Featuring over 30 organizations and 40 speakers in the past 3 years, Cease Animal Torture is ready to launch its 4th annual Animal Liberation Forum. Prepare yourself for a weekend of wonderful musicians, radical dialogues exploring the interconnections of oppression and 20 + speakers and 20 + orgs. A new component we are excited for this year is the addition of musical acts. Musicians will be playing throughout the conference and the event is totally and always completely free. This will be an event you DO NOT want to miss!
The event kicks off Friday November 16th at 6pm in Psychology 150 at CSULB. 6-8pm, will be a potluck and mixer for conference attendees. Please bring vegan snacks and food to share! And then prepare yourself for the FIRST CALIFORNIA screening of A.L.F: A Film By Jerome Lescure from 8pm to 10pm. Although the screening is FREE this will be a benefit for Free In The Field and the Hunt Saboteurs so please, if you can spare some extra dollars, they would appreciate it.
QUICK REMINDER: If you are planning on attending the potluck on Friday, PLEASE try to bring either pre-packaged food from Whole Foods or Trader Joes or pizzas from a restaurant or something. We are really trying to avoid anyone from getting sick and we’re sure you all intend well when you cook food for everyone, but let’s keep it safe so no one gets sick and stays home during the event.
Afterwards, the event will be taking place in the Kinesiology building at CSULB, which is located just lower-campus from Friday night’s opening event. Lectures will be taking place in KIN 59 and organizations will be tabling in KIN 58 and 63, just down the hall. Speaking begins 11am and ends at 10pm on Saturday and begins at 12pm and ends at 10pm on Sunday. Tabling begins 11am and ends at 6pm on Saturday and begins at 12pm and ends at 6pm Sunday. Please plan accordingly.
Quick Schedule:
Friday 11/16 - 6pm - 10pm - Psychology 150
Saturday 11/17 - 11am - 10pm - Kinesiology 58, 59, and 63
Sunday 11/18 - 12pm - 10pm - Kinesiology 58, 59, and 63
An Electronic Map of The Campus:
http://daf.csulb.edu/maps/pdf/2pg.pdf
Friday Night’s Event will be taking place in the Psychology Building and can be located on E7 on the map grid. Parking can be found behind the University bookstore located on E7 and can be accessed by driving down West Campus Drive. Please check signs for parking hours. Parking is usually free after 6pm, but if not, it is 5 dollars to park until midnight.
Saturday and Sunday will be taking place in the Kinesiology Building and can be located on F4 on the map grid. Parking can be found in LOT 3, directly next to the KIN building. Parking is free on Saturdays, but again, please check all signs that may indicate otherwise.
If you absolutely cannot find the parking lots, there is a visitors information booth down West Campus Drive. They can direct you to the closest parking lot.
For your curiosity, here’s a complete list of all the amazing individuals, orgs, and musicians involved this year. To be fair to all the speakers, we will not release the official schedule until Friday (11/16) night. You can grab a program at our opening night or check this tumblr Friday night:
Speakers, Workshops, Films, Musicians and Organizations:
Speakers:
Josh Harper - Former Political Prisoner and Shac 7 defendant
Tino Verducci - The Great Beagle Liberation of 2012: Greenhill
Mike XVX - Open The Cages Tour
Lauren Ornelas - Food Justice and the Food Empowerment Project
Jennifer Bundock - Anarcha-Feminism and Animal Rights
Morgan Jamie Dunbar - Founder of Animal Allies NY
Jan Smith - “Militant Resistance: Then and Now”
Tim Rusmisel (former member of Seven Generations) and Maya Mayhem - The Current State of the Fur Industry and How To Tear It Down
Workshops:
Know Your Rights - Legal Training and Advice for Activists
The Surveillance State and Animal Liberation as a Resistance Movement
A Queer Perspective on Animal Rights
Progress For Science Campaign
Vegan Outreach Workshop with Nikki Benoit
Grand Jury Resistance
Films:
Maximum Tolerated Dose with Q & A by Jenifer Bundock - http://maximumtolerateddose.org/
A.L.F: A french film by Jerome Lescure.
