Difference between revisions of "Timeline of Direct Action Everywhere"

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| 2013 || August || Demonstration || DxE activists organize the Los Angeles side of an international multi-city protest, The Earthlings March.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dailynews.com/social-affairs/20130824/animal-rights-activists-march-in-downtown-la|title=Animal Rights Activists March in Downtown LA | last=Goff|first=Kelly|date=August 24, 2013|publisher=Los Angeles Daily News|accessdate=9 July 2018}}</ref> They list activities involving {{w|Whole Foods Markets}}, {{w|Chipotle Restaurants}}, {{w|Costco}} and others.<ref>{{cite web |title=Garcetti's Activist Commissioners Invite Radical Animal Terrorism to LA … Again |url=https://citywatchla.com/index.php/animal-watch/14697-garcetti-s-activist-commissioners-invite-radical-animal-terrorism-to-la-again |website=citywatchla.com |accessdate=10 July 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Los Angeles}}, {{w|California}}

| 2013 || October || Demonstration || In response to a viral video produced by {{w|Chipotle}} called The Scarecrow, DxE organizes in-store “die-ins” at three San Francisco Chipotle restaurants.<ref name=scarecrow>{{cite web|url=tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUtnas5ScSE |website=YouTube |title=The Scarecrow|date=September 11, 2013|accessdate=9 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="newfrontier">{{cite web |url=http://directactioneverywhere.com/theliberationist/2013/10/21/the-new-frontier | title=The New Frontier | accessdate=9 July 2018}</ref> Within a few weeks, copycat demonstrations are executed in {{w|Chicago}}, {{w|Los Angeles}}, {{w|Phoenix}} and {{w|Philadelphia}}. DxE would respond by creating a platform for coordinated global days of action under the “It’s Not Food, It’s Violence” message.<ref name="chipotlestart">{{cite web |url=http://static1.squarespace.com/static/515cca87e4b0bca14d767b61/t/526304cfe4b0971963e4897d/1382221007692/2013.10.19+Killing+is+no+Kindness+Press+Release.pdf | title=Activists in Six Cities "Die-In" at Chipotle | accessdate=9 July 2018}}</ref> || {{w|San Francisco}}, {{w|California}}

| 2014 || October 1 || Demonstration || DxE issues the #DisruptSpeciesism viral video challenge, which would go viral.<ref>{{cite web |title=#DisruptSpeciesism - Kelly |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmfRMeU6pQ8 |website=youtube.com |accessdate=10 July 2018}}</ref> ||

| 2014 || October || Controversy || American conservative political commentator {{w|Glenn Beck}} publishes comments about liberal animal rights activists going too far, and adresses a DxE #DisruptSpeciesism viral video where activist Kelly Atlas goes into a chicken restaurant and tells the customers that they're eating a murdered being. Glenn criticizes the Atlas' discourse for humanizing farm animals.<ref>{{cite web |title=This woman really, really loves her chicken |url=https://www.glennbeck.com/2014/10/07/this-woman-really-really-loves-her-chicken/ |website=glennbeck.com |accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref> As a response, Kelly Atlas replies to Beck as hateful, "in perfect human supremacist fashion, though with an interesting acknowledgement of how he was taught speciesism".<ref>{{cite web |title=DRAMATIZE THE ISSUE (BY KELLY) |url=https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/theliberationist/2014/10/6/dramatize-the-issue |website=directactioneverywhere.com |accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref> ||

| 2014 || December || Expansion || DxE's network grows to at least 90 cities in 20 countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4dkK3tI7X8 |website=YouTube | title=Stop the Violence - DxE December Day of Action | date=January 20, 2015 | accessdate=9 July 2018}}</ref> ||

