CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak about her litigation to fight the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) alongside eco, animal liberation, and social justice activists from the Pacific Northwest and Buffalo.

Presentations:
Lauren Regan, Executive Director, Civil Liberties Defense Center (Eugene, OR), will provide case examples, tips, and traps regarding government and corporate surveillance of climate activists and frontline communities, their campaigns, and their lawyers, and why everyone needs to take security issues seriously to be a serious activist, advocate, or attorney. 

Rachel Meeropol, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights, will discuss both her legal challenges to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act – which allows for the prosecution of non-violent property damage as a federal crime of terrorism – and the suppression of dissent within the federal bureau of prisons, where animal rights and environmental activists are singled out post-conviction, along with other unpopular prisoners, for heightened restrictions and surveillance.

Leslie James Pickering, owner, Burning Books (Buffalo, NY), press officer, Earth Liberation Front Press office, will highlight two decades of activism through secret files pried loose from the FBI. This presentation will offer a rare glimpse into maintaining the struggle in spite of repression, from living under federal surveillance to being targeted by informants to supporting underground liberation movements.