Musicians:
Moon Bandits - http://moonbandits.bandcamp.com/
Lora Roame - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuO4Gpvcaxs
Mike XVX - http://mikexvx.bandcamp.com/
Organizations:
Action for Animals - http://www.afa-online.org/
Cease Animal Torture - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cease-Animal-Torture-CAT/128794746224
APRL - http://www.aprl.org/
Vegan Outreach - http://www.veganoutreach.org/
Carnophobe - http://www.etsy.com/shop/Carnophobe
Kitten Rescue - http://www.kittenrescue.org/home.php
Born To Hang - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BornToHang
Anarcho-Treehouse -https://www.facebook.com/anarcho.treehouse
Progress For Science - http://progressforscience.com/
Food Empowerment Project-http://www.foodispower.org/
North American Animal Liberation Press Office (NAALPO) - http://animalliberationpressoffice.org/NAALPO/
Anti-Racist Action - http://antiracistaction.org/
La Anarchist Black Cross - http://www.abcf.net/la/
Black Circle Press
Food Not Bombs - Long Beach
http://diyzine.com/ - Local Anarcho-Punk Distro
PM Press - http://www.pmpress.org/content/index.php
Off Chains, Out Of Cages
Black Pawprint Collective
No Fucking Whey - http://nofuckingwheydistro.tumblr.com/
One Fight
Health Force - http://healthforce.com/
Please help us promote this necessary and radical event. This is YOUR community. Let’s make this year a bigger and better year for non-humyns and oppressed humyns alike.
Remember, ALWAYS FREE, ALWAYS DIY, ALWAYS RADICAL, ALWAYS ALL-AGES
Featured Speaker: Josh Harper - Shac 7 Defendant and Ex-Political Prisoner
“These are dark times that we are living in, but they will only be made darker if we don’t persevere. Billions of animals have no one but us between them and death, and so each one of us has the difficult task of building and participating in a revolutionary movement for animal rights.”
— Josh Harper
The SHAC 7 [were] 6 animal rights activists and the organization Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA (SHAC USA) who were convicted on March 2, 2006, under the controversial Federal Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The Act punishes anyone who “physically disrupts” an animal enterprise. The charges [stemmed] from these activists’ alleged participation in an international campaign to close the notorious product testing lab Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Specifically, these activists [were] alleged to have operated a website that reported on and expressed ideological support for protest activity against Huntingdon and its business affiliates. For this they [were] charged with “terrorism” and [faced] an aggregate of 23 years in Federal Prison.
More amazing speakers this November 16-18th. Follow this blog for more updates:
The Animal Liberation Forum 2012 is a FREE 3 day conference in Long Beach, CA calling for a total abolitionist movement and animal liberation to action. Topics ranging from animal liberation, interconnections of oppressions, direct action and veganism will be discussed and strategized through speakers, panels, workshops, film screenings, music and art.
RVSP HERE
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Animal Liberation Forum 2012 featured Organization - North American Animal Liberation Press Office (NAALPO):
Animal Liberation Press Offices relay anonymous communiques, photos and videos to the media about direct action undertaken by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), Animal Rights Militia (ARM), Animal Liberation Brigade, Justice Department, and other leaderless resistance within the animal liberation movement. It states that it will “explain and seek to justify any action, whatever it may be,” so long as it appears to have been carried out “with the sincere intention of furthering animal liberation.”The North American press office also includes a newsletter, prisoner list and merchandise page.
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More amazing organizations this November 16-18th. Follow this blog for more updates:
The Animal Liberation Forum 2012 is a FREE 3 day conference in Long Beach, CA calling for a total abolitionist movement and animal liberation to action. Topics ranging from animal liberation, interconnections of oppressions, direct action and veganism will be discussed and strategized through speakers, panels, workshops, film screenings, music and art.
RVSP HERE
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Animal Liberation Forum featured musicians: Moon Bandits
An up and coming folk punk duo that plays sincere songs about being an anarchist, saving the forests, and building community.
Listen to them by clicking the link below and check them out at this year’s Forum.
http://moonbandits.bandcamp.com/
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More amazing musicians this November 16-18th. Follow this blog for more updates:
The Animal Liberation Forum 2012 is a FREE 3 day conference in Long Beach, CA calling for a total abolitionist movement and animal liberation to action. Topics ranging from animal liberation, interconnections of oppressions, direct action and veganism will be discussed and strategized through speakers, panels, workshops, film screenings, music and art.
RVSP HERE
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Animal Liberation Forum 2012: Featured Film - Maximum Tolerated Dose
“A look inside modern animal experimentation
with the animals who lived through it
and the people who walked away.”Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD): An animal / human experiment to find the highest dose of a chemical that, when administered to a group of test subjects in a clinical trial, does not result in a fatality due to short-term toxicity. This dose is then used for longer-term safety studies of the same species, lasting anywhere from two years to a lifetime. The MTD test is controversial, however, in part because of difficulties in extrapolating findings to more realistic doses, and in extrapolating results from animals to humans.
Maximum Tolerated Dose is the first feature-length documentary by Decipher Films. Equal parts found-footage mash-up, verité investigation, and artful meditation, the film charts the lives of both humans and non-humans who have experienced animal testing first-hand, with hauntingly honest testimony of scientists and lab technicians whose ethics demanded they choose a different path, as well as the simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking stories of animals who have seen both sides of the cage. MTD aims to re-ignite the debate about animal testing by bringing these rarely-heard perspectives to the fore.
