Activist Eric McDavid released from prison in the USA
Some rare good news today as activist Eric McDavid was released from prison after serving nine years of a near 20 year sentence. He went free […]
State and corporate repression
Out with the old, in with the new…
The turning of one year into another usually leads to the casting of one’s mind back over the previous 12 months and to looking forward as well. Eight […]
Corporate Watch needs our support
Corporate Watch has been one of the few organizations to acknowledge and publicise the repression suffered by animal rights campaigners. While other bastions of the […]
Sunday 16 November: Defend the Right to Protest Conference
WE DO NOT CONSENT: Defend the Right to Protest is a major conference taking place on Sunday 16 November at SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H […]
Sentencing of the SOCPA 7
The activists known as the SOCPA7 were sentenced on Friday 10 October for campaigning against animal testing and Huntingdon Life Sciences. A peaceful protest was held […]
Science Media Centre infiltrated by “pro-corporate libertarian right”
In a Guardian article this week, Shocking animal rights exposes were nothing of the kind, Fiona Fox (pictured left) of the Science Media Centre attacked […]
SOCPA7 solidarity court protest on Friday 10 October
This Friday, 10th October, the SOCPA7 will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court, 1 English Grounds (off Battlebridge Lane), Southwark, London SE1 2HU. They are compassionate […]
SOCPA 7 meetings this week
In 2012-2013 seven people were raided, arrested and charged for conspiracy to commit SOCPA 145 & 146, two laws introduced in 2005 against anti-vivisection campaigners […]
The end of SHAC and what we can learn from it
A couple of weeks ago the demise of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) was announced on its website. The news slipped out unobtrusively, without any […]
Maggie and Big Mac – a match made in McHeaven
We all know there’s an obesity epidemic: you can hardly read a newspaper or turn on the tv without being told some mid numbing statistic such […]
Wed 30th July: International day of action for the SOCPA 7
Seven people who have protested against vivisection have been charged with conspiracy to commit section 145 SOCPA 2005. SOCPA stands for Serious Organised Crime and Police Act and […]
Message from political prisoner Debbie Vincent
Debbie Vincent from SHAC was sentenced to six years in April after being found guilty of conspiracy to blackmail. She is the latest in a long line […]
Vivisectors go on the offensive as opposition falters
The Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously said that a week was a long time in politics. In that case 10 years must seem an eternity […]
Who to blame for the decline in the AR movement
When the scandal of police spies broke in 2011 the Met was obliged to be seen doing something and set up Operation Herne. Three years […]