May 11
by Linda McGrory Nine lobsters have been liberated from a Dublin restaurant in a daring weekend sting by animal rights activists. Members of the National Animal Rights Association (NARA), Direct Action For Animals, and Alliance For Animal Rights swooped on the Ka Shing Chinese restaurant as busy Friday trade got under way about 7.30pm. A …
May 06
Reno Gazette-Journal The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for a March firebombing/arson at a Reno KFC restaurant. No injuries were reported in the March 9 incident at the Silverada Boulevard restaurant. Law enforcement officers called to the scene said there …
May 04
By Gretchen Vogel, AAAS BERLIN—A neuroscientist who has been the target of animal rights activists says he is giving up on primate research. Nikos Logothetis, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, says he will conclude his current experiments on macaques “as quickly as possible” and then shift his …
May 04
Featuring: SPEAKERS, POETS, ANARCHO PUNK / RIOT GRRRL BANDS & REVOUTIONARY HIP HOP Date: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 Time: 4pm-9pm Admission: Free (no door charge) Location: CIELO galleries/studios, 3201 Maple Ave, Los Angeles California 90011 SPEAKERS : B. Kwaku Duren Kizzy Brown Michael D McCarty The first Solidarity Festival was in the middle of the …
Apr 30
By Lauren Regan, CLDC Executive Directory and attorney As most of you know, the CLDC has defended the rights of activists, people of color, those experiencing emotional distress, and many other marginalized and targeted communities both on the streets and in the courtroom. We work extremely hard to hold police accountable for their abuse of …
Apr 29
Received anonymously (translation): We take responsibility for the arson on May 10, 2013 on the premises of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, in the town of Xalapa, Veracruz. This institution like so many others through the cynical welfarist discourse, supports a hypocritical regulation of the exploitation suffered by nonhuman animals in the area of scientific …
Apr 23
June 11, 2015 : TRANSITION : The struggle’s not over… The last year has been full of changes and transitions for our imprisoned comrades and for those of us engaged in struggle on the other side of the walls. Now, solidly in the throes of spring, we feel compelled to celebrate these transitions and victories …
Apr 18
Washington Post By Spencer S. Hsu The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000. Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic …
Apr 08
Four provincially-owned clover traps used in culling deer had their netting slashed, making them unusable, in Cranbook, British Columbia during the night of March 5. This forced the city to halt the cull.
Apr 02
Portland Tribune Written by Raymond Rendleman Bird breeders in Beavercreek lost approximately 50 pheasants valued at $1,000 when an unknown number of suspects cut a lock to open up an aviary housing the animals last month. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office took the initial report at about 1:07 p.m. on March 18 at Estacada Game …
Mar 24
Charities conducting or funding animal experiments in the US who are on Forbes’ list of top 50 charities (2014). There were nine charities that fit the bill: American Cancer Society Jude Children’s Research Hospital American Heart Association Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Mayo Clinic Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Alzheimer’s Association National Multiple …
Mar 24
Why You Can’t Bomb Your Way To Peace Imagine A steel-walled room, enclosed and full Of children playing, grandmothers and the wash and angry young men with an ax to grind. Oh yes, and a single shooter. The loaded pistol raised, What moral authority will pull the trigger? And if it does, if judgment issues …
Mar 17
Received anonymously On the night of March 16th, 2015, a gate on an aviary was opened at the Estacada Game Farm (25395 South Beavercreek Road, Beavercreek, OR) liberating a flock of ring-necked pheasants into the wild. These birds were bred, among other reasons, to suffer and die in pre-orchestrated canned hunts; a practice which represents …
Mar 11
Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The FBI is investigating an apparent attempt to firebomb a fast-food restaurant in Reno because of the possibility it could have been an act of domestic terrorism after the initials of an animal rights group were found scrawled on a drive-thru sign, local fire officials told The Associated Press …
Mar 11
by Khushbu Shah Eater.com The FBI is investigating. Someone tried to fry a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Reno, Nevada: According to KOLO TV, the restaurant was firebombed yesterday morning. When employees arrived at the restaurant, they found that a window had been shattered and that a “Molotov cocktail had been thrown inside.” Authorities tell the …
