Category: Essays

Animal rights and environmental terrorism

Animal rights and environmental terrorism Steve Cooke Abstract Many paradigmatic forms of animal rights and environmental activism have been classed as terrorism both in popular discourse and in law. This paper argues that the labelling of many violent forms of direct action carried out in the name of animal rights or environmentalism as ‘terrorism’ is …

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Socialists and the animal question

By Jon Hochschartner Despite government repression of animal activists, in many ways there has never been an easier time to be vegetarian or vegan. One can find a wide selection of food without animal products in the most unlikely of places, such as small towns of upstate New York, where typical accoutrement is not tie-dye …

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LP Hoopla Interview with Press Officer Nicoal R. Sheen

http://www.lphoolpa.org/2013/07/animal-liberation-front-press-office.html Recently I interviewed Nicoal of the Animal Liberation Front Press Office. This is an organization I have heard a bunch of but knew very little about so decided to shine some light on them. Even if this is not my personal approach to being vegan for some it is and understanding is always helpful. …

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The Cruelty of Industrial Technology

There is no brutality as wicked as systematic cruelty, and systematic cruelty only becomes widespread by aid of technology. When I was a young man before and leading up to my Vegan awakening I built slaughterhouses. Industrial plumbing, welding. structural steel and machine installation were my daily routines. One of those machines was called ‘the …

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Matt Miner’s Liberator, comic review by Press Officer Nicoal R. Sheen

Matt Miner’s Liberator is raw, realistic and revolutionary… Liberator is a honest portrayal of an animal activist’s battle for justice in a society which embraces institutionalized speciesism. In the first issue, readers peek into the duel life of Damon Guerrero, an underground animal liberation operative by night and a barista by early morning. Through Guerrero’s …

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The Persecution of an Activist

Will Hazlitt, Press Officer North American ANimal Liberation Press Office If we are not careful soon will be gone  the days when absolute and true free speech rules. In every way restrictions are being placed on speech. Only political speech and language seems to be exempt from these limitations. The political language of the elites …

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Nicoal R. Sheen: ‘We are the voice for those behind the mask’

The Examiner May 13, 2013 By: Jeannette Smith “As of March 2013 we have removed and destroyed approximately 200 fur traps in Ontario. The traps were snares and Conibears intended to murder beaver, rabbits and other innocents. Tragically we were too late for two rabbits and one raccoon, whose bodies and internal organs had already …

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xVx What It Means To Me xVx- by Walter Bond

[Walter Bond is an imprisoned Animal Liberation Front operative who in the Summer of 2010 was arrested for the A.L.F. Lone Wolf arsons of the Sheepskin Factory in Denver, Colorado, the Tandy Leather Factory in Salt Lake City, Utah and Tiburon Restaurant in Sandy, Utah. On February 11, 2011, Bond was sentenced to 5 years in …

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Political Prison- by Walter Bond

[Walter Bond is an imprisoned Animal Liberation Front operative who in the Summer of 2010 was arrested for the A.L.F. Lone Wolf arsons of the Sheepskin Factory in Denver, Colorado, the Tandy Leather Factory in Salt Lake City, Utah and Tiburon Restaurant in Sandy, Utah. On February 11, 2011, Bond was sentenced to 5 years in …

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Branded for Animal Rights

                        video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8i0oPHkyU0 The moment the brand hits my skin, I can’t help but think of them. Him cramped in a metal cell, absolutely terrified, the barrel of a gun to his temple. Her crying out as her child is ripped away from her …

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Hunters are terrorists of animal world

by Gary Yourofsky, Press Officer North American Animal Liberation Press Office Before I refute every hunting lie ever espoused, let me begin with a quote from the great philosopher Pythagoras: “As long as humanity continues to be the ruthless destroyer of other beings, we will never know health or peace. For as long as people …

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The Freedom Fighters of the Animal Liberation Front

by Will Hazlitt, Press Officer North American Animal Liberation Press Office Recently I had the opportunity to have some lengthy discussions with a pair of  self-termed “journalists.” Both conversations were interesting and unsettling at the same time. First of all, when did a ‘reporter,’ as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language …

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Embracing Tactical Violence in the Struggle for Animal Liberation

North American Animal Liberation Press Office By Camille Marino In a recent critique of tactical violence, James McWilliams writes: It’s commonplace to denounce the lunatic fringe of the animal rights movement for its advocacy and, at times, perpetuation of violence. This denouncement makes perfect sense and is something that anyone who cares about the fate …

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-Words You Understand- by Abdul Haqq

  Constantine wire, grey walls, fences and bars. Locked in a cage, dehumanized. Like an Animal, as if they deserve this hell anymore than I do. Talking to the Outside is like shouting down an empty well. You imagine there is someone at the other end, or something listening to you. But in your heart …

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“Total liberation provides agency for all” – Press Officer Nicoal R. Sheen

English Version of Interview conducted by Dobrusia at Lajke, a feminist/animal liberationist blog (see interview translated in Polish here) Can you say something about you and the projects you’re involved in at the moment? I am a full time activist for animal liberation and ecofeminism. I currently hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Politics, focusing …

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