I went to the Copenhagen Animal Liberation Conference and interviewed Jake Conroy!!
Conroy, a longtime animal rights activist based near Seattle, Washington, has spent decades fighting for animal liberation and has witnessed firsthand the highs and lows of radical activism. He is best known for his role in the Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign, which targeted Huntington Life Sciences, a laboratory that tested products ranging from food colouring and artificial sweeteners to oven cleaners on non-human animals such as rats, rabbits, pigs, dogs, marmosets, and macaques, and killed about 500 animals every day.
We talked about animal liberation, collective liberation, how doing time in prison affected him, pressure campaigns (his favorite), and hip hop and hardcore punk!!
If you want to read a feature interview version of this episode translated to Spanish, you can do it here: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/infoanimal/jake-conroy-SHAC-liberacion-animal-colectiva