Further down I have described experiencing violence and intimidation for doing so. Don't pretend this is an even sided situation with people exercising their civil rights.
Yeah I've been pulled behind a building and had pain compliance holds used on me simply for taking photos of police - also had my sister arrested when a police officer tried to pull my camera off me. The police officer lied in court and said he had been ...
A further thought, the Springbok tour protest of 1981 involved similar actions to yesterday - offramps blocked, marches down the motorway etc. If we are to criticize the tactics used yesterday we should also criticise and reject those historic movements ...
Then arrest those responsible - to reiterate - the police are not gathering this information to obtain arrests. My experience has been of a deliberate strategy to disrupt social justice movements - read the article which is linked to for context.
Written By: jdarroch - Date published: 2:34 pm, February 5th, 2016 - 50 comments
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I went to the anti-Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) protests yesterday to take photos. When I arrived I was immediately struck by the level of Police surveillance. Police photographers were carefully and systematically taking photos of every …
Interesting reading the views of this vet (not a rabid vegan such as myself): "It is also upsetting that we can do other things to calves which were not captured in the video - did you know that it is perfectly legal to use a red-hot iron to burn the ...
Hey RowT there are a range of substantive points I raised which I think are relevant even if all your points are true – for example ongoing inaction by MPI. However I have a different perspective on how widespread this is. What we observed were many crates...
Yup meant without hidden cameras :) We've discussed the idea of a private prosecution in the past and it's something I've been keen on. However we are incredibly stretched so couldn't contribute much. If any lawyers out there are interested feel free to ...
Hey I appreciate the position on SAFE - Greenpeace recently went to the supreme court around charitable status and had a favourable decision so I think SAFE will be safe. Regarding the illegally obtained footage, my understanding (after talking to several ...
Thanks we appreciate the support! I havn't gone to the police as the threats against me have been unspecific and to me look like idle chatter. Others however have had much more serious threats and the police have been taking these seriously (to their ...
Ad you have a very different idea about how society should run if you are ok with death threats and spurious attacks from government ministers. I've never said that I'm surprised by this. In my time in the animal rights movement I've had to deal police ...
We're so bad at hiding it that the fact we are a vegan organisation is on our front page! http://www.farmwatch.org.nz/ Lucky we are better at hiding our cameras than we are at hiding our ideology ;)
Hey Gosman I am in fact a vegan and Farmwatch makes no attempt to hide the fact that we are advocating a vegan diet - it's on our front page: http://www.farmwatch.org.nz/ The reason I'm vegan is because I believe that consuming animals causes suffering - ...
Haha I'm very wary of using the rhetoric of terrorism - all too often it is used by the state to crack down on the freedoms which allow us to engage in political activism. I certainly wouldn't go so far as to accuse farmers of terrorism!
Hey James fair point, we knew that a lot of people were going to be outraged by what we found and prior to the release of the footage we posted on a range of activist and vegan facebook pages telling people that we did not want to see any aggressive ...
Written By: jdarroch - Date published: 9:10 am, December 14th, 2015 - 214 comments
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It is an unfortunate reality that speaking out publicly often has considerable repercussions both for individuals and for organisations. Over the past decade we have seen sophisticated attacks against academics and NGOs who challenge government or industry…
Nope they never got in contact with me after that. I had the feeling from the start that tje investigation was a sham.
Written By: jdarroch - Date published: 9:06 am, December 5th, 2014 - 97 comments
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Tags: animal welfare, farmwatch, ministry of primary production, Nathan Guy, pigs
Earlier this year Farmwatch investigated pig farming in New Zealand. We filmed horrific conditions and animal cruelty on several farms in Auckland and Christchurch. On one farm workers kicked and stomped on piglets. They beat a sow to death with a …
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