By: Jason Miller In late 2009, I [Jason Miller] became aware that the University of Kansas Medical Center (aka KU Med or KUMC) had a primate vivisection program. While the census of their “test subjects” (primarily macaques and squirrel monkeys according to information available through the US[...]
Archive for the ‘Civil Liberties/Repression’ Category
September 27th, 2010 - 8:05 am § in Anti-Dissection/Vivisection, Campus Activism, Civil Liberties/Repression
KU Med Primate Wars: Anatomy of an Intense Grass Roots Campaign
September 16th, 2010 - 7:24 am § in Academics, Civil Liberties/Repression, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Journals
Call for Papers – Special Issue: Animals and Prison
Special Issue: Animals and Prison ________________ The connection between nonhuman animals and incarceration discourses has never been more intimately associated. It seems one cannot discuss animal liberation without conversing about prison, whether that be in the form of imprisoned nonhuman animals[...]
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[...]
