20,000 PHEASANTS RELEASED FROM GAME FARM.

8th July, South East UK

VIA: BiteBack Magazine.

received anonymously:

“During the night of Monday a group of us approached a game farm near Pembury, South East UK that we had located via the game farm map. The pens were flimsy and breaking by themselves, so we had to be very careful when cutting the chicken wire. We used tin snips to cut through a couple of panels on each pen whilst leaving the frames intact, as the plastic netting would fall on the birds leaving them trapped at the mercy of the gamekeeper. We then opened the shed doors and cut through the plastic walls to make as much space as possible for the pheasants to run away. Finally, we walked in a single line to the back of the pen, and making a straight row from the back, we herded the birds slowly to the cut panels. They didn’t hesitate and started flying as soon as they were away from the pens. We then decided to trash the feeders, put the grain away from the pens and in the woods to make them forage for their food.

The last three pens didn’t have any juvenile pheasants on the runs, but the sheds were crammed with one week old pheasants. Over half of the birds in those sheds were dead, and without water or feed access, we decided the best course of action was to open the doors and let them do as they please.

Once all the birds had been helped as much as possible, we turned our focus on trashing the farm as much as we could, cutting fencing, chicken wire, electric fences as well as gas pipes. We trashed some of the gas regulators as they are easy to break and expensive to buy.

We hope that that farm doesn’t manage to stay open and that the shooting season is over for them before it starts. We also hope that people feel inspired, tool up and destroy as many game farms as they can, giving a chance to the birds to experience freedom whilst causing huge financial loses to scum with shotguns.

Until all are free.

ALF.”

20,000 PHEASANTS RELEASED FROM GAME FARM.

8th July, South East UK

VIA: BiteBack Magazine.

received anonymously:

“During the night of Monday a group of us approached a game farm near Pembury, South East UK that we had located via the game farm map. The pens were flimsy and breaking by themselves, so we had to be very careful when cutting the chicken wire. We used tin snips to cut through a couple of panels on each pen whilst leaving the frames intact, as the plastic netting would fall on the birds leaving them trapped at the mercy of the gamekeeper. We then opened the shed doors and cut through the plastic walls to make as much space as possible for the pheasants to run away. Finally, we walked in a single line to the back of the pen, and making a straight row from the back, we herded the birds slowly to the cut panels. They didn’t hesitate and started flying as soon as they were away from the pens. We then decided to trash the feeders, put the grain away from the pens and in the woods to make them forage for their food.

The last three pens didn’t have any juvenile pheasants on the runs, but the sheds were crammed with one week old pheasants. Over half of the birds in those sheds were dead, and without water or feed access, we decided the best course of action was to open the doors and let them do as they please.

Once all the birds had been helped as much as possible, we turned our focus on trashing the farm as much as we could, cutting fencing, chicken wire, electric fences as well as gas pipes. We trashed some of the gas regulators as they are easy to break and expensive to buy.

We hope that that farm doesn’t manage to stay open and that the shooting season is over for them before it starts. We also hope that people feel inspired, tool up and destroy as many game farms as they can, giving a chance to the birds to experience freedom whilst causing huge financial loses to scum with shotguns.

Until all are free.

ALF.”

SLAUGHTERHOUSE WALLS SPRAY PAINTED.

2nd July, Binéfar Spain.

received anonymously via encrypted email:

“After seeing that even with a group of activists camping outside the macro-slaughterhouse peacefully protesting against it didn’t change much, we had to take part and do some art in the walls.

Take direct action for liberation”


SLAUGHTERHOUSE WALLS SPRAY PAINTED.

2nd July, Binéfar Spain.

received anonymously via encrypted email:

“After seeing that even with a group of activists camping outside the macro-slaughterhouse peacefully protesting against it didn’t change much, we had to take part and do some art in the walls.

Take direct action for liberation”


FIFTEEN HUNTING TOWERS DESTROYED.

received anonymously via email:

Early July, France.

“a 5 ALF activist team destroyed 15 hunting towers in France, region “Centre”,

We will fight until specism is died, until every cage is empty.”

CHICKENS AIDED FREE FROM A MEAT FARM.

3rd July, South East UK.

received anonymously via encrypted email:

“A couple of years ago we visited this farm and took 25 birds with us the night before their slaughter. We happened to be driving by that same farm so we decided to pay it a second visit.

The farmer, who owns multiple broiler sheds in the area, is also very friendly with the local hunt and allows them to cross through his fields searching for foxes to murder. He will have to rethink his actions if he doesn’t want to attract masked people into his sheds.

Last time we were there we could just pop the door open with a crowbar without much trouble. Since then, he has installed two bolts on each door as reinforcement, so we had to break the door frame and part of the wall to gain access. It felt nice to attack that wall under the sun, in broad day light, wishing for the farmer to hear us so we could have a good conversation. He didn’t, so after gaining access we helped a few birds out with us and walked away.

To every person out there that cares about animals. Get out, break stuff, make it unviable for them to make any money out of this sickening industry. We cannot wait any longer.

Animal Liberation Front.”

SELF CARE, LOVE AND RAGE

We’ve kept quiet for a little while. It is mostly related to a lot of work behind the scenes and reorganising stuff, and it didn’t help that our website broke and the tech humans had to give it some love. It also is about burn out. After organising and giving talks for a few months whilst keeping up the internet presence, the lack of energy was starting to show.

