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Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals
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Organizing against Bank of America in enemy territory
Read more: Organizing against Bank of America in enemy territoryThis week, thousands are descending on North Carolina for the Bank of America shareholders’ meeting. The protest comes on the heels of the successful Wells Fargo shareholder event in San Francisco, where thousands of protesters shut down the conference, and…
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Bold Native
Read more: Bold NativeBy Loredana Loy Written and directed by Denis Hennelly, Bold Native is the story of Charlie (Joaquin Pastor), an animal liberation activist who travels around the country recruiting other activists for a nation-wide series of animal liberation operations. The magnitude,…
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Weekly protest at the slaughterhouse
Read more: Weekly protest at the slaughterhouseBy Catherine Porter I spent an hour Wednesday morning talking pigs and Leo Tolstoy on a traffic island outside the Princes’ Gates. Anita Krajnc and her group call this “Pig Island.” They come here most weeks to watch and photograph…
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Reverse pay-per-view!
Read more: Reverse pay-per-view!Since summer 2011, FARM’s activists have been paying people $1 each to watch a 4-minute video depicting the inherent cruelties of raising animals for food. This tactic, known as “pay-per-view,” has led 80% of participants to reduce meat consumption, sparing…
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Undercover Investigation at Factory Farm
Read more: Undercover Investigation at Factory FarmBy Joanna Zelman Piglets are haphazardly swung in circles, sows are beaten, and animals squirm with untreated abscesses in new footage alleging animal abuse at a Wyoming pig breeding facility. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), an animal…
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Finally, OWS gets police to arrest the people in suits
Read more: Finally, OWS gets police to arrest the people in suitsSometimes justice requires a little imagination. On Saturday, when much of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York was loudly denouncing police violence against minorities and protesters, a small group of environmentalists dreamed up a way to get the…
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ACT UP is at it again
Read more: ACT UP is at it againLong before the red ribbon became an innocuous symbol of AIDS “awareness” and celebrity philanthropy, there was the pink triangle and there was ACT UP and there were thousands of people taking to the streets for their lives. Once a…
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Czechoslovakia’s two-hour general strike
Read more: Czechoslovakia’s two-hour general strikeA general strike can be one of the most potent noncooperation methods in the repertoire of nonviolent resistance. It is a widespread cessation of labor in an effort to bring all economic activity to a total standstill. Although it is…
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Green Map UAE
Read more: Green Map UAEGreen Map UAE is a place to pin, share, and quite literally, map out locations or events that are unique ecologically, culturally and considered civic resources near home or while traveling within the UAE. This portal, apart of a larger…
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Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke
Read more: Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a JokeFrom The New York TimeBy BROOK LARMER The cellphone vibrated softly, insistently, echoing off the whitewashed walls of the artist’s studio. It was a Sunday morning in early April, and Wang Bo — an Internet animator better known to his…
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International Day for Animals in Laboratories
Read more: International Day for Animals in LaboratoriesOn April 23rd, in commemoration of the International Day for Animals in Laboratories, Animal Equality’s activists in Rome, Madrid, Barcelona and many other cities across Europe carried out demonstrations against animal testing. In Rome, two flash mobs formed to protest…
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Interview with an Undercover Investigator
Read more: Interview with an Undercover InvestigatorBy Will Potter Multiple states have considered “Ag Gag” bills that criminalize investigators who document animal welfare abuses on factory farms. Iowa and Utah are the latest to approve them. These bills, lobbied for by Big Ag groups, are part…