Entertainment – Their Turn

“F*ck the bulls.” As animal rights activists protested a Professional Bull Riding event in NYC, fans greeted them with obscenities, remarks about eating meat and nervous smiles.

https://theirturn.net/2024/01/10/bull-riding-fans-face-animal-rights-protesters/

Animal rights activists in NYC staged a disruption in the lobby of Trump Tower as part of the Worldwide Rally Against Trophy Hunting (WRATH)

https://theirturn.net/2023/02/28/anti-trophy-hunting-activists-protest-trumps-safari-club-international/

As activists in NYC protested animal cruelty at the Professional Bull Riders show at Madison Square Garden, fans taunted them with jabs about eating meat. (VIDEO)

https://theirturn.net/2023/01/10/animal-rights-activists-protest-bull-riding-madison-square-garden/

The defeat of U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney marks the end of a years-long animal rights campaign to stop her from leasing a pair of giant pandas from China and putting them on display in New...

https://theirturn.net/2022/08/24/carolyn-maloney-pandas/

The Nonhuman Rights Project staged a rally at the Bronx Zoo to demand that the Wildlife Conservation Society, which manages the zoo, release a 51 year old Asian elephant named Happy to a sanctuar...

https://theirturn.net/2022/05/04/nonhuman-rights-project-captive-elephant-rally-bronx-zoo/

During a heated protest at the Belmont Stakes, animal rights activists with Horseracing Wrongs argued that the corporate welfare ($220 million in taxpayer subsidies) and the industry itself must ...

https://theirturn.net/2021/06/08/horse-race-protest-belmont-stakes/

On January 3rd, cockfighters in Ohio attacked two investigators with the animal rights group SHARK, severely injuring the organization's President, Steve Hindi, and running another off the road.

https://theirturn.net/2021/01/03/cockfighters-attack-animal-rights-activists/

Natasha Brenner, a suburbanite who moved into New York City at the age of 87 and became a beloved fixture in the animal rights movement, has died at 98.

https://theirturn.net/2020/05/26/animal-rights-activist-natasha-brenner-dies-at-98/

Distressing video footage of a carriage horse repeatedly collapsing on the street and being dragged into a trailer triggered a massive vigil at the site of the tragic incident and a protest at th...

https://theirturn.net/2020/03/20/violent-carriage-horse-death-sparks-outrage-in-nyc/

Calf roping and steer wrestling in NYC? In spite of pleas for silence from angry neighbors, animal rights activists are staging protests at the Manhattan residence of Madison Square Garden presid...

https://theirturn.net/2019/12/17/anti-rodeo-activists-protest-at-home-of-madison-square-garden-president-andrew-lustgarten/

The relentless drive to produce money-making panda cubs led the Smithsonian National Zoo to forcibly separate a mother from her still-nursing cub, both of whom spend their days searching for each...

https://theirturn.net/2019/09/12/activists-demand-that-smithsonian-national-zoo-reunite-panda-with-her-cub-after-forced-separation/

Dozens of animal rights activists staged a protest at Madison Square Garden to demand that the company cancel a rodeo scheduled for June, 2020.

https://theirturn.net/2019/08/15/activists-protest-upcoming-rodeo-in-madison-square-garden/

Dozens of activists with the Nonhuman Rights Project staged a protest at the Bronx Zoo to demand that the Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs the zoo, release an elephant named Happy to a s...

https://theirturn.net/2019/08/12/protesters-demand-freedom-for-bronx-zoo-elephant-happy/

Approximately 150 animal rights activists staged a protest at the Belmont Stakes, the final leg in the American Triple Crown. According to the advocacy group Horseracing Wrongs, the protest, whic...

https://theirturn.net/2019/06/13/belmont-stakes-horse-racing-protest/

As hundreds of New Yorkers took to the streets to march in the 2018 Veggie Pride Parade, many onlookers spoke on camera, giving their honest feedback about the parade and its message. (VIDEO)

https://theirturn.net/2018/04/11/veggie-pride-parade-2018/

Animal rights activists staged a protest both inside and outside of U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney's campaign fundraiser over her ongoing refusal to call off her $50 million plan to lease pan...

https://theirturn.net/2018/04/02/carolyn-maloney-panda-protest/

NYCLASS, the animal rights group leading the fight to help the carriage horses in NYC, is stepping up its campaign to demand accountability from Mayor Bill de Blasio, who promised to ban horse-dr...

https://theirturn.net/2018/03/15/horse-drawn-carriage-protest/

During the Worldwide Rally Against Trophy Hunting (WRATH), dozens of animal rights activists in New York City protested at the home and office of one of the planet's most notorious trophy hunters...

https://theirturn.net/2018/02/07/trophy-hunting-rally/

After failing, during a face-to-face confrontation, to convince billionaire Maurice Greenberg to cancel his plan to lease pandas from China and put them on display in NYC, over thirty animal righ...

https://theirturn.net/2018/01/14/Maurice-Hank-Greenberg-pandas/

During a dramatic confrontation with animal rights activists, billionaire John Catsimatidis defended his decision to help U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney raise $50 million to rent a pair of pa...

https://theirturn.net/2017/12/26/John-Catsimatidis-Panda-Protest/

As prominent women in NYC politics entered a political fundraiser headlined by Hillary Clinton, they were confronted by over 30 animal rights activists protesting one of the attendees, U.S. Congr...

https://theirturn.net/2017/12/11/carolyn-maloney-panda-protest/

Animal rights activists demonstrated the Consulate of Malaysia in NYC to demand that the government liberate Lasah, a 37 year old elephant being held captive on the island of Langkawi (VIDEO).

https://theirturn.net/2017/10/13/protesters-Malayian-elephant-Lasah/

Animal rights activists are fighting back against U.S. Congresswomen Carolyn Maloney's plan to lease a pair of giant pandas from China and exhibit them. (VIDEO)

https://theirturn.net/2017/09/20/Carolyn-Maloney-Panda-captivity/

Following several incidents involving horse-drawn carriages in NYC, over 50 animal rights activists staged a protest at the Department of Health to demand that the city enforce what few laws exis...

https://theirturn.net/2017/07/05/horse-drawn-carriage-protest-NYC/

A grueling 11 year campaign to convince NYC lawmakers to prohibit circuses from using exotic animals came to a screeching halt when 43 out of 51 Council Members voted in favor of a ban.

https://theirturn.net/2017/06/25/Circus-Animal-Ban-NYC/