THE UK NATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS MARCH

WHAT: Mass march accross London

WHEN: 12pm, 17th Ausut

WHERE:Marble Arch, London UK.

The National Animal Rights March is back to London another year to demand justice for animals, to gather with likeminded individuals and to plt, plan and scheme new ways to fuck with speciesism.

Join thousands of other people during this national march, wich speeches from folks like Lynn Sawyer, Roger Yates and Lousie Ryan.

As always,we’d advice folks to mask up, to watch out for cop behaviour and to keep each other safe

see you on the streets!

MIDNIGHT TURKEY RAID IN SOLIDARITY WITH PRESOS SUSARON.

8th July, Midlands UK.

Received anonymously via email:

“MIDNIGHT TURKEY RAID.

It’s always worth having a sneak around at night. After a visit to a farm we knew sold turkeys for Christmas, we managed to locate were the babies they’d be murdering come December were. Young and curious they slept on a filthy concrete floor with little bedding in a barn right next to the farmers house. But we can be quiet and fast when we have to, we took as many as we had good homes for. 26 escaped that night and will not have their bodies commodified or their lives brutally cut short for a Christmas table spread. Fuck anyone and everyone who objectifies, exploits and profits from this bloody business that turns lives into products.

Sending love, solidarity and rage to our comrades in Chile. Presos Susaron a la calle!”

INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF SOLIDARITY WITH ANARCHIST PRISONERS 23-30 AUGUST

The international week of solidarity with anarchist prisoners is coming up, 23-30 August.

“With strength we make this call to action for a week of solidarity with anarchist prisoners. Let our words not die in our mouths but our ideas and actions be realized.

Organize solidarity events, film screenings, banner drops, discussion rounds, direct actions, radio shows, letter writings … be creative!

Let’s remember those who fought against this injustice and paid with their lives.
Let our comrades in prison not be forgotten and let’s show the warmth of solidarity! No one is free, till all are free!”

Read the whole call for 2024, check out new material (flyers in different languages), and find more info about the solidarity week, on the website: https://solidarity.international

Send info about your events and actions to: [email protected].

SABOTAGING HUNTS: JULY ROUND UP

[Image credit: @suffolkandessexhuntsabs] 

The supplementary badger cull continues, as does action against it. Derbyshire Against the Cull have taken up a combination of direct action and advocacy, as seen in social media posts throughout the month that has shown them successfully stopping free shooters as well distributing flyers and stickers within the community. They’ve also called out for supporters to contact their local MPs to put pressure on them to end the continuation of badger culling as government policy. Hull Wildlife Protectors also held a training day, giving an opportunity for concerned members of the public to learn about wildlife crime and badger persecution and what can be done. Badger setts continue to be monitored, as seen by Staffordshire Hunt Saboteurs.

The Monmouthshire & Valley Beagles in South Wales and the Eryri Hunt in North Wales both disbanded this month. Though the scale of hunting can seem overwhelming, news such as this is a reminder of how vulnerable individual packs are and how realistic it is for them to disband. Dedicated campaigns, including consistent sabbing, is sure way to make that happen.  

The Dove Valley Mink Hounds continue to have difficulties, as they were once against intercepted by hunt saboteurs; this time from Staffordshire and Nottingham. As per, on their arrival the hunt gave up straight away and headed back to the meet. In Essex, the Eastern County Mink Hounds had their first ever experience being sabotaged since they reformed. This hunt originally disbanded once Otter populations had declined massively, resulting in protective legal status, but reformed as minkhounds (though continued to hunt Otter, as many still do). However, they once again disbanded in 2021, following internal problems and becoming the target of local sabotage groups. Thinking they had gone forever, it was then discovered they re-emerged soon after as a private pack who hunt ‘legally’ using dogs to flush their target animal to a gun. But after a little bit of research, a large group of saboteurs made up from North London, Suffolk & Essex, Norwich, South Cambridge and South of Norfolk surprised them by taking the hounds away, forcing them to pack up and leave.  

Northants Hunt Saboteurs, along with other locals, continue to put pressure on The Cottesmore Hunt by having a presence and protesting two fun rides and the hunts summer party. This causes a lot of frustration for the hunt as they attempt to recruit new members and raise money. Sabs and protesters highlighting the brutal reality of hunting counteracts the hunts false narrative they try to uphold. It is bad for business and can play a key part in the demise of a hunt, when combined with other tactics.  

