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 …
Oct 25
Animal Liberation FrontLine Washington University claiming incriminating memo obtained by newspaper is a “hoax”. On Wednesday morning, the Riverfront Times in St Louis posted excerpts from a memo purportedly distributed to faculty at Washington University’s medical school. The memo warned staff to “be on high alert for potential terrorist activity” during the time of …
Oct 22
Update: Kevin has entered a plea and was sentenced to 18 months. This is a prison sentence but he will be serving it in county jail, and will not have probation once he’s released (most likely in June). Please keep the letters and books coming in so he knows that people are thinking of him. …
Oct 14
14 October 2012 Activist Alert! The Press Office received word last week that local activists are still being visited by federal agents in the greater Los Angeles and Orange County Area inquiring about “illegal activity” and underground actions in Southern California. Agents are even resorting to desperate measures and visiting activists’ parents. If you are …
Oct 11
Status update on Double T Farms, an Iowa breeder of birds for animal research labs. Posted: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 Animal Liberation Frontline In rural western Iowa, Ted Golka operates Double T Farms, which breeds birds for vivisection labs (and other purposes). Hundreds of pigeons were liberated in two separate raids at this farm in …
Oct 11
Published: 11 October, 2012 RT.com A third self-described anarchist from the Pacific Northwest has been jailed by federal officials for refusing to speak before a secretive grand jury that the accused have called a politically-motivated modern-day witch-hunt. Leah-Lynn Plante, a mid-20s activist from Seattle, Washington, was ushered out of court by authorities on Wednesday after …
