Breaking the law in the service of animals
In 2024 the Swedish animal rights group Everyone wants to live started their journey by walking into a slaughterhouse freeing four hens and filming the masskilling of hens. During the rest of the year and 2025 they continued by filming the inside of pig factories, freeing hens from an egg factory and blockading several slaughterhouses. Sometimes they left letters to the farmers and chocolate to the farmers and called the police to tell them about their actions. Hear about the direct actions from this Swedish group and why they choose civil disobedience as their method.
Hosts:
Martin Smedjeback
Animal rights and climate activist and educator
Workshop
(he/him)
Facebook: @smedjeback
Instagram: @martin_smedjeback
YouTube: @ettarfordjuren
About: Martin Smedjeback has worked as a full-time peace, animal rights, and climate activist and educator for the last twenty-three years. He is the chairperson of Animal Save Sweden. He is in his eleventh year with his crowd-funded project "A Year for the Animals and the Earth". He campaigns for animal rights and the climate through presentations, facilitating workshops, open rescues of animals, blockading oil transports, occasionally spending time in prison, taking photos, shooting videos, and creating podcasts. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Lund in Sweden. See more here: https://www.xn--ettrfrdjuren-vcb4v.se/english.html
Karna Rusek
Activist, Psychotherapist and Runner
Speaker
(she/her)
About: Karna is an animal rights activist, psychotherapist, passionated vegan runner, with a long experience of civil disobedience
