Dec 24
The Star.com 24 December, 2012 Toronto police are seeking a woman they suspect destroyed thousands of dollars worth of merchandise at several high-end stores by smearing fur garments with petroleum jelly. Police said Monday they believe it to be the work of an anti-fur activist, making it the latest in a string of incidents leading …
Dec 20
From Animal Liberation Frontline Internal fur industry document on all suspicious activity reported by fur farmers in 1998. Part nineteen in a thirty-article series this month on the ALF’s fur farm campaign. Sometime in the early 2000s, a document quietly began to circulate among activists who had done anti-fur work in the 1990s: a detailed …
Dec 11
From Animal Liberation Frontline Part eleven in a thirty-article series this month on the ALF’s fur farm campaign. Here it is: a list of every reported fur farm raid in the United States. From the first (incomplete) report of a fur farm raid in 1986, to the most recent: 13 foxes released from a farm …
Dec 11
Reposted from NYC Anarchist Black Cross Earth Liberation Front political prisoner and Rockaway native Daniel McGowan was released from the Communication Management Unit (CMU) in Terre Haute, Indiana this morning. He was driven by federal authorities to Indianapolis International Airport, where he met up with his wife. Though the two have been able to visit …
Dec 05
By Theodoric Meyer, Peter Maass, ProPublica The U.S. government isn’t allowed to wiretap American citizens without a warrant from a judge. But there are plenty of legal ways for law enforcement, from the local sheriff to the FBI, to snoop on the digital trails you create every day. Authorities can often obtain your emails and …
Dec 03
By Carlton Purvis The largest eco-terrorism case in U.S. history may be closing in on its final chapters. After a decade on the run, Canadian citizen and animal rights activist, Rebecca Jeanette Rubin turned herself in to authorities at the border in Blaine, Washington. Rubin is the eleventh of 13 people wanted by the FBI …
Dec 02
Posted by Peter Young Animal Liberation FrontLine Rubin expected to plead guilty to all but the most serious of her charges. This has been all over the news the last two days, so I’m just going to focus on two things here: The basics, and the parts of this story so far that might have …
Nov 28
UPDATED: Civil liberties advocates have rallied behind Jeremy Hammond who was denied bail and faces life in prison By Natasha Lennard UPDATE Dec. 3rd: Jeremy Hammond’s lawyers plan to file a motion this week for Judge Preska’s recusal. Sparrow Media reported that Preska was made aware of the published connection between her husband and Stratfor …
Nov 19
Published on RT.com The FBI conducted a top-secret investigation into the People for Ethical Treatment for Animals, or PETA, according to the Stratfor intelligence agency. In emails sent through Stratfor in 2009 and compromised last year by hacktivists aligned with the loose-knit Anonymous movement, Fred Burton, the vice president for intelligence at Strategic Forecasting, or …
Nov 16
Animal Liberation Frontline Detailed account of how one team got inside a “high security” animal research lab. In 2010 I posted a short article from ALN (a trade magazine for animal research labs) on weaknesses found in a security audit done at an animal research lab. Recently I was sent a similar but much more …
Nov 14
Huffington Post Vandals for veganism struck a blow against a global fast food corporation — but in the process, they destroyed a storied local landmark. McDonald’s workers in Huntington Beach, Calif., discovered the graffiti in October, when the restaurant was undergoing a renovation. The word “Vegan” was painted in black block letters over a mural …
Nov 06
Fox News An employee at a Fresno, Calif., chicken processing center opened fire inside the facility Tuesday morning, killing two co-workers and injuring two others before killing himself, police said. Lawrence Jones, 42, the suspected gunman and parolee, arrived at the plant just before his 5 a.m. shift. About three hours into his work day, …
Nov 04
FireDogLake.com The government has secured the cooperation of a reluctant witness in a grand jury investigation of two 2008 arsons targeting faculty members at UC Santa Cruz, according to IndyBay.org. The witness had earlier invoked her Fifth Amendment rights, but agreed to testify after being threatened with contempt charges, according to the report. Early in …
Oct 26
Huffington Post On January 16, 2006, two federal agents pulled off of Oregon’s Route 66 and onto a dirt road in the Southern Cascades, about nineteen miles northeast of downtown Ashland. They didn’t get far. There was a blizzard, and the road was buried in snow. The agents were forced to stop just a couple …
