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February 6th, 2010

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Suspect to 2003 ELF action killed in avalanche in France

February 6th, 2010

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“Caltech graduate Tyler Johnson – who had been identified by authorities as a suspect participating the firebombing of more than 130 SUVs in San Gabriel Valley dealerships in 2003 – is reported to have died in an avalanche while he was hiking in France, his father said.”

“Johnson, 30, was hiking alone in the Corsican mountains of France on December 26 when he was struck by an avalanche, according to his father James Johnson”

Pasadena Star News

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William Viehl gets 2 years for freeing caged mink

February 4th, 2010

Today, William James Viehl ‘BJ’, was sentenced to 2 years in prison for his role in liberating hundreds of mink from a south jordan fur farm in Utah. ( read about the arrests and the action at Green Is The New Red.Com )

“Viehl already has served about six months in jail while awaiting sentencing and will be given credit for that time. Benson also sentenced Viehl to three years of probation, during which time he cannot have contact with other people who advocate the freeing of animals. Viehl also must pay about $66,000 in restitution, though he can split that amount with his co-defendant, Alex Jason Hall, if he is convicted. Hall is awaiting trial.”

You can read the article by the Salt Lake Tribune right here.

“Viehl, 23, was expected to be sentenced Nov. 12 to six months in prison for damaging and interfering with animal enterprises during a September raid on the McMullin mink farm in South Jordan. Such a sentence is consistent with the low end of the federal sentencing guidelines, which the U.S. Attorney’s Office had agreed to recommend in exchange for Viehl’s guilty plea.

During the sentencing hearing, however, prosecutor John Huber told Benson that although Viehl’s actions were classified as a property crime by the sentencing guidelines, the impact of his misconduct was much more sinister than simple vandalism.

“The crime itself was designed to intimidate and inspire fear in the victims,” Huber said.

Investigators believe Viehl and Alex Hall, 21, released as many as 650 minks in the raid and also vandalized a number of buildings on the property with phrases such as “No More Mink, No More Murder” and “ALF: We Are Watching.”

read it at Desert News.

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Dairy’s Dark Side : The Sour Truth Behind Milk

January 26th, 2010

Dairy’s Dark Side : The Sour Truth Behind Milk

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Fisheries Minister Gail Shea gets pied!

January 26th, 2010

“Shame on you Gail Shea … it is a shame on Canada, it is a shame that she has not denounced this bloody seal hunt,”

Stop the Canadian Seal Slaughter

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Margin of Certainty: From Veganism to Activism

January 25th, 2010

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Margin of Certainty: from Veganism to Activism from Let Live Foundation on Vimeo.

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Another subpoena for 2004 A.L.F raid

January 24th, 2010

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Taken from Voice of the Voiceless

Former University of Iowa student and barred attorney subpoenaed to testify in Animal Liberation Front investigation.

A University of Iowa graduate has been named as the latest person subpoenaed to testify to a grand jury seeking those responsible for the 2004 Animal Liberation Front raid of the University of Iowa.

Leana Stormont, a barred attorney and graduate of the University of Iowa law school, was involved with animal rights activism on campus at the time of the 2004 A.L.F. raid. The action saw the rescue of 401 animals from the Spence psychology labs in an overnight raid by the A.L.F.

A visible animal rights activist on campus, Leana Stormont appears to have been on the FBI’s radar since the Animal Liberation Front break-in. After experiencing harassment in the post-raid FBI investigation, she published an article in the American Chronicle titled “Caring About Animals is Not a Crime” on being surveilled by the FBI and the government’s practice of spying on activists.

Read the article at full HERE

Former University of Iowa student and barred attorney subpoenaed to testify in Animal Liberation Front investigation.

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Abandon ‘The Death of Urgency’

January 21st, 2010

Pre-order the first full length from Abandon from Death of A Modernist Records

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FBI broke law for years

January 20th, 2010

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The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their actions.

The records seen by The Post do not reveal the identities of the people whose phone call records were gathered, but FBI officials said they thought that nearly all of the requests involved terrorism investigations.

FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni said in an interview Monday that the FBI technically violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act when agents invoked nonexistent emergencies to collect records.

Read the article at full HERE

Tags: fbi, harassment, lying, police, spying
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Activists want jallikattu banned ( India )

January 17th, 2010

Though Vijayan, 25, was gored to death on Friday at Palamedu in Madurai, participants turned up in large numbers for the event on Saturday.

Blue Cross of India, along with Animal Welfare Board of India, had approached the court seeking a ban on jallikattu. “How can any person show valour by torturing oneself and others?” its secretary, Sarswathi Haksan, said.

The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), too called for a ban on such a “barbaric” sport. “I feel sorry for such acts of heroism,” SPCA secretary S Natana Rajan said.