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More amazing speakers, organizations, and films this November 16-18th. Follow this blog for more updates:
The Animal Liberation Forum 2012 is a FREE 3 day conference in Long Beach, CA calling for a total abolitionist movement and animal liberation to action. Topics ranging from animal liberation, interconnections of oppressions, direct action and veganism will be discussed and strategized through speakers, panels, workshops, film screenings, music and art.
RVSP HERE
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Animal Liberation Forum 2012 featured organization: Food Empowerment Project
The Food Empowerment Project seeks to create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one’s food choices. We encourage healthy food choices that reflect a more compassionate society by spotlighting the abuse of animals on farms, the depletion of natural resources, unfair working conditions for produce workers, and the unavailability of healthy foods in low-income areas.
By making informed choices, we can prevent injustices against animals, people, and the environment. We also work to discourage negligent corporations from pushing unhealthy foods into low-income areas and empower people to make healthier choices by growing their own fruits and vegetables. In all of our work, the Food Empowerment Project seeks specifically to empower those with the fewest resources.
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More amazing organizations this November 16-18th. Follow this blog for more updates:
The Animal Liberation Forum 2012 is a FREE 3 day conference in Long Beach, CA calling for a total abolitionist movement and animal liberation to action. Topics ranging from animal liberation, interconnections of oppressions, direct action and veganism will be discussed and strategized through speakers, panels, workshops, film screenings, music and art.
RVSP HERE
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Animal Liberation Forum 2012: Featured Speaker and Musician - Mike XVX
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More amazing speakers this November 16-18th. Follow this blog for more updates:
The Animal Liberation Forum 2012 is a FREE 3 day conference in Long Beach, CA calling for a total abolitionist movement and animal liberation to action. Topics ranging from animal liberation, interconnections of oppressions, direct action and veganism will be discussed and strategized through speakers, panels, workshops, film screenings, music and art.
RVSP HERE
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Animal Liberation Forum 2010 Key-Note Speaker Marti Kheel.
Marti Kheel articulates the world view which relates animals, nature and women and that guide beliefs, attitudes, and actions. Kheel, a feminist and animal rights activist, expounds on these deeply entrenched stories guiding current systems in her book Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective (2009). Erin Scott interviewed Marti in her home in Northern Caifornia on May 20, 2009.
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More amazing speakers this November 16-18th. Follow this blog for more updates:
The Animal Liberation Forum 2012 is a FREE 3 day conference in Long Beach, CA calling for a total abolitionist movement and animal liberation to action. Topics ranging from animal liberation, interconnections of oppressions, direct action and veganism will be discussed and strategized through speakers, panels, workshops, film screenings, music and art.
RVSP HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/415595535169779/
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Part 8
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More amazing speakers this November 16-18th. Follow this blog for more updates:
With 2012 coming to an end, Cease Animal Torture is ready to launch its fourth annual Animal Liberation Forum. If you care about animals or are interested in exploring the interconnections of oppresion, join Cease Animal Torture this November 16-18th for an event you will not want to miss!
The Animal Liberation Forum 2012 is a FREE 3 day conference in Long Beach, CA calling for a total abolitionist movement and animal liberation to action. Topics ranging from animal liberation, interconnections of oppressions, direct action and veganism will be discussed and strategized through speakers, panels, workshops, film screenings, music and art.
Speakers:
Mike XVX - Open The Cages Tour
Lauren Ornelas (Food Empowerment Project)
Jennifer Bundock on Anarcha-Feminism and Animal Rights
Kevin Olliff - Ex Political Prisoner speaking on Grassroots Activism and The Fur Industry
Workshops:
Know Your Rights - Legal Training and Advice for Activists
The Surveillance State and Animal Liberation as a Resistance Movement
A Queer Perspective on Animal Rights
Progress For Science Campaign
Films:
Maximum Tolerated Dose with Q & A by Jenifer Bundock
Musicians:
Moon Bandits - http://moonbandits.bandcamp.com/
Lora Roame - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuO4Gpvcaxs
Mike XVX - http://mikexvx.bandcamp.com/
IGAF Sequoia - http://igafsequoia.bandcamp.com/
Artists:
Eva Hall (lead singer of Gather)
Organizations:
APRL
Vegan Outreach
Carnophobe - http://www.etsy.com/shop/Carnophobe
Kitten Rescue - http://www.kittenrescue.org/home.php
Born To Hang
Anarcho-Tree House
Progress For Science - http://progressforscience.com/
Food Empowerment Project-http://www.foodispower.org/
NAALPO - http://animalliberationpressoffice.org/NAALPO/
Anti-Racist Action
**Photo Credit: Donna McVicar Kazo
