Direct Action Everywhere – DxE
All charges against all three defendants in the open rescue of three beagles from a laboratory dog breeding facility in Wisconsin were dropped days before the trial was set to begin. Los Angeles, March 14th, 2024 — It was a stunning eleventh hour reversal in a criminal case that stems all the way back to 2017.
Wayne Hsiung was convicted and imprisoned for “conspiring” to rescue chickens and ducks from California animal factories. Now, he wants that conviction overturned. Los Angeles, California, January 18th, 2024 – Well-known animal rights leader and attorney Wayne Hsiung is appealing his conviction in a controversial animal rescue case that was extensively covered on UnchainedTV.
The animal rights activist Wayne Hsiung was sentenced to 90 days in jail and two years probation for three trespass-related convictions in the Sonoma Open Rescue Trial Los Angeles, December 1, 2023 — On November 30th, Wayne Hsiung, the attorney and co-founder of the animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), was sentenced to 90 days in jail and two-years probation in the Sonoma Open Rescue Trial involving mass actions to rescue suffering chickens and ducks from two animal factories.
The vegan activist Wayne Hsiung was found guilty of three charges of ‘trespass’ and ‘conspiracy to commit trespass’ in the Sonoma Rescue Trial, while the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict for a fourth charge. Los Angeles, November 3, 2023 — Wayne Hsiung, the attorney and co-founder of the animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), was found guilty of three of four charges in the Sonoma Rescue trial and immediately sent to jail with no bail.
The judge in the Sonoma rescue trial of animal rights activist Wayne Hsiung has ruled against allowing him to show videos of suffering ducks and chickens to the jury. Los Angeles, October 6th, 2023 — The attorney and animal rights activist Wayne Hsiung, co-founder of the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), will not be allowed to show the jury footage or even images of animals in distress, dying or dead, during his trial in Sonoma County.
11 activists, 10 Canadian women and one US non-binary person, convicted for entering a pig farm in Quebec to expose the animal cruelty there, were just sentenced Updated: Los Angeles, June 23rd, 2023 — Three years after a group of eleven activists entered a pig breeding facility in Quebec, Canada, and live-streamed the horrific conditions, they finally received their sentences.
Vegan activist Curtis Vollmar was found guilty of criminal trespass and disorderly conduct after leafleting at a park in Utah. Los Angeles, April 28th, 2023 — Beaver County Judge Shadrach Bradshaw found Curtis Vollmar, a vegan activist from the animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), guilty of criminal trespass and disorderly conduct after he was confronted by police while leafleting about Smithfield Foods, at a park in Utah.
Indianapolis, Indiana, December 28 11:30pm New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, the first vegan member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently announced a new piece of farmed animal welfare legislation, the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act (IAA). The IAA is a bill created, in part, as a response to what critics have described as the horrific treatment of pigs, chickens, turkeys and cows during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the early months of the pandemic, Covid-ridden slaughterhouses were temporarily shut down, and the USDA provided aid to livestock companies in the mass killing (referred to as “depopulation”) of millions of animals, meaning that taxpayer dollars supported these acts.
DxE ANIMAL ACTIVISTS NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS! History was just made as two Direct Action Everywhere animal activists – part of a team that rescued two very sick piglets from a massive Utah factory farm – were found NOT GUILTY on all counts by a Utah jury.
DxE: Stop Factory Farming by Calling Now The famed animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere has launched a call-in campaign to urge the California Assembly Agriculture Committee to vote yes on AB 2764. This historic bill would prohibit the construction and expansion of any factory farms or large slaughterhouses in California, the world’s fifth largest economy. Your Phone Calls Could Keep This Bill Alive The Vice Chair of the ag committee, Asm.