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PETA and IFAW Plan 24 City Tour of Canada

Critter News

Both groups will be protesting the seal hunt using the Olympic torch ceremony as the backdrop. PETA and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) are holding a joint news conference this week, and I would like to offer you an exclusive advance scoop on it.

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Lawsuit to Challenge Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

Critter News

A group of animal rights activists sued the U.S. Five activists represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights filed the lawsuit in federal court in Boston, asking that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act be struck down as unconstitutional because it has a chilling effect on lawful protest activities I wish them luck!

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The True Costs of the Rhetoric of Terror Continue to Mount – Part 1

Animal Ethics

It is chilling in its narrowness, because it targets a single group of political activists, namely, animal rights activists. See the Office of Legislative Policy and Analysis here for details.] These Congresspersons didn’t enact this legislation to make you safer. The new law is chilling both in its scope and in its narrowness.