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Fifteen years in the making, this feature documentary - Executive Produced by Joaquin Phoenix - follows the journey of six young Americans who find themselves targeted as terrorists by the US government for their involvement in a controversial protest campaign. Seeing the future of social movement organizing, the activists used the then fledgling internet to dramatically magnify their impact as they systematically knocked out the pillars of financial support that kept the company in business. But when letter writing and protests began to mushroom into dead-of-night vandalism and worse by unknown activists, this corporation and the government formed an alliance to destroy the group. The FBI began an unprecedented campaign of surveillance in preparation for prosecution, creating a model that would later be used against Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. Congress, under corporate influence, rewrote laws and bent the definition of incitement in order to accomplish the prosecution of these six, potentially weakening free speech rights for all Americans. Featuring expansive interviews with the activists spanning over a decade, rare archival footage - including never-before-seen FBI undercover surveillance tapes, wiretaps and government documents, The Animal People is a chilling portrait of what happens when activism rattles the institutions of power.
Steven Best
Self (professor of philosophy)
Heidi Boghosian
Self (National Lawyers Guild)
George W. Bush
Self
Brian Cass
Self (HLS)
Jake Conroy
Self (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty)
Darioush Dagdar
Self (HLS, 1996-2002)
Alexandra Deyo
Self (SHAC Philadelphia activist)
Daniel Andreas San Diego
Self
Katie Fedor
Self
Darius Fulmer
Self (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty)
Lauren Gazzola
Self (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty)
Ray Greek
Self (former animal researcher)
Josh Harper
Self (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty)
Paul Hetznecker
Self (attorney)
Tim Hitchins
Self (SHAC Florida activist)
James Inhofe
Self
Greg Kelly
Self
Kevin Kjonaas
Self (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty)
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