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Utah Judge Changes Venue in Piglet Rescuers’ Trial, After Canvassers Face Death Threats

August 20, 2022

Judge Wilcox repeatedly expressed concerns about advocates potentially intimidating local residents. This is contrary to recent footage and a lawsuit in which it is canvassers supporting Hsiung and Picklesimer who faced death threats and were forced to stop talking to sidewalk pedestrians.

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Utah Judge Changes Venue in Piglet Rescuers’ Trial, After Canvassers Face Death Threats

August 20, 2022

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Calling Foul on Culling Waterfowl

August 16, 2022

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Calling Foul on Culling Waterfowl

August 16, 2022

Despite this supposed safeguard, if a local entity wants to take the lives of Canada geese, an application and a verbal statement over the phone grants instant permit approval from the USDA –which killed 26,000 Canada geese last year alone.

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Ag-gag may be overturned, but the industry is still desperately trying to hide the truth.

August 11, 2022

These stories - the story of Smithfield, the story of Lily and Lizzie, and the story of government and industry collusion - are too important to tell for us to just give in to intimidation and bullying.

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Ag-gag may be overturned, but the industry is still desperately trying to hide the truth.

August 11, 2022

These stories - the story of Smithfield, the story of Lily and Lizzie, and the story of government and industry collusion - are too important to tell for us to just give in to intimidation and bullying.

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The Moral Atrocity of Factory Farming and Why We Must Not Look Away

August 11, 2022

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Journalist Marina Bolotnikova argues that factory farming is a fascist industry in which violence and domination of animals is justified without argument.

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The Moral Atrocity of Factory Farming and Why We Must Not Look Away

August 11, 2022

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Bird Flu Outbreak Forces SF Pigeon Activists to Halt Efforts to Heal Their Feathered Friends

August 5, 2022

San Francisco Standard

Members of Direct Action Everywhere regularly participate in pigeon first aid events in the city -- untangling string from claws that could lead to the loss of a toe or a potentially fatal infection. But activists have been forced to stop helping the birds as a deadly wave of avian flu sweeps the country.

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Bird Flu Outbreak Forces SF Pigeon Activists to Halt Efforts to Heal Their Feathered Friends

August 5, 2022

San Francisco Standard

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Animal rights activists sue Beaver County for allegedly violating First Amendment rights

August 3, 2022

Fox 13 Salt Lake City

Animal rights activists are filing a lawsuit for what they believe is active repression of their criticism of animal cruelty occurring at Smithfield’s Circle Four Farms.

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Animal rights activists sue Beaver County for allegedly violating First Amendment rights

August 3, 2022

Fox 13 Salt Lake City

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Utah police intimidated animal-rights activists and blamed them for pig farm layoffs, lawsuit says

August 3, 2022

Salt Lake City Tribune

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Utah police intimidated animal-rights activists and blamed them for pig farm layoffs, lawsuit says

August 3, 2022

Salt Lake City Tribune

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Two cows freed themselves, but now they’re at risk of slaughter again.

August 3, 2022

A dramatic story is unfolding right now in Newfane, New York after two cows freed themselves from a “beef” farm and luckily wandered onto the property of Asha’s Farm Sanctuary.

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Two cows freed themselves, but now they’re at risk of slaughter again.

August 3, 2022

Let this story be a reminder that animals do fight for their freedom and that they participate in their own liberation.

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SF Giants MLB Game DISRUPTED By Animal Activists in YODA and DARTH VADER Costumes

July 31, 2022

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SF Giants MLB Game DISRUPTED By Animal Activists in YODA and DARTH VADER Costumes

July 31, 2022

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They Rescued Pigs and Turkeys from Factory Farms - and Now Face Decades in Prison

December 23, 2018

The Intercept

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Activists Briefly Occupy Amazon Chicken Supplier to Treat ‘Sick, Starving’ Birds

September 29, 2018

Forbes

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Animal Rights Activists Face Multiple Felony Charges, Brought by Prosecutors With Ties to Smithfield Foods

June 7, 2018

The Intercept

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39 Arrested Protesting Industrial Farm Supplying So-Called "Cage-Free" Eggs to Amazon and Whole Foods

May 30, 2018

Democracy Now!

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Animal rights activists who removed two piglets from factory farm charged after FBI raids

May 25, 2018

The Washington Post

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Bred to Suffer: Inside the Barbaric U.S. Industry of Dog Experimentation

May 17, 2018

The Intercept

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America's largest pork producer pledged to make its meat more humane. An investigation says it didn't.

