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Lorna Cooper

Lorna Cooper

Lorna is a UK activist who has been involved in the animal liberation movement for ten years and organized and participated in campaigns on a local, national and international level. Her activism has included protests, outreach and public speaking around animal agriculture, fur and vivisection. Over the past 5 years Lorna helped to run London Animal Rights and was an active organizer with the SHAC campaign.

In 2013 she went to trial accused of breaching the HLS injunction and in a legal test case, a new precedent was set on the prosecution of unnamed individuals, with the case being thrown out of court. Later in 2014, Lorna went to court again as a defendant in the SOCPA7 case, which she is currently serving a two year suspended prison sentence for.

Her experiences with repression have given her insight and understanding of the role of the state on anti-corporate protesting and made her passionate about increasing solidarity and resilience to repression in the future. She has also learned more about the legal system and prison industrial complex and has been expanding her activism to include defendant solidarity and prison abolition work. Lorna is currently working with others who also have personal experiences of repression to create a new collective, focused on raising awareness of the effects of repression and looking to begin healing the harm that this has had on the UK animal liberation movement, so that we can be more resistant with our activism in future.

 

 

presentation:
Learning from SHAC - building resilience to become more effective

 

 

 

 

 

 

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