| 2015 || January || Investigation || DxE publishes video showing shocking mistreatment of animals at a "humane" Whole Foods supplier.<ref>{{cite web |title=Truth Matters: DxE Investigators Expose "Humane" Fraud at Whole Foods |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU4PJCuslD0 |website=youtube.com |accessdate=11 August 2018}}</ref> The story is covered in the {{w|New York Times}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Animal Rights Group’s Video of Hens Raises Questions, but Not Just for Farms |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/business/direct-action-everywhere-video-of-laying-hens-raises-concerns.html |website=nytimes.com |accessdate=9 July 2018}}</ref> and progressive American magazine [[w:Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]].<ref>{{cite web |title=What Does “Cage-Free” Even Mean? |url=https://www.motherjones.com/food/2015/01/you-cant-produce-eggs-industrial-scale-without-breaking-few-hens/ |website=motherjones.com |accessdate=9 July 2018}}</ref> ||

| 2015 || March 13 || Interview || Nonprofit Animal Charity Evaluators interview {{w|Wayne Hsiung}}, as part of their investigation of undercover investigations and open rescue.<ref>{{cite web |title=CONVERSATION WITH WAYNE HSIUNG, DIRECT ACTION EVERYWHERE |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/advocacy-interventions/evaluating-interventions/intervention-conversations/conversation-with-wayne-hsiung-direct-action-everywhere/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=17 August 2018}}</ref> ||

| 2015 || September || Demonstration || DxE issues the  #DogMeatPlease viral video challenge.<ref>{{cite web |title=Animal Rights Activists Stormed a Toronto Steakhouse to Protest Society’s Meat Lust |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vdxym8/animal-rights-activists-stormed-a-toronto-steakhouse-to-protest-societys-meat-eating-habits |website=vice.com |accessdate=10 July 2018}}</ref> ||

| 2015 || November || Investigation || DxE releases the results of investigation, documenting a Whole Foods turkey supplier that is the only farm to achieve the highest “5+” rating on Whole Foods’ animal welfare scheme.<ref name="PRESS KIT: EGG EXPOSÉ REVEALS CRUELTY, CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS AT TRADER JOE'S, SAFEWAY"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Where does the Whole Foods turkey really come from? |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byb8WjknZxw |website=youtube.com |accessdate=9 July 2018}}</ref> That story is covered in the Wall Street Journal<ref>{{cite web |title=Video Shows Abuse at Whole Foods Turkey Supplier, Activists Say |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/video-shows-abuse-at-whole-foods-turkey-supplier-activists-say-1448328713 |website=wsj.com |accessdate=9 July 2018}}</ref> and Washington Post.<ref>{{cite web |title=Whole Foods Thanksgiving turkeys endure ‘horrific conditions’ at Calif. farm, activists say |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/24/whole-foods-thanksgiving-turkeys-endure-horrific-conditions-at-calif-farm-animal-rights-activists-say/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.090c4a04cca1 |website=washingtonpost.com |accessdate=9 July 2018}}</ref> ||

Three: Encourage others to take the pledge."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.liberationpledge.com|title=The Liberation Pledge|website=www.liberationpledge.com|access-date=9 July 2018}}</ref>  

| 2016 || March 31 || || Lewis Bollard at [[w:GiveWell|Open Philantropy Project]] publishes blog explaining how battery cages cause severe suffering, and cage-free systems are much better. Bollard mentions a disagreement with DxE on their view on the benefits of cage-free systems, and cites a Wayne Hsiung blog post which identifies four welfare indicators that Hsiung thinks are worse in cage-free systems than in cages: mortality, air quality, stress, and overcrowding.<ref>{{cite web |title=HOW CAGE-FREE EGGS ARE HURTING HENS |url=https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/theliberationist/2016/3/10/9oyu9qkx8jemid36kmihdh4ce0hiy4 |website=directactioneverywhere.com |accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref> Bollard also states that DxE's counterarguments are not compelling, showing for instance how many studies contradict what Hsiung claims is “a consensus in the literature” that mortality rates are worse in cage-free systems.<ref>{{cite web |title=Initial Grants to Support Corporate Cage-free Reforms |url=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms |website=openphilanthropy.org |accessdate=2 August 2018}}</ref> ||

