By Harvey Rice, Houston Chronicle GALVESTON – The disciplining of a researcher announced this week by the University of Texas Medical Branch is another setback for an institution plagued by repeated findings and accusations of failure to follow animal welfare guidelines. A UTMB spokesman declined to release the name of the researcher, whose animal use …
Feb 10
Sixth anniversary of Walter Bond’s sentencing in Denver Colorado on Feb 11, 2011
Support Walter Bond…! “At the time I wrote this statement it’s really impossible to convey accurately what life was like for me at the time. Although before my incarceration I was an activist for Animal Rights and Veganism I was never a visible person within the movement. I worked in a local health food store. …
Feb 10
Gather Made Great, Pro-Animal Music
Jon Hochschartner Exploring the vegan straight edge lifestyle. I’m not a huge fan of vegan straight edge, a sub-genre of hardcore-punk music. I came to it, originally, as a sort of sociologist. Many of the animal activists I looked up to, who got their start in the 1990s, were inspired by this cacophony. I wanted …
Feb 08
A Tribute to Mike Hill
On this day in 1991, 18-year-old hunt saboteur Mike Hill was deliberately run over and killed during a meet of the Cheshire Beagles. His death came about at the end of the day’s hunting, when huntsman Allan Summersgill, with no kill under his belt, boxed up the hounds in a small blue trailer being towed …
Feb 08
Chicken Rescue in US
Feb 07
Posters Added to Zapa Stores Selling Fur in France
Receiveed anonymously: On the night of february 1st, two clothing stores of the brand zapa were targeted. The brand sells clothes containing fur and undergoes an anti fur campaign by a legalist association named «france sans fourrure». The campaign targets several brands. Posters were stuck to the shop windows with the brand’s logo, a photo …
Feb 02
North American Animal Liberation Press Office Music Benefit…!
#LiberationPrisonerSupport #NAALPOMusicBenefit The Press Office is putting together a Music Benefit Compilation Album of musicians and artists from all over the world. Funds raised will help support Earth and Animal Liberation Prisoners and the work of the Press Office. We are looking for those interested in donating a song, spoken word, art, etc, to help …
Feb 02
Black Bridge Website Makes it Easy to Write to Prisoners
Black Bridge International is an anarchist network of groups and individuals who are willing to print out letters and mail them to imprisoned comrades in their country. http://www.blackbridgeinternational.org/ How this works If you fill out the form at the bottom of this page, your letter will be forwarded along to the appropriate Black Bridge node, who …