The Green Elephant

Crimializing Fossil Fuel Protests

US Protest Law Tracker - ICNLThe US Protest Law Tracker, part of ICNL’s US Program, follows initiatives at the state and federal level since November 2016 that restrict the right to protest. Click this link to see the full Tracker.

Anti-Protest Laws in the U.S.The First Amendment includes the right to assemble. But how are the rules surrounding protesting changing?

4 More States Propose Harsh New Penalties For Protesting Fossil FuelsIndustry-designed bills to silence climate protests are under consideration in Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota and Montana. More are likely to come.

Oklahoma House Passes Bill To Give Immunity To Drivers Who Hit ProtestersThe legislation approved by the Republican-led House comes after Black Lives Matter protests last summer against racist police violence.

Anti-Protest Bills Around the Country

Anti-Protest Laws in the United States - First Amendment WatchRead about large trends, expert analysis, and major legal challenges related to efforts to restrict the right to assemble

Dangerous Ag-Gag Laws

What Is Ag-Gag Legislation?Over the past few years, the farm industry has driven the introduction of "ag-gag" bills in more than half of all state legislatures across the country. These dangerous bills, pushed by the animal agriculture lobby, are designed to silence whistleblowers revealing animal abuses on industrial farms.

Turn Off that Camera! Animal Cruelty Exposés Being Blocked Fearing arrest under laws pushed by the agriculture industry, animal rights activists have halted undercover camera investigations into animal cruelty in five farm states, including Iowa and Utah where the laws went into effect last year. "We are not conducting our investigations in those five states," said Nathan Runkle, executive director of Mercy for Animals, a group whose most recent hidden-camera exposé led to criminal charges against employees at the largest dairy farm in Idaho.

Protests in Australia Pit Vegans Against Farmers (Published 2019)Vegan protests across Australia have reignited debates about animal cruelty and sustainability, while raising questions about vigilante action.

Study: Majority of Americans Think Factory Farming Practices Are Just Wrong - Mercy For AnimalsShocker… NOT.

It isn't clear how the new bill against animal rights activists will protect farmersThe new legislation will give harsher punishment to people who incite others to trespass on farms.

Watch: Unprecedented Animal Rights Protest at Pig FarmA sign posted inside the farm read, "What happens in the barn, stays in the barn," an explicit reminder of the industry's aversion to transparency.

Ag-Gag Laws - Why Are Ag-Gag Laws Harmful?“Ag-Gag” laws seek to “gag” would-be whistleblowers and undercover activists by punishing them for recording footage of what goes on in animal agriculture.

Fighting Canada’s Dangerous “Ag Gag” LawsAnimal Justice is working to stop the spread of dangerous “agricultural gag” (or “ag gag”) laws in Canada. Ag gag laws seek to silence, or “gag”, whistleblowers, undercover journalists, and animal advocates, punishing them for exposing cruelty on farms. Ag gag laws cover up animal cruelty by making it illegal for an undercover investigator or…

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