Voice of the Voiceless

Last month’s post on upcoming films covering persecuted and repressed methods of achieving animal liberation had one glaring omission: The upcoming SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty) documentary, “Terrorist“.

A word on film: I believe as individuals we should spent less time watching, and more time doing. And as a movement, one of our biggest failures is allowing into our lives and activism pacifiers disguised as weapons - from “recreational” drugs to internet activism. Watching films on radical subjects is still watching, still being a passive receptor over an active agitator. All that said, to the extent we do not confuse being the consumer of films for embodying their message, “Terrorist” is a necessary document of a powerful story, which deserves a wide audience.

This documentary gives a voice to the urgent warning of a tragic chapter in both our movement, and the history of our constitution: the conviction of the SHAC 7.

-Peter Young