| 2016 || June || Investigation || DxE releases an investigation into dog meat farms in {{w|Yulin}}, {{w|China}} on [[w:ABC News|ABC]]’s {{w|Nightline}}, and compares the violence against dogs in Yulin to violence against animals on farms in the {{w|United States}}.<ref name="PRESS KIT: BIRDS CRUSHED TO DEATH AT CAGE-FREE SAFEWAY SUPPLIER"/> || {{w|Yulin}}, {{w|China}}

| 2016 || July || Investigation || Baywatch actress {{w|Alexandra Paul}} and {{w|Last Chance for Animals}} (LCA) founder {{w|Chris DeRose}} join DxE's Open Rescue Network DxE which conducts investigation into Farmer John, a {{w|Hormel}} subsidiary and supplier to {{w|Costco}}, {{w|Safeway Inc.}}, and the {{w|LA Dodgers}} based just outside of Los Angeles. The investigation documents the use of carbadox, an antibiotic identified by the FDA as a carcinogen and recommended for removal from the market. The activists argue that similarity between animal and human biology would inevitably lead to potential crises like antibiotic-resistant bacteria.<ref name="Rosenberg">{{Cite web|url=http://www.opednews.com/articles/Are-You-Eating-These-Produ-by-Martha-Rosenberg-Animals_Antibiotic_Antibiotic-Resistant_Antibiotics-Pollution-160701-40.html|title=Are You Eating These Products? They Contain Carcinogenic Antibiotics, Activists Charge|last=Rosenberg|first=Martha|date=2016-07-01|website=Op-Ed News|access-date=9 July 2018}}</ref> ||

| 2016 || July || Organization || The Berkeley Animal Rights Center opens in Berkeley, California, as a center aimed at organizing community events and trainings for animal rights.<ref>{{cite web |title=VICTORY: BERKELEY UNITES TO KEEP ANIMAL RIGHTS CENTER OPEN |url=https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/theliberationist/2017/3/29/victory-berkeley-unites-to-keep-animal-rights-center-open |website=directactioneverywhere.com |accessdate=19 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=BERKELEY ANIMAL RIGHTS CENTER |url=https://www.berkeleyarc.com/ |website=berkeleyarc.com |accessdate=19 August 2018}}</ref> DxE regularly operates meetings at the center.<ref>{{cite web |title=CALENDAR |url=https://www.berkeleyarc.com/calendar/ |website=berkeleyarc.com |accessdate=19 August 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Berkeley, California}}

| 2016 || September || || DxE publishes ''The Forty-Year Roadmap to Animal Liberation'', a text envisioning a future in which slaughterhouses are abolished and non-human animals are granted legal personhood.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Forty-Year Roadmap to Animal Liberation |url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YN7KpuShiZItqVuQtWv6ykrjrNv6rAnmjVOcsofRj0I/edit |website=docs.google.com |accessdate=19 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=THE ROADMAP TO ANIMAL LIBERATION (PART I: PLANT THE FLAG) |url=https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/theliberationist/2016/9/6/the-roadmap-to-animal-liberation-part-i-plant-the-flag-1 |website=directactioneverywhere.com |accessdate=19 August 2018}}</ref> ||

| 2016 || November 18 || Investigation || DxE's Open Rescue Investigators enter Jaindl Farms, famed supplier to the {{w|White House}}, and find disfigured faces and rotting bodies.<ref name="LIBERATION IN ACTION"/> ||

| 2016 || December || Expansion || DxE open rescue projects begin expanding beyond the Bay Area when members in {{w|Toronto}} release an investigation of a pig farm.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedodo.com/baby-pig-factory-farm-2151716622.html|title=They Saw This Baby Pig And Knew They Had To Save Her Life|date=2016-12-16|work=The Dodo - For Animal People|access-date=9 July 2018|language=en}}</ref> The project would be followed up by an internationally coordinated rescue with animal advocates in {{w|Sweden}}, {{w|Germany}}, and {{w|Australia}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailycal.org/2017/03/07/animals-rescued-unsafe-farm-conditions/|title=Animals should be rescued from unsafe farm conditions|last=Cal|first=Cassie King {{!}} Special to the Daily|date=2017-03-07|website=The Daily Californian|access-date=9 July 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Toronto}}, {{w|Canada}}