May 8, 2018

Vox

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Six Animal Rights Activists Charged With Felonies for Investigation and Rescue That Led to Punishment of a Utah Turkey Farm

May 4, 2018

The Intercept

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Fur Is Dead: Animal Welfare Groups Cheer San Francisco Ban

March 20, 2018

The New York Times

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How does a city become plant-based? You start by divesting from animal agriculture.

April 1, 2021

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😱 The rule of 3.5% has been broken. What does this mean for DxE?

February 11, 2021

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The Government is Covering up COVID-19 at Mink Farms – and Blaming Animal Rights Activists

January 25, 2021

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3 things to know if you want to help wild animals

January 21, 2021

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Can We Break Dunbar’s Number?

January 19, 2021

We’ve been hovering around this 150 number for a while now in the SF Bay Area chapter, and we know we have to grow past this, so we set off to figure out how to break Dunbar’s number.

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When giving someone a drink of water becomes an act of civil disobedience

September 11, 2020

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Five reasons why a moratorium is the right next step in our fight to #CancelAnimalAg

August 27, 2020

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Notes on the Removal of Aidan Hill from DxE

August 19, 2020

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How One Bird's Death Illustrates Our Nation’s Pandemic Failures (and its Hope)

August 14, 2020

The diseases suffered by Nina and her species never should have existed. Now, they threaten us all -- but her story should give us hope.

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Activists Disrupt Food Network Chef Tyler Florence’s Restaurant, Over Ties to Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry

July 20, 2024

On Saturday evening, animal rights activists protested inside and outside of Miller & Lux, an upscale steakhouse in Mission Bay that is owned by celebrity chef Tyler Florence. The protesters were calling on Florence to cut ties with Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry. They marched and chanted through the restaurant, holding signs that read “Drop Petaluma Poultry” and “Stop Supporting Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry’s Criminal Animal Abuse.”

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Judge Dismisses Multiple Felonies Against Animal Rescuer

May 13, 2024

Berkeley student in Perdue poultry case now faces 1 felony and 3 misdemeanors

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Felony Charges Dismissed Against Beagle Rescuers

March 8, 2024

Today, in a stunning development, the State of Wisconsin moved to dismiss charges against three animal rights activists accused of rescuing three beagles from Ridglan Farms, one of the last two remaining large breeders of dogs for vivisection in the country. Judge Mario White granted the dismissal at a hearing this morning.

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Activists Ask Stanford to Never Again Buy Research Subjects from Abusive Dog Breeder

February 27, 2024

The demonstration highlighted the horrifying conditions in which Ridglan Farms confines thousands of beagles for experimentation... The action featured speeches from Stanford alumni and a former Stanford researcher.

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Activists Evoke “Chicken Run” in Retelling of Real-Life Rescues

January 27, 2024

Playing with characters and plot elements from the new film Chicken Run 2: Dawn of the Nugget, the protest featured “Zoe Rosenbird” coming to the rescue of sick, injured chickens and transforming the operation that tortured them into an animal sanctuary.

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Activist Sentenced to Jail for Rescuing Sick Animals from Factory Farms

November 30, 2023

The University of Denver’s Animal Activist Legal Defense Project is working on the appeal. Attorney Chris Carraway said, “I often hear courts describe trials as a search for the truth. Mr. Hsiung’s trial was anything but. The press had limited access; trial participants were unconstitutionally gagged from the beginning; and the court bent over backwards to prevent the defense from detailing the chronic animal cruelty found which informed the intent behind the actions."

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Berkeley Factory Farm Ban Qualifies for November 2024 Election

October 19, 2023

“The thousands of signatures we’ve collected this summer are a testament to how enthusiastic the people of Berkeley are about disassociating with these cruel industries that run counter to our values,” says Berkeley resident and DxE organizer Kitty Jones. “It is high time we move past a system of industrialized exploitation of animals.”

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Activists Submit Required Signatures to Put Factory Farm Ban on Ballot

September 5, 2023

Activists say voter enthusiasm is high for a ban on factory farms in Berkeley after submitting more than 4,900 signatures to the Berkeley city clerk today, a large overshoot beyond the 3,000 required to get the measure on the ballot.

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Factory Farm Ban Likely to Be on Ballot After Activists Gather Required Signatures

August 1, 2023

"The vast majority of Berkeley voters that we've talked to care about animals and the planet and are eager to sign on to this initiative,” says Almira Tanner, lead organizer of DxE.

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