{"id":3271,"date":"2015-08-14T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2015-08-22T12:12:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T20:12:49","slug":"august-2015-e-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2015\/08\/14\/august-2015-e-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2015 E-Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Support for Political Prisoners Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Joseph Buddenberg, 31, of Oakland, entered the plea before U.S. Magistrate Donna Ryu.<\/p>\n

Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane, 28, of Oakland, were indicted on the conspiracy count by a federal grand jury in San Diego last Thursday and were arrested by the FBI in Oakland on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Cecil The Lion Murdered<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"cecilkiller\"<\/a>Animal activists are condemning vandalism at the house of Dr. Walter Palmer, the man who killed Cecil the lion. (But we aren’t!)<\/p>\n

The spray-painted phrase \u0093Lion Killer!\u0094 on Palmer\u0092s garage was still there a day after police first saw it. The pigs feet were removed but the animal crackers remained.<\/p>\n

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Direct Action of the Month<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Farm Operated by Canadian Mink Breeders President Broken Into<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n


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Kirk Rankin acknowledges that he may have been targeted by animal rights activists or whoever released nearly 7,000 mink at his St. Marys area farm overnight Tuesday.<\/div>\n

But the president of the Canadian Mink Breeders Association responded with a firm \u0093no\u0094 when asked if it would change anything about his involvement in the association or his outspokenness.<\/p>\n

\u0093I expect that I was a target,\u0094 Rankin said by phone Thursday as he continued the cleanup at RBR Fur Farms on Road 125 just north of town. \u0093I have no doubt somebody was here in advance scouting it.\u0094<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When Does Animal Rights Activism Become Extremism?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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On July 28, the FBI arrested Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane, two Oakland-based animal rights activists accused of releasing thousands of mink from fur farms during multiple cross-country sprees in 2013. The couple were also charged with vandalizing property owned by the meat and fur industries, including, allegedly, a meat distributor truck in San Francisco.\u0093To free animals from enslavement you have to break minor laws,\u0094 says Will Hazlitt, a press officer who disseminates communiques from underground animal rights groups such as Animal Liberation Front. \u0093Calling this terrorism is ridiculous. Is cutting a fence terrorism?\u0094<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rash of break-ins at mink farms in Southwestern Ontario leaves region\u0092s fur-bearing industry on edge<\/a><\/p>\n

\"minkfarmer2\"<\/a><\/b>Militant activists who free farmed animals have struck in Canada before, and there\u0092s speculation they could be behind three recent break-ins at mink farms in Southwestern Ontario.<\/div>\n

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Anonymous activists have claimed responsibility for one of the Southwestern Ontario raids through a California-based organization, the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, that says it supports and encourages the Animal Liberation Front, an underground activist movement with a website.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\u0093We did get a communique about one of the liberations and we have not received anything for the subsequent two liberations, but that doesn\u0092t mean it is not the work of animal liberators,\u0094 Jerry Vlasak of the North American Animal Liberation Press Office said Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0093Of course, we support their actions. We support anything that inflicts economic sabotage on the people who profit from animal \u00adsuffering.\u0094<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Animal Liberation Globally<\/p>\n

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Sheep Rescued From Slaughterhouse<\/a>
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“Entering at night and achieving a change in their destiny, an activist rescued two sheep from an Argentine slaughterhouse, within hours of their death. Today they are safe, they have been adopted by a vegan family, they will live happily and without anyone hurting them in a field in northern Argentina.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\nDylann Roof Is Not a \u0093Terrorist\u0094 \u0097 But Animal Rights Activists Who Free Minks From Slaughter Are<\/a><\/p>\n

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The FBI on Friday announced<\/a> the arrests in Oakland of two animal rights activists, Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane, and accused the\u00a0pair\u00a0of engaging in \u0093domestic terrorism.\u0094 This comes less than a month after the FBI director said<\/a> he does not consider\u00a0Charleston Church murderer Dylann Roof a\u00a0\u0093terrorist.\u0094 The activists\u0092 alleged crimes: \u0093They released thousands of minks from farms around the country and vandalized various properties.\u0094 That\u0092s it. Now they\u0092re being prosecuted and explicitly vilified as \u0093terrorists,\u0094 facing 10-year prison terms.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Confide Brings its Beautiful Self-destructing Messages to Android<\/a><\/p>\n

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What LinkedIn is to Facebook, Confide aspires to be to Snapchat\u00a0\u0097 a grown-up, professional alternative for business users. It allows you to send text messages to your contacts that disappear after being read, with end-to-end encryption and some clever design touches designed to thwart screenshots. And as of today, it’s officially a cross-platform messenger: Confide is\u00a0now available on Android<\/a>, 100 days after it\u00a0debuted on iOS<\/a>.\u00a0And it includes some platform-specific features likely to make iPhone users jealous.<\/div>\n
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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. … <\/p>\n

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