Month: April 2023

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SUPPORT MARIUS MASON!

Marius is an anarchist, environmentalist, and animal rights activist who has been incarcerated since 2009.

Marius plead guilty to being involved in an ELF arson at a university lab researching GMOs for Monsanto. He also admitted to twelve other acts of property damage.

At the time, the USA was going through the “Green Scare”, in which the US government took extreme legal action against the environmental protection movement. Since Marius’ actions were deemed politically motivated, a “terrorism enhancement” was brought forth and the prosecution advocated for a 20 year sentence.

After finding out that Marius’ support team were also activists and “criminals”, his sentence was increased to 22 years due to his involvement with them.

Since being in prison Marius has enjoyed letters and books from his supporters. There has been news that he might be transferred to a new prison, so he is requesting books not to be sent until further notice.

HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT MARIUS

You can keep up with updates from Marius’ support team through supportmariusmason.org and the @supportmariusmason Instagram page.

Donations are also being accepted at supportmariusmason.org/donate/

If you wish to write, more info can be found at supportmariusmason.org/write-marius/

UPDATES

In other news, Marius completed his paralegal course in January and will have his true name on his diploma! This is his first legal document after transition to validate who he really is.

One of Marius’ support members has taken part in The Animal Liberation Hour podcast to share his story and give more details about his life in prison. You can find it (Episode 30) wherever you normally get your podcasts.

To end this post we’ll share a poem that Marius wrote in September 2022:

*I Am Resolving Myself*

My childhood prepared me for prison

I knew that in every day

There was a possibility

That I might be ashamed,

Denied something I

Needed,

Would be contained and prevented

From escaping

And yes, there would be pain,

There might be violence

RELEASE DATE: January 10th 2027

Solidarity! ✊

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ANTISPECIESTIST ANARCHISTS PROTEST A HUNTING EXPO

We have received a reportback from a demo against hunting in Athens, Greece. Read their words below:

“On Sunday 2 April, a group of antispeciesists was gathered outside the Mediterranean Exhibition Center in Athens to protest against hunting.

A translated part of the antispeciesists call is following:

Antispeciesism and anarchy: connecting the struggles

Human imposition on non-human animals is perhaps the most common and normalized form of violence. In particular, hunting, which has always been a show off power of the ruling class and has a historical role in the imposition of man over non-human animals. Proclamation of power and masculinity are the main characteristics of hunting. The young boys become men by executing and posing with the lifeless bodies of those they have murdered.

For our part, we consider the Anarchist/Anti-authoritarian struggle in the light of total liberation and we invite individuals and groups who recognize the necessity of antispeciesism discourse and actions, comprehending them as integral part of the struggle against every form of oppression.

We consider the human species as a part of the ecosystem and not as the top of a hypothetical pyramid of it, so we do not treat animals and the natural environment as a raw material to be exploited or as a source of production and profit. Therefore, we stand against the exploitation of the natural world and non-human animals by any authoritarian system.

AGAINST NATURE’S EXPLOITATION, FIGHT FOR THE EARTH AND FREEDOM

UNTIL TOTAL LIBERATION”

Photo: Folks stand with a banner that reads “Hunting is not a hobby, it’s murder. No guns in hunters’ hands”

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CAFT USA IS THROWING INTERNATIONAL BLOWS AGAINST THE FUR TRADE, AND YOU CAN JOIN THEM! –

The Campaign for the Abolition of the Fur Trade (CAFT) keeps throwing blows at the capitalist enterprises profiting from fur around the world. After successfully campaigning against the sale of fur by multiple brands, they are now focused on two main targets.

The first is LVMH, which is a conglomerate of luxury goods businesses headed by Bernard Arnault (the world’s latest richest man). LVMH owns brands such as Louis Vuitton, Dio and Fendi – each of which sell fur coats.

To coincide with LVMH’s AGM (meeting of shareholders), CAFT is joining an international spell of campaigining from April 20th to April 30th to get them to commit to a fur-free policy. In this period, the group calls for everyone to get active by demonstrating outside your local store, signing CAFT’s petition, leafleting, doing video outreach, stickering, or by getting creative! Full details and resources found here on the CAFT USA website. Wherever you are, find the closest LVMH (or any of it’s daughter companies!) location and join the fight against the sale of fur!

As well as LVMH, CAFT is targeting MaxMara, an Italy-based business which sells high-end ‘fashion’. In March, one activist in Los Angeles was arrested for ‘disturbing the peace’ during a demonstration. CAFT calls for activists to continue campaigning against MaxMara until they take the easy option and drop fur!

With both targets, CAFT is willing to offer support in getting started if you email them. No action is too small; every action makes a difference!

Check CAFT out:

https://caftusa.org

IG: @caftusa

Donations: https://caftusa.org/donate/

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CAUSING HAVOC WITH PORTABLE ALARMS

Disclaimer for the feds: Incite, Conspire, Inspire is a solely-for-fun section never designed to give real advice. The tools, tactics and ideas given on the series are only to entertain. We would never dream of anyone using any of this tools as a form of dissent and we do not promote, partake in or condone any illegal activities that might derive from said tools.

