Jun 02
By Steve Rice Stratford Beacon Herald Animal rights activists are being blamed for the deaths of over 100 mink in a shocking weekend attack on a St. Marys area farm. Jeff Richardson was still catching a few loose mink at Glenwood Fur Farm on Monday morning after approximately 1,500 nursing females were released from their …
Jun 01
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 …
May 24
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? …
May 14
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 …
May 11
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. …
May 06
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 …
May 04
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 …
Apr 30
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 …
Apr 18
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 …
Apr 02
Portland Tribune Written by Raymond Rendleman Bird breeders in Beavercreek lost approximately 50 pheasants valued at $1,000 when an unknown number of suspects cut a lock to open up an aviary housing the animals last month. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office took the initial report at about 1:07 p.m. on March 18 at Estacada Game …
Mar 11
Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The FBI is investigating an apparent attempt to firebomb a fast-food restaurant in Reno because of the possibility it could have been an act of domestic terrorism after the initials of an animal rights group were found scrawled on a drive-thru sign, local fire officials told The Associated Press …
Mar 11
by Khushbu Shah Eater.com The FBI is investigating. Someone tried to fry a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Reno, Nevada: According to KOLO TV, the restaurant was firebombed yesterday morning. When employees arrived at the restaurant, they found that a window had been shattered and that a “Molotov cocktail had been thrown inside.” Authorities tell the …
Mar 07
Center for Constitutional Rights March 5 at 1:55pm ·We are very disappointed to announce that the judge in the case of two animal rights activists indicted on terrorism charges for allegedly releasing thousands of animals from fur farms has denied CCR’s motion to dismiss the case. The judge provided one bit of comfort by interpreting …
Mar 05
by Kenneth Lerer The Dodo The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced Thursday that it will phase out the use of elephants in its circuses. Why? Because it knew that if it didn’t do the “right” thing, it would be the end of its business. “There’s been somewhat of a mood shift among …
Feb 25
Footage of 3 people from our group of activists that were beaten and nearly pushed off of a first floor roof by a pro- bullfighting supporter while we were on an anti-bullfighting protest in Valencia, Spain. Its on the point of going to court…in the video you will see the police as they stand and …
