World Animal Liberation Newswire Archive

theres going to be a demonstration on wednesday in newcastle

we are meeting up at newcastle mounment for 3 . 30

Is Gary Francione a pacifist or does it depend on who is doing the violence?

www.dsei.org

So here we are, waiting for the debate between Steve Best and Gary Francione. But the real problem with Francione and everyone who opposes violence or disagrees with Dr. Best’s defense of effective militant direct action is not just about their ideas on animal rights or animal liberation or neo-abolitionism; it’s about their idea of Freedom and the struggle to see it realized. Arguing that violence for animal causes is unjustified is like saying that all the illegal violent animal liberators are evil and should go to jail. In these times of the Patriot Act and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, in these times when corporate-state oppression is expanding globally, in these times when the liberation of a cow/pig/dog/chicken from a concentration camp is considered terrorism and the liberator subject to criminal penalties, whoever does not stand proudly to support this so called “terrorism” is against Freedom and is the enemy of the animal liberation movement. State repression is increasingly harsh, which requires fierce resistance.

27th August - 4th September

WINDOWS SMASHED AT PET STORE (Mexico)
MEAT WHOLESALERS GRAFFITIED (Australia)
TRAPS DESTROYED, SONGBIRDS FREED (France)
TRAPPING WEBSITES MINED FOR DATA (USA)
BURGER KING CLOSES ITS DOORS AFTER F.L.A. ATTACKS (Mexico)
ANTI-BULLFIGHTING SLOGANS PAINTED (Spain)
HARES LIBERATED (Italy)
UNILEVER PRODUCTS SABOTAGED (Mexico)
NOVARTIS PRODUCTS RUINED (Mexico)
MAXMARA SHOP GLUED (Spain)
BULLFIGHTING POSTERS PAINTED (Spain)

Camden councillor Alexis Rowell has called for the site in Camden earmarked for a deadly germ lab / animal testing lab at Brill Palce to be used for Camden's first ever carbon zero development, to deliver maximum energy efficiency, fight climate change, provide housing, maximise green spaces, promote healthy living, save water and prevent the controversial animal torture lab from being built.

After a campaign that lasted for six years (2003-2009) the Nepal government has decided to definitely halt the breeding of monkeys for biomedical research in the USA. It shows that it pays to have patience and that the good forces sometimes do win in the end!

Please organise demonstrations against your nearest vivisection breeder for a global week of action which will be taking place Monday 21st to Sunday 27th September 2009. See  http://www.shac.net/AnimalBreeders/

Live Science published a UCLA study of the brain
scans of obese people and found that they have an average
8% less brain mass. Why is this?

A listing of toxins in meat, fish and dairy which harm brain function

22nd-26th August

IS YOUR LOCAL FUR FARM MISSING ITS FARMER? (USA, Canada)
CRUEL BUSINESSES GLUED AND PAINTED (Uruguay)
TIRES FLATTENED ON LIVESTOCK TRUCK (Spain)

In 2009 Huntingdon's CEO Andrew Baker announced that he was offering to buy out HLS for $7.50 a share. This means he wants to buy all the unsold shares in the company and buy out all the existing shareholders so that he owns the company in full.

See Baker Deal webpage  http://www.shac.net/action/financial/baker.html

Results in mice are extremely promising and, as usual they seek "substantial" funding to advance their findings.

Someone, please pass the sick o bag.

Kicks off tomorrow!

20th-21st August

CLAIM OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR GRAVEYARD VISIT (Switzerland)
100,000+ EUROS DAMAGES AT HOME OF FUR FARMERS (Italy)
CAR VANDALIZED AT NOVARTIS MEXICO (Mexico)
WARNING SENT TO NOVARTIS (Mexico)

15th-20th August

17 HENS RESCUED (Czech Republic)
THOUSANDS OF MINK RUN FREE (Greece)
ARSON ATTACK AT FUR/LEATHER SHOP IN LEON (Mexico)
NOVARTIS STINKS (Switzerland)
SLOGANS PAINTED AGAINST HUNTING (Spain)
LOCKS RUINED AT BUTCHERS, AGAIN (UK)
WINDOWS BROKEN AT PET STORE (Mexico)

The last three months have been devastating for Huntingdon, as their financial longevity starts to crumble. After a sustained campaign against Barclays for their position as HLS’ top institutional shareholder, they sold all of their shares, leaving Huntingdon once again below the minimum listing standards of the NYSE ARCA exchange. Unsurprisingly the NYSE have so far turned a blind eye to this breach of their own regulations, but as Barclays will tell them, there is only so long you can ignore SHAC! And it’s not just Barclays who have decided to find better places to invest their money; In the first few months of 2009, HLS lost 14 shareholders, including several from the top...

Greenland, the US, Japan, Iceland and Norway
are 5 countries admitting they still slaughter whales,
while Canadian and Dane fishermen do it secretly. NPR, "National Public Radio"
a network from whose administration the public has been excluded, on the 19th of
August promoted whale slaughter for several minutes.

Animal Rights Cambridge Website

The United States Navy will be decimating millions of marine mammals and other aquatic life, each year, for the next five years, under their Warfare Testing Range Complex Expansions in the Atlantic, Pacific, and the Gulf of Mexico. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS under NOAA), has already approved the “taking” of marine mammals in more than a dozen Navy Range Warfare Testing Complexes, and is preparing to issue another permit for 11.7 millions marine mammals (32 Separate Species), to be decimated along the Northern, California, Oregon and Washington areas of the Pacific Ocean.

I posted picture here:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/08/436296.html