Holloway has now closed down, but in my nightmares I still awake within its 18 feet high impenetrable walls. I was 20 years-old when I was sentenced to a four year prison sentence after I’d become involved in a non-violent protest campaign to close down an animal testing laboratory as a teenager. Like the suffragettes […]
Category: Protest
The scared, attention starved dogs wag their tails shyly and are anxious to please but when the dosing begins, their tails stop wagging, they struggle and cry. … Dog number 3216 had a bowel movement immediately after dosing. He salivated and foamed at the mouth. He retched and eventually vomited clear, foamy liquid. He lay […]
In the animal rights community, we often repeat a quote by Sir Paul McCartney: “if slaughterhouses had glass walls, the world would be vegetarian“. I have spent the greater part of my life believing this adage to be true — that if only people knew what was going on, the world would be a very […]
If empathy is a muscle, apathy is also a muscle. So what do we train our bodies, minds and hearts to be capable of, when we train them to be indifferent to injustice? On my social media feed, I watch impotently a video of a crying Palestinian Surgeon and father amputating his teenage daughter’s leg […]
“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I’ll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.” – Audre Lorde Today, people are celebrating May Day but for me, this day marks another occasion, one tinged with sorrow: it’s the day […]