Five years after the Animal Liberation Front raids the University of Iowa, the government launches a prosecution that is a fraud on its face
In late-2004, morning workers arrived at the Spence Laboratories to find $450,000 in damage to equipment and 401 animals missing. Graffiti left at the scene read “Science Not Sadism” and “Free The [...]
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Three wolves released, one remains free after a pen was opened in an overnight action.
Monday morning, workers discovered three wolves had been released from a pen at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, MN. Two wolves have been recaptured, but one remains free. Only 350 of the rare Mexican Grey Wolves are known [...]
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18 months later mink are still found living near Utah farm where William BJ Viehl liberated 650 animals.
Media reports of William “BJ” Viehl’s sentencing last week for the liberation of 650 mink never neglected to mention Fur Commission USA lies about the mink’s fate: Nearly all liberated mink recaptured, the rest “hit by cars” or [...]
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Judge quadruples the recommended sentence for A.L.F. activist.
Calling him a “terrorist” and following through on his threat to more than quadruple the recommended sentence, judge Dee Benson Thursday sentenced William Viehl to two years in federal prison. It is the first sentence handed down under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.
Background
Viehl was charged last year under [...]
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Posted in Direct Action, Recent Articles on Feb 4th, 2010
It has been one week since a man set himself on fire outside a fur store in Portland and died. In the responses from activists that followed, there has been what I see as insulting disregard, and the few standing up to say there is a greater significance to his death.
Most sentiments on the death [...]
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Vegan prisoner Marie Mason’s health worsens as prison continues to deny her vegan food.
Marie Mason is asking for all supporters to send letters and faxes to the prison and request she be provided with vegan food.
Marie Mason is serving nearly 22 years for pleading guilty to numerous A.L.F. and E.L.F. actions, including an arson [...]
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In a press release dispatched yesterday, the Civil Liberties Defense Center fired back against the University of Iowa Animal Liberation Front lab raid investigation.
While ostensibly an “ecoterrorism” investigation into the A.L.F. liberation of 401 animals from the University of Iowa’s animal research labs in 2004, in the below statement CLDC lawyers accuse the federal prosecutor [...]
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Posted in Direct Action, Recent Articles on Jan 28th, 2010
Serious news.
A man set himself on fire Wednesday outside Ungar Furs in Portland, Oregon. After dousing himself with gasoline, he attempted to enter the store, shouting “There are animals dying! Animals dying!” After police extinguished the flames, he was taken to Legacy Emanuel Hospital where he later died.
The man was identified as 26-year-old Daniel Shaull [...]
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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 [...]
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Information is sparse, but word is out that another subpoena has been served in the ongoing investigation into the Animal Liberation Front liberation of 401 animals from the University of Iowa. Any more details at this point - such as the name of the person subpoenaed - are unknown. More information will be posted as [...]
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