front just go weirder. After the Fur Commission issued bulletins telling fur farmers to call the police if their address is on the internet, and to be on alert for the …

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Animal rights activist convicted of blackmail at Winchester Crown Court

Southern Daily Echo AN animal rights activist has been convicted of conspiring to blackmail customers and suppliers of an animal research company. Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) activist, Debbie Vincent, 52, was found guilty at Winchester Crown Court. The court heard she and other members of the group aimed to ‘close down’ Huntingdon Life Sciences, …

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Reunions and Cupcakes, by Walter Bond

When I was a child things were a fucking mess. I won’t dishonor my family by exposing all the gory details but believe me when I say that I have seen every kind of debauchery brought on by addiction. I have cried every kind of tear and lived through every kind of poverty and cycle …

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Jonathan Pieslak, Phd and Professor of Music interviews Walter Bond

Jonathan Pieslak, Phd and Professor of Music interviews Walter Bond about Vegan Straight Edge, Hardline, the ALF and the Music and politics behind the movement! Jonathan Pieslak-I’m Curious as how you first became interested in radical environmentalism and Animal Liberation. Could you describe what attracted you to the movement and how you became involved? Also, …

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FBI hunt for most-wanted domestic terrorist narrows to Hawaii

By Jana Winter The FBI’s decade-long hunt for a suspected environmental terrorist believed to have bombed two buildings in California has narrowed to Honolulu, where authorities are aggressively advertising a $250,000 reward for information leading to his capture. Daniel Andreas San Diego, 36, a Berkeley, Calif.,-born hard-core vegan and self-styled “animal liberationist,” is believed to …

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Animal Rights Extremists Increasingly Targeting Individuals (Darned Right!)

Science Insider Animal rights activists have dramatically shifted their tactics over the last decade, targeting individual researchers and the businesses that support them, instead of going after their universities. That’s the biggest revelation to come out of a report released today by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), the largest coalition of …

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Earth First Means Social War: Becoming an Anti-Capitalist Ecological Social Force

by Liam Sionnach Glossary of Terms affect: 1. A material influence or alteration that produces empowerment. 2. To act upon (as a person or a person’s mind or feelings) so as to provoke a response; influence. Affective struggle changes those struggling, as well as the world around them. effect: The power to produce external results. …

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Indigenous Animal Rights Activist Rod Coronado Speaking Tour

Rod Coronado, an animal rights activist who helped sink an Icelandic whaling fleet and spent time in prison for an arson attack on animal research facilities at Michigan State University, will be speaking around the country on the following dates. Coronado, a Pascua Yaqui who was a member of the eco-anarchist groups Animal Liberation Front, …

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FBI putting up billboards to aid search for animal rights activist

The FBI is putting up billboards in Buffalo as part of a nationwide search for an animal rights activist accused of domestic terrorism. The billboards ask the public to contact the agency if they think they have seen Daniel Andreas, a San Diego man who has been on the run for 10 years. The FBI …

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