Your Neighbour Kills Puppies (eBook)

Inside the Animal Liberation Movement

TOM HARRIS (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
496 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4870-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Harris reveals the history of an extraordinary animal rights campaign that I was proud to be associated with. A heartfelt and important account of a movement that inspired thousandsBenjamin Zephaniah, poet and activistWhen DIY ethos plays out on a grand scale, it has the power to shake governments and change the world. This is a must-read for all contemporary activistsMoby, musicianA story of compassion and courage that was crushed by the state, and a powerful testament to the inspirational campaigns of people who stood for a world without sufferingPeter Tatchell, campaigner for human and animal liberationFor many people, the name Huntingdon Life Sciences will live forever in infamy. In the early 2000s, Europes largest animal testing laboratory provoked public outrage, and sparked a resistance movement like no other.Your Neighbour Kills Puppiestells the inside story of this remarkable campaign and the forces that rose up against it. It exposes a murky world of institutional animal exploitation, government collusion, corporate lobbyists, agent provocateurs and police spies desperate to silence dissent.Author and campaign veteran Tom Harris transports the reader into the heart of the action, through underground tunnels and illicit animal rescues, before detailing the brutal state-led crackdown which saw scores of activists violently arrested and imprisoned.Tom Harrishas spent two decades in the animal liberation movement and is a former coordinator of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. He received a five-year prison sentence during the attempted elimination of the anti-vivisection movement and is a named victim in the Miscarriages of Justice category of the Governments Undercover Policing Inquiry.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.3.2024
• Vorwort: Chris Packham
• Zusatzinfo: 30 photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Veterinärmedizin ► Klinische Fächer ► Versuchstiere
• Schlagworte: 1990s activism and campaigns • activist group infiltration • Anima • animal liberation • animal liberation campaigns • Animal Liberation Front • Animal liberation protests • animal rebellion • animal research industry • animal rights • animal rights activism • animal rights extremism • anti-protest policing • anti-vivisection • Consort Campaign • Crime • criminalisation of protest • direct action • Does Huntingdon life sciences still exist? • Do Huntingdon life sciences test on animals? • Government Collusion • Hillgrove Campaign • Hill Grove Family Farm • history of direct action • Huntingdon Death Sciences • Huntingdon Life Sciences • Huntington Life Sciences • media portrayal of activists • PETA • Police • RSPCA • Sentencing and Courts Act • SHAC • singer animal liberation • speciesism • spycops • Spy Cops • Undercover policing • welfare of animals act • what do animal rights activists believe • What happened to Huntingdon life sciences • What happened to SHAC? • What is animal liberation? • what is Speciesism • World Day for Animals in Laboratories
• ISBN-10: 0-7453-4870-X / 074534870X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4870-4 / 9780745348704