Saturday December 7, 2024, Info-Evening with Tom Harris on pressure campaigning, police repression and the SHAC campaign. From 19:00, free entrance.
Bite Back NL is inviting 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!
Bite Back NL
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