Hertfordshire Hunt Saboteurs have been busy ‘cleaning up the countryside’, including spring traps and a fox cage. According to them, a simple ‘jump around’ can make a difference to wildlife. Likewise, Underground Badger Syndicate published a video of multiple spring traps being stamped out after looking for shiny things. In a separate post on their Instagram page, they made their position on the UK general election clear as many may have been voting with wildlife legislation in mind. Not only does mainstream politics come with limits, but acting on a single cause or campaign can be very dangerous. As they explain, Labour party leader Keir Starmer is a transphobe, has pledged to continue culling badgers, has platformed Zionist lobbyists and have little interest in supporting refugees. These are just a few examples of the true intensions of this party, who end up winning and now make up the government. Simply put, UBS concludes ‘fuck your votes, take action!’.  


Any information about wildlife killing fundraisers, hunting, the location of traps, tools and infrastructure used to kill and anything dodgy or suspicious relating to the interference or ill-treatment of wildlife should be reported to your local hunt sabotage group. Unsure of your local group? Contact the Hunt Saboteurs Association’s tip-off line at 07443148426 or via social media. The smallest bit of information could make the biggest different to wildlife life.

NO LIFE LIKE THE WILD 

THE ALF LIBERATES AN EGG LAYING HEN.

10th August, Argentina

Via: @anarcoveganismo.arg

ENGLISH (translation):

“Activists from the Animal Liberation Front rescued a chicken from an egg farm during a recky mission.

We were not expecting this liberation, the hen is completely mutilated. She has a severed wing and the back is cut. Now she is somewhere where she will live the rest of her life in freedom, surounded by other chickens.

These animals fall to the ground like they are cargo when the drawers overfilled by human are placed in trucks to drive to slaughter.

In rural areas near the farms, people usually find and keep those chickens to either eat or sell their eggs.

For us, animals are not anyone’s property and even if it is just one life, a person is now free. Let’s respect it, it is their life, not ours!”

SPANISH (original):

Activistas del frente de liberación Animal liberan a gallina colorada de la explotación del huevo haciendo inteligencia en criadero.

“Inesperada liberación, totalmente mutilada. Tiene cortada un ala y también el pico. Ahora se encuentra en un lugar donde vivirá el resto de su vida en libertad junto a otras de su especie.

Estos animales caen al suelo como mercadería,al llenarse los cajones que suben los humanos a los camiones que salen de los criaderos rumbo a los mataderos.

En las zonas rurales los vecinos que viven cerca de los criaderos, suelen tener en sus casas de estas gallinas para consumir o vender sus huevos.

Para nosotros los animales no son la propiedad de nadie y aún que sólo sea una vida,es un individuo que ya se encuentra en libertad.
Respetemosla,es su vida,no la nuestra!”

ARE YOU THINKING OF GOING TO AN ANTIFASCIST DEMO THIS WEEK? HERE ARE A FEW TIPS.

Hey friends!

The fash have kicked off across England with extreme anti-migrant rhetoric and in one case they even managed to set fire to a hotel hosting refugees. It’s up to all of us to fight back and protect communities, so we’ve decided to write a quick guide on how to look after yourself when you go to a counter-demo.

Organise off social media. Don’t tell your friends about your plans on IG, either publicly or via DM. Signal app is your best option for organising. On the subject of technology, there is always the risk of getting arrested, so leave your phone at home. You can always use a burner phone for the day, or a burner phone for your group of friends!

Organise into affinity groups. Don’t go alone, meet with people you trust. Keep an eye on them, keep them safe, keep them mobile at all times.

Mask up properly and consistently. Unless otherwise specified by the organisers, dress in all black, with comfortable clothes that aren’t super tight so that your body shape isn’t an identifier.

A small, inconspicuous rucksack with a colourful change of clothes, a snack, a water bottle and some medical masks won’t go amiss.

Don’t talk to the cops. Not the yellow ones. Not the blue ones, not the ones that look like special ops. The orange ones will try to film your face. Cover their cameras with banners. Don’t talk to them either. If you actually get into shit and get arrested, say NO COMMENT, ask for a NETPOL recommended criminal solicitor (check their list online beforehand and write their name, cop shop visit is free) and never accept a caution.

Watch the police movements. They tend to nab agitators and they are prone to kettling. Keep moving and do not stand still so that someone can easily target you. Keep your friends close and make sure you’re looking out for them too.

The demos at the weekend were knee-jerk reactions, with many people not knowing how to organise. Nazis and fascists have now had a few days to actually plan shit, so expect the demographics to be less erratic and the demos more planned.

For more information on your rights have a look at NETPOL.

For more info on dates of demos and other antifascist work, check London Anti Fascist Assembly (LAFA) and your local antifascist groups.

Keep fighting Nazis, look out for each other and build the solidarity networks your community deserves.

