Oct 05
The hideous pollution case I stumbled on illustrates our failure to see the harm caused by animal farming. By George Monbiot the Guardian’s website Eat less meat and fish, drink less milk. No request could be simpler, or more consequential. Nothing we do has greater potential for reducing our impacts on the living planet. Yet …
Oct 02
from Support Walter Bond A few weeks ago, Abdul Haqq requested transfer out of USP Marion, the prison where he has been held since Jan 2012. On Monday he was taken to FCI Greenville, which is just a few hours drive from Marion. He sounds real good and extremely glad to be away from Marion. …
Oct 02
Deni Kirkova for Metro.co.uk Gary Yourofsky is a name that will ring a bell with most vegans. The animal rights activist, from Detroit, Michigan, is credited with singlehandedly turned more people vegan – including 8% of Israel – than anyone else in the world, after an hour-long speech he gave at Georgia Tech was recorded, …
Oct 02
The Absurdities of Pacifism and Intersectional Activism in Animal Liberation. by Derk A.Brachmann “Nobody in the world, nobody in history has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of those that were oppressing them”-Assata Shakur “What is the conscientious animal defender to do ? The liberator solution is the use of physical …
Oct 02
Received anonymously See video (more footage coming soon) from the Ontario fur farms visited by the ALF here: https://vid.me/8Nlr Over the summer of 2015 we visited and video recorded Willow Pond Mink Farm at 105 Maple Grove Road in Scottland, ON. We witnessed injured mink with gapping wounds crammed into small cages that were covered …
Oct 01
after going to tordesillas to ocupy foy the fourth year running to try to stop the brutal killing of a bull in the street(this years victim was Rompesuelas) we went to LONDON AND HUNG THE BIGGEST BANNER EVER FROM TOWER BRIDGE…the police kept the banner (all 70 metres of it) and they took all our …
Sep 30
What can animalists learn from Vietnam anti-war movement? By Jon Hochschartner Some years ago, I read “North Star,” the autobiography of Peter Camejo, an American socialist. In 1976, Camejo was the Socialist Worker’s Party candidate for president, but drifted away from Trotskyism, eventually finding a home in the Green Party. He likened himself to a …
Sep 27
Received anonymously (the defaced website belongs to McGill University neuroscience researcher Yogita Chudasama) The 7th September 2015, a vivisection laboratory website was sabotaged by using the technique of ‘deface’. It was entered to the website server and some of their directories were modified. The result was a more realistic image about what the laboratory does …
Sep 20
BENNETT HALL Corvallis Gazette-Times Animal rights activists attempting to thwart a pheasant hunt cut open a holding pen at E.E. Wilson Wildlife Management Area, but state game officials say only a handful of birds escaped. According to Rick Hargrave, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, 565 pheasants were being kept in …
Sep 19
In the late night hours of September 17th, after hiking miles through the forest, we descended upon a Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) pheasant holding pen located within the EE Wilson Game Management Area. Aviation snips were used to cut a hole in the netting surrounding the pen allowing the approximately 100 ring-necked …
Aug 23
By Jon Hochschartner There was a time, not too long ago, when the animalists who took an intersectional approach were the critical thinkers in the anti-speciesist movement, challenging old dogmas. But recently this intersectionalism seems to have solidified into an unthinking fundamentalism. ‘Intersectionality’ has become the mindless mantra of the day, as ‘abolitionism’ …
Aug 22
We just came across this excellent book on Animal Liberation at the recent Animal Rights 2015 Conference in Washington, DC. It features the Press Office and personnel in several chapters; it will be available soon on the NAALPO website, but until then, you can read reviews and buy it here: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/total-liberation All oppression is linked: …
Aug 14
Support for Political Prisoners Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane An animal rights activist accused of freeing mink from mink ranches and vandalizing businesses pleaded not guilty in federal court in Oakland Tuesday to a charge of conspiring to violate the U.S. Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Joseph Buddenberg, 31, of Oakland, entered the plea before U.S. …
Aug 08
Disclaimer: I am writing this piece from the perspective of a white female settler within the animal rights movement. When I refer to the settler population, I am also including myself in those critiques. These ramblings are not an attack on the white settler population, but on the system which allows the continued dominance of …
Aug 06
By Kate Dubinski The London Free Press Also appeared in the Star Phoenix Are they liberators or terrorists? Militant activists who free farmed animals have struck in Canada before, and there’s speculation they could be behind three recent break-ins at mink farms in Southwestern Ontario. Anonymous activists have claimed responsibility for one of the Southwestern …
