10. See, for instance, the Introduction to Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals, eds. Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella II. New York: Lantern Books, 2004, pp. 9-63.
11. On how underground and aboveground groups can compliment one another, without literally cooperating on tactics, see Kevin Jonas, “Bricks and Bullhorns,” in Terrorists or Freedom Fighters, pp. 263-271. For the power of this one-two punch approach to work, however, aboveground groups cannot demonize the underground as thugs and terrorists such as Hall does in her inimitable style.
12. For video documentation of some of these campaigns, and why such examples of horrific animal abuse drove activists to do more than hold up protest signs and write letters to the editors, see: “Save The Hillgrove Cats Campaign” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS9DMam53H8&feature=related) and “Save The Shamrock Monkeys Campaign” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrWcAlmZYtM&feature=related).
13. For a surprisingly sympathetic article in the most unlikely of places, see Fred Burton, “SHAC Convictions: The Martyrdom Effect,” March 16, 2006, Stratfor Global Intelligence, http://www.stratfor.com/shac_convictions_martyrdom_effect.
14. For details on SHAC’s modus operandi, see “SHAC Attack: Targeting Companies Animal Rights Style,” Do or Die, Issue #10, http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no10/shac.htm.
15. “About Punk Rock and Animal Rights,” Punk Rock and Animal Rights, http://punkandanimalrights.com/about.php#. Even Francionite Bob Torres takes Hall to task for her vulgar caricature and dismissal of punk and hardcore music and subcultures; see his review of Capers at: http://blog.veganfreak.com/index.php?archive/2006/09.
16. “SHAC Attack.”
17. Tom Regan, “How to Justify Violence,” in Terrorists or Freedom Fighters, pp. 231-236.
18. See Best’s critique of Dawn’s single-issue politics, opportunism, and farcical apology for far right shill and speechwriter Matthew Scully, “From “Dominion” to Domination: The Duplicity and Complicity of Matthew Scully,” September 6, 2008, Thomas Paine’s Corner, http://thomaspainescorner.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/from-dominion-to-domination-the-duplicity-and-complicity-of-matthew-scully/
19. http://www.animalperson.net/animal_person/2009/02/on-pacifism.html#comments
20. As Brandon Becker understood, “I’m not a pacifist, so I don’t categorically reject counter-violence. I don’t categorically support it either. Context matters” (http://www.animalperson.net/animal_person/2009/02/on-pacifism.html#comments).
21. As James Crump noted in response to our essay (TPC comment #45), the mainstream of this movement “has always marginalized veganism in favor of regulatory welfarist campaigns which seek to make institutionalized animal slavery more 'humane.’ In light of that fact, the claim that vegan outreach has 'failed’ as a movement strategy is vacuous as it is grounded in no empirical evidence.”
22. For an effective critique of Francione’s ahimsa dogma, see Rick Bogle’s contextualist reflections (as well as the responses by Justin Goodman and Derek Oatis) in “Animal Rights Violence,” August 23, 2007, Primate Freedom, http://primateresearch.blogspot.com/2007/08/animal-rights-violence.html.
23. Jeff Perz, “Exclusive Non-Violent Action: Its Absolute Necessity for Building a Genuine Animal Rights Movement,” Abolitionist Online, http://www.abolitionist-online.com/article-issue05_exclusive.non.violent.jeff-perz.shtml. Perz carried out an extended and most illuminating debate with Daniel Peyser. For Peyser’s general position, see “Beyond Pacifism” at: http://www.abolitionist-online.com/article-issue05_beyond.pacifism.daniel-peyser.shtml. Peyser responded to Perz’s “Exclusive Non-Violent Action” essay at: http://animalliberationfront.com/Practical/Shop–ToDo/Activism/Non-violence.htm. Perz’s rejoinder to Peyser’s critique is at: http://www.animalrightscommunity.com/abolitionists/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=402.
24. Francione, Animal Rights Community Online, Nov 16 2007, http://www.animalsuffering.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5658&start=15.
25. We also observe a common assumption that because far more nonhuman animals suffer and die for “food” production than any other form of exploitation, veganism should be the only or main focus of the entire animal advocacy movement, such that work on other issues wastes time and hurts the cause. But different issues are important in different areas (e.g., the vivisection is far more intense in the UK than here), and all contribute to challenging speciesism and ending animal exploitation in significant ways, as anti-vivisectionism, for instance, mounts a critique of one of the leading religions of the day – Science – and challenges powerful social and economic institutions as it facilitates the emergence of new forms of knowledge that sever the tie to a disabling Cartesianism and positivism.
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