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Minneapolis Activist Indicted for Conspiracy to Violate Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

Scott DeMuth, a Minneapolis activist, has been indicted for conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, apparently in relation to a 2004 Animal Liberation Front raid at the University of Iowa. He faces up to 5 years in prison. His indictment marks a continued expansion of the scope of the new terrorism law, which […]

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Activist to Iowa Grand Jury: “We will not be intimidated. We will not cooperate.”

Carrie Feldman refuses to cooperate with a grand jury that apparently is investigating an ALF raid at the University of Iowa.

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Jordan Halliday Faces Trial on Contempt Charges for Resisting Grand Jury

A Utah animal rights activist has been indicted by a federal grand jury on felony contempt charges for asserting his First and Fifth Amendment rights, and refusing to cooperate with the “animal rights terrorism” witch hunt. His trial is scheduled to begin on November 2. The grand jury is investigating the release of thousands of […]

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Vermont Law Review Article on “Eco-Terrorism” and the Green Scare

I’ve been receiving quite a few inquiries from law students and grad students who are writing about the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, the SHAC 7 and the Green Scare. What’s really inspiring to me is that there have also been many students as young as high school. […]

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William Viehl Pleads Guilty to ALF Fur Farm Raid

William Viehl has changed his plea to guilty and admitted releasing hundreds of mink from a Utah fur farm as part of an Animal Liberation Front raid. Viehl and his codefendant, Alex Hall, were charged under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. He now faces up to 5 years in prison. Alex Hall is still taking […]

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“ALF to vegan death threats”?

Scare-mongering against radical animal rights and environmental activists has become so easy that it is hard for some folks to resist joining the attacks. POM Wonderful, the juice company, tried to label lawful protesters as part of the Animal Liberation Front. Groups like the Center for Consumer Freedom have warned of “violence” when PETA moved […]

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Great New Book on Rod Coronado and the Animal Liberation Front–Review it!

Operation Bite Back is a great new book by Dean Kuipers on the life of Rod Coronado, one of the most influential figures in the modern animal rights and environmental movements. Coronado is perhaps best known for a string of Animal Liberation Front actions, the namesake of the book, targeting the fur industry. He also […]

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Monkey Wrench Gang Movie With Matthew McConaughey as Hayduke

Ed Abbey’s classic The Monkey Wrench Gang is being made into a big-budget Hollywood movie starring–wait for it– Matthew McConaughey and John Goodman. And the director of “Twilight” is set to direct. I feel ill. The Monkey Wrench Gang is Abbey’s classic tale of George Hayduke, an ex-Green Beret, leading a band of outlaws in […]

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Animal Rights Activist Jailed at Secretive Prison Gives First Account of Life Inside “CMU”

This morning Andy Stepanian and I were on Democracy Now talking about secretive political prisons called Communications Management Units. Stepanian is believed to be the first inmate ever released from one of the secretive facilities; he is one of the SHAC 7, a group of animal rights activists convicted of “animal enterprise terrorism” for running […]

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30 Crimes the Government Chooses to Not Label Terrorism

We recently looked at why the government and the press (outside of some bloggers and opinion columnists) have not labeled the murder of an abortion provider as “terrorism.” It’s important to remember, though, that this isn’t an isolated incident. The word terrorism is used by the FBI and Department of Justice only when it fits […]

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