UK Indymedia - UK Animal Liberation Newswire Archive

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Update on the 10 anti-fur activists in prison, Austria

05-06-2008 13:56

Information Update from the Legal Support Team: 05/06/08

See also details on hunger strikes:

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/399991.html

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Kangaroo saved from slaughter in Australia

04-06-2008 19:35

Press release (visit kangaroolives.com to learn more about the recent slaughter of over 500 kangaroos in Canberra):

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Cheltenham Science Festival Protests this weekend (4 - 8 June)

04-06-2008 13:21

Please join WARN activists from Gloucestershire Animal Action and Cirencester Animal Rights in a protest against Cheltenham Science Festival who have accepted blood money from such monsters of the corporate world including Pfizer, Wellcome Foundation and MRC not to mention inviting vivisector Colin Blakemore to be involved in a talk at the festival.

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2 Million PETA Members Continue Heat on KFC after Victory With KFC Canada

04-06-2008 12:15

12,000 pickets and demonstrations against 35,000 Yum Foods owned KFC
Restaurants

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Camden Green fair selling meat - contact them

04-06-2008 00:18

Global warming. Overexploited natural resources. Deforestation. Wasted land. Water and air pollution. The most serious environmental problems of our time are all directly linked to eating meat.

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Press Release: 'Taste of Leeds festival condemned for cruelty'

03-06-2008 20:55

A taste festival supported by the Yorkshire Post, Channel 4 and Radio Aire has been condemned by anti-cruelty campaigners who have spotted that notorious chef Andrew Pern of the Star Inn will be personally preparing a dish incorporating foie gras.

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3rd June Food Climate Change Day of Action in Nottingham

03-06-2008 18:20

Climate change and animal rights activists joined together in Nottingham today to give away free vegan food, plants & skipped vegetables.

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Actions against: fur, leather, meat, pet stores & breeder

03-06-2008 15:36

29th May - 3rd June:

ALF VISIT COCKFIGHTER AT HOME (Mexico)
FUR SHOP WINDOWS SMASHED WITH STONES (Spain)
MORE ACTIONS AGAINST THE FUR TRADE (Sweden)
MEXICO CITY LEATHER COMPANY PAINT-BOMBED (Mexico)
FUCK MCDONALDS (Sweden)
MEAT MARKETS, PET STORES PAINTED (Mexico)
FUR SHOPS GLUED (Spain)

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Free Food and Guerrilla Gardening!

03-06-2008 12:12

Free vegan event organised by Manchester Animal Protection and Manchester Climate Action as part of the international day of climate action against the food industry..

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Rally For Badgers - Stop The Cull!

03-06-2008 12:05

Stop the Cull!: Viva! National Rally for the Badgers
Cardiff, Saturday, June 28 2008
1pm outside the Welsh Assembly Building (Debating Rooms)

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Fight Speciesism #1 - Out Now!

02-06-2008 22:34

The first issue features: occupations in Paris, Antispe vs. Novartis, news from the UK frontlines, the Sequani Six trial, SHAC watch and more.

Versions to read and print are available below.

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Free Sean Kirtley

02-06-2008 21:00

Sean Kirtley was sentenced to four and a half years by Judge Ross on Friday, Sean has done nothing but hold peaceful demonstrations against Sequani and its suppliers. He was identified as a main target by police as he updated the SSAT website and phone and internet records according to police showed a hierarchy and some form of organisation! (Which is clearly illegal now…)

We have designed some stencils for those willing to raise awareness of what has happened to Sean and our right to protest!

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From Prison to Paradise - 225 bears, one incredible journey

02-06-2008 12:02

Please join Jill Robinson, the founder of Animals Asia,at the Opium Chinese restaurant in Nottingham on 23 June 2008, to hear about our work in rescuing endangered Moon Bears from bear bile farms in China and Vietnam, as well as our campaigns to end the cat and dog meat and fur trades.

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Austrian Animal Rights Activist on Hunger Strike

01-06-2008 20:46

Ten Austrian animal rights campaigners have been held for two weeks without charge after draconian raids on the 21st May. One has been on hunger strike since then and is becoming very weak. We urgently need international support to exert pressure on the Austrian authorities and media.

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Brazil, Traffic of Wild Animals, Amazônia, Bahia

01-06-2008 18:04

The Brazil lives of the traffic of birds and wild animals.

The Traffic of Wild Animals is the biggest source of income of Brazil, the financial greater of campaigns politics of presidents and governors.

The money sent for other countries to fight these crimes only serves to enrich ambient owners of Ongs.

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Response to state crackdown on peaceful protest

01-06-2008 10:36

The recent sentencing of our friend Sean Kirtley says much about the state's view of peaceful protest in a nutshell the prosecutor Lockhart demos 4th june and 8th June

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Global day of solidarity for imprisoned anti-fur activists

31-05-2008 00:27

See previous actions:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399502.html
Press release (29th):

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399775.html

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SHAC Watch - Do we care? Do we f**k!

30-05-2008 22:50

Your first question is probably - what the hell is SHAC Watch? That's of course if you already know about the international movement know as SHAC? Well don't worry if you don't, because SHAC Watch are here to give you so little information that you're going to end up searching for animal rights websites to find out more.

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Support Eric McDavid

30-05-2008 18:49

45 second clip about Eric's case:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8kgXvx94YjY

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Support Freedom of Speech - Support Sean!

30-05-2008 16:44

On May 30, 2008, Sean Kirtley was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for conspiring to "interfere with contractual relationships so as to harm an animal research organisation" after the longest animal rights trial in history.