2015 archive

June 2015 E-Newsletter

Direct Action of the Month   RABBITS RESCUED FROM LAB BREEDER May 25, 2015 – Brazil According to an anonymous report received by Eco-Resistência, the ALF rescued rabbits from one of the largest suppliers of animals for laboratories in Brazil. Video from the action may be released soon Featured Articles, Essays and News   Embattled …

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Activists halt work at animal testing construction site

Eleanor Cummins The Daily of the University of Washington At 4:30 a.m. Monday, two activists climbed an excavator on the construction site of the UW’s new animal testing facility at 15th Avenue Northeast and Northeast Pacific Street. One activist chained themselves to the excavator. The other activist, unchained but also situated on the excavator, was …

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3 Reasons All Feminists Should Support Animal Rights

Huffington Post Samita Sarkar “Feminism” has lately become less of a dirty word, as more people recognize it as being the belief in gender equality. Men, women, and transpeople can all be feminists. According to popular sex educator Laci Green, if you believe women are human, you’re a feminist. It’s that simple. Or is it? …

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Prisoner Support: More Materials for June 11th Available!

The call for this year’s June 11th–The International Day of Solidarity With Marius Mason, Eric McDavid, & All Longterm Anarchist Political Prisoners–is titled Transition. We encourage everyone to check it out and hope that it will inspire people to hold local events in solidarity with Marius, Eric, and others. June 11th organizers have also been …

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The Role Of Science In A Push For Animal Liberation

NPR News Barbara King Last Friday in the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer asked which contemporary practices will be deemed “abominable” in the future, in the way that we today think of human enslavement. He then offered his own opinion: “I’ve long thought it will be our treatment of animals. I’m convinced that our great-grandchildren will …

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Captive Wolves Need Help

1119 Randolf Road, Lillie Louisiana is the actual physical address of the animals in terrible distress! Below are photos and documentation of a rapid breeder that has upward of 20 wolf and wolf dogs aging from under a month to 13 years old. Every animal is short chained, outdoors, with frozen water in water bowls,very …

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Hog barn fire claims lives of two Jasper women

Fire marshal investigates blaze east of Jasper Rock County Star Herald Mavis Fodness Two people died Monday morning, May 11, in a hog barn fire four miles east of Jasper in Rock County. According to Rock County Sheriff Evan Verbrugge, Sharla Drew, 50, and Kristy (VanSurksum) Giesler, 32, both of Jasper, died in the blaze. …

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Lobsters liberated from Dublin restaurant by animal rights activists

by Linda McGrory Nine lobsters have been liberated from a Dublin restaurant in a daring weekend sting by animal rights activists. Members of the National Animal Rights Association (NARA), Direct Action For Animals, and Alliance For Animal Rights swooped on the Ka Shing Chinese restaurant as busy Friday trade got under way about 7.30pm. A …

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Reward set for info in Reno KFC firebombing

Reno Gazette-Journal The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for a March firebombing/arson at a Reno KFC restaurant. No injuries were reported in the March 9 incident at the Silverada Boulevard restaurant. Law enforcement officers called to the scene said there …

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Embattled Max Planck neuroscientist quits primate research

By Gretchen Vogel, AAAS BERLIN—A neuroscientist who has been the target of animal rights activists says he is giving up on primate research. Nikos Logothetis, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, says he will conclude his current experiments on macaques “as quickly as possible” and then shift his …

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SOLIDARITY FEST- June 28 in Los Angeles

Featuring: SPEAKERS, POETS, ANARCHO PUNK / RIOT GRRRL BANDS & REVOUTIONARY HIP HOP Date: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 Time: 4pm-9pm Admission: Free (no door charge) Location: CIELO galleries/studios, 3201 Maple Ave, Los Angeles California  90011 SPEAKERS : B. Kwaku Duren Kizzy Brown Michael D McCarty        The first Solidarity Festival was in the middle of the …

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Policing the Police: Your Right to Record Law Enforcement

By Lauren Regan, CLDC Executive Directory and attorney As most of you know, the CLDC has defended the rights of activists, people of color, those experiencing emotional distress, and many other marginalized and targeted communities both on the streets and in the courtroom. We work extremely hard to hold police accountable for their abuse of …

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Arson at Veracruz (Mexico) Veterinary Facility (delayed report)

Received anonymously (translation): We take responsibility for the arson on May 10, 2013 on the premises of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, in the town of Xalapa, Veracruz. This institution like so many others through the cynical welfarist discourse, supports a hypocritical regulation of the exploitation suffered by nonhuman animals in the area of scientific …

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June 11th: International Day of Solidarity With Marius Mason, Eric McDavid & All Longterm Anarchist Prisoners

June 11, 2015 : TRANSITION : The struggle’s not over… The last year has been full of changes and transitions for our imprisoned comrades and for those of us engaged in struggle on the other side of the walls. Now, solidly in the throes of spring, we feel compelled to celebrate these transitions and victories …

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FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades

Washington Post By Spencer S. Hsu The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000. Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic …

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