HOW TO REPORT DIRECT ACTION TO UNOFFENSIVE ANIMAL

Hey friends! Every now and then we like to make a post like this, where we outline what we do (and don’t do) and how anonymous activists can report their direct actions safely. Read below, and please understand that it is on you to work out what your threat model is, and how many security steps you need!

To start with, let us be very clear: Unoffensive Animal DOES NOT take illegal action, we do not know who does and we cannot get you in touch with the ALF. We are an anonymous reporting platform, we receive anonymous reports and share them publicly, we have done so for almost a decade and all we try to do is keeping you safe reporting your actions anonymously.

So, now that that’s clear, why should people report actions? One can simply do stuff and they do not need to share about it online, even if anonymously! Whilst we believe this to be completely fair, we understand anonymous reporting as a way to talk to other anonymous comrades who also take action themselves, as a way to inspire others who might decide they can too take action and as a form of self expression. It also helps support prisoners by enlarging the platform and showing folks why prionser support is necessary (so that people take action knowing they’ll be supported by the community if they get into trouble!)

This is how you report anonymously to us:

1- Use the TOR browser. This browser has many characteristics that make you a little more anonymous. If you don’t have the TOR Browser, you can download it here: https://www.torproject.org/

2- Head to our website (www.unoffensiveanimal.is/contact-us) You will find a contact form where you can write whatever you want on it. Tell us your story, but do not tell us your name or other personal identifiers. Do mention when this happened, where it happened (even the name of the farm would be useful), tell us why it happened, dedicate it to a prisoner if you fancy…. We DO NOT want to know about your personal details. We also DO NOT want to know about your future plans. Please do not make us complicit. Not knowing is the best way for us to keep safe.

3- Do you have photos or video? Delete the metadata (send them on signal, then download them from signal if you want the very easiest way, but if not, just download EXIFEraser and use the software to clean the media). Then upload it to ufile.io or to wetransfer.com or whatever other service (as long as you do not give personal details). Make sure that the service keeps your media for a minimum of 7 days. We do not check emails every day. SEVEN DAYS MINIMUM! Paste the download link to the contact us box alongside the anonymous report.

4- Tap on Encrypt and send. The message will encrypt and be sent to us. You can now shut down TOR Browser. If report is not online within 2 weeks, you can re-send it. Maybe it’s gone missing. Before resending, please check the content and ensure you haven’t sent personal details, (we don’t share open rescues), also make sure the content wasn’t fucking racist, or sexist, or otherwise bigoted or insensitive to other oppressed peoples.

And that’s about it.

Get out there, mask up, cause trouble.

Solidarity always.

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TO THE INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST MOVEMENT: THREE SECURITY PROPOSALS

via: NoTrace

This text is addressed to the international anarchist movement, which we’ll define as the sum of individuals fighting for anarchist ideas around the world. This movement is in conflict with its natural enemies — the State, fascist groups, and so on — and must protect itself if it is to survive in this conflict. In this text, we make three proposals for the international anarchist movement to consider in the coming years in order to allow anarchists to continue attacking while limiting their chances of getting caught.

1. Share knowledge internationally

Our enemies organize internationally through cooperation between police and intelligence agencies and new developments in science and technology — the increasing precision of DNA forensics and the proliferation of drones being just two examples. This means that a repressive technique used in one country may soon appear in another where it is not yet being used. It also means that an effective countermeasure used by anarchists in one country may be effective in another. We should therefore share knowledge of repressive techniques and countermeasures on an international level.

Ideally, any experience of repression or experimentation with countermeasures that might be of interest to other anarchists should be written up, translated into several languages, and made public. When anarchists are arrested and brought to trial, we can often obtain court documents that reveal how they were caught: we should exploit this and publish analyses of such documents, bearing in mind that information obtained in this way may be partial or distorted. We should experiment with new countermeasures and write and publish reports on these experiments (except in cases where the State might adapt and weaken the countermeasure by reading the report). We should try to collect information at the source: read police training manuals, steal police files, analyze data leaks from police servers.

