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Woman Sentenced to 2 Years for Rescuing Dog, “Terrorists” Rescue More Animals in Retaliation

As both the US and UK governments (and many others) are cracking down on animal rights and environmental activists, labeling them as terrorists and hitting them with outrageous prison sentences, supporters say it is for a few reasons. First, they say that these activists are national security threats. Second, they say that this boot-on-the-throat approach […]

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Meet the “Terrorists”

The Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and people who support them are labeled the “number one domestic terrorism threat,” according to the FBI. From time to time I’ll be posting videos of the kind of activity that is being labeled “terrorism” by corporations and the politicians that represent them. To start things off, this […]

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Good Refresher on “Operation Backfire” in the Indypendent

Considering that the “eco-terrorism” arrests dubbed “Operation Backfire” didn’t even make it into the local paper’s top 20 news stories of 2007, and the National Association of Manufacturers claims “boy, we sure didn’t hear about this” (which I find very, very hard to believe), I thought I’d highlight a good series of background articles on […]

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UK Letter Bomber Uses Animal Rights Messages as “Smokescreen”

A man who sent letter bombs in the UK apparently used hype and fear around “eco-terrorism” as a “smokescreen.” When news of the letter bombs first broke back in January, there was a lot of talk about the fact that one of the envelopes had the words “Dr Barry Horne, RIP” (the name of a […]

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Two Minneapolis Grand Jury Subpoenas Dropped

UPDATE: Tony Wong and Brandon Elder won’t have to appear before the grand jury in Minneapolis at this time. (Background on the grand jury is here). The district attorney dropped the order to appear after Wong and Elder sent in a declaration of their intent to plead the fifth and not cooperate.

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Coronado’s Free Speech Trial Starts Today

Rod Coronado heads back to federal court today, in what could become (like many of these “Green Scare” prosecutions) a landmark First Amendment case. Coronado, a longtime environmental and animal advocate– and convicted arsonist– faces 20 years in prison for answering a question at one of his lectures about an incendiary device he created. (Here’s […]

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Paul Sentenced to 4 Years… and a Book Report

A federal judge sentenced Jonathan Paul to four years and three months in prison for his role in a 1997 fire that destroyed the Cavel West horsemeat packing plant in Redmond, Ore. He had confessed to helping make the diesel and soap mixture, the s0-called “vegan Jell-O,” that was used, and acting as a lookout. […]

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New Website Lists Addresses for Animal Industries

Someone has published Final Nail.com (named after the infamous zine “The Final Nail,” which detailed locations of fur farms and encouraged activists to take illegal action against them). It lists addresses for not just fur farms but slaughterhouses, lab animal suppliers and trappers. The Fur Commission had this to say about the original zine: The […]

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Editorial in ‘Nature’ Against Green Scare

Nature has an editorial in the latest issue against “terrorism enhancement” in the cases out West, and also more broadly against the “eco-terrorism” rhetoric we’ve been seeing in legislation like the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. This is big breakthrough, especially considering the source. An excerpt: But ‘terrorist’ is a word so debased and loaded by […]

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Fur Shop Owners Rebuked in Lawsuit Against Protestors

With all the “terrorism enhancement” news this week, I missed some good news (I know, it’s shocking, GNR can be full of so much “eco-terrorism” gloom and doom). But on Tuesday a federal judge defended the rights of activists to protest despite the “terrorism” rhetoric of the fur salon’s owners. Schumacher Furs has been the […]

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