Photos: Two rare 80s lab raid images
Two photos from early Animal Liberation Front actions.
Original, high quality photos from early ALF actions are in short supply. I’m posting two such images from these seminal 80s lab raids: University of Pennsylvania head injury research lab (1984), and UC Riverside (1985).
In the former, the Animal Liberation Front broke in and confiscated over 60 hours of video showing horrific head injury experiments on primates. In the latter, over 1000 animals were rescued (the photo caption inaccurately lists the number as 260). Among them was Britches the monkey, who became a poster child for the anti-vivisection movement.
(Click photos to enlarge).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaLsQSCK0Jo
What a tear jerker. More inspirational than any xvx tumblr mother fucker I’ve ever seen.
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Check out this bike riding cell escaping from the cops to save a non-human life. Note the balaklava. Mind you, this movie was made in the early 80s, several years prior to the rescue of Britches.
Sorry, I meant to include this link in that last post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR1-UFrcZ0k&list=PLF929CA7ADCC183FD
I don’t mean to trivialize the life of Britches by comparing him to a fictional alien who was tortured by fictional vivsectors, I’m just saying there is a parallel and it’s interesting to think about and wonder if those who rescued Britches ever watch E.T. during the early 80s. I’ve googled the shit out of E.T. inspiring activists over the years and have never found one thing having to do with the movie, and that has always surprised and confused me, because to me there are very clear liberation messages throughout the entire film, as well as balaklavas, runs from the cops, evil vivisectors, etc.
Yeh i agree with you. There are definitely liberation messages in ET. When you see the family surrounded by the lab guys and ET’s escape. Funny I never thought about it until you mentioned it.