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Tags: Free food fair, Vegan
This exciting event will bring together postgraduate students focussing on human-animal relations, critical animal studies and anthrozoology, as well as activists, campaigning organisations and interested members of the public. Everyone is welcome to attend. The conference will take place on Saturday 10th March 2012, 9am – late, at the St. Sidwell’s Centre in Exeter, UK.
This conference is kindly sponsored by the University of Exeter and registration is FREE and open to everyone. To register, please click here. Please register by 3rd March 2012. More information on the conference, and to see the programme when it is made available, please see the website here.
Tags: Academia
Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs have had a busy weekend disrupting fox hunting. On Saturday August 27th the group saved two foxes from a hunt near Wakefield, and stopping a hunt near Mansfield on Bank Holiday Monday. They will now be out at least once a week, until April, taking action to save hunted foxes and hares. Please get in touch to join the group, donate, or help in other ways! Please email sheffieldsaboteurs@live.co.uk or check out the Facebook group.
Tags: Blood sports, Hunt sabs, Hunting
Every year there is an International Animal Rights Gathering, bringing together activists from around the world for workshops, talks, film showings and networking. This year it took place in the Netherlands, at the anarchist campsite Tot Vrijheidsbezinning.
One theme of this year’s workshops was how to carry out undercover investigations, drawing on experience from highly successful investigations into the pig and fur industries in Sweden and Finland. There were also thought-provoking and in-depth discussions on sexism and gender-awareness in the animal rights movement and the future of campaigning against the fur industry. Another highlight was the disco and karaoke!
On Friday 5th to Sunday 8th August, the UK Animal Rights Gathering will take place in Northamptonshire, so do get in touch with SAF if you want to go down together. Next year the International Animal Rights Gathering will be for the first time in Poland.
Activists from SAF today went down to Loughborough to protest against Harlan, a company breeding animals for use in painful experiments. We marched and gave out information in the city, before visiting Harlan in Belton. For more information about the campaign, please see the website of the National Anti-Vivisection Alliance.
Tags: Harlan, Vivisection
The second interview from The Creative Vegan Activist is with ONSIND (the name is short for One Night Stand In North Dakota, a reference to the lack of adequate abortion facilities in some areas of the USA), a great vegan acoustic pop-punk band from the North East.
Last year we made a zine called The Creative Vegan Activist. This featured interviews with people representing animal liberation in different areas, such as a band, a couple running an animal sanctuary, and a member of a Swedish animal rights activist group. Over the next few weeks we’ll be reproducing the interviews on the SAF website. First up is Richard White.
Tags: Critical Animal Studies, interview
The Hevy Music Festival is due to be held in August at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent, thereby subsidising the keeping captive of animals such as tigers, rhinos and monkeys. We are calling on compassionate music fans and the bands due to play to boycott the festival and take a stand against animal abuse. For more information about the plight of animals in captivity, check out the website of CAPS.
Making the festival even more distasteful is its decision to let Front Magazine sponsor one of the stages. Front is a soft-porn mag, marketing itself as alternative, but still promoting extremely narrow definitions of beauty (the models are only distinguishable from those in other lads mags by their tendency to sport a tattoo or two). The current issue seems to heavily feature booze, meat and sexism – almost a satire of tedious lads mags’ ideas of masculinity, and subjects that comprise the antithesis of what hardcore should be about.
Update: Death Is Not Glamorous have said they will no longer play the festival. We love you guys! They’re playing in Leeds on August 9th so you can catch them then. See below for a taster!
Yesterday we did an information stall to raise awareness of the animal testing conducted by Procter & Gamble, a multinational consumer goods company behind brands such as Herbal Essences and Fairy Liquid. To learn more about the campaign against P&G’s cruel experiments, check out the Sheffield-based campaign group Uncaged.
Tags: P&G, Procter & Gamble, Vivisection
Check out the Nottingham, Sheffield and West Yorkshire end of season report here. If you are interested in taking direct action to stop bloodsports, please email sheffieldsaboteurs@live.co.uk – The fox hunts are taking a break over the summer, but sabs may soon take action against shooting, and are keeping fit together in preparation for the next season of sabbing fox hunts!
Tags: Blood sports, Hunt sabs, Hunting
