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TOP PRESS
October 24, 2025
The Guardian
I asked Rosenberg what outcome she was hoping for. “My ideal outcome is honestly just whatever is best for the animals,” she said. “An acquittal wouldn’t set an actual legal precedent, but it would set a social precedent, to some extent, and send an important message.”
TOP PRESS
October 24, 2025
The Guardian
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October 2, 2025
The San Diego Union Tribune
In the middle of the performance, a horse named Wako Kid bolted into a metal fence with a sickening thud. The crowd gasped as he crumpled to the ground, clearly gravely injured. It was horrifying, and it happened right in front of thousands of cheering spectators.
PRESS
October 2, 2025
The San Diego Union Tribune
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September 29, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 3 of the Perdue Rescue Trial
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September 29, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 3 of the Perdue Rescue Trial
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September 22, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 2 of the Perdue Rescue Trial
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September 22, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 2 of the Perdue Rescue Trial
PRESS
September 22, 2025
Petaluma Argus-Courier
About 60 members and supporters of the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere gathered Saturday in Petaluma’s Penry Park to rally behind one of their own — Zoe Rosenberg, who is currently on trial in Sonoma County — before marching through downtown toward the Lakeville Highway chicken processing plant connected with her criminal case.
PRESS
September 22, 2025
Petaluma Argus-Courier
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September 20, 2025
KRON4
Animal rights activists marched Saturday in Petaluma in support of a woman on trial for allegedly taking four chickens from a local poultry slaughterhouse.
PRESS RELEASE
September 20, 2025
"I believe Zoe did the right thing by taking sick animals to the vet," said Sharon Loren of Penngrove, who joined the march. "Compassion should never be a crime, but it's on trial here in Sonoma County."
PRESS RELEASE
September 20, 2025
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September 17, 2025
The Daily Californian
“Each and every one of these chickens was an individual,” Rosenberg said at her press conference. “With a personality, thoughts and feelings. Each and every one of them had been deprived of just about everything.”
PRESS
September 17, 2025
The Daily Californian
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September 15, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 1 of the Perdue Rescue Trial
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September 15, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 1 of the Perdue Rescue Trial
TOP PRESS
December 23, 2020
The Washington Post
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December 11, 2020
VICE News
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October 10, 2020
The Intercept
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May 29, 2020
The Intercept
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May 5, 2020
Vox
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March 4, 2020
The New York Times
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January 25, 2020
The Hill
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January 9, 2020
The Intercept
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December 5, 2019
Wired
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October 20, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 6 of the Perdue Rescue Trial
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October 13, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 5 of the Perdue Rescue Trial
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October 6, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 4 of the Perdue Rescue Trial
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September 29, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 3 of the Perdue Rescue Trial
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September 22, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 2 of the Perdue Rescue Trial
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September 15, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 1 of the Perdue Rescue Trial
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September 12, 2025
The Perdue Rescue Trial begins on Monday, September 15th at the Sonoma County Superior Court in Santa Rosa, California.
BLOG
July 31, 2025
Trader Joe’s is known as “America’s most reputable brand,” and I’m learning firsthand that this might be because they relentlessly silence their critics and go to great lengths to protect their image from public scrutiny.
BLOG
July 25, 2025
Vera supplies the nation’s largest goat milk producer, Meyenberg, and its practices are a far cry from the rigorous standards Whole Foods promises. Thousands of goats are confined in crowded pens without access to pasture; newborn babies are routinely separated from their mothers; and, outside the confinement area, lies a mass graveyard of animals who died prior to slaughter.
PRESS RELEASE
October 3, 2022
Two men face 10+ years in prison in a case decried by legal experts as unconstitutional retaliation for exposing abusive conditions
PRESS RELEASE
September 24, 2022
The demonstration is the kickoff for a week of action dedicated to promoting Rose’s Law, an animal bill of rights that DxE says is their ultimate vision of a kind and just world for animals.
PRESS RELEASE
September 9, 2022
"This is really about inverting the truth: making peaceful activists look dangerous, when the real danger is Smithfield and other companies that systematically torture millions of innocent sentient beings while destroying our environment."
PRESS RELEASE
September 8, 2022
Emek Echo and Katia Shokrai ran across the field holding up red smoke flares and wearing shirts with “RIGHTTORESCUE.COM” text.
PRESS RELEASE
August 20, 2022
Judge Wilcox repeatedly expressed concerns about advocates potentially intimidating local residents. This is contrary to recent footage and a lawsuit in which it is canvassers supporting Hsiung and Picklesimer who faced death threats and were forced to stop talking to sidewalk pedestrians.
PRESS RELEASE
July 31, 2022
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July 14, 2022
Animal rights advocates gathered to mark the two-year anniversary of the release of Unseen, an undercover mini-documentary exposing extreme cruelty inside this facility, and to bear witness and spread compassion for its victims.
PRESS RELEASE
July 4, 2022
Investigators with same animal rights group face felony trial in September after rescuing piglets from a Smithfield Foods factory pig farm
PRESS RELEASE
June 18, 2022
Over 70 activists, including two Bay Area residents facing felony charges for rescuing piglets from a Smithfield factory farm in Milford, Utah, marched through the streets of San Francisco Saturday.
