A chilling portrait of what happens when activism rattles the institutions of power.A chilling portrait of what happens when activism rattles the institutions of power.A chilling portrait of what happens when activism rattles the institutions of power.
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Self (HLS)
- (archive footage)
- Self
- (rumored)
- Self (SHAC Florida activist)
- (as Tim Hitchens)
- Self
- (archive footage)
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Self (professor of philosophy): Social change always happens through a wide variety of forces. It's always pluristic. And people wanna revise history. They wanna say, "Well, Gandhi won the Indian independence movement." Well, I'm sorry, Gandhi didn't win it alone. There were forces that were violently attacking the British, and that helped pressure the British to leave India. Dr. Martin Luther King did not win the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by himself. Standing behind him was Malcolm X. It wasn't hippies that stopped the Vietnam War. It was the Vietnamese peasantry that kicked the American army's ass. Violence and sabotage and property destruction, threats of violence and coercive change of various kinds is what moves history.
Self (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty): We have this really rosy picture of our history. You know, when we talk about women's suffrage, we don't talk about arson. We don't talk about random property destruction.
Self (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty): America was founded on agitation, throwing crates of tea into the Boston Harbor because they were gonna protest the tea tax. That was economic sabotage. That was direct action. That's not terrorism. That's American.
- ConnectionsFeatures Beastly Business: Tactics of Terror (2000)
The documentary is impartial, providing ample space for opposing viewpoints. It's noteworthy that renowned actor Joaquin Phoenix and actress Jorja Fox were involved in its production. The SHAC campaign did not win. She did not win in the sense that she did not achieve her goal - the abolition of the HLS. However, it did attain numerous successes, including the exposure of over a hundred companies supplying animals for HLS experiments and contracting with HLS. Some subsequently, after pressure from activists, even permanently cut off business relations with HLS.
Ex-SHAC activists continue today in other groups, for example Kevin Kjonaas leads the non-profit Beagle Freedom Project, and Jake Conroy and Josh Harper in particular remain very active. Positive to see that they did not give up.
- Hayduke555
- Sep 10, 2023
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- Terrorist: SHAC 7
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- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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