See you in the streets!

EAT FASCISTS, NOT ANIMALS // NAZIS NOT WELCOME // NO PASARAN!

IMAGE BY PRAXIS, WHO SPED-DESIGNED IT IN A HANDFUL OF HOURS <3

SIX HUNDRED POUNDS RAISED FOR THE SUSARON PRISONERS

After what feels like a lifetime we can inform you that we have sent all profits from the Susaron fundraiser to their support group. A total of £600 was raised for them thanks to everybody that donated and bought tees and tote bags.

Thank you to @krime_1 for the sick design, and thank you to Carry On Screening for printing against all odds!!!

Every parcel has been sent and they should be with you asap. Thank you all for the support, solidarity if prisoners is crucial to the struggle and you all made it possible.

If you want to support the work we do, please consider joining our patreon or sending some coins over PayPal.

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DEPARTMENT OF URBAN FAUNA GETS WHEATPASTED AGAINST THE CONFINMENT OF ANIMALS IN THE NATIONAL GARDEN.

18th July, Athens Greece

VIA: Athens Indymedia

ENGLISH (TRANSLATION):

“Posters at the offices of the Department of Urban Fauna of the Municipality of Athens against the confinement of animals in the National Garden

On Wednesday 18/7 we held an intervention with posters at the offices of the Department of Urban Fauna of the Municipality of Athens in Aeolou, which is responsible for the murder of over sixty water turtles and for the confinement of dozens of animals in cages in the National Garden.

Below is the informative text on the above case:

FREEDOM FOR THE IMPRISONED ANIMALS OF THE NATIONAL GARDEN

On Sunday 28 April over sixty water turtles lay dead in the National Garden inside the area where they are being held prisoner. Visitors and patrons of the garden begin to pull their dead bodies out of the water, with those in charge doing nothing, thereby endangering the health of the other turtles. These are water turtles that live captive in a fenced area of the park in overpopulated conditions, as in order to get out of the water to place their bodies in the sun, a process necessary for their survival, they literally step on each other due to lack of space. The fact of their miserable living conditions in the national garden has been publicized since 2015 with litigation organizations protesting against the condition in which the water turtles are crowded and suffering due to their overcrowding.

In addition to the fact of the confinement of these turtles, the national garden has for many years been a place where many animals live in confinement to serve as a spectacle. Parrots, pigeons, ducks, geese, geese, kri-kri, rabbits, chickens, fish and many other animals are kept imprisoned, depending on the species some have been chosen to live “free” while others of the same species are kept in cages as specimens, with the municipality of Athens having full responsibility for their captivity. A municipality that tries to convince us that it cares about the greenery and the animals living in the city, while in reality with the “redevelopments” of the last years it cuts down trees, destroys the animals’ nests, concretes the city’s greenery and through the attack of gentrification it expels the social base from the neighbourhoods of the centre, turning them into commercial zones.

The city’s urban base from downtown neighbourhoods, turning them into freight zones.

The national garden essentially functions as a small zoo in Athens, which is advertised as a tourist attraction, just as similar animal collections attract tourists in other cities. Zoos have always been places of torture and imprisonment of animals. Under the pretext of entertainment and human contact with wildlife, animals are forcibly snatched from their natural habitat or bred in captivity, condemned to endure a life in cages. The logic that zoos should be places where people come closer to nature is an authoritarian absurdity as the imposition of a life in prison can only be seen as something normal. The only image we can discern behind the animals’ cells are sickly bodies, depressed looks, nervous attitudes from the condition of captivity. Contact with wildlife cannot happen through these places where states enslave and torture animals for the sole benefit of spectacle and economic resources.

At the same time, there are many times when animals escaping from their cages are killed in cold blood by zoo workers. A typical case in Greece is the Attica zoo where in recent years jaguars and chimpanzees have been killed because they simply wanted to live freely.

Returning to the case of the national garden, the excuse is often used that American water turtles are an alien species and hostile to the Greek environment and thus cannot be released. Of course, we cannot help but comment on the above argument as states and the animal trade are responsible for taking animals from their natural habitats and transporting them to completely different environments than the ones they are used to living in. In a similar way, the national garden is a repository of “unwanted” animals by their buyers who, after becoming bored with them, irresponsibly abandon them in the national garden cages, indefinitely delegating their care.