Luckily, the team is growing and expanding and we are finding ways of splitting work and make things easier for everybody, but the first signs of burnout were showing for many of us. For that reason it was clear we needed to take a break, reanalyze, work on many things that needed fixing and get back to work stronger.

It did make us think that many of us in the activist community don’t really know how to take a break. It can become quite asphyxiating, thinking about all the wrongs we see in the world and not knowing how to fix them. Maybe even infuriating that regardless of what actions we take, the world never seems to change quick enough. It is hard to take a break through a storm.

“Aftershock: Confronting trauma in a violent world” has been a good book for us to reanalyze how we relate to trauma related activism as well as a great tool to aid others struggling with traumatic experiences. Regardless of how good that book might be, it doesn’t actually prepare you for the hard reality of taking a break.

We’ve asked a few folks within the collective to tell us what they feel is good self care to avoid (or to tenderly heal) burn out. Suggestions were varied because there is no one single recipe to help us all. Some folks mentioned long walks in the woods, watching easy TV shows, having sex, watching the wild be wild, cuddling animals or eating nice food. Joining other struggles where we don’t feel an urge to organise as we are less used to the community was also mentioned. Mindless vandalism, fucking with advertisements on the streets and shoplifting your heart out were also mentioned.

The only thing that was clear is that avoiding emotions was not a good way to deal with them.

We are animals. Part of our animal is to feel, and whilst we deprive the animal from one of our primal needs we are not just stopping ourselves from growing but also applying a very speciesist philosophy to our life.

So regardless of what your coping mechanisms are, regardless of your needs, allow for those emotions to come out and to evolve, making you a stronger, more effective and much more driven to the revolution.

And if you are struggling, remember that we are a community, that you are not alone and that change needs time. Reach out to others, take a break and let your comrades take the lead for a while. You’ll get through to the other side.

LOVE IS REVOLUTION.

Pic: Queens against RWE, because struggles are interconnected, because climate change is scary, and of course, because queers ALWAYS bash back!

CHICKENS AIDED FREE FROM A MEAT FARM.

3rd July, South East UK.

received anonymously via encrypted email:

“A couple of years ago we visited this farm and took 25 birds with us the night before their slaughter. We happened to be driving by that same farm so we decided to pay it a second visit.

The farmer, who owns multiple broiler sheds in the area, is also very friendly with the local hunt and allows them to cross through his fields searching for foxes to murder. He will have to rethink his actions if he doesn’t want to attract masked people into his sheds.

Last time we were there we could just pop the door open with a crowbar without much trouble. Since then, he has installed two bolts on each door as reinforcement, so we had to break the door frame and part of the wall to gain access. It felt nice to attack that wall under the sun, in broad day light, wishing for the farmer to hear us so we could have a good conversation. He didn’t, so after gaining access we helped a few birds out with us and walked away.

To every person out there that cares about animals. Get out, break stuff, make it unviable for them to make any money out of this sickening industry. We cannot wait any longer.

Animal Liberation Front.”

SELF CARE, LOVE AND RAGE

We’ve kept quiet for a little while. It is mostly related to a lot of work behind the scenes and reorganising stuff, and it didn’t help that our website broke and the tech humans had to give it some love. It also is about burn out. After organising and giving talks for a few months whilst keeping up the internet presence, the lack of energy was starting to show.

Luckily, the team is growing and expanding and we are finding ways of splitting work and make things easier for everybody, but the first signs of burnout were showing for many of us. For that reason it was clear we needed to take a break, reanalyze, work on many things that needed fixing and get back to work stronger.

It did make us think that many of us in the activist community don’t really know how to take a break. It can become quite asphyxiating, thinking about all the wrongs we see in the world and not knowing how to fix them. Maybe even infuriating that regardless of what actions we take, the world never seems to change quick enough. It is hard to take a break through a storm.

“Aftershock: Confronting trauma in a violent world” has been a good book for us to reanalyze how we relate to trauma related activism as well as a great tool to aid others struggling with traumatic experiences. Regardless of how good that book might be, it doesn’t actually prepare you for the hard reality of taking a break.

We’ve asked a few folks within the collective to tell us what they feel is good self care to avoid (or to tenderly heal) burn out. Suggestions were varied because there is no one single recipe to help us all. Some folks mentioned long walks in the woods, watching easy TV shows, having sex, watching the wild be wild, cuddling animals or eating nice food. Joining other struggles where we don’t feel an urge to organise as we are less used to the community was also mentioned. Mindless vandalism, fucking with advertisements on the streets and shoplifting your heart out were also mentioned.

The only thing that was clear is that avoiding emotions was not a good way to deal with them.

We are animals. Part of our animal is to feel, and whilst we deprive the animal from one of our primal needs we are not just stopping ourselves from growing but also applying a very speciesist philosophy to our life.

So regardless of what your coping mechanisms are, regardless of your needs, allow for those emotions to come out and to evolve, making you a stronger, more effective and much more driven to the revolution.

And if you are struggling, remember that we are a community, that you are not alone and that change needs time. Reach out to others, take a break and let your comrades take the lead for a while. You’ll get through to the other side.

LOVE IS REVOLUTION.

Pic: Queens against RWE, because struggles are interconnected, because climate change is scary, and of course, because queers ALWAYS bash back!