Oppose the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in Las Vegas

This was originally posted at the Nevada Cop Block site.

#AgainstTheAETA

The National Weekend of Action Against the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) entails talks, workshops, film viewings, protests, etc. to educate the public about federal laws that specifically target animal advocates whose work attempts to stop a person or company from profiting from the use of nonhuman animals (which could include nearly all types of non-reformist activism, from protests to liberatory actions).

In effect, AETA labels activists as terrorists, a chilling reality that every activist of every cause should care about because this is a civil liberties and rights issue. AETA has been covered by almost every major paper in the US and is one of the most unconstitutional laws since COINTELPRO – a program established in the 1950s by the FBI that targeted the civil rights, anti-war, and Native American movements.

To understand more about the targeting of activists and the AETA, read *Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?* (2004), *Igniting a Revolution* (2006), *Muzzling a Movement* (2010), *Green is the New Red* (2011), and *The Terrorization of Dissent* (2014), and *Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement* (to be released Sept. 1, 2014).

This event is in collaboration with the launch of “Terrorization of Dissent” (2014), which will develop into a campaign with regular national days of action.

Las Vegas Actions Against the AETA

Daily protests in front of the Federal Building in Downtown Las Vegas
September 5, 6 & 7, 2014
3pm – 5pm each day
You are encouraged to wear all black and a black bandanna or mask if you’ve got it!
Literature and banners will be present, and feel free to bring signs, stencils and posters if you’d like!
Bring instruments (or pots and pans, etc.) Let’s make some noise, people!

Statement On the AETA by Mojave Dolphins

Originally posted at MojaveDolphins.com

Next weekend (Sept. 5, 6, 7) is National Weekend of Action Against the AETA. AETA stands for Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a federal law that prohibits any person from engaging in certain conduct “for the purpose of damaging or interfering with the operations of an animal enterprise”. This is a law that does not differentiate between constitutional protests and actual criminal acts. It forces you to be silent about animal abuse in fear of being charged with “terrorism”. The people who support this act are the fur industry, the cattle industry, and every other industry that would want to see animal rights activists taken out of the picture.

Oppose the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in Las Vegas is a post from Cop Block – Badges Don’t Grant Extra Rights