Interview with Jenny & Michael - Animal Liberation Forum

This interview took place in Long Beach on April 16th, 2011 during Animal Liberation Forum. Jenny is a doctoral student at American University in Anthropology, specializing in Race, Gender, and Social Justice. Over the last ten years, Jenny has worked with animal rights organizations including EarthSave Cincinnati, Mercy for Animals, and Farm Sanctuary. She currently a coordinator for the Working Group Committee on Humane Research with the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. Her past research includes an autoethnography of Farm Sanctuary, critiques of the sexualization of women in PETA campaigns, and an analysis of animal slavery that argued for the inclusion of speciesism in intersectional feminist frameworks. Her current research expands on the intersectionality of oppression, the animal liberation movement, and the capitalist mode of production (ie. how alienation, commodification, and fetishization predicated on speciesism intersect with other forms of constructed privilege).
Michael is a social justice organizer and academic insurgent based in Washington, DC. For the past fourteen years he has been an organizer with a number of anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist projects in the US and abroad. In 2010, he completed research at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (University of St. Andrew's, Scotland) arguing in defense of the militant praxis embodied in the Animal/Earth Liberation Front and affiliated movements. He has authored several works under a variety of pseudonyms, and is currently teaching a course on "Terrorism and Political Violence" at Georgetown University, is editor for the Online Journal of Terrorism Research, and coordinator with Arissa Media Group, while finding time to agitate, instigate and conspire to bring about a better world.

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[corycatlady]

Why NOT have a list of informents/agents in the movement? I have blasted the photos of Gorda who resembles an "activist" all over myspace for years now. These 2 must know about the matching photos from a 1991 Animals Voice article on infoments/agents, the lawsuit I had against UCLA in 2006, the depostion page where the "activist" changes his name in 1993. His birthdates don't match on his name change. Gorda was holding the camera when I was unreasonably injured. He and UCLA edited the film.

[TheCatJoker]

Keep gay rights away from the animal lib movement. They have NO connection. You're going to ruin the animal lib movement with kooky associations like this. Trying to pair the two may in itself be a form of negative infiltration.