September 2015 archive

What can animalists learn from Vietnam anti-war movement?

What can animalists learn from Vietnam anti-war movement? By Jon Hochschartner Some years ago, I read “North Star,” the autobiography of Peter Camejo, an American socialist. In 1976, Camejo was the Socialist Worker’s Party candidate for president, but drifted away from Trotskyism, eventually finding a home in the Green Party.  He likened himself to a …

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Vivisection Laboratory Website Hacked

Received anonymously (the defaced website belongs to McGill University neuroscience researcher Yogita Chudasama) The 7th September 2015, a vivisection laboratory website was sabotaged by using the technique of ‘deface’. It was entered to the website server and some of their directories were modified. The result was a more realistic image about what the laboratory does …

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Activists target E.E. Wilson bird pens

BENNETT HALL Corvallis Gazette-Times Animal rights activists attempting to thwart a pheasant hunt cut open a holding pen at E.E. Wilson Wildlife Management Area, but state game officials say only a handful of birds escaped. According to Rick Hargrave, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, 565 pheasants were being kept in …

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100 Pheasants Liberated from EE Wilson Game Management Area (Oregon)

In the late night hours of September 17th, after hiking miles through the forest, we descended upon a Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) pheasant holding pen located within the EE Wilson Game Management Area. Aviation snips were used to cut a hole in the netting surrounding the pen allowing the approximately 100 ring-necked …

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