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Aug 08
Hacktivists Target Multiple Sites Advocating Animal Abuse
In recent weeks, anonymous Paw Security activists have targeted animal abuse worldwide. Beginning on August 5, Chinese government websites, and those of Chinese companies, were attacked to protest the dog meat and fur trades. In July, the websites of fur stores, roadside zoos, hunting ranches and exotic meat companies were targeted. Weeks later, some of …
Aug 05
Animal rights activists smash Star Grocery windows
August 5, 2014 12:30 pm by Frances Dinkelspiel Two FBI agents visited Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue on Monday to investigate a broken window the government believes was smashed by animal rights activists. The large plate glass window of the market, which has been run by the Pappas family since 1922, was smashed around 2 …
Aug 03
Raju the Elephant, freed after 50 years of captivity and torture
See a video of Raju’s liberation here: Freeing Raju the Crying Elephant from His Chains The Huffington Post For 50 years, Raju the elephant was abused, held shackled in spiked chains and forced to live off scraps from passing tourists. All that changed when he was rescued last weekend by wildlife conservationists who said the …
Aug 03
Do Animals Need a UN Ambassador?
Read article on Huffington Post UN Ambassador Muhumed Sacirbey speaks to the direct correlations between humanitarian issues and animal rights, and why animals should be represented in our international courts, entities, etc as nations and possibly global citizens . He mentions the fight against commercial whaling and ending animal exploitation perpetuated by self-serving multi-national corporations as …
Jul 29
Lawyer plans constitutional challenge in mink farm case
Published: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:30 p.m. CDT By Jason Meisner Chicago Tribune CHICAGO – The lawyer for one of two California animal activists accused of sabotaging a Morris mink farm and releasing about 2,000 animals into the wild last year said Tuesday he plans to challenge the constitutionality of the federal “animal enterprise terrorism” charges …
Jul 28
Windows Smashed at Berkeley, CA Butcher Shop
Received anonymously On the night of June 26th two windows were smashed at Star Meats in Berkeley CA, a butcher shop that boasts about its organic and locally sourced meat. Cage free, organic, murder is murder and death is death. This is a continuation of last years actions in which windows were smashed out of …
Jul 18
Press Release: ALF Targets Canadian Vivisection Front Group with Butyric Acid
For Immediate Release July 18, 2014 In an anonymous communique received by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office this week, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) claims to have targeted the Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science in Toronto, an apologist group for the outdated practice of imprisoning, torturing and killing innocent non-human animals in …
Jul 17
Dr. Steve Best: Speech at the US National Animal Rights Conference, 2014
Link here to the video recording of the talk Dr. Best gave in the opening plenary panel at the US National Animal Rights Conference, on July 10, 2014. He was asked to speak on the meaning of animal rights, and contrasted it to animal welfare, contextualized both in the setting of modern capitalism, and underscored …
Jul 17
Animal Liberation Front Targets Canadian Vivisection Front Group with Butyric Acid
Received Anonymously: On July 14, 2014, in Toronto, the Animal Liberation Front injected butyric acid into the office of the Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science. CALAS is an organization made up of vivisectors that promotes animal research. The butyric acid will soak through the carpet and into the floorboards of their offices, and major …
Jul 16
Two more mobile slaughter units vandalized – Capital Press
Mateusz Perkowski July 16, 2014 11:30AM Capital Press (The West’s Ag Website) Mobile slaughter trucks have again been targeted by animal rights activists. Vandals have apparently damaged more mobile slaughter units in the Northwest, calling it “sabotage” in the name of animal rights. A “chemical abrasive” and bleach were poured into the fuel tanks of slaughter trucks …
Jul 16
Second Mobile Slaughter Unit Sabotaged by Activists in WA
15 July 2014 Received Anonymously: Earlier this month, a quart of bleach was poured into the fuel tank of a mobile slaughter unit operated by Bolar Custom Meat Cutting (381 Delameter Rd, Castle Rock, WA). This was done with the goal of causing damage to the unit’s fuel system and providing temporary respite from the …
Jul 15
Washington State Mobile Slaughter Truck Sabotaged by ALF
14 July 2014 Received Anonymously: Last week, a mobile slaughter truck operated by Wards Custom Meat Cutting (25906 NE 147th Ave, Battle Ground, WA) was sabotaged by having a chemical abrasive introduced to its fuel system. There is nothing humane about turning a living-breathing animal into a lifeless commodity in order to satisfy frivolous human …
Jul 11
Two California animal rights activists indicted on mink farm sabotage charges
By Reuters Friday, July 11, 2014 6:38 EDT Two Los Angeles-area activists accused of sabotaging an Illinois mink farm and freeing 2,000 of the weasel-like animals from captivity there have been indicted on federal charges of conspiracy and interstate travel to interfere with an animal enterprise. The two-count indictment returned earlier this week by a …
Jul 10
Two animal rights activists charged with freeing 2,000 mink from farm
BY KIM JANSSEN Federal Courts Reporter July 10, 2014 4:49PM A pair of California animal rights protestors have been federally charged with freeing 2,000 mink from an Illinois fur farm. Tyler Lang, 25, and Kevin Johnson, 27, allegedly released the animals from a mink farm in Morris, 65 miles southwest of Chicago last August, then …
Jul 09
Animal Rights Militia Active in Czech Republic- 50 Mink Liberated, Farm Sabotaged
From our comrades in the Czech Republic- “we received an anonymous statement (little bit longer in Czech version) about actions against two fur farms in Czech Republic. Informations in the statement are as consistent with a local media report. It is the second action against fur farms in Czech Republic since the last summer. We …