Levictus Cole (Levi Cole), of Portland Meat Collective fame, has alleged that he was stalked by John Grindell, an animal rights activist in Portland, Or. and has filed charges as a result. The court documents can be seen Stalking. John maintains his innocence and relays that he never made any threats, that most of these encounters are complete fabrications, that Levi is twice his size and that prior to being served the court documents he had no idea what Levi Cole’s home address (2905 NE Flanders. Portland, OR 97232) was.

The documents themselves point to some very basic stereotypical smearing that happens in cases like this; relaying violent threats, playing up “red paint” (a tactic also entirely saved for the fur industry – get your stereotypes right Levi!), and tying above ground legal free speech activism to tactics such as arson. In the documents John is established as a “wacko” set against the loving, caring individuals at the Portland Meat Collective. It’s all a bit rich, but worth a read nonetheless. It seems like this may have been introduced as an intimidation tactic as the PDX Meat Collective was trying to find out who the last hold out was on the final rabbit and they had suspicions that it was John or his partner.

We will cover this issue to its conclusion, but urge support and solidarity with John as well as call for others to continue on with legal free speech activism against the Portland Meat Collective (Camas Davis, Chris Larson, Levi Cole, etc.) Their spin throughout has been to victimize themselves and this is just another example.