[ Let op: deze lezing zal in het Engels plaatsvinden ]
Join us on an incredibly interesting Info-evening with Tom Harris (co-defendant on the SHAC Justice Project and author of ''Your Neighbour Kills Puppies'')
Tom Harris has played an important part in the SHAC-campaign. As a consequence of police repression Tom (and several others) eventually got arrested and convicted, fighting ever since with the SHAC Justice Project to overturn these convictions.
In this talk Tom will tell you more about the pressure campaign, the fight against animal testing and the police repression that followed.
SHAC
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty has been the biggest and most radical campaign in the history of the animal liberation movement, aimed to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences: a company that killed 500 animals daily for cruel experiments. In a huge pressure campaign, activists all around the world protested, inflicted economical sabotage and liberated animals at every company remotely connected to HLS.
Police Repression
The campaign had a huge effect on the animal testing-industries, who in their turn used their influence and connections to spark an intense response from governments and police. Houses were raided and people arrested in several countries, with many people disappearing for years behind bars in absolutely absurd trials. Tom Harris himself was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
The repression even resulted in the making of a documentary that was on Netflix for a while: ''The Animal People''.
Why you should come
If you have any interest in pressure campaigning you cannot miss this talk, whatever movement you are part of. We can all learn from this.
If you are concerned about police repression, this is a powerful story about a campaign filled with solidarity and how people fought and fight the system of oppression.
If you are (or want to be) a part of the animal liberation movement and looking to get inspired, you definitely should come!
What if you cannot make it?
In that case, we advise you strongly to buy Tom's book ''Your Neighbour Kills Puppies''. You will not regret it!
Practical details
Date: 7 December
Time: 19:00
Location: Pretoriusstraat 43, Amsterdam
Entrance: free!
Please note: the talk will be in English.
At the location you can buy the books, and some merch related to animal rights/animal liberation.
If you have any questions, write us at info@biteback.nl
See you there!
[ Let op: deze lezing zal in het Engels plaatsvinden ]
Join us on an incredibly interesting Info-evening with Tom Harris (co-defendant on the SHAC Justice Project and author of ''Your Neighbour Kills Puppies'')
Tom Harris has played an important part in the SHAC-campaign. As a consequence of police repression Tom (and several others) eventually got arrested and convicted, fighting ever since with the SHAC Justice Project to overturn these convictions.
In this talk Tom will tell you more about the pressure campaign, the fight against animal testing and the police repression that followed.
SHAC
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty has been the biggest and most radical campaign in the history of the animal liberation movement, aimed to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences: a company that killed 500 animals daily for cruel experiments. In a huge pressure campaign, activists all around the world protested, inflicted economical sabotage and liberated animals at every company remotely connected to HLS.
Police Repression
The campaign had a huge effect on the animal testing-industries, who in their turn used their influence and connections to spark an intense response from governments and police. Houses were raided and people arrested in several countries, with many people disappearing for years behind bars in absolutely absurd trials. Tom Harris himself was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
The repression even resulted in the making of a documentary that was on Netflix for a while: ''The Animal People''.
Why you should come
If you have any interest in pressure campaigning you cannot miss this talk, whatever movement you are part of. We can all learn from this.
If you are concerned about police repression, this is a powerful story about a campaign filled with solidarity and how people fought and fight the system of oppression.
If you are (or want to be) a part of the animal liberation movement and looking to get inspired, you definitely should come!
What if you cannot make it?
In that case, we advise you strongly to buy Tom's book ''Your Neighbour Kills Puppies''. You will not regret it!
Practical details
Date: 8 December
Time: 20:00
Location: Voorstraat 71, Utrecht
Entrance: free!
Please note: the talk will be in English.
At the location you can buy the books, and some merch related to animal rights/animal liberation.
If you have any questions, write us at info@biteback.nl
See you there!
[ -ENGLISH BELOW- ]
Op 12 mei zal er (om 19:00) een online lezing worden gehouden door Tom Harris over SHAC, het SHAC Justice Project en het boek Your Neighbour Kills Puppies (aanrader!!).
SHAC Justice Project
Het SHAC Justice Project bestaat uit 7 dierenactivisten die op oneerlijke wijze (en naar onze mening onterecht) zijn veroordeelt voor hun strijd tegen het gruwelijke proefdiercentrum HLS.
Lees de verhalen van de 7 op this page.
SHAC
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty is tot op heden de meest intensieve, radicale en bekendste campagne wereldwijd, die de dierenrechten/dierenbevrijdingsbeweging gevoerd heeft. Gericht tegen het proefdiercentrum HLS, waar dagelijks 500 dieren werden gedood in gruwelijke testen. Tal van undercover beelden toonden puppies die geslagen werden en apen die mishandelt werden. Van Nederland tot Chili, overal gingen activisten zo ver als nodig was om bedrijven ertoe te bewegen de banden met dit proefdiercentrum te verbreken.In een poging de campagne de kop in te drukken kwam er hevige repressie vanuit de overheid. Zo kwam in 2007 Operation Achilles tot stand, waarin 700 agenten in meerdere landen invallen deden en 32 personen arresteerden. Een jaar daarvoor werden 6 personen van de SHAC 7 schuldig bevonden in een absurde rechtszaak. Nog steeds zijn er activisten in een juridische strijd verwikkelt vanwege hun activisme voor de dieren....
Lezing
Wil jij bij de lezing aanwezig zijn? Dat kan!
Je kunt de lezing bijwonen tegen donatie met een richtprijs van €2,50. Kun je geen donatie missen? Neem dan even contact met ons op. Kun je iets meer missen, dan is dat zeker welkom! Dat bedrag gebruiken we dan weer voor de campagnes.
Je krijgt geen ticket in de e-mail, maar in de week voorafgaand de lezing krijg je een link naar de online meeting.
LET OP: De lezing is in het Engels en er zit een maximum aan het aantal deelnemers. Reserveer dus snel.
On 12 May (at 19:00), there will be an online lecture by Tom Harris on SHAC, the SHAC Justice Project and the book Your Neighbour Kills Puppies (highly recommended!!).
SHAC Justice Project
The SHAC Justice Project is made up of 7 animal activists who have been unfairly (and in our opinion unjustly) convicted for their fight against the horrific laboratory animal centre HLS.
Read the stories of the 7 on this page.
SHAC
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty is, to date, the most intensive, radical and best-known campaign worldwide, conducted by the animal rights/animal liberation movement. Targeted against the laboratory animal centre HLS, where 500 animals were killed daily in gruesome tests. Numerous undercover footage showed puppies being beaten and monkeys being mistreated. From the Netherlands to Chile, activists everywhere went as far as necessary to get companies to cut ties with this animal testing centre.In an attempt to quell the campaign, fierce government repression ensued. This led to Operation Achilles in 2007, in which 700 officers conducted raids in several countries and arrested 32 people. A year before that, 6 people from SHAC 7 were found guilty in an absurd court case. Still some activists are engaged in a legal battle because of their activism for animals....
Lecture
Would you like to attend the lecture? You can!
You can attend the lecture for a donation with a preferred minimum price of €2.50. Can't spare a donation? Then please get in touch with us. If you can spare a little more, that's certainly welcome! We will then use that amount again for the campaigns.
You will not receive a ticket in the e-mail, but in the week prior to the lecture you will receive a link to the online meeting.
PLEASE NOTE: The lecture is in English and there is a maximum number of participants. So book soon.
