Tag: Protest
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Infiltrada. Undercover. Inside the bunker.
This is Camp Beagle which I have written about before. Wonders of wildlife in Norfolk part I – Animal Wild “There was somewhere I wanted to visit on my way up to King’s Lynn, Camp Beagle, on the outskirts of Huntingdon, which I wrote about here: Your Neighbour Kills Puppies; Inside the Animal Liberation Movement…
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The suppression of protest and a political confession
What has brought all of this to mind is watching Netflix’s excellent and deeply moving Strike: An Uncivil War, a documentary about the miners’ strikes under Thatcher and in particular the police brutality meted out at Orgreave. There have been calls for an inquiry ever since, refused by Tory governments over and over again. There…
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Camp Beagle
A delightful and unexpected encounter in our local post office cum corner shop a few days ago with a lady clad pretty much head to foot in Camp Beagle clothing. I expressed my whole-hearted approval and we went on to have a lively discussion of our shared interest in animal welfare. We had both very…
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Your Neighbour Kills Puppies; Inside the Animal Liberation Movement
Your Neighbour Kills Puppies; Inside the Animal Liberation Movement, by Tom Harris, Pluto Press, 2024, with a superb foreword by Chris Packham. He’s good at forewords, amongst many other things, which is why I asked him to write the foreword for my first book, Animal Trust. This is a boisterous, rollicking, relentless account of protests…