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UK Animal Liberation Newswire Archive

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Bite Back #13 - Out Now!

22-05-2008 15:43

News from the frontlines of the animal liberation movement
Bite Back is a 36 page magazine, full of direct action reports, prisoner news, stories and photos.

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Iceland Defies Moratorium On Commercial Whaling - Whale Hunt Started

22-05-2008 15:38

Minke meat served in an Icelandic restaurant. Photo by flickr.com/ccgd

Without warning the Icelandic government authorized Icelandic whalers to begin their killing on May 20th in direct defiance of the global moratorium on commercial whaling. Iceland has rejoined the trinity of whale killing nations along with Japan and Norway. The three rogue whale killing nations have thumbed their noses at the international community to continue a criminal barbaric practice that has been outlawed under international law.

Also on the newswire: Norway Starts Whale Hunting Season

Previous features: Armed Canadian Coast Guard Storms Conservation Vessel | Nottingham Activist Returns From Whale Saving Mission In Antartica | Injured Among Sea Shepherd Crew As Japanese Military Open Fire | Activists Held Hostage By Japanese Whalers In Southern Ocean

More articles: Ocean Defence topic page

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ALF Foie gras actions (2007 - 2008)

22-05-2008 13:15

There are places that will not listen to reason, continue to support an industry illegal in the UK, and cause massive suffering to geese and ducks, and for a 'delicacy'.

It is clear that there are places that have no limits to what they will place on the menu.
They will not listen to protesters and campaigners, now they are having to deal with the Animal Liberation Front, as they are realising to their increasing cost.

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Dawn raids against anti-fur activists in Austria

21-05-2008 22:36

Starting at 6:00am today houses, flats and storerooms belonging to animal rights activists were raided and the inhabitants arrested all across Austria. In several cases activists were woken by armed police and brutally handcuffed. They could only look on helplessly as their homes and possesions were ransacked by police.

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Latest repression against the Escada Campaign

21-05-2008 22:04

PRESS RELEASE: TUESDAY 20TH MAY 20008

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Raids And Arrests In Austria

21-05-2008 13:36

...since the early morning hours, houses, flats and storage rooms of austrian animal rights activists have been raided and some of them where arrested. The police forced some people with weapons and handcuffed others while searching the building and rooms.

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Actions against; farming, hunting, fur & bullfighting

20-05-2008 17:42

PRO-BULLFIGHT POSTERS DESTROYED (Spain)
Direct action from Sweden, Slovakia & Spain

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Camden Lab - Letter from Frank Dobson & Govt. deal : Lab in "return" for flats

20-05-2008 14:55

We have a letter from Frank Dobson MP for Camden. {9th May} and it appears that the government are trying to do a deal. They are, it seems, trying to persuade the people of London to accept a deadly lab near Kings Cross in "return" for flats on the Hampstead Road site, currently owned by the NIMR. If built the lab will see the Somers Town estate and surround, patrolled by armed police.

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Speak Oxford Demo Report – Thursday 15 May

20-05-2008 09:04

One law for some, one law for others.

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Support Animal Liberation Prisoner Sean Kirtley (New site and MySpace)

19-05-2008 23:28

Our friend and fellow Sequani activist Sean Kirtley was remanded and awaits sentencing in relation to the 18 week Sequani trial and Operation Tornado.

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Free Foods Invades Nottingham

19-05-2008 16:24

dotty's cupcakes
As part of 'National Vegetarian Week' Nottingham Animal Rights and Veggies Catering Campaign hosted a free food give-away opposite McShite on Monday 19th May.

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Shakespeare and Others on Calves, Deer, Flies, Beetles, Vivivsectors,

19-05-2008 11:38

Shakespeare, E Dickinson, J Hackett, F M Esfandiary, G B Shaw, Robert Burns, Wm Blake, Abe Lincoln, Edna St Vincent Millay, C. Salamone, Mao Tse Tung, P Levine,

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“Supermarket Sweep” Boycott Proctor and Gamble Day Action

19-05-2008 00:04

Video Outside Tesco after unlocking the trolley
Unlock the labs, lock up the trolleys! Animal Rights Cambridge marks Global Day of Action against P&G!

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Antispe report from Veggie Pride march

18-05-2008 19:23

anonymous communique (rough translation):

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Direct Action: UK, USA & Sweden

17-05-2008 18:00

DOZENS OF HUNTING TOWERS SAWED INTO FIREWOOD (Sweden)
DOZENS OF HUNTING TOWERS SAWED INTO FIREWOOD (Sweden)
WINDOWS BROKEN, SLOGANS PAINTED AT KFC (USA)
64 CHICKENS LIBERATED FROM FARM (UK)
WARNING FOR HOTEL SERVING FOIE GRAS (UK)
CIRCUS VEHICLES VANDALIZED (UK)
MEAT BANNER DESTROYED AT SUPERMARKET (UK)

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Sequani trial stitch up

16-05-2008 23:40

The vindictive state twists the knife.

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Camden Deadly Disease & Animal Torture Lab - there were 27 other bidders.

16-05-2008 14:16

As you may be aware there is an attempt to build a deadly disease lab in London. There were 27 other bidders for the land at Brill Place next to St Pancras International in the heart of London's business district. The site is also on a Camden council house estate. 12 complied with the planning briefthat the site should be used for 50% housing but were turned down. There is something very stinky about this whole thing...

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Veggies Campaign News

16-05-2008 00:38

New veggie catering campaign to be launched, another (almost) bites the dust.

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Foie Gras off the Menu at 5th Birmingham Restaurant

15-05-2008 21:00

After demonstrations and logical reasoning Opus Restaurant finally decide to remove Foie Gras from their menu.
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