A specific feature of the international anarchist movement is its decentralization. We see this not as a weakness but as a strength: in addition to preventing the hierarchies inherent in centralized organizations, it makes it harder for our enemies to target us because they cannot topple the whole movement by disrupting one part of it. However, this decentralization also makes it harder for us to share knowledge across borders. To overcome this, we see two options: developing informal bonds with other anarchists by meeting at international book fairs and other events, and using the Internet. We propose using the No Trace Project as an international platform to share the knowledge that is suited for sharing on the Internet, not as a replacement for informal bonds but as a useful supplement to spread information beyond existing informal networks.

2. Establish a security baseline

Anarchists who carry out direct actions should analyze the risks associated with their actions and take appropriate precautions: dress anonymously, be mindful of video surveillance and DNA traces, and so on. However, this is not enough. If only those who carry out actions take precautions, it is easier for our enemies to target these individuals. This is, firstly, because they stand out: if only a handful of comrades always leave their phones at home, for example, this could be an obvious starting point for an investigation with no other specific leads. And secondly, because our enemies can get information about them through their friends who do not carry out actions: if someone doesn’t use social media but is mentioned on their friends’ social media, for example, an investigation could query their friends’ social media to get information about them. We should therefore establish a security baseline that everyone in anarchist networks agrees to follow, including those who have never carried out direct actions and have no intention of doing so.

We can’t say what this baseline should be, as it will depend on each local context, but we can give some ideas. As a bare minimum, everyone should help hide information from our enemies by not speculating about who is involved in an action, not bragging about one’s own participation in an action, not talking to the police, and encrypting any computer or phone used for conversations with other anarchists using a strong password. Discuss sensitive matters exclusively outdoors and without electronic devices, and don’t make it obvious to your social environment who you are having sensitive conversations with (e.g. don’t ask someone to “go for a walk” in front of people who aren’t involved in the project being discussed). In addition, we think everyone should stop using social media (and definitely stop posting photos of other anarchists, even with their consent, because this helps the State map anarchist networks) and leave their phones at home at all times (not just during actions). Carrying your phone with you has security implications for everyone you interact with.

It can be difficult to convince people to follow such a security baseline, especially if they think they have no personal interest in following it. If someone is reluctant, we should remind them that it’s not just their security that’s at stake, but also the security of other anarchists around them who may be carrying out or planning to carry out direct actions. Everyone who wants actions to happen has an interest in making anarchist networks as difficult as possible for the authorities to repress.

3. Explore new horizons

Our enemies evolve over time as they refine their strategies and techniques. We should prepare not for the battles that already took place, but for those yet to come. We should therefore go beyond our current security practices, anticipate the evolution of our enemies, and develop new countermeasures.

Here are three issues we think the international anarchist movement should explore in the coming years.

Drones

Aerial surveillance is rapidly becoming cheaper and more efficient. How should we react to the presence of police drones at riots, anarchist events, and so on? How can we detect or take down drones? Should we prepare for the risk of drones being used for routine aerial patrols, and if so, how?

Facial recognition technologies

In 2023, a journalist tracked down German left-wing militant Daniela Klette, who had been in clandestinity for decades, by using facial recognition technology to match a decades-old photo of her with a recent photo from Facebook taken during a dance class. What can we do against this threat? How can we prepare for the increasing integration of facial recognition technology into public video surveillance systems?

Lack of insight into police activity

Until a few years ago, radio scanners were used by anarchists to monitor police frequencies, for example to learn about nearby police activity while carrying out a direct action. In most contexts, this is now impossible because police communications are encrypted. Can we develop new techniques to functionally replace radio scanners or, more generally, to gain insight into police activity in a given area?

About the authors

We’re the No Trace Project. For the past three years, we’ve been building tools to help anarchists understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught. We plan to continue in the years to come. We welcome feedback. You can visit our website at notrace.how, and contact us at [email protected].

This text is available as a zine (in Letter and A4 dimensions).

Let’s prepare ourselves, and may luck be on our side.

EX-PRISONER TOBY SHONE IS FINALLY FREE IN THE FOREST!

Toby Shone walked free from HMP Garth on Monday 11th November after serving his entire sentence. He was released at 830am and picked up by friends and comrades. He has no licence conditions or restrictions.

The State made a few last desperate attempts to exercise their spite and misery at losing Toby, including removing another close comrade from his phone list four days before his release, but it was to no avail.

Nothing is over, everything continues.

WELCOME BACK TOBY <3

JOIN THE GLOBAL RESISTANCE AGAINST THE PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE.

We share a call to action sent to us. Please check their socials and website:

WHAT: Multi disciplinary action against the genocide in Gaza
WHERE: Worldwide.
WHEN: 27th-29th November.

Instagram: @in.war.ds
Telegram channel: https://t.me/inwards_channel
Website: Globalescalation.com

“Across the world, millions of us feel we can do so much more to fight against the relentless genocide in Gaza. Palestinians in Gaza offer a shining example of courage and willingness to stand up against the forces that destroy life. It’s time we do the same. United, people of conscience have the power to stop the finances that fund and profit from Israel’s escalating violence. 



From November 27-29, join the Global Escalation by connecting with your local movement, disrupting capital, refusing consumerism and striking during one of the most profitable times of the year.



Visit our website to access resources, to add your movement, and to endorse the Global Escalation. Follow our Telegram for other translations to download and share this video!”

TEN BROILER CHICKENS LIBERATED FROM EXPLOITATION.

17th November, Argentina.

via: @anarcoveganismo.arg

ENGLISH (translation):

“Antispeciesist and anarchist activists liberated 10 chickens from a place of exploitation.

We feel the urgency to take direct action and to try against all odds to change the fait of some, even if it is just a single life that is being used and exploited in this sleepy society so comfortable with speciesism.

No animal is our slave.
Animals are not things to sale, all we should do is to break their cages and liberate them, so they can become someone once again and stop being something that will be chopped up.

On a whim, we had to run with some of those chickens, looking back to all those who we couldn’t take with. We will come back for revenge. The revenge of all those who were murdered.

Veganism is war and an endless fight until every cage is empty.

Animal liberation, real and total.
Not just words, but our deeds!
Risk everything, we owe it to them!

From the animal liberation front we want to thank for the news and say: Veganism without animal liberation is a diet. All our complicity with everybody who takes action to give animals a different future, a chance to be born again.

Solidarity and antispeciesist self organisation. “

SPANISH (original):

Liberación de 10 gallinas de la explotación.



[Recibido por mensaje interno/anónimo]



”Activistas antiespecistas y Anarquistas liberaron 10 gallinas de la explotación de un centro de exterminio. 

Sentimos la urgencia de tomar acción directa e intentar contra todo pronóstico cambiarles el destino aún que sea a una sola vida que esta siendo cosificada y explotada en esta sociedad dormida y cómoda en el especismo. 



Ningún animal es nuestro esclavo,


Los animales no son mercancía y lo que debemos hacer es romper sus jaulas y darles libertad, para que vuelvan a ser alguien y dejen de ser algo que será descuartizado.



La mañana nos toma por sorpresa y debemos huir junto a ellas , mirando atrás a todas las que no pudimos salvar.
Pero volveremos por venganza, la venganza de las que fueron asesinadas.


Veganismo es guerra, y una lucha interminable hasta que cada jaula esté vacía. 
Liberación Animal total y real. 
No es un eslogan,es nuestro deber!


Arriesgarlo todo ,se lo debemos!”



Desde el frente de liberacion animal queremos agradecer estas noticias que nos llegan y decir:


Veganismo sin liberacion animal es dieta, 
Toda nuestra complicidad para quienes ponen el cuepo en una acción para darles a los demás animales un destino diferente, una oportunidad de volver a nacer.


Solidaridad y autogestion antiespecista”

CARA AND CELESTE’S LEGAL FUNDRAISER IS UP, GRAB A TEE OR SOME PRINTS!

Cara and Celeste were arrested back in October after a mink farm was raided in Pensylvania. They spent a few weeks in jail until the judge agreed to a reduction to 10% on their bail as well as dropping a few other bail conditions, and they were able to come out a few days ago. Whilst a reduction from 150k USD to 15k each for bail is an amazing drop in costs, Cara and Celeste are now facing such massive legal costs that they need all the help they can get.

They are facing multiple charges including felony eco-terrorism, accused of the release of 600+ mink from a fur farm. Their support team is fundraising 75k USD to help cover sots of legal, transportation and other outgoings for the long road ahead.

We have launched our own fundraiser, supported by artists @praxis_vgz, @daisy.lotta, @zerofoursixeight and @steveortiz_art.

Grab yourself a tshirt, a print (or a full collection if you fancy!). If you grab both a collection and a tshirt, we will add some free stickers to your order which have been specially designed for this fundraiser!

This is a pre-order item only. The preorder starts today and it stops 12th December, we will not print any more t-shirts than the ones you order, so please go grab one now, support the initiative. Every single penny in profits will be sent to Philly ABC’s run Cara&Celeste fundraiser.

As always, our site is not a shop, it is a pay as you feel style donation where we send you cool itemz when you drop some coins, so please if you can afford it donate more than the minimum for tshirts and prints! We’ve set the minimum price at 20 GBP for tshirts, 15GBP for the full print collection and 7GBP for individual prints. If you can donate more, please do!

Prints are A4 size, on thick, recycled luxury paper. The tshirts are printed on NoSweat garments, who run a campaign against sweatshops and produce garments that are organic, eco friendly and only made in cooperative factories.

Grab them here: https://unoffensiveanimal.is/product-category/mink-trial-solidarity/

If you grab other items on the same order, please understand they will all be sent together with the pre-order items, so you might now receive them for a little while.

Please, grab a tee and a print, share it around and spread the word. let’s support folks when they face the system, prisoner support is our biggest weapon!

If you don’t want to buy shit to clutter your wardrobe, please just donate some coins to the legal fundraiser: www.unoffensiveanimal.is/nu2

PS: Please use your head. Cara and Celeste HAVE NOT been found guilty of any crimes. Don’t thank them for crimes, don’t tell them they are heros, being charged does not equate guilt. Do not treat them like they are guilty of a crime they have not been sentenced for. Just support them throguh the fucked up road that is navigating the judiciary system.

CARA AND CELESTE, CHARGED WITH FELONY ECO-TERRORISM ACCUSED OF FREEING MINK FROM A FUR FARM ARE OUT OF JAIL!

Cara and Celeste, “the Northumberland 2”, were arrested after a mink raid at a fur farm. They were held on multiple charges, including felony eco-terrorism. On the 9th of November, their bail review changed as the judge accepted 10% bail (from 150k each to 15k each) and they are both out of jail after 3 weeks locked up. Despite the reduction of bail conditions, they are still facing multiple charges including felonies, which will ensure a lot of court dates ahead.

They are going to need a lot of support, even now when they are out of jail. The legal costs will start piling up very fast, and it is only through solidarity that we can ensure Cara and Celeste are supported and have the best chance at remaining free.

We have an art fundraiser in the pipeline, but for now, please head to Philly ABC’s donor box and donate a couple of coins to support them through the legal battle!

Find it here: unoffensiveanimal.is/nu2

We see a lot of people celebrating when anonymous reports are published. It is time now to be as loud as possible about support. Regardless of their innocence, showing up for anyone who is facing the law means we are telling everybody the movement has their back if they ever get into trouble. 



Show up now! Send C&C solidarity!

SEVERAL HUNTER’S VEHICLES’ TYRES FOUND WITH NAILS HAMMERED IN.

27th October, France.

Via: Attaque

ENGLISH (translation):

“On their return from a morning’s hunting, several members of the ACCA Le Rallye seurrois had the displeasure of finding nails hammered into their tires. For the association’s president, this was a deliberate act, aimed specifically at hunters.

It’s Sunday, October 27. Johan Tillet, secretary of the ACCA (association communale de chasse agréée) Le Rallye seurrois, a local hunting association, is making the short journey home by car after a morning’s hunting. But he discovers a flat tire caused by a dozen nails.

How did they get there? And especially so many? He says he didn’t realize immediately that his tires were riddled with nails until he got home. “At noon, another hunter called to tell me that he also had nails stuck in his four tires, and then others also contacted me shortly afterwards.”

Johan Tillet decided to retrace his steps to find the origin of the nails, and it was on a communal road leading to the route de Lanthes that more nails were found, as well as in a parking lot not far from Étang-Rouge. “There were several hundred nails across the road and in the parking lot. This represents a strip about 30 to 40 cm wide and 5 to 6 meters long”, he explains.”

[…]

“I think we were targeted,” continues Johan, “since this passageway leads to a hunting cabin.” He passed on a message encouraging those who had suffered this vandalism to lodge a complaint with the gendarmerie. At least seven vehicles belonging to members of the association were affected.

FRENCH (original):

“Au retour d’une matinée de chasse, plusieurs membres de l’ACCA Le Rallye seurrois ont eu le déplaisir de trouver des clous plantés dans leurs pneus. Pour le président de l’association, il s’agit d’un acte délibéré, visant spécifiquement les chasseurs.

Nous sommes dimanche 27 octobre. Johan Tillet, secrétaire de l’ACCA (association communale de chasse agréée) Le Rallye seurrois, une association de chasse locale, effectue un court trajet jusqu’à son domicile en voiture après une matinée de chasse. Mais il découvre un pneu crevé à cause d’une dizaine de clous.

Comment ont-ils pu arriver là ? Et surtout autant ? Il assure ne pas s’être rendu compte tout de suite que ses pneus étaient criblés de clous, seulement en rentrant chez lui. « À midi, un autre chasseur m’a appelé pour me dire qu’il avait aussi des clous plantés dans ses quatre pneus, puis d’autres m’ont aussi contacté peu de temps après. »

Johan Tillet décide de faire le chemin qu’il a emprunté pour en trouver l’origine, et c’est sur un chemin communal menant à la route de Lanthes que d’autres clous ont été retrouvés ainsi que sur un parking situé non loin de l’Étang-Rouge. « Il y avait plusieurs centaines de clous mis en travers du chemin et sur le parking. Cela représente une bande d’environ 30 à 40 cm de large et 5 à 6 mètres de long », explique-t-il.

[…]

« Je pense que nous étions visés », reprend Johan, « puisque ce passage emmène vers une cabane de chasse. » Il a fait passer un message pour encourager les personnes qui ont subi ce vandalisme à déposer une plainte en gendarmerie. Au moins sept véhicules des membres de l’association ont été touchés.”

SHOTS FIRED AT AN EMPTY HUNTING TOWER.

1st November, Germany.

According to local press, the police is looking for witnesses as a hunter found their tower shot at, counting over 10 bullet holes.

The hunter says the occurrence has been very frightening and they cannot imagine who could’ve done it.

The hunting tower that was shot in Sehlem forest declined any comment.

THE ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT BURNS A HUNTING TOWER.

31st October, North Italy.

Received anonymously via email:

ENGLISH (translation):

“Dolcetto o scherzetto? (Trick or Treat?)
Hunters and anyone who tortures and kills animals deserve only tricks.

On Halloween night, abetted by night and fog, we attacked and set fire to a location from which hunters shoot birds.
The fire devoured and purified this place of death.
The fight for Animal Liberation continues, no ifs or buts!
Animal Liberation Front”

ITALIAN (original):

“Dolcetto o scherzetto? (Trick or Treat?)
I cacciatori e chiunque tortura e uccide animali merita solo scherzetti.

Nella notte  di Halloween, complice la notte e la nebbia, abbiamo attaccato e dato fuoco a una postazione da cui i cacciatori sparano ai volatili.
Il fuoco ha divorato e purificato questo luogo di morte.
La lotta per la Liberazione Animale continua, senza se e senza ma!
Animal Liberation Front”