Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - CBC News

A protest pie thrown at the federal fisheries minister should make Ottawa look into whether an animal-rights group should be labelled "terrorist," says an MP from Newfoundland and Labrador..."There has to be a review whether or not PETA has crossed the line now by attacking a federal minister of the Crown for the purpose of public intimidation of an office-holder" [said] Byrne.

Whale sounds and Maori chants were blasted through loudspeakers as a rallying cry for the almost 1000 whales doomed to be illegally slaughtered by Japanese poachers in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, as sanctioned by the Japanese government.

SchNEWS - Friday 30th October 2009

An artificial division has been drawn between [Animal Rights] and anarchist groups and ‘environmental campaigners and anti-war protesters’ – who are in many cases the same people. The real division between protest groups and how much state attention they receive is not how violent they are but how effective – start to challenge the status quo and the mask of democracy inevitably slips away.

By Arun Gupta - August 04, 2009

It's easy to dismiss this gonzo gastronomy as typical American excess...Behind the proliferation of bacon offerings, however, is a confluence of government policy, factory farming, the boom in fast food and manipulation of consumer taste that has turned bacon into a weapon of mass destruction...While bacon's harmful effects were once limited to individual consumers, its production...has become an environmental disaster.

Boycott Animal Circuses!

Torontonians Against Animals in the Circus will be protesting the Shrine Circus at Woodbine Centre (near Woodbine Race Track on Rexdale Blvd.) on Saturday July 11th beginning at 2:30pm.

Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009
Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Location: Woodbine Shopping Centre
Street: 500 rexdale blvd

What's wrong with the Shrine Circus?

For Obama, activism = terrorism.

By CHRIS GENOVALI - April 2, 2009

That the province continues to permit grizzly bears—especially coastal grizzlies, which are often sitting targets—to be shot and killed for sport in our parks and protected areas is not only anachronistic from a wildlife management perspective, but it is ethically lamentable as well.

Those of us living in BC are blessed with magnificence: old-growth cedars dipping curved limbs into the ocean, mammoth Douglas firs big as cathedrals, grey whales basking in the warm shallows.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 18, 2009) - The West Moberly First Nations (WMFN), in northeast British Columbia, is putting Vancouver-based, privately held junior mining company First Coal Corporation (FCC) 'on notice' that WMFN intends to pursue all available means, including legal action, to protect the "Threatened" Burnt/Pine caribou herd and WMFN members' Treaty and Aboriginal rights and interests.

When Hackers Against Oppression called for Electronic Civil Disobedience in solidarity with Greek Anarchists on New Years Eve, we knew that we could count on our comrades to do what needed to be done. We are once again asking for your assistance on Monday January 19th (today, MLK Day) of 2008, the International Day of Action Against Vivisection.

Healing the Earth Radio explores the connections between many social and ecological issues. Motivated by a desire to foster more understanding, alliances, and effective action, the show interviews Native people defending their land and culture, environmental, local food, and peak oil activists, writers, lawyers, supporters of political prisoners, scientists, whistle-blowers, tree sitters, and many others who devote their lives to making things better.

“…A party of five or six hundred Sioux Indians on horseback, forded the river about mid-day, and spending a few hours amongst them, recrossed the river at sun-down and came into the Fort with fourteen hundred buffalo tongues, which were thrown down in a mass, and for which they required but a few gallons of whiskey, which was soon demolished, indulging them in a little, and harmless carouse,” writes George Catlin in 1841. He goes on to write that such behaviors serve “many appetites that can only be lawfully indulged, by proving God’s laws defective.” Reading the writings of explorers from the 1800’s in the western U.S territories, I hear people saying exactly what animal rights activists and environmentalists are saying today.

Every four years or so the hen house at Lake Pottahwuattabe hosts an
open house for its stockholders' annual general meeting.
One year some animal rights' activists disrupted the proceedings and
in the ensuing mischief ................