A personal alarm is a small device that can emit a loud siren-like sound. It is activated either by a button, or a tag that, when pulled, sets the siren off. These small, noisy and easy to use alarms can be utilised in a variety of ways beyond personal safety. 

Here are a few scenarios for you to mull over: 

Remember when Smash Speciesism took some helium balloons into Imperial College London? They disrupted the vivisection awards using a variety of tactics, one of them setting off personal alarms tied to helium balloons released inside the auditorium. Any room with high ceilings makes a good location for such a disruption. 

Are your local fascists organizing a talk? An alarm set off and thrown in their direction might drown them out!

Need a distraction so security focuses on a certain location? Well placed personal alarms might get their attention.

A horse race near you? Alarms placed around the premises have cost these places hundreds of thousands. Just make sure you’re gone before police or security arrive! 

Thrown into a fur shop? Takes just a few seconds and can clear out a shop faster than our best megaphone loving mates.  

Set one off and throw into the bushes outside someone’s bedroom window. For extra points aim for the gutters! Maybe it’s the cull director, local fash or the owner of the fur shop your campaign is targeting. If you know where they live then this is one way to make sure they can’t sleep at night.

This is just for entertainment but we advise that you think about traceability when purchasing. Are you buying them with card? Are they distinctive or a mass produced model? Have you handled them with gloves, or would fingerprints be found?

Go have fun with your pocket sized friend, not that we endorse you causing any trouble!

Image: Praxis

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SUPPORT ERIC KING, DONATE TO HIS RELEASE FUND!

Eric King is a political prisoner. He is an anarchist, vegan, activist, who has been in prison since 2016. In 2023 Eric will finally be released, hopefully already this summer, or in December. Help Eric start his life again by donating money to his release fund!

After Eric was arrested for the attempted firebombing of a government official’s office in Kansas City, Missouri in September 2014, he was sentenced in 2016 to 10 years in prison, for one count of using “explosive materials to commit arson of property used in or affecting interstate commerce”.

It has been a very difficult time for Eric in prison, but he has also won important victories. Eric won a trial against the government, after a guard abused and tortured him in prison. During and after this Eric was again punished by the screws, he was forced to stay in solitary confinement. Right now Eric is in the supermax prison in Florence Colorado, with increased restrictions on what he can do, who he can see, for the rest of his time in prison.

Eric’s release date is 27th December 2023, but his lawyer and support crew hope that Eric can leave the prison walls behind him, and come home as early as this summer.

To help Eric start his new life, money is being collected for him. At our website, in the links below, you can read more about Eric, the support for him, and about how you can donate to his release fund. SUPPORT ERIC KING!

Fuck every prison! Fuck the bastards that put us in there! Solidarity is our strength! Anarchy forever! 

  • RELEASE FUND

https://www.gofundme.com/f/release-funds-for-political-prisoner-eric-king

  • SUPPORT CREW

https://supportericking.org

  • WRITE LETTERS

If you want to write letters to Eric you can find addresses and restrictions on our website: https://unoffensiveanimal.is/prisoner-support/

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SABOTAGING HUNTS: AN INTRODUCTION

As part of the frontlines series, UA will be providing a monthly round-up of hunt sabotage and other forms of wildlife protection that happens within the UK and Ireland. This will include events, actions and developments that have taken place within the last month relating to ongoing campaigns against hunting with hounds, the shooting industry, the badger cull and beyond.

We want to stress that our aim of this is not to cover everything. There are so many active groups and individuals that doing justice to all of their work is an impossible task. Instead, what we intend to do is highlight key examples of tactics and strategies that are being used and contribute to a conversation about how these produce results. With that said, some do not believe that the state is the answer. Legal reform or prosecutions may be mentioned, to give context, but it can be argued that animal liberation, let alone total liberation, can not be achieved through these methods.

While we prepare for our first round-up, we ask that groups and individuals to reach out to us. As part of these releases, we would like to include relevant imagery from campaigns relating to hunt sabotage and other forms of wildlife protection. As mentioned before, we cannot include everything but what we do feature will be credited (unless requested otherwise). Imagery can be sent to allemailsarebastards(attt)protonmail(dddot)com .

Feel free to also contact us with relevent campaign updates but please do not detail planned actions or illegal activities. Detailed information on how to submit hit reports, however, can be found on the ‘contact us’ tab on our website which provides a safer method of submitting.

NO LIFE LIKE THE WILD

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THE BUNNIES ARE FREE, AND SO ARE THE PEOPLE!

Almost a year ago, during a demonstration in front of a T&S Rabbit farm, folks decided to jump the fences and take as many rabbits as they could. Those rabbits would’ve been destined to a life of abuse and a death for a fur coat. The farm was almost empty at the end of the daylight raid, and an anonymous report called the day “Operation Easter Bunny”.

Reportedly, the day was very eventful, lots of people dressed in black during Easter Sunday, in a very busy country lane, running around with carriers full of rabbits. Many people were arrested, and ultimately four people were set to stand trial.

We have heard that those four people have had their charges dropped, maybe because they realised they cannot arbitrarily arrest people at a demo and charge them with theft, maybe because Phil Kerry was unwilling to show his face in front of all the animal rights support that the court case would’ve gathered, but whatever the reason, the result stands.

The bunnies are free, and so are the people!

This comes after two other mass raids by Animal Rebellion where multiple beagles were liberated from a vivisection breeder. The raiders gave themselves in, and ultimately their charges were dropped. The folks arrested at the Easter demo were in all likelihood people simply attending a demonstration who ended up arrested by the cops when raiders run away with the vast majority of the rabbits from the farm tucked in carriers, but arguably we can say that the security culture that the campaign against T&S Rabbits cultivated had much to do with the impossibility for anyone to be charged with the theft of the rabbits. For the most part, people were masked up and did not use their legal names aloud. They also made sure to understand that the police was not there to be friendly with them.

NO FACE NO CASE and NOBODY TALKS, EVERYBODY WALKS likely meant that in the end, no legal case was to be answered by any humans, regardless if they had or hadn’t been involved in the daylight raid.

We hope that all those rabbits are celebrating too, wherever they might be, and we hope that those who were facing legal charges because of Operation Easter Bunny are not only relieved, but incredibly fucking proud of themselves.

Love and liberation.

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SUPPORT YOUR RADICAL MEDIA COLLECTIVE

We seem to be back on track. Multiple people are collectively working on different series well as keeping tabs on prisoners and prisoner support tasks, which is really helping with keeping Unoffensive afloat. We can’t express enough how amazing it is that folks came forward and we are truly grateful that they did and helped push UA forward once again, we really did not want to see the project die.

Because social media algorithms are absolute bullshit, remember that engaging with those series like frontlines, prisoner support or A is for Anarchy is key to reach as many folks as possible. The engagement that prisoner support posts has is a very small percentage to the posts where we share anonymous direct action news. We wouldn’t really care much about “engagement” and “likes” if it didn’t directly translate to supporting prisoners, the amount of letters written and the amount of donations for groups, individuals, court cases and commissary. So please, do drop reactions and comments on those posts so we can push them to more folks who might be able to either learn or support in some way!

In talking about support, we are also asking for folks to donate some cash if they can afford it. We have upcoming costs with platforms, tech services and website/server related expenses that we are going to need help with! We have many avenues for donations (from Paypal and Patreon to Monero and Bitcoin), so if you are able to, please consider donating even if it is just a couple of coins, it really helps tremendously. We mostly use Monero for any tech related cost, as it is a fairly private coin, but it doesn’t matter the platform you use to support. For monthly donations, do join our patreon, but please understand that we do not create “patreon only content” because we do not believe that content and education should be put behind a paywall. It is worth mentioning once again that Unoffensive does not have employees or wages, and that all donations are used either to upkeep tech services related to the collective and the website, or sent to prisoners and activists with court case fines.

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A GROUP OF HUNT SABOTEURS DESTROY TWO HUNTING TOWERS AND STEALS WILDLIFE CAMERAS.

March, NRW Germany.

Received anonymously via email:

“End of march, two towers destroyed by a group of hunt saboteurs in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

cameras are important tools for hunters, not only to identify animals, but may also serve as evidence in cases of property damage.

always be on the lookout for cameras, some even have integrated sim cards and can be viewed from anywhere!”

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DEFEND THE ATLANTA FOREST IS IMMINENTLY THREATENED AND CALLS FORT SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY

On April 1st the Weelaunee forest being protected against the building of Cop City began being clear-cut and the destruction of the forest is moving forward. There has been calls for action, calls of solidarity, and calls for protest.

As a multi-faceted campaign, folks can expect to see a variety of tactics being used to fight back against the destruction of the forest. What folks SHOULDN’T do is wait to see those tactics in action.

The destruction of the Atlanta forest is a worldwide attack with consequences that will be shown in every aspect of our life. The first step towards increasing the effects of climate change in the areas surounding the forest isn’t the only problem. The problem stems from their capability to destroy in order to build even more oppressive tools that will be used to train cops who will be let lose to murder more people. The problem is letting the police build their mock city is allowing them to justify the murder of Tortuguita for an even greater evil.

Wherever you are, whatever your preferred methods are, fight back. Don’t wait for others to show you how. Don’t expect others to fight for you. If you are far, you can send solidarity via smoke signals, or via banner drops. Remember that subsidiaries and businesses involved in the destruction of the forest have locations all around the world. If you are near, you can demo, you can blockade, you can chew the machine that destroys the woods. It is on you, on us, to win the fight.

Follow Defend The Atlanta Forest on instagram, twitter, and mastodon for updates.

Visit scenes.noblogs.org

THE WILD FIGHTS BACK!