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Benefit gig to raise funds for Sheffield Sabs

08/04/2011 in News by SAF | No comments

On Saturday 23rd April there will be a night of acoustic punk at the Rutland Arms (86 Brown Street, Sheffield) to raise funds for Sheffield hunt sabs. Money raised will go towards helping the work of Sheffield saboteurs who take direct action to save hunted animals week in, week out. Doors will be at 7.30pm and it’s £4 in, the lineup is Onsind, Throw Rocks At Cops, Same Old Steve and The Whacking Shillalies. There will also be lovely vegan food available to buy as well! If you want to find out more about the group, would like to make a donation or are interested in getting involved in sabbing please email sheffieldsaboteurs@live.co.uk. For more general info about hunt sabotage please visit http://hsa.enviroweb.org/

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Pirate for the Sea

02/04/2011 in News by SAF | No comments

This coming Friday there will be a screening of The Whale Warrior: Pirate for the Sea, a documentary about Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Learn more about his early campaigns protesting the killing of seals, whales and dolphins as the youngest founding member of Greenpeace and watch as he dodges jail time, death threats and gunfire as a result of direct intervention to end the destruction of our oceans.

The film will take place at the Old Junior School on South View Road, from 7 to 10pm. Suggested donation is £5, and all proceeds will go to Sea Shepherd. There will also be a vegan bake sale!

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New websites with old zines

19/03/2011 in News by SAF | No comments

Two websites have been established to archive old animal liberation zines and magazines; Conflict Gypsy (the name was a derogatory term coined by Fur Commission USA spokesperson Teresa Platt to slam the supposedly rootless activists who wandered around the country causing trouble), and the more German-oriented Animal Liberation Archive.

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Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair

13/03/2011 in News by SAF | No comments

It’s just a couple of months until Sheffield’s second annual anarchist bookfair. It will take place on Saturday 21st May, from 10am-6pm at Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street. Sheffield Animal Friends will have a stall with literature, merchandise and probably vegan cake!

SAF has members with various different political backgrounds, but anarchism is undoubtedly influential with the animal liberation movement, both in terms of theorising animal exploitation and in terms of thinking about how we structure our movement. For more information about the bookfair, see here.

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The Animal Gaze

14/02/2011 in News by SAF | No comments

On Friday 18th February a new exhibition opens at Sheffield Institute of the Arts Gallery, examining “new ways in which animals appear in contemporary art and the contingent ethics and aesthetics to which such practice may be subject”. Animals have often been represented in art in anthropocentric terms, as status symbols or allegorical devices, but this exhibition features work that imagines animals’ own experiences and viewpoints.

The Animal Gaze runs in Sheffield until 20th March. For more information please visit the Sheffield Institute of the Arts website.

Run For ALL Life

14/02/2011 in News by SAF | No comments

On Saturday 21st May, the Run For ALL Life will take place at Ecclesall Wood in Sheffield. Participants can choose to run a 5 or 10 kilometer run, and entrance is free but runners need to raise a minimum of £10 in sponsorship. The money raised will go to the Dr Hadwen Trust, which funds non-animal medical research.

To book your place, please call Dawn Biram on 0114 2356907 or email her at hadwen.run@gmail.com

For more information about the event see this pdf file.

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Demo against greyhound racing

02/02/2011 in News by SAF | No comments

Yesterday six of us protested outside Owlerton Stadium, in protest at the exploitation and killing of greyhounds by the racing industry. Around 30 000 dogs are killed each year by the British greyhound racing industry – many of them perfectly healthy, but too slow or old to win races.

Please email us at sheffieldanimalfriends@gmail.com if you’d like to get involved with the campaign to close the track.

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Sheffield Hunt Sabs website

29/01/2011 in News by SAF | No comments

Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs now have a website. Have a look here. If you’re interested in monitoring hunts and taking direct action to save lives, please email sheffieldsaboteurs@live.co.uk or speak to a sab at one of Sheffield Animal Friends’ monthly meetings.

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Stickers

25/01/2011 in News by SAF | No comments

We now have some SAF stickers! If you’d like any, please send us an email at sheffieldanimalfriends@gmail.com and consider giving a donation to cover the cost of printing. Thanks to Animal Rights Alliance in Sweden for letting us rip off their design!

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Successful day of demos against fur

22/01/2011 in News by SAF | No comments

Today we visited two shops that had been found selling fur. The first, Seasons, had been selling fur-trim boots but was again fur-free when we checked it out. The other, a second-hand shop on Division Street, had been selling fur coats.

Although conventional fur shops are our priority, the sale and wearing of vintage fur perpetuates the idea that it is acceptable and fashionable to wear the bodies of tortured animals, and thereby provides a route back to social acceptance for the conventional fur industry. Furthermore, fur marketed as vintage is not always as it seems – undercover investigations in fur dealers have shown that conventional fur is widely passed off as vintage fur.

The vintage shop agreed to stop selling fur after a couple of hours of us flyering and protesting outside, but we will continue to inspect it, to check that they keep to their pledge.

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