| 2017 || February 9 || Investigation || DxE releases an investigation into a “Certified Humane” cage-free egg supplier to grocery chain Safeway. The investigation at Rainbow Farms in Denair, California finds chickens so densely crowded to the point of being crushed to death by other birds , in stark contrast to Safeway’s “Certified-Humane” requirements for all of its cage-free and organic egg suppliers.<ref name="PRESS KIT: BIRDS CRUSHED TO DEATH AT CAGE-FREE SAFEWAY SUPPLIER">{{cite web |title=PRESS KIT: BIRDS CRUSHED TO DEATH AT CAGE-FREE SAFEWAY SUPPLIER |url=https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/press-kit-crushed-at-safeway/ |website=directactioneverywhere.com |accessdate=10 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SAFEWAY: STOP CRUSHING ANIMALS TO DEATH! |url=https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/crushed-safeway#crushed-safeway-intro |website=directactioneverywhere.com |accessdate=10 July 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Denair, California}}

| 2017 || April || Investigation || DxE activists in Colorado conduct an investigation of a cage-free {{w|Sprouts Farmers Market}} cage-free "humane" egg farm, and find dozens of dead bodies and hundreds of hens starving to death.<ref name="LIBERATION IN ACTION"/> || {{w|Colorado}}

| 2017 || August 3 || || Benny Johnson of the {{w|Independent Journal Review}} calls DxE's protest tactics in Berkeley "bullying" in regards to graphic Berkeley protests.<ref name="IJROPED">{{cite web|last1=Johnson|first1=Benny|title=Mom and Pop Butcher Shop Bullied by Vegans Until They Agreed to Post This Sign in Their Store|url=http://ijr.com/2017/08/939006-mom-pop-butcher-shop-bullied-vegans-agreed-post-sign-store|website=IJR - Independent Journal Review|publisher=Independent Journal Review|accessdate=25 February 2018|ref=IJROPED|date=9 July 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Berkeley, California}}

| 2017 || August 20 || Investigation || Activists with DxE Phoenix investigate a pig farm in {{w|Arizona}} where they uncover filthy conditions. All of the pigs on the farm are found terrified of humans due to the abuse they face and the ground is found littered with the bones of their siblings. Activists manage to rescue a piglet and name her Charlotte. They bring her to the vet and to sanctuary where she now lives. This is the first open rescue by DxE in Arizona.<ref name="LIBERATION IN ACTION"/> || {{w|Arizona}}

| 2017 || August 30 || Investigation || DxE Toronto activists investigate a rabbit farm in {{w|Ontario}} and find hundreds of rabbits languishing in filthy conditions. Many of the rabbits are found laying dead on the ground including one mother, with her babies shivering alone nearby. The activists rescue the babies and bring them to safety.<ref name="LIBERATION IN ACTION"/> || {{w|Ontario}}, {{w|Canada}}

| 2017 || September || Rescue operation || DxE organizers attend a small-scale poultry processing class at Long Shadow Farm, a 6-acre farm in Berthoud, Colorado specializing in pasture-raised chickens. Led by DxE Organizer Aidan Cook, under the name of "Denver Baby Animal Save" the group enters the property masquerading as volunteers<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.reporterherald.com/news/larimer-county/ci_31310944/denver-animal-rights-group-says-it-rescued-chickens|title=Denver animal rights group says it 'rescued' chickens from Berthoud family farm|access-date=9 July 2018}}</ref> and takes three chickens, after asking to hold some of the birds and being assisted in doing so by the farm owners' 8 year old daughter. Opinions on the actions vary, with DxE organizers and members claiming to have "rescued" the birds, while the farm owners considered it "theft". A DxE spokesperson would state that "even if the animal rights group could have saved more chickens by purchasing them, the group opposes buying into a system that hurts animals."<ref name=":0" /> Two of the chickens that were taken were carriers of [[w:Mycoplasma gallisepticum|mycoplasma]], a highly infectious respiratory disease in poultry.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/09/19/animal-rights-group-steals-chickens-farm/680951001/|title=Animal rights group steals chickens from farm to 'free' them|work=USA TODAY|access-date=9 July 2018|language=en}}</ref> || {{w|Berthoud, Colorado}}

