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Georgia Joins the Campaign Against Alice + Olivia
Submitted by Atlanta activists: Monday, January 18th: five activists congregated in front of Alice + Olivia in Atlanta, Georgia to protest the store’s use of animal fur. The sole customer was let out of the store and the two employees decided to close the front door and lock it, but not before the activists’ message
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Local Los Angeles Bunny Seeks Revenge on Alice + Olivia
Submitted by a rabbit: Alice + Olivia makes its money murdering poor animals and using their skins as fabric. As a free bunny, I can no longer sit by and watch as Stacey Bendet gruesomely cuts up my relatives. I am hopping mad. So, today, Monday, January 18, I raced over to my local Alice
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SoCal ADL Returns to A+O After Four Days
Submitted by Animal Defense League – Southern California: Last Thursday, we had the privilege of helping launch the national Alice + Olivia Animal Cruelty Campaign at their Melrose store. But Stacey Bendet’s stores are open every day of the week, so every day is a good day to speak up for her victims. That’s why
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Pair of NYC Activists Disrupt A+O
Submitted by NYC Activists: This past Sunday, January 17, two of us broke the silence on Madison Avenue & disrupted Alice + Olivia’s store. As we walked in, we immediately saw someone’s skin on the floor as a rug, & two customers wearing fur. One was wearing a Canada Goose Jacket & the other one
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Las Vegas Activists Visit Both A+O and Saks on the Same Day
Submitted by Las Vegas activists on Sunday, January 17, 2021: Today, fifteen Las Vegas activists gathered to take action against the fur industry. But in keeping with the two national grassroots anti-fur campaigns that have been seeing the most activity, we figured there was no reason for us to do one action, when we could
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Philadelphia Disrupts Saks Fifth Avenue
Submitted by Revolution Philadelphia: The fur industry is one of the most vile and inherently cruel industries. The animals whose fur is ripped from them need it more than humans do–it’s quite literally their own skin. Anywhere from 200 squirrels to 100 chinchillas to 30 rabbits are killed to make just one fur coat. Animals
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Los Angeles Activist Chalks Alice + Olivia
Submitted by an independent activist in Los Angeles: The animals imprisoned on Alice + Olivia fur farms are trapped there every day. And Stacey Bendet profits from their suffering every day. So we should be taking action to help them every day. I am only one person, but I went to the A+O Melrose store
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New Campaign: Alice + Olivia is America’s top anti-fur target.
Alice + Olivia is a well-known name in women’s fashion. It is sold in nearly a thousand stores, and has 56 of its own boutiques worldwide. It is also one of the only American retailers that sells clothing made from the fur of tortured animals. Its founder and designer, the notoriously unstable Stacey Bendet, is
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Week of Action Against the Fur Trade
The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade is excited to announce its first national week of action against fur. From February 7 to 15th, cities around the continent will be fighting back for the victims of the fur industry. The grassroots of our movement is at its strongest when we work together to exert concerted
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Another Noisy Saks Demo in Los Angeles
Submitted by Animal Defense League – Southern California: On January 9, 2021, a beautiful afternoon in Beverly Hills, Animal Defense League Southern California gathered to enjoy one of our favorite pastimes: holding Saks Fifth Avenue accountable for the torture and murder of fur-bearing animals. Saks’ response to protests has been to monitor our Facebook events
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The Escalation Continues Against Saks in NYC!
Submitted by NYC activists – Unlike the first 2 protests when we entered Saks in complete stealth mode taking over the fur salon right before disrupting, or on the traditional Fur free Friday Weekend Action where we were met by 6 NYPD cruisers, motorcades and 25 police officers right before 60 ARA stormed into Saks Fifth
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Chicago protests Saks Fifth Avenue!
Submitted by Chicago Activists – On Saturday, January 9th, around ten grassroots activists joined together outside of Saks Fifth Avenue on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, maintaining the pressure that began the week before with a disruption. The disruption lasted around 6 minutes inside of the store’s “Fur Salon” while being escorted down the escalator towards the
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Victory! Monique Lhuillier goes fur free.
After fourteen days and four actions, Monique Lhuillier has conceded. On November 27, CAFT USA launched the Monique Lhuillier Cruelty Campaign. On December 10, Monique Lhuillier, Inc., contacted PETA to announce that they were going fur free. The campaign consisted of the following actions:• a kickoff protest at the Monique Lhuillier flagship store in West
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SoCal ADL Embarrasses Saks Fifth Avenue
Submitted by Animal Defense League – Southern California: On December 19, Animal Defense League Southern California conducted a demonstration against Saks Fifth Avenue. We had announced the event on Facebook, and in response Saks hired a private army of thirty security guards, with at least four blocking every door, turning away pedestrians and bringing to
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Los Angeles Storms Saks Fifth Avenue
Submitted by independent activists in Los Angeles on December 12, 2020: Activists arrived today at Saks Fifth Avenue’s west coast flagship in Beverly Hills ready for action. We stormed the store, making sure that every customer inside learned about the brutality perpetrated by Saks against animals on fur farms. Saks was clearly happy to see
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ADL-Oklahoma Protests Outside Monique Lhuillier’s Trunk show
Submitted by Animal Defense League – Oklahoma: On December 5, members of the Vegan Knights Motorcycle Club and Animal Defense League Oklahoma joined forces to raise awareness of the atrocities that happen on fur farms worldwide. JJ Kelly Bridal is an Oklahoma City bridal shop that has no need to participate in this cruel industry,
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Monique Lhuillier gets chalked!
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Monique Lhuillier Campaign Kickoff
Submitted by Animal Defense League – Southern California: On Fur Free Friday, Animal Defense League Southern California had the privilege of helping kick off the Monique Lhuillier Cruelty Campaign. Monique is one of the wealthiest individual designers in the world, profiting for years from the brutal torture of fur-bearing animals. She had thus far avoided