Jake Conroy released!

News to celebrate: After 3 years, Jake Conroy has been released from prison. Two more SHAC 7 prisoners to go.

Jake has been released to a halfway house in the San Francisco Bay Area. In order to be released from the halfway house for the holidays, Jake needs full-time employment. He is skilled at graphic design and computer-related work.

To help with employment, or to contact Jake directly, email:

info@supportjake.org

Please don’t forget about his co-defendants Lauren Gazzola and Kevin Kjonaas who are still inside prison and all the other animal and earth lib prisoners.

www.Shac7.com

For Every Life, For Liberation

It Happened.

myspace.com/GATHER

Still going on.... ( PDX )

4,200 Mink Liberated ( FRANCE )

Taken from DirectAction.Info

According to media reports, during the night of October 15, approximately 4,200 mink escaped from a fur farm in the village of Saint-Cybranet (Dordogne) in southwest France. Cages were opened and the fence surrounding the farm was cut. A water system at the farm was also vandalized. Two days later, only 1,000 of the mink had been recaptured.

Thierry Agraffel, the owner of the farm (address: Lauzel, 24250 St Cybranet), cried to a local newspaper, "Twenty-one years of work and breeding completely destroyed...."

Photo: Titia carrizey-Jasik / sudouest.com

Four Mink Farms raided in one night! ( SPAIN )

Taken from DirectAction.Info

In the early morning hours of October 19, approximately 17,500 mink were released from cages at four fur farms in northern Spain.

Three of the farms were located near Abegondo (Galicia). The fourth farm was located several hundred miles away in Lubia (Soria).

In Lubia, some of the mink were recaptured, but others have been spotted miles away from the farm.

Charo Carrillo, the owner of a farm in the town of Oza dos Ríos, near Abegondo, told local media that the raid on her farm has ruined 20 years of work breeding mink for fur quality, color and other traits desired by the fur industry.
Another fur farmer, Pancho Vázquez Larumbe, estimated his losses at 300,000 Euros.

Photo: laopinioncoruna.es / Carlos Pardellas

SHAC appeal denied

It has been three years since the legal aboveground animal rights activists the SHAC 7 were found guilty. The animal liberation movement has been waiting patiently to see outcome of what we hoped to be a quick appeal to get the AEPA overturned. The appeal response has finally come in from the Third Circuit U.S Court of Appeals. We have been living with fingers crossed and high hopes that the results would come back in favor of the animals; but this is not the case. The SHAC 7 convictions are being upheld, as well as the constitutionality of the Animal Enterprise Protection Act; and lastly, the appeal has been denied.

It is safe to say that the U.S Constitution is withering away and that freedom of speech is non existent. These results now leave everyone with the question; why fight legally and risk years in prison when you can work within the underground and go unnoticed? Why stand outside a business and protest if you could just as easily throw a brick through the window, or burn it down? Why protest a fur shop, when you can make a night time visit to a fur farm and free hundreds to thousands of animals? Remember, the underground movement has closed more fur farms, research labs, and animal exploiting businesses than the number of us they have put in jail.

read the appeal rejection here.

SHAC APPEAL DECISION

Because We Must!

-vT!

directory of vivisectors courtesy of PRO -TEST

The public nature of this petition means that vivisectors and their supporters are now publishing their own names online; a tactic scoffed at when done by animal rights activists. Activists should not hesitate to take advantage of this petition and to use it as a directory. The petition is essentially a list of people who are without shame, who are willing to take a public stance in favor of the continued suffering and death of animals in laboratories. The signatories are people who not just support but who are actively advocating the continuation of violence toward animals.

The petition is both a directory of people whose minds need to be changed (and in many cases whose behavior needs to be changed) and is an open call to violence by vivisectors against nonhuman animals. While vivisectors present themselves as victims (perhaps because someone chalks their name on a sidewalk or calls them a “killer” after they do in fact kill); in truth they are the aggressors.

Please select as many names from the petition as you see fit and contact these individuals as soon as possible. Some common names may be difficult to trace to the particular individual but many names will not be difficult (particularly if they have listed educational credentials or academic titles with their name).

It is only just the someone who opts to take a public position in favor of violence toward animals receive some negative feedback from more compassionate individuals such as the many dedicated activists who read this blog. Anyone who openly advocated racism, sexism, or pedophilia would be thoroughly criticized…this is an appropriate response to those who advocate vivisection.

Do not hesitate to call the bluff of Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella when he claims to seek “productive dialogue” and begin contacting the names on this list.

View the full list of signatories to the petition here.