ALF Liberates 30 Foxes from Iowa Fur Farm

The Animal Liberation Front is taking responsibility for the release of 30 foxes from a fur farm in Anamosa, Iowa in the late-evening of Thursday, September 25th 2014. 10 years after the 2004 raid of the University of Iowa, the ALF has returned to east-central Iowa. The farm targeted was: Robert Roman 23778 Fairview Road …

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Activist group says it broke into Iowa fox farm

Associated Press ANAMOSA, Iowa (AP) – An animal rights activist group admitted to breaking into an eastern Iowa fox fur farm and trying to free about 30 foxes. The group, Animal Liberation Front, said in a written release sent to news organizations that it had released 30 foxes from an Anamosa farm that raises foxes …

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Activist group releases foxes at farm

Des Moines Register Linh Ta, lta@dmreg.com An animal-rights activism group raided an Anamosa fox farm this week and attempted to release foxes from the property, officials said. The group, Animal Liberation Front, claimed responsibility for the act through a news release. “To be clear, our mission extends far beyond fur. We aim to eradicate all …

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Hundreds of minks set free at farm accused of animal cruelty

By Anne Sutherland and Garrett Barry THE MONTREAL GAZETTE August 21, 2014 MONTREAL — Hundreds of minks were set free on August 19 at a farm in Montérégie accused of mistreating its animals. The farm’s owner called the Sûreté du Québec at 8 a.m. August 20, reporting that cages housing the minks had been opened. …

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Daniel McGowan, Jailed For HuffPost Blog, Files Lawsuit Against Bureau Of Prisons

By Matt Sledge msledge@huffingtonpost.com Daniel McGowan may have been the first person thrown in solitary confinement for writing a HuffPost blog. Now he’ll be the first person to sue the Bureau of Prisons over it. The environmental activist and former prisoner filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the prison system over an April 2013 incident …

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Bobcat fur farm for Roy, Montana? We Don’t Think So.

Missoula Independent Posted By Jessica Mayrer on Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:25 PM A proposal to open a new fur farm outside of Roy that would house bobcats in 4-by-6 pens before the animals are harvested for their pelts is prompting outrage from animal rights activists. “As an animal rights activist, I know what …

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Calling for Anti-Capitalist Bloc at the People’s Climate March in NYC

from AnarchistNews On September 20, 2014, Bill McKibben’s 350.org and a host of other Green NGOs are calling for a massive march through New York City to demand “the world we know is within our reach: a world with an economy that works for people and the planet. A world safe from the ravages of …

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Two Thoughts on the Animal Liberation Front

Posted by Eleventh Hour on August 6, 2014 by Ian Smith (Uncivilized Animals) Animals have claws; the animal liberation movement should too. And many animals, when cornered or threatened, won’t hesitate to scratch somebody’s fuckin eyes out if that is what is necessary to secure their freedom and safety. Activists speculate and pontificate about what …

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Portland McDonald’s Sabotaged

anonymous report, from Portland Indymedia: Earlier this week, several pieces of heavy equipment, including a dump truck and water pump, located at the construction site of a Mcdonalds restaurant off 29th and Powell in S.E. Portland, were sabotaged by having bleached poured into their fuel tanks. Through the hyper exploitation of an ever growing precarious …

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Hacktivists Target Multiple Sites Advocating Animal Abuse

In recent weeks, anonymous Paw Security activists have targeted animal abuse worldwide. Beginning on August 5, Chinese government websites, and those of Chinese companies, were attacked to protest the dog meat and fur trades. In July, the websites of fur stores, roadside zoos, hunting ranches and exotic meat companies were targeted. Weeks later, some of …

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Animal rights activists smash Star Grocery windows

August 5, 2014 12:30 pm by Frances Dinkelspiel Two FBI agents visited Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue on Monday to investigate a broken window the government believes was smashed by animal rights activists. The large plate glass window of the market, which has been run by the Pappas family since 1922, was smashed around 2 …

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Raju the Elephant, freed after 50 years of captivity and torture

See a video of Raju’s liberation here: Freeing Raju the Crying Elephant from His Chains The Huffington Post For 50 years, Raju the elephant was abused, held shackled in spiked chains and forced to live off scraps from passing tourists. All that changed when he was rescued last weekend by wildlife conservationists who said the …

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Do Animals Need a UN Ambassador?

Read article on Huffington Post UN Ambassador Muhumed Sacirbey speaks to the direct correlations between humanitarian issues and animal rights, and why animals should be represented in our international courts, entities, etc as nations and possibly global citizens . He mentions the fight against commercial whaling and ending animal exploitation perpetuated by self-serving multi-national corporations as …

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Lawyer plans constitutional challenge in mink farm case

Published: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:30 p.m. CDT By Jason Meisner Chicago Tribune CHICAGO – The lawyer for one of two California animal activists accused of sabotaging a Morris mink farm and releasing about 2,000 animals into the wild last year said Tuesday he plans to challenge the constitutionality of the federal “animal enterprise terrorism” charges …

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Windows Smashed at Berkeley, CA Butcher Shop

Received anonymously On the night of June 26th two windows were smashed at Star Meats in Berkeley CA, a butcher shop that boasts about its organic and locally sourced meat. Cage free, organic, murder is murder and death is death. This is a continuation of last years actions in which windows were smashed out of …

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