Panel: How the Right to Rescue Can Change Everything
Schedule
Sat Jun 10 2023 at 10:00 am
Location
Berkeley Student Union | Berkeley, CA
Advertisement
Join us for a thought-provoking panel about the Right to Rescue during the Animal Liberation Conference 2023. This panel will be facilitated by law professor Justin Marceau, and it will feature attorney and defendant Wayne Hsiung, who is defending the Right to Rescue in groundbreaking trials, DxE investigator and open rescue activist Alicia Santurio who was recently acquitted in the #FosterFarmsTrial, a juror from the trial, and Amber Canavan, who served time in county jail for an open rescue at Hudson Valley Foie Gras.
More about the panelists:
Wayne Hsiung is a lawyer, former faculty member at Northwestern School of Law, and co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere and The Simple Heart Initiative. He has led teams that have rescued dozens of animals from factory farms, and has organized successful campaigns to ban fur in San Francisco and California. He faces decades in prison for challenging so-called “ag gag” laws across the nation and removing animals from labs, slaughterhouses, and farms for veterinary care. He has served as lead counsel in two groundbreaking open rescue trials, in which activists were acquitted after being charged for removing animals from factory farms.
Alicia Santurio has been a member of Direct Action Everywhere since 2015. She started doing investigations and open rescues in 2016 and is now a lead investigator. Earlier this year, she was acquitted of misdemeanor theft for rescuing two sick chickens from a Foster Farms transport truck in a daylight open rescue during ALC 2021.
Amber Canavan was involved in an investigation and open rescue at Hudson Valley Foie Gras, for which she was charged with criminal trespass and served time in county jail. Since then, she has become a Manager in PETA's Campaigns Department for her day job, co-founded Compassionate PDX as part of the Compassionate Cities campaign, and serves as an Advisory Committee member of Animal Rights Collective Portland.
This is part of a week-long event called the Animal Liberation Conference (ALC). The ALC brings together the most dedicated animal rights activists from around the world and empowers them to take bold, collective action to achieve revolutionary social and political change for animals. Check out liberationconference.com for more information. See full program at dxe.io/program
All are welcome, including those new to activism or animal rights.
-----
WHEN: Saturday, June 10th, 10:00am
WHERE: West Pauley Ballroom inside the Berkeley Student Union, Martin Luther King Jr. Building on the UC Berkeley campus
REGISTRATION: You can register at liberationconference.com
If you have any questions please check out liberationconference.com or email [email protected]
Advertisement
Where is it happening?
Berkeley Student Union, Berkeley, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays: