TWO CHICKENS AND A COCKEREL LIBERATED.

3rd May, Argentina.

via: @anarcoveganismo.arg

ENGLISH (translation):

“Driving I saw chickens in cages and I didn’t hesitate to try and rescue them. Unfortunately I couldn’t save them all. The cages were tiny and full of weeks old manure.

There were people in the house, the light was on and a pick up truck was parked by the door, but I still wanted to try to rescue them.

There were holes in the run where I could stick my hand in, but obviously they were scared so I went to buy corn to call them with it. As soon as they saw it, they were desperate for it. The first one I got I gave corn slowly until she popped her head out of the hole, I grabbed her and pulled her out, running into the car and then driving home. Once I had left her in my house I went back and grabbed another two the same way. In total there are two chickens and a cockerel.

NEVER doubt helping an animal, they can’t do anything, they are victims of a system that sees them as objects of consumption for humans.

It was clear those animals were being used for profit, in that area they buy and sell birds to use in religious rituals or to consume as flesh. From the ALF, we value every life that is saved by direct action, it doesn’t matter if it is just one. One life will be free. Veganism is respect and justice.”

SPANISH (original):

”Pasando con el auto ví a gallinas enjauladas y no dude en bajar a intentar rescatarlas, lamentablemente no pude salvar a todas
Las jaulas son diminutas, están llenas de excremento de hace semanas sin limpiar.

Había gente en la casa, estaba la luz prendida y una camioneta en la puerta pero iba a intentar rescatarlas de todas formas.
había algún que otro hueco por dónde meter la mano, lógicamente tenían miedo así que fui a comprar maíz para atraerlas, apenas vieron el maíz todas se desesperaron, a la primera que tome, fue dándole maíz y esperando que sacará el cuello para afuera de la casa, la agarre, la tape con un buzo oscuro y salí corriendo al auto. Luego de dejarla en mi casa, volví a ir y agarré dos más de la misma manera. Son 2 gallinas y un gallo .

NUNCA duden en ayudar a un animal, ellos no pueden hacer nada, son víctimas de un sistema que los ve como objetos de consumo humano.

Era claro que estos animales eran comercializados,en la zona compran mucho para utilizarlos en rituales religiosos o para consumo humano. Desde el ALF, valoramos cada vida que se salve mediante alguna acción directa. Así sea una,son sus vidas. Una vida que vivirá en libertad. Veganismo es respeto y justicia”

UNKNOWN SABOTEUR ATTEMPTS TO STEAL THE RIFFLE OF A HUNTER’S HANDS.

19th April, Germany.

According to local media, the police are investigating an attempted robbery after an unknown person tried to steal a hunter’s weapon.

Cops say an unknown perpetrator attempted to snatch the rifle of a hunter commissioned by the town to hunt rabbits in the cementery on Firdaty 19th April. This led to a scuffle between the saboteur and the hunter. In the end, the saboteur managed to steal the amunition and left the area.

Apparently, the hunter was approached by an unknown person and was asked what they were doing in the cementery grounds. When the hunter explained that he had permission to murder rabbits, the saboteur decided to atempt to take the weapon away. The hunter assumes it was an opponent of hunting.

So far, the cops have no leads on the identity of the saboteur.

ANTISPECIESIST ACTIVISTS VANDALISE SPECIESIST PROPAGANDA.

21st April, Argentina.

Via: @anarcoveganismo.arg

ENGLISH (translation):

Antispeciesist activists vandalise speciesist propaganda. Speciesist adverts are normalised and forced into a society that sees the bodies of our animal siblings as products.

Antispeciesism is justice.”

SPANISH (original):

“Activistas Antiespecistas vandalizan la propaganda especista. Que esta normalizada e instalada en esta sociedad que ve a los cuerpos de nuestrxs hermanxs animales como productos.

Antiespecismo es justicia”

GOAT LIBERATED BEFORE SLAUGHTER.

5th May, Italy.

Received anonymously via email:

ENG (translation):

“We called him Igor and he is a billy goat who was locked up in poor conditions in a pen waiting to be sacrificed according to the Islamic ‘halal’ ritual at the end of Ramadan. But someone decided that Igor would not become food and rescued him from his unjust imprisonment to give him back the freedom with which every living being is born.

Initially taken to a stable, he was then taken to a sanctuary that takes in rescued animals and from now on he will be able to live with his fellow creatures, loved and cared for. The ‘halal’ ritual slaughter involves slaughtering the animal without stunning it, as required by European law. For us there is no difference because we reject animals being used and consumed by humans and we do not accept that they should be slaughtered to feed, clothe or otherwise. We do not want less violent slaughter, we do not want bigger cages.

WE WANT FREE ANIMALS.

Have a nice life Igor”

ITALIAN (original):

“Lo abbiamo chiamato Igor ed è un caprone che era richiuso in pessime condizioni in un recinto in attesa di essere sacrificato con il rituale islamico “halal” alla fine del Ramadan. Ma qualcuno ha deciso che Igor non sarebbe diventato cibo e l’ha sottratto alla sua ingiusta prigionia per ridargli la libertà con cui ogni essere vivente nasce. Inizialmente portato in stallo, e’ stato poi condotto presso un santuario che accoglie animali salvati e d’ora in poi potrà vivere insieme ai suoi simili, amato e accudito. La macellazione rituale “halal” prevede l’ abbattimento dell’ animale senza stordimento come invece previsto dalla legge europea. Per noi non c’ è alcuna differenza perché rifiutiamo che gli animali siano ad uso e consumo dell’ essere umano e non accettiamo che debbano essere ammazzati per nutrirci, vestirci o altro. Non vogliamo macellazioni meno violente, non vogliamo gabbie più grandi. VOGLIAMO GLI ANIMALI LIBERI. Buona vita Igor”

THE ALF TARGETS DUCK HUNTERS AGAIN.



3rd May, Victoria Australia

Received anonymously via email:

“ALF Locks Hunters Out of Wetlands and Spray Paints Rifle Club

The campaign against hunters continues in so-called Australia. The ALF has visited Lake Colac and Reedy Lake before the weekend to lock gates and prevent vehicles from entering the wetland. The Colac Rifle Club was also visited, and spray painted for their encouragement of blood sport and providing the training to take innocent lives.

To all the lives taken over the last month already and to the lives yet to be taken, we are sorry, and these actions are for you. Until every animal no longer fears for their life, we will be here fighting, harassing, and disrupting.

We pay our respects to the First Nations people of the land in which our actions take place on. We acknowledge the long history of First Nations people on this land and pay our respects for the lives that have been lost, the struggles that colonisation has caused to this day, and we stand in solidarity of First Nations peoples fight for freedom.

We further extend our solidarity to the struggles of dispossessed people all over, from the Congo to Palestine. Solidarity always, no one is free until all are free.”

LONDON’S NATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS MARCH 2024

WHEN: 17TH OF AUGUST 2024 12PM

WHERE: MARBLE ARCH, LONDON, UK

Folks are organising the yearly National Animal Rights March in London and are aiming for huge numbers. Back in 2019, 12 thousand people took to the streets in the name of animal rights, let’s see if that number can be beaten!

Groups will be coming together, from hunt saboteurs to anti vivisectionists to outreach groups. Hear all about what other folks are working on and upcoming events. This is a great opportunity to network and spread the word about any campaign or public actions you have planned. Go with mates, your local AR group, or on your own.

There’ll be plenty of speakers, stalls, and an awful lot of banners. Dust off the megaphone, make some noise and take over London. *Friendly reminder that police will be information gathering at this event, so take steps to keep yourself and others safe. Be smart, don’t talk to cops!

PRESOS CASO SUSARON STATEMENT (MARCH 2024)

We received this statement from Caso Susaron back at the end of march, but we did not have the time to properly translate it until now. For that reason, some of it is a little out of date but still very much worth the read!

“‘The deterioration of your attitude is proportional to the tenacity of your idea’.

It has now been a year and five months since the punitive machinery of power has held us hostage. It has tried to put the necessary weight on our shoulders to bend our legs, and thus bring us to our knees.

There have been many events and experiences in prison, both physical and emotional, that have tried to push us to the limits of our capacities. It has always been useless when faced with our convictions, which have given us the necessary weapons to overcome every attack in this centre of extermination; because that is what prisons are. Concentration and extermination camps for those who do not fit into the pantomime of social peace.

In these human swamps we find a varied fauna of behaviours and individuals.
From brave anti-socials who chose to live as they were not supposed to, taking by force what was ‘not theirs’, in an unjust and cruel system. To authoritarian and insensitive freaks, devoid of any courage or empathy. Obsessed lovers of commodities and the superfluous.
Some are as much of an enemy as a policeman or a slaughterhouse worker.

In this period of captivity that we have had to assume, always with the nobility that is expected of a warrior conscious and proud of their actions, a lot of water has passed under our bridges. From the momentary release and subsequent appeal by the prosecution, which led to the recapture of our members Ita and Ru in November 2023. To the subsequent definitive release, almost a month ago, of Itamar.

Sentenced to 5 years of intensive probation, news that we received with great joy and happiness.
And so many events: multiple mobilisations of our modules, days in the violent punishments of Santiago 1, conflicts with gendarmes and prisoners, obstacles to see our families and partners. Multiple obstacles to our irreducible vegan stance, which the police have dedicated themselves to transforming into one more obstacle in order to harass us.

And so one thing after another. Good news and bad news that sometimes set the mood for a whole day or even a whole week. We’ve lived so much…

In prison it is difficult to deal with sorrow and anguish, because you have no room to let yourself slack. You can’t, for example, apply the classic ‘today I won’t get up’, ‘today I will rest and give myself a day to think’. Here the wheel doesn’t stop and you have to know how not to show weakness in front of screws and prisoners.

Here you either grow stronger or you melt into the mud that covers everything around you, and for that great flow of energy that is required; conviction in our idea and pride in our actions and decisions become more vital than water or oxygen. And they separate us from the constant wailing heard from the vast majority of the captives around us.

In these 17 months we have held together as an anarchic unit, forming a space of resistance and containment for refractory political individualities who have fallen into prison over time. This has greatly contributed to our wellbeing, as we have collectively fought with claws and fangs the emptiness, loneliness and ostracism that prison seeks to thrust like a dagger through our minds and hearts. And we hope that as we go free, or to other prisons, there will always be tender urban guerrillas ready to extend a hand to other comrades that will unfortunately but inevitably arrive. Because of one thing we are sure, war does not stop! And it has its consequences.

Therefore we call on all those who dare to attack authority and its symbols. To always maintain the absolute notion that prison and death are part of our path. Always on the run and capturing those ghosts, obviously with all the strategy and care that the love for freedom deserves. But, also being mentally prepared in case one day they hunt you down, so as not to lose your attitude and ideas that led you to act, when adversity strikes. And in this way you will never be broken by this meat grinder called prison. In the street and in the cana you can be yourself. And not be surprised when the sometimes inevitable consequences of confronting such a powerful and omniscient monster come knocking at your door.

The three of us are awaiting some expert reports and judicial resolutions that will mark for better or for worse our fate as prisoners. Longing for freedom and a night of shooting stars with all our might. But clinging to our unshakeable pride as animals at war with existence. Never willing to bend or beg for mercy.

Because if there is one thing we have sculpted in blood and tears after this season of kidnapping, it is that we are living in our own flesh, and in infinitely better conditions than what millions of non-human animals live in life imprisonment and with the death penalty included in the majority of cases, throughout this decomposed world. For them we act, for them we take on these harsh consequences and for them we remain more convinced than ever that the way forward is undoubtedly: fire, lead, exploitations and clandestine liberations.

And just as in animal liberation, which is the pyramidal base of our anarchic and confrontational thinking, so also for the whole sick society that governs us; its police, defenders and false critics.

On the eve of a new painful and angry commemoration of the 29th of March, the day of the young combatant. A date that commemorates the fall in combat of Rafael and Eduardo Vergara, 18 and 19 years old. At the hands of the civil-military dictatorship that ravaged these territories on 29 March 1985, the day on which the events took place.

The first thing we have in our boiling blood is the indomitable gaze, tanned by the suffering of Luisa Toledo. Exemplary warrior and mother of both young men. A courageous woman who has illuminated our path countless times with her clarity, bravery and love.

In this new commemoration we call to take to the streets with greater force. Not to let ourselves be infected by the defeated spirit of the society of the false critics and to burst into the numb context with the beautiful anonymous anti-social violence. And the majestic fire that illuminates the darkness of the streets. So that no corner remains unlit, no police station unattacked and no multinational unlooted.
That is our call without hesitation or ambiguity!

One year and five months later, we are still as firm as ever. And not a hair of our essence and character has moved us.

We call for the vindication of our prison, with gestures and actions. To the active and direct solidarity with the instances generated by our comrades in the street, to financially sustain these attacks that inherently drag down our circles and families.

Freedom to Lucas, Aldo, Javo, Paty, Syde, Kuyen, Mónica, Pancho, Leftraru, Don Checho, Gerardo Leal and Felipe Rios. And to all the prisoners at war around the world!

And don’t forget that comrade Don Sergio Olivares, an example of war against the system, is sentenced to 15 years. He is already serving his sentence in the ex-penitentiary. For those who want to contribute, show solidarity and vindicate this historic, guerrilla and respectable person.

Total liberation, whatever the cost.
Fire to all the prisons with their jailers inside.
War on existence!

Anarcho nihilist vegan straight edge prisoners susaron case.
Panda, Ru, Tortuga.

CPD Santiago 1,
Marzo 2024″

ANARSEC – TECH GUIDES FOR ANARCHISTS.

In all the years, we’ve never seen a more promising tech resource for activists than Anarsec. This is what the folks behind the project have to say:

“AnarSec is a new resource designed to help anarchists navigate the hostile terrain of technology — defensive guides for digital security and anonymity, as well as offensive guides for hacking. All guides are available in booklet format for printing and will be kept up to date.

As anarchists, we must defend ourselves against police and intelligence agencies that conduct targeted digital surveillance for the purposes of incrimination and network mapping. With the defensive series, our goal is to obscure the State’s visibility into our lives and projects. Our recommendations are intended for all anarchists, and they are accompanied by guides to put the advice into practice.

With the upcoming offensive series, we hope to contribute to the practice of hacking the State and capital. Astute readers may notice that the art featured on our homepage and booklets is taken from communiqués detailing how anarchists robbed a bank (Phineas Fisher) and destroyed police servers (AntiSec) using only a keyboard.”

You can find their website and all their fantastic guides and resources here:



https://www.anarsec.guide

We will keep publishing Tech&Sec 101 series as and when we find the time to write them, but we would advice everybody who cares about their long term existence in the movement to keep an eye on that website and learn from it.

PRIVACY IS A HUMAN RIGHT!

EARTH FIRST SUMMER GATHERING 2024

WHAT: Eco anarchist gathering, workshops and meet up.  

WHEN: 25-29TH JULY 2024

WHERE: BERRINGTON HALL, BERRINGTON, SHREWSBURY, SY5 6AH, UK

From the 25th–29th of July, Earth First will be holding its summer gathering in Shrewsbury (UK) at a community orchard. There will be 5 days of workshops, socializing, vegan food from Veggies and more. Bring your tent, your mates and your fire. And be ready to do some washing up, help set up, or pack down. Everyone is crew! 

What is Earth First? 