| 2017 || October 22 || Rescue operation || Over 200 activists entered Saba Live Poultry slaughterhouse in {{w|Oakland}} as part of the DxE California Convergence. They bear witness to the suffering of the animals inside and plead with management to release all the animals. Police arrives and shuts the slaughterhouse down with 22 activists inside who refuse to leave, but not before the activists are able to openly rescue a lamb, a quail and a rabbit. The activists remaining inside are eventually arrested.<ref name="LIBERATION IN ACTION"/> || {{w|Oakland, California}}

| 2017 || November 7 || Rescue operation || DxE activists investigate Zonneveld Dairy Farm, a member of the Land O'Lakes cooperative, located near {{w|Fresno, California}}. The investigation reveals row upon row of small, wooden hutches, each housing a single baby cow. The calves are found to be provided with no bedding, no enrichment, no space to move, and no love from their mothers. Many are found sick and some already dead. The activists manage to rescue one of the calves.<ref name="LIBERATION IN ACTION"/> || {{w|Fresno, California}}

| 2017 || November || Review || DxE declines to be reviewed/published by Animal Charity Evaluators, stating that they were too busy during ACE's evaluation season to participate in the review process.<ref>{{cite web |title=DIRECT ACTION EVERYWHERE |url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/direct-action-everywhere/ |website=animalcharityevaluators.org |accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref> ||

| 2017 || December 12 || Rescue operation || 22 activists with DxE {{w|Melbourne}} walk into a slaughterhouse in broad daylight and stay between the animals and the blade, openly saving seven chickens.<ref name="LIBERATION IN ACTION"/> || {{w|Melbourne}}, {{w|Australia}}

| 2018 || March 5 || Rescue operation || Thirteen activists from three different continents and four organizations unite to save the lives of 15 animals to observe International Open Rescue Day. DxE Phoenix contributes to this collaboration by releasing two fishes.<ref name="LIBERATION IN ACTION"/> ||

| 2018 || March 15 || Investigation || DxE activists report having discovered piles and piles of feces at a Trader Joe's egg farm. Many birds are found trapped in their waste, forced to eat their own excrement to survive.<ref name="LIBERATION IN ACTION">{{cite web |title=LIBERATION IN ACTION |url=https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/open-rescue/#past-rescues |website=directactioneverywhere.com |accessdate=10 July 2018}}</ref> ||

| 2018 || May 8 || Investigation || DxE activists investigate a Smithfield pig farm in {{w|North Carolina}}, a state which has one of the most repressive "ag gag" laws in the United States. Despite promises to phase out {{w|gestation crate}}s by 2018, the activists find the majority of mother pigs in crates and manage to rescue a baby piglet named Rosie.<ref name="LIBERATION IN ACTION"/> || {{w|North Carolina}}

| 2018 || May || Legal || {{w|Wayne Hsiung}} and four others are charged in {{w|Utah}} with burglary, livestock theft, and engaging in a pattern of illegal activity (felonies); and engaging in a riot (misdeameanor). They are identified after posting high-quality video online of taking pigs from a Smithfield Foods facility in {{w|Beaver County, Utah}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=5 animal rights activists charged with pilfering pigs in Utah |url=https://www.ksl.com/?sid=46324806&nid=148&title=5-animal-rights-activists-charged-with-pilfering-pigs-in-utah |website=ksl.com |accessdate=9 July 2018}}</ref> || {{w|Utah}}