Law Without Order: Catching up with Martin Balluch
This week we catch up with Martin Balluch – Austrian physicist, philosopher and animal rights activist. Balluch co-founded the Austrian Vegan Society in 1999, and has been president of the Austrian Association Against Animal Factories since 2002. Balluch was instrumental in a number of animal welfare changes, including the banning of battery cages, the banning...
Thousand Mile Song: An Interview with David Rothenberg
First, animal rights campaigner Paula Stibbe provides an update about the ten imprisoned Austrian animal activists who were arrested on May 21st. We learn of their recently-extended remand, and the condition of the advocates, including Dr. Martin Balluch who was on a hunger strike. Stibbe also describes the many successes of the animal rights movement...
Dr. Martin Balluch and the Austrian animal rights movement
This interview with Dr. Martin Balluch from 2004 is presented by Animal Voices as an act of solidarity with Dr. Balluch and three of his colleagues, who were brutally arrested in the early morning of May 21st, 2008 and remain in police custody without charge. In a statement from prison, Dr. Balluch writes that the...
Dr. Martin Balluch and the Austrian animal rights movement
Interview with Dr. Martin Balluch, a prominent activist within the Austrian animal rights movement and President of Verein Gegen Tierfabriken (Association Against Animal Factories). He’ll tell us about hosting Tierrechtsradio, an animal advocacy program. Then he’ll give us an insider look into the development and texture of the current animal rights and animal liberation movements in...
