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August 19th, 2010 - 12:24 pm § in Campus Action Alerts, Campus Activism, Campus Events, Lectures/Debates, Veganism
PETA Vice President to Take on Texas A&M Debate Team
PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich will kick off a series of “Is Eating Meat Ethical?” debates at Texas A&M University this Fall. Students and community members are encouraged to attend this debate.[...]
August 6th, 2010 - 12:41 pm § in Anti-Dissection/Vivisection
Princeton University Slammed with Animal Welfare Violations
A routine inspection carried out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture resulted in Princeton University being cited with over a dozen violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act. The violations specifically focused on the treatment of 15 rhesus monkeys and 10 marmosets who are confined in Princeton[...]
July 18th, 2010 - 6:05 pm § in Campus Activism, Campus Events, Conference, Lectures/Debates, Student Activism/Group
Campus Progress Snubs Animal Rights
July 7 saw the confluence of thousands of student progressives in Washington D.C. to share information and learn about progressive causes and strategy at the 2010 Campus Progress National Conference. Sadly, the wide array of campaigns presented at the conference by speakers, panelists, exhibitors, a[...]
July 15th, 2010 - 7:48 am § in Anti-Dissection/Vivisection, Campus Activism, Protest and Rally, Student Activism/Group
Protesters Target Yale Animal Labs and Expose Ivy League Abusers
Members of the newly formed Connecticut Animal Rights Network (CARN) along with New Haven residents protested at Yale University’s George St. building. Activists carried signs reading “Yale Tortures Animals”, “End Ivy League Animal Abuse”, and “Shut Down Yale Animal Labs.” Leaflets wer[...]
February 11th, 2010 - 6:55 am § in Call for Presentations, Campus Events, Conference, Environmentalism, Programs/Degrees
Call for Presentations @ SSSP 2010 – Animals and the Environment
Call for Presentations at SSSP 2010: I would like to invite papers/presentations for the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) www.sssp1.org for the panel “Animals and the Environment: Inequalities and Social Justice Theory” that I am the session organizer of. The theme of the SSSP Con[...]
January 25th, 2010 - 9:08 pm § in Campus Action Alerts, Civil Liberties/Repression
Defend Scott DeMuth Sociology Graduate Student
From the Civil Liberties Defense Center: On November 17, 2009, Scott DeMuth was jailed for contempt of court, since he refused to answer questions posed to him by a federal grand jury in Davenport, Iowa. They were interested in questioning him about his knowledge of an unsolved Animal Liberation Fro[...]
