Register for the Free The Animals Conference

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Register for the Free the Animals anti-vivisection conference in St Louis, October 27th & 28th.

An awesome conference is scheduled for later this month, put on by Stop Animal Exploitation Now and St. Louis Vegans. Subtitled “Effective Action Against Vivisection”, the conference’s mission statement reads:

“The Free the Animals Conference will empower and energize activists across the U.S. to attack the animal experimentation issue head-on and make concrete changes for the tens of millions of animals who are imprisoned in laboratories. “

I’ll be presenting along with a great lineup of speakers:

Kari Bagnall
Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary

Karen Budkie
Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN)

Michael Budkie
Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN)

Karen Davis
United poultry Concerns (UPC)

Jen Feuerstein
Save the Chimps

Alex Graff
St. Louis Vegans

Camille Hankins
Win Animal Rights (WAR)

Bob Ingersoll
Project NIM Foundation

Dr. Stephen Kaufman
Medical Research Modernization Committee (MRMC)

Dr. Shirley McGreal
International Primate Protection League (IPPL)

Gary Serignese
South Florida Smash HLS

Brenda Shoss
Kinship Circle

Brian Vincent
Stop UBC Animal Research (STOP)

St. Louis is a six hour drive (or less) from a lot of major cities, including Kansas City, Chicago, Indianapolis, Little Rock, Memphis, Louisville, and more. There are special hotel rates for out of town guests, and people are encouraged to travel.

Here is all the info:

Where: Holiday Inn Saint Louis-South, St Louis MO.

When: October 27th & 28th.

How to register: registration is $25 and all attendees are asked to pre-register on the Stop Animal Exploitation Now website.

Where to stay: Special hotel rates here, and roomshare page here.

How to get there: rideshare page here.

How you can promote: Repost this info everywhere – Twitter, Facebook, and your website: Invite your friends via the Facebook event page, and link to the the main event page.

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Speaking in St Louis Monday for Eco-Prisoners Solidarity Day

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Just a note for anyone in or near St Louis: I’ll be speaking at Webster University on Monday as part of the international eco-prisoners solidarity day.

The event is being put on by the awesome new group St Louis Vegans. Check out the event Facebook page.

The talk will be at:

Webster University
Library Conference Room
St Louis, MO
7pm to 10pm

And here’s the full writeup for the event:

“Join us for an event to support prisoners serving sentences for crimes committed to save animals and the environment. This is part of an International Day of Solidarity with Eco-Prisoners.

Peter Young will speak about his own experiences as an animal liberator and subsequent federal prisoner. Thousands of mink released from fur farms. Seven years evading the FBI. Two years spent locked up. Come listen to what Peter has to say about prisoner support, “eco-terrorism,” and animal rights.

We’ll be raising donations for the legal fees of prisoners by taking pre-orders on t-shirts to be printed soon. These shirts are custom-designed by a local print artist and feature artwork that depicts the relationship between human and animal prisoners.

Everyone who attends will also get a packet with contact information for current eco-prisoners and guidelines on how to write them.”

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Animal Ethics Conference This Week in Utah

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The Animal Ethics Conferenceis this week at Utah Valley University. I’ll have the good fortune of joining some accomplished activists, attorneys, and academics for this event, taking place Thursday, April 5th and Friday, April 6th.

(Rumor is a speaker from HSUS cancelled after being unwilling (either personally or at the direction of his employers) to share a speaking roster with people discussing illegal tactics.)

The full schedule is as follows:

Thursday, April 5

10–11:15  |  Animal Law: In the Real World – In Education

Pamela Frasch, J.D.

Assistant Dean, Animal Law Program

Exe. Dir. of the CALS, Lewis and Clark Law School

11:30–12:45  |  Muzzling a Movement

Dara Lovitz, J.D.

Author, Muzzling a Movement

1–2:15  |  Speaker’s Lunch

4:00–5:15  |  Learning from Difficult Cases: Tillikum v. Sea World

Kathy Hessler, J.D., LL.M.

Clinical Professor and Director, Animal Law Clinic

CALS, Lewis and Clark Law School

5:30–6:15  |  Roundtable Discussion

Friday, April 6

10–10:50  |  Animal Liberation Above the Law: In Defense of the Animal Liberation Front

Peter Young

Animal Liberation Frontline

11–11:50  |  The Activist Attorney

Shannon Keith, Attorney

Founder, Animal Rescue, Media, and Education

12–12:50  |  Speaker’s Lunch 

1–1:50  |  Cousins: Chimpanzees and the Law

Debra Durham, Ph.D.

Ethologist, Primatologist

2–2:50  |  Jill Ryther, J.D.

