Oct 09
TSA agent tries to tell me I can’t board a flight. I laugh at him. He scurries off like a little bitch. A consistent theme through this site is the TSA having no idea what they’re doing and just making up rules to flex their muscles. The most pathetic example of this came early on …
Oct 07
Reposted from Animal Liberation FrontLine Satirical hip hop lyrics, more used as evidence in mink release case. Since Animal Enterprise Terrorism charges were filed against Kevin Olliff & Tyler Lang in July, the FBI has released new information outlining the evidence against them. Background In August 2013, the pair were pulled over eight miles from …
Oct 01
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) – A Californian animal rights protestor who allegedly freed 2,000 mink from an Illinois fur farm is a “danger to the community” who should be kept locked up, federal prosecutors say.Kevin Johnson, 27 and his codefendant, Tyler Lang, 25, allegedly released the animals from a mink farm in Morris, 65 miles …
Sep 30
Associated Press Tuesday, 30 September 2014 02:04 The FBI was looking into an attempt to release animals from a fox farm. An animal rights activist group admitted to breaking into an eastern Iowa fox fur farm and trying to free about 30 foxes. The group, Animal Liberation Front, said in a written release sent to …
Sep 27
Associated Press ANAMOSA, Iowa (AP) – An animal rights activist group admitted to breaking into an eastern Iowa fox fur farm and trying to free about 30 foxes. The group, Animal Liberation Front, said in a written release sent to news organizations that it had released 30 foxes from an Anamosa farm that raises foxes …
Sep 27
Des Moines Register Linh Ta, lta@dmreg.com An animal-rights activism group raided an Anamosa fox farm this week and attempted to release foxes from the property, officials said. The group, Animal Liberation Front, claimed responsibility for the act through a news release. “To be clear, our mission extends far beyond fur. We aim to eradicate all …
Aug 21
By Anne Sutherland and Garrett Barry THE MONTREAL GAZETTE August 21, 2014 MONTREAL — Hundreds of minks were set free on August 19 at a farm in Montérégie accused of mistreating its animals. The farm’s owner called the Sûreté du Québec at 8 a.m. August 20, reporting that cages housing the minks had been opened. …
Aug 20
By Matt Sledge msledge@huffingtonpost.com Daniel McGowan may have been the first person thrown in solitary confinement for writing a HuffPost blog. Now he’ll be the first person to sue the Bureau of Prisons over it. The environmental activist and former prisoner filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the prison system over an April 2013 incident …
Aug 20
Missoula Independent Posted By Jessica Mayrer on Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:25 PM A proposal to open a new fur farm outside of Roy that would house bobcats in 4-by-6 pens before the animals are harvested for their pelts is prompting outrage from animal rights activists. “As an animal rights activist, I know what …
Aug 19
from AnarchistNews On September 20, 2014, Bill McKibben’s 350.org and a host of other Green NGOs are calling for a massive march through New York City to demand “the world we know is within our reach: a world with an economy that works for people and the planet. A world safe from the ravages of …
Aug 05
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
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
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
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 16
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 …
