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Mar 14
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, …
Mar 12
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 …
Mar 12
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 …
Mar 06
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. …
Mar 03
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, …
Mar 01
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 …
Feb 26
Atlanta Tractors Sabotaged in Solidarity with Forest Defenders
Received Anonymously On the night of February 22nd, we poured a mixture of sand and water into the fuel tanks of two tractors used in the construction of a new Atlanta streetcar. The streetcar is one of many major development projects the city has initiated in the past few years as a part of a …
Feb 26
Interview with Rod Coronado on Indigenous Resistance and Animal Liberation – Still Defending Wildlife
PE: For those unfamiliar with your past, could you introduce yourself? YES SIR, INMATE #03895-000…oh wait, sorry, old habits… Hi my name is rod and I’m from the desert southwest, but live in the great lakes bioregion now. I’ve spent my life fighting for the earth and animals and have just finished a 5 year …
Feb 21
ALF Prisoner Brian Vaillancourt Moved to Danville Correction Center
Posted by Negotiation Is Over Brian Vaillancourt M42889 3820 East Main Street Danville, IL 61834 Earlier today, Brian was moved from Stateville to Danville Correction Center in Illinois. Because he was unable to retain competent counsel, he accepted a plea deal on February 3, 2014, was convicted of aggravated arson, and was sentenced to 9 …
Feb 20
Patterns of Oppression by Walter Bond
Whenever we the human race set about oppressing another group from within or from outside our own species the justifications we use are not only similar in design but often times exact verbatim. There is a fairly intricate pathology to how we determine the otherness of different groups. Unfortunately, it is far to complex for …
Feb 20
Animal Liberation Forum 2014, March 21-22 in Long Beach, CA
JOIN US! For the fifth annual Animal Liberation Forum, a two day FREE event dedicated to the animals! The event kicks off Friday March 21st at 6pm in Kinesiology Room 59 at CSULB. 6-8pm, there will be a potluck and mixer for conference attendees so please bring vegan snacks and food to share! And then …
Feb 19
Fur Coat Smeared with Red Paint in CA
Received anonymously A fur coat was smeared with red paint at a second-hand shop in the Bay Area rendering it unsellable. This was a small action to send the message that the wearing of fur, and profiting off the miserable captivity and slaughter of fur bearing animals, is never acceptable – even if it’s ‘second …
Feb 12
New Donation Page for Animal Liberation Prisoner Brian Vaillancourt
The Earth First! Prisoner Support Project just created a new donation page for Brian Vaillancourt, in hopes of getting legal funds for him to appeal the 9 year sentence. Here’s the site: http://www.gofundme.com/6s3pvg Also, new links to records in Brian’s case: indictment: http://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/brian-vaillaincart-indictment.pdf investigative report: http://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/bvinvestigativereport.pdf Brian Vaillancourt, a long-time animal rights activist …
Feb 12
Twelve years ago today…
I was hauled in front of US Congress as part of their attempt to stop the work of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front. Thanks to my good friend and attorney Stu Sugarman who represented me during the hearing, the Congressional inquiry was a failure, an embarrassment for Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Scott McInnis, …
Feb 08
Man Killed by Cockfighting Rooster
Opposing Views By Michael Allen Jose Ochoa died after a rooster stabbed him in the leg during an illegal cockfight near Tulare County, Calif. The rooster had a razor-like knife attached to its leg, which the birds use to fight each other to the death, notes LA Weekly. Ochoa may have lost too much blood …