Talk: Know Your History, Become a Better Activist
Schedule
Fri Jun 09 2023 at 04:45 pm
Location
Berkeley Student Union | Berkeley, CA
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Join us for an insightful discussion about animal rights movement history. Lauren Regan and Jonathan Paul will share insights from their decades of experience in the movement. They will discuss how we can learn from our mistakes and our gains in order to become better activists and make a more successful movement to protect animals and the planet. This event is part of the Animal Liberation Conference 2023. More about the speakers:
Lauren Regan is the founder, director and senior staff attorney at the Civil Liberties Defense Center, and has specialized in civil rights, activist criminal defense, SLAPP and grand jury resistance, and environmental, climate, and animal rights law for the last 25 years. She has successfully represented over 4500 political activists in both civil and criminal litigation around the country. In February 2020, Lauren and CLDC presented the first complete climate necessity defense to a jury within the United States (Portland, Oregon). The case resulted in a hung jury and a dismissal of charges against the climate defenders. Lauren and CLDC provide over 100 Know Your Rights trainings a year to activists, immigrants, and other at risk groups.
Jonathan Paul has been an eco-animal activist since the early 1980s. He has founded and co-founded numerous organizations like the U.S. Hunt Saboteurs, Global Investigations, Siskiyou Forest Defenders, Sea Defense Alliance, Ocean Defense International, and America’s Whale Alliance, and was involved with Earth First! during the timber wars of the 1990s. Jonathan preferred being on the front lines standing between the hunters and the hunted, organizing protests, participating in civil disobedience and blockades, documenting fur farms around the country, and liberating thousands of animals from laboratories and farms. Jonathan currently works in ecological forestry, is an investigator for animal and environmental organizations, and is on the Board of Advisors for the Civil Liberties Defense Center.
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 the full program of events at dxe.io/program
All are welcome, including those new to activism or animal rights.
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WHEN: Friday, June 9th, 4:45pm
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].
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Berkeley Student Union, Berkeley, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
