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Locks Glued at Portland (OR) Retailer Paxton Gate On the early morning of April 14th, Paxton Gate, Portland had its locks filled with liquid steel. Paxton Gate profits from the sale of mutilated animal corpses, including fur farmed silver fox tails. Also many of the dead animals sold by this company were killed by trapping. A brutal practice in which trapped animals will sometimes suffer for days until they are finally killed by hunters or succumb to their wounds....
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2014 3:21pm PDT
PETA to Bring Factory Farm to Stanford University White Plaza, Stanford University campus, Stanford...
Event Date: Mon, May 19, 2014 10:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2014 3:19pm PDT
PETA Buys Stock in Pharmaceutical Firm Arrowhead, Calls for Ban on Chimpanzee Experiments Pasadena, Calif. – PETA wants Pasadena-based pharmaceutical company Arrowhead Research to join Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Novo Nordisk, and other drug companies by pledging not to conduct, commission, or fund cruel experiments on chimpanzees and is taking its campaign to the boardroom....
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2014 3:16pm PDT
Photos document animal abuse at Darigold dairies 
Farm workers employed on Darigold dairies have risked their jobs to photograph sick and injured cows they are regularly instructed to milk....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2014 3:04pm PDT
Environmentalists Demand Records Regarding Poison Dump on Bay Area’s Farallon Islands 
SAN FRANCISCO — Today, the Bay Area-based national nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) filed a public records request with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) for documents pertaining to the contracts made with Island Conservation, a nonprofit who has been paid millions of taxpayer dollars to dump rat poison on various islands in an effort to eradicate non-native species of rodents to protect specific bird species. The requests were made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2014 2:53pm PDT
DxE Day of Action- It's not Food, It's Violence-Violence Unmasked Location is TBD, please email us at dxe@directactioneverywhere for updates and/or check our Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/294167587414317/...
Event Date: Fri, May 23, 2014 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2014 1:05pm PDT
Wildlife Feeders Taking a Stand in Golden Gate Park 
Wildlife lovers may be taking a stand against San Francisco's "Do Not Feed the Wildlife laws."...
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2014 11:09am PDT
Coalition Responds to Idaho’s Motion to Dimiss Ag Gag Lawsuit BOISE — Last week, national nonprofits Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho (ACLU), and Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a response to the state of Idaho’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed earlier this spring in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. In March 2014, a coalition of organizations dedicated to civil liberties, animal protection, food safety, labor rights, and the environmen...
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2014 8:51am PDT
Federal Court: West Hollywood Prohibition on Fur Sales Stands A federal court has upheld the City of West Hollywood’s municipal prohibition on the sale of animal fur apparel. Chief Judge George H. King wrote the opinion for the United States District Court for the Central District of California, dismissing a constitutional challenge filed by a retailer to the ordinance....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2014 7:40pm PDT
The Great Whales and Dolphin Beings; Author Talk: Patricia Cori San Francisco Public Library, Main Library, Lower Level
100 Larkin Street, SF...
Event Date: Tue, May 13, 2014 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2014 1:48pm PDT
International Sea Turtle Society Calls On Mexico To Stop Endangered Sea Turtle Bycatch 
The International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS) passed a strongly worded resolution urging Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto to stop the high rates of bycatch of endangered North Pacific loggerhead turtles in commercial fisheries operating in the Gulf of Ulloa, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Each year Mexican fisheries off the southern Baja California peninsula kill more than 2,000 endangered loggerheads as they fish for halibut and sharks....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2014 1:07pm PDT
Cat Tortured in Boulder Creek Boulder Creek, Calif. – On Monday, April 28, residents of Two Bar Road off Highway 9 in Boulder Creek discovered that their cat was bleeding from her rectum. They immediately took her to Boulder Creek Veterinary Hospital, where a veterinarian determined that the cat had been severely traumatized, apparently with a blunt object, in both the anus and vagina. The sexual assault, which, according to officials, may have involved multiple assailants, appears to have occurred sometime between 10 a.m...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2014 4:37pm PDT
Goat Found Dead and Strung Up at Petaluma High School A 15 pound goat was discovered Friday, April 4, strung up from a fence on the campus of Petaluma High School, near a baseball field. Petaluma Animal Control is investigating the incident. The cause of death has not yet been determined. However, under California Penal Code § 597(a), anyone who “maliciously and intentionally maims, mutilates, tortures, or wounds a living animal” can face misdemeanor charges—one year in county lockup and/or a $20,000 fine—or felony charges amounting to up to thr...
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2014 2:02pm PDT
Paint Splattered at Vivisection Supplier for World Week for Animals in Labs Paint Splattered at Vivisection Supplier for World Week for Animals in Labs...
Posted: Tue, Apr 29, 2014 12:56am PDT
Hearing Set in Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Horse-Drawn Carriage Case 
NEW YORK — On Monday, April 28, the New York Supreme Court will hold a hearing in the national nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund’s (ALDF) case against the New York Police Department (NYPD) for refusing to turn over public records regarding the city’s controversial horse-carriage industry....
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2014 10:49am PDT
Locks Jammed at Slaughterhouse Supply Businesses in Portland On the night of April 10th, the locks were glued at Market Supply Co. (139 SE Taylor St, Portland, OR) and McGraw Marketing Co. (2514 SE 23rd Ave, Portland OR) also had its lock jammed with liquid nails. These businesses were targeted for providing equipment and logistical support to slaughterhouses and meat ‘processing’ facilities all across the Pacific Northwest. Both these companies play a vital role in the everyday functioning of an industry that subjugates and murders millions of sentien...
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2014 10:59am PDT
Pro-Vivisection Website Hacked A long time ago PwnedSecurity Team Canada gained access to a propaganda website in the uk run by Understanding Animal Research (UAR). Instead of a typical defacement of the website which would be quickly noticed and undone we decided to be more subtle....
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2014 10:49am PDT
Six Sea Lions Killed at Bonneville Dam This week, six California sea lions were killed at Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River simply for doing what comes naturally – eating fish. Under a permit issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service, the states of Oregon and Washington used lethal injections to kill these sea lions, who were branded and marked for death in 2013....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2014 12:39pm PDT
Protest Against Delta at SFO! World Week for Animals in Labs! San Francisco International Airport, International Terminal - Upper Departures Level...
Event Date: Sun, Apr 27, 2014 11:30am PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2014 6:35pm PDT
California Wolf-protection Decision Postponed 90 Days by Commission 
VENTURA, Calif.— After hearing several hours of public testimony from an overflow crowd of more than 200 people and receiving more than 2,600 pages of comments, California Fish and Game commissioners voted on Wednesday to postpone until July their decision on extending state Endangered Species Act protections to gray wolves. In the surprise decision, the commission said the law allowed it the option of deferring the decision for up to 90 days, during which the public-comment period will be re...
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2014 3:18pm PDT
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