Almost two decades ago I learned that Huntingdon Life Sciences was killing 180,000 animals each year to test things like household products and agrochemicals that were making communities sick. 
I immediately knew I wanted to drive them out of business and in 2004 a small group of activists I was involved with almost did. Then Chris Christie and the FBI knocked down our doors...
It’s hard to write a caption for something that's been 15 years in the making. Worse yet it’s becoming clear that my old wounds never fully healed and I have been reticent to address them —let alone share them with the whole world— but hey...
Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Suchan, Sasha Perry, Dennis Henley, and Mikko Alaine made a thoughtful and dare I say good film about the 2004 arrest, trial and eventual imprisonment of myself and five of my friends on dubious federal charges...
Specifically, Federal Terrorism charges alleging we used "a facility in interstate and foreign commerce" (the internet) to bring this notorious multinational contract animal testing to brink of bankruptcy.
@_jakeconroy @TALONhq The film will be available on streaming services by the end of the year and there will be public screenings between now and then. I'll be in Los Angeles in December to play a small part in helping them promote the film. If you are near LA & want to go to a screening send me a DM.
@_jakeconroy @TALONhq @MikkoAlanne Complicated feelings surface revisiting this nearly 10 years after I came home from Federal Prison but in many ways everything I experienced as a result of this story is what informed my decade of activism that followed.
@_jakeconroy @TALONhq @MikkoAlanne I seldom mention this but "The Sparrow Project" is a tribute to the birds that would dance among the razor wire outside my prison cell window. They were little symbols of unbridled freedom. They were my brief escape from my 9x12' concrete box.
