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SHAC was started in November 1999 by three British animal rights activists — Greg Avery, Heather James, and Natasha Dellemagne — after video footage shot covertly inside HLS in 1997 by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) showed HLS staff shaking, punching, and shouting at beagles in their care.
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SHAC was founded in November 1999 by Greg Avery ; his second wife, Natasha Avery ( née Dellemagne ); and his first wife, Heather Nicholson ( née James ).
SHAC USA was founded in 2004 by Kevin Jonas, sometimes spelled Kjonaas by the media, a political science graduate of the University of Minnesota, after he had spent two years working in the UK with Greg Avery.
Prosecutors in the U. S. said that a house in Somerset, New Jersey — a few miles from an HLS laboratory — was the headquarters of SHAC USA ; Jonas lived there with Lauren Gazzola, SHAC USA's campaign co-ordinator, and Jacob Conroy.
" After he was imprisoned in 2006 for inciting harassment against HLS, Pamelyn Ferdin, a former child actor, became president of SHAC USA.
The Daily Mail cites as examples of SHAC activism sending letters to the neighbours of a man who did business with HLS, warning parents to keep their children away from him, falsely claiming that he had raped the letter writer when she was a child.
The injunctions compelled SHAC to print the injunction on their website, so that SHAC's action targets were juxtaposed with a legal notification that there was a 50-yard exclusion zone around the homes of employees and places of business.
The prosecution also alleged there was evidence of direct email links between SHAC, the Animal Liberation Front, and Animal Rights Militia.
Avery and Heather Nicholson started SHAC in November 1999 after video footage shot covertly inside HLS by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was aired on British television.
SHAC and November
A SHAC protest march in Huntingdon, 10 November 2007.
A protest march in Huntingdon organized by SHAC, November 10, 2007.
SHAC and 1999
However protests continued, culminating in the high profile eviction of a SHAC rent striker during the 1999 election campaign.
HLS has been the target since 1999 of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty ( SHAC ), a campaign run by British and American animal-rights activists, who seek to close the company down for its treatment of, and experimentation upon, live animals.
SHAC and by
The campaign, in the main, has been orchestrated by the animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty ( SHAC )
Before their convictions, Nicholson, Avery, and Dellemagne would publish reports on the SHAC website and by mail, and provide press information and interviews ; in April 2004 they were reported to be living together rent-free in a cottage provided by a supporter, Virginia Jane Steele.
A woman in her 60s, who worked for a company targeted by SHAC, had every window in her house smashed during the night and found an effigy hanging outside her home, which read " R. I. P.
A British police operation found that the core group of SHAC activists would compile private encrypted reports detailing the legal protests and an illegal blackmail campaign — the former attributed to SHAC, the latter claimed by the ALF or Animal Rights Militia.
In 2008 and 2010 when 13 SHAC members, including the Averys and Nicholson, were convicted of conspiracy to blackmail, police said their actions were on behalf of the ALF ; senior members of SHAC were regarded by police as key figures within the ALF, according to The Guardian.
The FBI have also linked SHAC with attacks claimed by the militant animal rights group, the Animal Liberation Brigade.
Several companies targeted by SHAC in the UK obtained injunctions.
Prosecutors told jurors that a 2007 meeting between the defendants had been bugged by police, and revealed that SHAC supported illegal acts that were traced to attacks on people across Britain.
Mounting opposition included a partial rent strike, organised by the State Housing Action Coalition ( SHAC ), during which tenants refused to pay more than 25 % of their income in rent.
Nicholson and the Averys published reports on the SHAC website and by mail, and provided press information and interviews.
These cells engage in direct action: for example by carrying out raids to release animals from laboratories and farms, using names like the Animal Liberation Front ( ALF ); or by boycotting and targeting anyone or any business associated with the controversial animal testing lab, Huntingdon Life Sciences ( HLS ), using a campaign name like Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty ( SHAC ).
SHAC and British
In January 2009, several British SHAC activists were jailed for blackmailing companies linked to HLS.
The SHAC website said it published names and addresses only so that people could protest within the law, but testimony to the British House of Commons in 2003 included excerpts from a document reported to have come from SHAC, which advised activists on tactics for protests outside targets ' homes.
In 2000, SHAC obtained a list of HLS shareholders, including the names of usually anonymous beneficial owners — those holding shares through third parties — and the pension funds of the British Labour Party, Rover cars, and the London Borough of Camden.
SHAC and animal
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty ( SHAC ) is an international animal rights campaign to close down Huntingdon Life Sciences ( HLS ), Europe's largest contract animal-testing laboratory.
SHAC and rights
In 2009 The Sunday Times reported that Adrian Radford, a former soldier and gay rights activist, had befriended Natasha Avery and had been informing the police about the activity of senior SHAC members between 2004 and 2007.
SHAC and activists
SHAC maintains a decentralized approach with no official central leadership, allowing activists throughout the UK and North America to act autonomously, though The Guardian described Avery in 2008 as the de facto leader.
In 2008, activists from various groups, including SHAC, targeted Highgate Rabbit Farm in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, which sold rabbits and ferrets to HLS and other laboratories ; the Close Highgate Farm campaign included an ALF raid in which 129 rabbits were removed and £ 100, 000-worth of property damaged.
SHAC and —
Kevin Jonas — who took charge of SHAC UK while the Averys and James were jailed for six months in 2002 — declared his support for the ALF, and Robin Webb, spokesman for the ALF in the UK, attended and addressed SHAC conferences in the United States.
On 1 May 2007 a series of raids — Operation Achilles — took place against SHAC in Europe, involving 700 police officers in England, Amsterdam, and Belgium.
SHAC and Greg
Heather Nicholson founded SHAC with Greg Avery and Natasha Dellemagne.
" SHAC Interviewed: Greg Avery Speaks Out ", Abolitionist. Online, undated, retrieved February 26, 2006
SHAC and Avery
In 2009 and 2010, 13 members of SHAC, including Avery, James, and Dellemagne, were jailed for between 15 months and eleven years on charges of conspiracy to blackmail or harm HLS and its suppliers.
The Guardian describes Avery as the " de facto leader " of SHAC.
Avery is currently serving a nine year jail sentence after his 2008 conviction on charges of conspiracy to blackmail in connection with the SHAC campaign.
Until their 2008 arrests, the " senior members " of SHAC, including Avery, co-ordinated the campaign from a cottage in Little Moorcote, near Hook, Hampshire.
On May 1, 2007, after a series of raids involving 700 police officers in England, Amsterdam, and Belgium, 32 people linked to SHAC were arrested, including Avery and Dellemagne, who were charged with conspiracy to blackmail in connection with the SHAC campaign.
SHAC and after
PETA stopped its protests against the company after HLS threatened it with legal action, and SHAC took over as a leaderless resistance.
SHAC and video
The broadcast of the video on Britain's Channel 4 Television in March 1997 triggered the formation of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty ( SHAC ), an international leaderless resistance campaign to close HLS, which has been criticized for its sometimes violent tactics.
* " Hit ' Em Head On ", SHAC, 9-minute video on YouTube, 2006.
* " Time for Action 3 ", SHAC, 4-minute video on YouTube, 2005.
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