While animal rights and environmental activists are the main targets of these new laws equating protest with terrorism, the law could potentially be applied to anyone who protests anything, and does it effectively.
The AETA defines an "animal enterprise" to include any business that deals in animal research or uses or sells animal products. You can be accused of violating the law by traveling across state lines (or using the internet) to purposefully cause economic damage (like lost profits) to an animal enterprise. That is why CCR and other activist organizations are challenging these laws.
Environmental and animal rights groups are organizing against this law and against the green scare in general. Activists from other movements need to join them.
CCR is involved in several of these battles, and updates are always available on our website, at www.ccrjustice.org or learn about the latest prosecutions by visiting the CivilLibertiesDefenseCenter's website, at ww.cldc.org.
Attacks by government on our human and civil rights are always first directed at people on the margins who do not have widespread popular support. Animal and environmental activists are the ones under attack today. Unless we stand up and vigorously protect their rights to dissent, others, including us, will be certainly be next.
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