Earth First is a non-hierarchical ecologically minded gathering, with a focus on direct action, that’s been happening in the UK since 1991. Bringing folks together to skill share and conspire against capitalism, ecocide, colonialism, and speciesism. Learn about the history of environmental struggles and plan its future at the next gathering. 

https://www.earthfirst.uk

SABOTAGING HUNTS: APRIL ROUND UP – THE FRONTLINES 

[Image credit: @mendiphuntsabs] 

Mink and Otter hunting season has begun. Only 26 registered packs exist in the UK and Ireland, making them vulnerable to the multiple sabotage groups that operate, as seen by the Northern Counties Mink Hounds who were apprehended by Sheffield, Staffordshire, Manchester and West Yorkshire hunt sabotage groups, as well as Hull Wildlife Protectors. These packs operate using a small number of hounds and are usually transported in commercial and domestic vehicles, thus making them more difficult to locate oppose to a mounted hunt who are more obvious in appearance and use larger vehicles such as horse boxes and trailers. Members of the public can play an important role in sabotaging a hunt by notifying suspicious behaviour. This can be done by contacting the Hunt Saboteurs Association tip-off line at 07443148426 or your local group on social media. Making a call or sending a message can be enough to stop wildlife from being killed. 

A stag was killed by the Devon and Somerset Staghounds during their closing meet despite the best efforts of a large number of saboteurs from multiple groups. Sabotaging a stag hunt is notoriously difficult and when the life of the wild is lost, it is natural to feel depleted. However, it is important to remember that years ago, stag hunts were rarely getting sabotaged and, when they were, came with a lot of violence.  But they are getting more and more attention and are unable to kill every time they go out, as seen by multiple successful hit reports throughout the month by groups including Mendip Hunt Saboteurs. At one point, these hunts felt unstoppable but now that belief is crumbling. And that is something that we should recognise and take into account when morale is low.

Natural England published their summery of the 2023 badger cull and, despite any rhetoric they want to project, the UK governments’ agender is clear; they will continue to murder wildlife on mass. It is worth noting that, based on their own studies, culling badgers has no impact on the spread of bTB. The reality is that this cull is about protecting animal agriculture from taking accountability of their biosecurity problems and making life easier for landowners (as one example, badgers living on your land causes problems for gaining planning permission). The numbers of badgers killed in the 2023 cull stands at 19,570 and when combined with culls taken place since 2013, totals 230,125. These numbers are bleak as fuck but they would undoubtably be higher if it wasn’t for the efforts of dedicated groups (such as Underground Badger Syndicate), hunt sabotage groups and local badger protectors. It can sometimes be difficult to quantify the results of anti-badger cull work, but seeing fresh badger activity months after the cull has finished where multiple cage traps have been removed and free-shooters escorted away is a sure sign of success.  

Spring time is a busy time for wildlife. While many embrace this, gamekeepers and others intend to decimate anything that they see as a threat to their interests (sometimes as pathetic as having a neat and tidy lawn). However, some have been busy dealing with traps and other mechanisms used to kill wildlife, as seen by Hertfordshire Hunt Saboteurs who have been removing mole traps, snares and pricey sensor-triggered squirrel traps. Simply walking around the countryside can make a difference when looking in the right places, such as a shooting estate or the grounds of a stately home. This activity is not only leisurely but can also make a difference to local wildlife. And if you don’t feel up to dealing with items yourself, you can relay what you have found to your local sabotage group.  

Northants Hunt Saboteurs held a protest against the Cottesmore Hunt at their first ‘fun ride’ of the spring/summer. As they explain in a recent social media post, holding demonstrations at ‘fun rides’ are important as these are specifically organised to raise money and recruit paid subscribers for the upcoming season. Discouraging supporters and paid spectators from joining a hunt can be a significant blow against their longevity, both financially and for their morale. This contributes to a diversity of tactics as part of a dedicated campaign against a hunt and has been proven to be successful in shutting them down for good.  

NO LIFE LIKE THE WILD