(Source: veganism-begins-at-home, via xveganarchistx)
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Thursday, 31st May
![From the article at CrimethInc.com:
Over the past month, the FBI has initiated a spate of entrapment operations designed to frame anarchists as “terrorists.” Significantly, they have not targeted longtime organizers, but rather people who are relatively peripheral to anarchist communities.
In response, we’ve prepared a pamphlet suitable for a wide readership explaining how this entrapment strategy works, and an analysis exploring why the FBI has adopted it. Please circulate these widely.
Reading PDF [550kb]Imposed PDF for Printing [550kb]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4t8jqXdUp1qfysvfo1_500.jpg)
From the article at CrimethInc.com:
Over the past month, the FBI has initiated a spate of entrapment operations designed to frame anarchists as “terrorists.” Significantly, they have not targeted longtime organizers, but rather people who are relatively peripheral to anarchist communities.
In response, we’ve prepared a pamphlet suitable for a wide readership explaining how this entrapment strategy works, and an analysis exploring why the FBI has adopted it. Please circulate these widely.
(via starmichael)
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Wednesday, 30th May
First Hand Account: 18.05.12
“I’m writing to you to express a concern that has come to my attention after spending a day at Marineland in Niagara Falls today. I hope there have been other people who have spoken up as well about Marineland. I have fond memories going there as a child, so I decided to visit it again while on a visit to the Falls this week. However, the excitement was soon replaced by dismay at the conditions of the animals that I saw. It seems to me as if Marineland is trying to transition into more of a theme-park rather than an animal attraction, and thus the welfare of the animals have been seriously compromised. (I could be wrong about the transitioning part, but it seems to have less shows and more rides than I remember.)
Aside from the common complaint of keeping marine animals in tanks and the whales clearly being withheld from food for performance purposes, I found their “less expensive” animals to be in terrible condition. Particularly, the animals that concerned me the most were the fallow deer. They were packed in a completely unnatural, barren enclosure with no park staff supervision. Many were nothing but skin and bones, with their hip bones jutting out in plain sight. (Note: The only source of food I could see was the ones tourists were encouraged to buy. There is a reason why the deer SWARM you for food—they are starving.) There was also no form of shade or a quiet secluded area for the deer. I also noticed about a good portion of them were lame and seemed to have been so for a while. (Are there any regulations requiring veterinary care at all?) Half of the herd was suffering from mange. A few had clear eye infections, or were even blind. There seemed to have been a recent new shipment of deer that looked much healthier, but they were absolutely scared out of their minds at all the people around chasing them.
I urge you, as a local organization who advocates for animal welfare, to please do something about this. I doubt my complaints to the park itself will be heeded at all. I’d hate to know future generations will be taught this sort of treatment of animals is the norm.”
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Tuesday, 29th May
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has issued draft recommendations for vivisection on rats that includes exposure to new ingredients and chemicals used to create so-called “safer” cigarettes.
Iconic images of beagle smoke test models are powerful and have an urgent effect on vegans, vegetarians and animal advocates who still smoke. The recognition of consequence (and worth) can be a transformative space for people - especially for those who struggle with their own self worth. It can be hard for those who think little of themselves and their own health to be compelled to change, however, seeing the consequences of their actions in others who they care about can facilitate that process. The intersection of drug use/other animal use is a space for transformative and radical health and wellness and point to a new trail to be blazed in the face of individualistic-neo liberal-capitalist understandings of consumer health and wellness.
(via fundock)
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Tuesday, 29th May
Newly released FBI presentations show how the government is training agents to investigate “domestic terrorist” groups such as anarchists, animal rights activists, and environmentalists.
Click through for the full story.And please reblog if you think the FBI has no business monitoring FOIA requests and civil disobedience!.
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Tuesday, 29th May
Movie poster (a real one this time) I drew for a documentary coming out and going on tour this summer. Check it out at http://maximumtolerateddose.org/ it’s going to be amazing and you should totally support this, even if support just means passing the link along. Thank you!
Also check out the tour website! http://openthecagestour.com/
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Tuesday, 29th May
A friend of mine dropped me a line, it said, “man, I gotta run to the USA. I got no money, got no job.” She skipped out of Mexico to stay alive. You’ve got a problem with her living here, but what did you do to help her before she fucking came? What did the country do? What did the people do? I stand not by my country, but by people of the whole fucking world. No fences, no borders. Free movement for all. Fuck the border. It’s about fucking time to treat people with respect. It’s our culture and consumption that makes her life unbearable. Fuck this country; its angry eyes, its knee-jerk hordes. Legal or illegal, watch her fucking go. She’ll take what’s hers. Watch her fucking go. Fuck the border.
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Monday, 28th May
Lobby Invasion at the Battelle office in San Diego for their bloody ties with Primate Products.
San Diego!
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Sunday, 27th May
I am not a pacifist
Fuck that cliché that to react with violence makes one as bad as the perpetrator.
I will kill the rapists.
I will bash in the skulls of every perpetrator of domestic violence.
I will rip out the tongues of bullies and shamers, racists and trans*phobes, misogynists and homophobes, I have no pity for their hateful ignorance.
I will give back every fucking measure of violence 100 times over.
I will not sit in silence hoping these people “someday learn better” because they fucking won’t. Society shames the victims and pities the aggressor.
I am not for the death penalty, I am not for our overflowing jails, but I am not afraid to take into my own hands the issues the government refuses to acknowledge.
I will strike back.
If you dare lay a hand on those I love, I will destroy you.
If you dare lay a hand on me, I will fucking kill you.
(via fundock)
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Sunday, 27th May
