Saturday morning (Aug 2nd), a UC Santa Cruz researcher's home and another researcher's car were firebombed in what the police are calling a case of domestic terrorism by animal rights activists.
"The violence occurred four days after a customer at Caffe Pergolesi, a downtown Santa Cruz coffeehouse, found fliers listing the names, home addresses, home phone numbers and photos of 13 UC-Santa Cruz science researchers and professors. Police believe unidentified animal rights activists created the fliers, which were made to appear as "wanted posters." They warned: "Animal abusers everywhere beware; we know where you live; we know where you work; we will never back down until you end your abuse."" (Mary Ann Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News)
There has not been any direct activity linked to this in the RTP area, but we do have a lot of research involving animals and have been subject to our share of activism.