3–3:50  |  Roundtable Discussion

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Speaking Monday @ Oberlin College

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Quick note to mention I will be returning to Oberlin College to give a talk this Monday, December 5th. The talk is sponsored by Oberlin Animal Rights. Here are the details:

When:

Mon, December 5 2011

7:30 PM

Where:

Science Center,Norman C. Craig ’53 Lecture Hall119 Woodland Street, Oberlin, OH 44074Oberlin website event page:

http://new.oberlin.edu/calendar/index.dot?id=3707245

Facebook event page:

http://www.facebook.com/events/316863694995550/

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Speaking Monday @ University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

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I’ll be speaking this Monday, November 28th, in the Fireside Lounge at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Really happy to be returning to Wisconsin after the federal probation office banned me from the entire state during my probation term (I’m off probation now). The events I’ve done in Wisconsin have always been eventful, with the Fur Commission USA (reportedly) contacting the federal probation office in advance of a previous UW-Milwaukee talk (forcing its cancellation), and fur farmers showing up en masse at my Beloit College talk. The latter resulted in a heavy police presence and the school requesting I hide in a side room before my talk, and exit to a waiting car immediately after its conclusion.

Expecting less drama at Monday’s talk. Here are the details:

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee campus
Fireside Lounge
11/28/2011
6 pm – 10 pm

Sponsored by:
VIVE – Vegan Interest, Vegan Education

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“Is Green the new Red?”: Talk @ Vermont Law School Friday

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I’ll be speaking this Friday, November 11th, at the Vermont Law School Animal Law Symposium with Odette Wilkins (Equal Justice Alliance) and law professor Pamela Vesilind. If you’re in or around Vermont, please come by. Here is the info:

Animal Law Symposium

“Is Green the new Red”

Punishing Protest, Criminalizing Speech in Environmental and Animal Activism

November 11, 2011
Yates Hall, Vermont Law School
4pm – 6pm

Students will have the opportunity to learn about the various legal, legislative and grassroots issues in the field of animal law while enjoying a delicious vegan dinner. This year’s speaker will be presenting topics concerning the restrictions animal rights activism. The speakers will be:

Odette Wilkens

Executive Director of Equal Justice Alliance

Odette will speak about the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (“AETA”). She will explain when it was enacted, what this act is about and what restrictions it places on animal rights activism. She will also speak about grassroots movements to repeal and fix this act.

Pamela Vesilind

Assistant Professor of Law at Vermont Law School

Pamela has presented on limitations on free expression in animal rights advocacy. She will speak about these issues on the state level, as well as agricultural gag laws which make protesting illegal.

Peter Young

Animal Rights Activist

Peter is a veteran animal activist who served two years in federal prison for rescuing thousands of animals from fur farms across the country. After being wanted by the FBI for seven years, Young was one of the first people prosecuted for “animal enterprise terrorism.”

Attendance is limited to the first 50 people who sign up. This event is co-sponsored by ELS and NLG.”

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Northeast Animal Liberation Festival with Bold Native + more

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If you’re in the NE, come check out the Northeast Animal Liberation Festival on May 7th in Troy, New York. The event features the hard-working Jenny Brown and Camille Hankins, a vegan potluck, and screening of Bold Native.

View the event website here.

Here are the details:

6 PM Vegan potluck BBQ

7 PM Panel discussion with animal liberation activists Peter Young, Jenny Brown of Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, and Camille Hankins of Win Animal Rights and No Kill New York.

8 PM Bold Native screening

9:30 Q&A.

See you there.

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International Animal Rights Gathering + Euro Dates

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Just a note for everyone in Europe: I will be doing several speaking dates from July 1st to July 11th, ending at the International Animal Rights Gathering in Italy. The schedule is below:

July 1st: Amsterdam (Netherlands)
July 2nd: Nijmegen (Netherlands)
July 3rd: Dusseldorf (Germany)
July 4th: Koln (Germany)
July 5th: Koln (Germany)
July 6th: Luzern (Switzerland)
July 7th: Zurich (Switzerland)
July 8th – 11th: International AR Gathering (Italy)

Followed by talks at:
July 15th – 19th Washington DC (AR Conference 2010)

Contact me privately for more details.

– Peter Young

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Upcoming Animal Liberation Conferences

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Upcoming conferences to feature speakers addressing direct action.

Several upcoming conferences are worth noting for their willingness to represent the diversity of tactics employed in the animal liberation movement:

Animal Liberation Forum 2010

CSU-Long Beach, Long Beach CA

April 15th – 18th

Animal Liberation Forum 2010 is a FREE 4 day conference in Long Beach, CA calling for a total abolitionist movement and animal liberation to action. Topics ranging from feminism, animal liberation, direct action and veganism will be discussed and strategized through speakers, panels, workshops and film screenings.

Speakers include: Shannon Keith, Matt Rosselle, and more.

Animal Ethics Conference

Utah Valley University, Provo UT

March 29th – April 2nd

“Utah Valley University’s Animal Ethics Conference will host speakers from all over the country to lecture on and discuss the ethics of animal human relationships.”

Speakers include: Jerry Vlasak, Steven Best, and more

North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies

SUNY Cortland, Syracuse NY

April 9th – 10th

Theme: Abolition, Liberation, and the Intersections within Social Justice

Let Live Conference

Portland State University, Portland OR

June 25th – 27th

“This conference is for first-timers, experienced activists, and anybody in between who hopes to make a real difference for animals and build a stronger, more effective community and animal liberation movement.”

Speakers TBA

Animal Rights National Conference 2010

Hilton Hotel, Alexandria, VA

July 15th – 19th

“Animal Rights 2010 National Conference, the world’s largest and longest-running animal rights gathering.”

Speakers include: Will Potter, Camille Hankins, and more.

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