In conclusion, we conclude that if zoos have anything to teach us, it is the authoritarian practice of modern societies over animals and nothing beyond that. We are not demanding better confinement conditions or bigger and cleaner cages. We are demanding that all animals where they are held incarcerated be released into their natural environments and that we fight to stop their exploitation.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ANIMALS HELD CAPTIVE IN THE NATIONAL PARK

FIGHT TO THE DESTRUCTION OF EVERY CELL-CAGE

Open anti-capitalist assembly

GREEK (ORIGINAL):

Την Τετάρτη 18/7 πραγματοποιήσαμε παρέμβαση με αφισοκόλληση στα γραφεία του τμήματος Αστικής Πανίδας του Δήμου Αθηναίων στην Αιόλου που είναι υπεύθυνο για την δολοφονία πάνω απο εξήντα νεροχελωνών και για τον εγκλεισμό δεκάδων ζώων σε κλουβιά μέσα στον Εθνικό κήπο.
Ακολουθεί το ενημερωτικό κείμενο για την παραπάνω υπόθεση:
ΛΕΥΤΕΡΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΦΥΛΑΚΙΣΜΕΝΑ ΖΩΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΘΝΙΚΟΥ ΚΗΠΟΥ
Την Κυριακή 28 Απριλίου πάνω από εξήντα νεροχελώνες βρίσκονται νεκρές στον εθνικό κήπο μέσα στον χώρο όπου κρατούνται φυλακισμένες. Επισκέπτες και θαμώνες του κήπου αρχίζουν να βγάζουν τα νεκρά σώματά τους έξω από το νερό, με τους υπεύθυνους να μένουν άπραγοι βάζοντας με αυτόν τον τρόπο σε κίνδυνο και την υγεία των άλλων χελωνών. Πρόκειται για νεροχελώνες που ζουν αιχμάλωτες σε περιφραγμένο χώρο του πάρκου σε συνθήκες υπερπλυθυσμού μιας και για να βγουν έξω από το νερό προκειμένου τοποθετήσουν τα σώματά τους στον ήλιο, διαδικασία αναγκαία για την επιβίωση τους, πατούν στην κυριολεξία η μία πάνω στην άλλη λόγω έλλειψης χώρου. Το γεγονός των άθλιων συνθηκών διαβίωσης τους στον εθνικό κήπο έχει πάρει δημοσιότητα ήδη από το 2015 με διαφορές οργανώσεις να διαμαρτύρονται ενάντια στην συνθήκη στην οποία οι νεροχελώνες στοιβάζονται και υποφέρουν λόγω της υπερσυγκέντρωσής τους.
Παράλληλα πέρα από το γεγονός του εγκλεισμού των συγκεκριμένων χελωνών ο εθνικός κήπος εδώ και πολλά χρόνια λειτουργεί και ως μέρος όπου πολλά ζώα ζουν έγκλειστα για να λειτουργήσουν ως θέαμα. Παπαγάλοι, περιστέρια, πάπιες, χήνες, κρι-κρι, κουνέλια, κότες, ψάρια καθώς και πολλά άλλα ζώα κρατούνται φυλακισμένα, αναλόγως το είδος κάποια έχουν επιλεχθεί να ζουν «ελεύθερα» ενώ κάποια άλλα από το ίδιο είδος βρίσκονται σε κλουβιά ως δείγματα, με τον δήμο Αθηναίων να έχει την πλήρη ευθύνη για την αιχμαλωσία τους. Ένας δήμος που προσπαθεί να μας πείσει πως νοιάζεται για το πράσινο και τα ζώα που ζουν στην πόλη, ενώ στην πραγματικότητα με τις «αναπλάσεις» των τελευταίων χρόνων κόβει δέντρα, καταστρέφει τις φωλιές των ζώων, τσιμεντοποιεί το πράσινο της πόλης και μέσα από την επίθεση του εξευγενισμού εκδιώκει την κοινωνική βάση από τις γειτονιές του κέντρου μετατρέποντας τες σε εμπορευματικές ζώνες.
Ο εθνικός κήπος επί της ουσίας λειτουργεί και ως ένα μικρό ζωολογικό πάρκο μέσα στην αθήνα, το οποίο διαφημίζεται ως τουριστική ατραξιόν, όπως αντίστοιχες συλλογές ζώων προσελκύουν τους τουρίστες σε άλλες πόλεις. Ανέκαθεν οι ζωολογικοί κήποι αποτελούσαν μέρη βασανισμού και φυλάκισης ζώων. Με το πρόσχημα της ψυχαγωγίας και της επαφής του ανθρώπου με την άγρια ζωή, τα ζώα αρπάζονται βίαια από το φυσικό τους περιβάλλον ή αναπαράγονται μέσα σε συνθήκες αιχμαλωσίας καταδικασμένα να υπομένουν μια ζωή μέσα σε κλουβιά. Η λογική που θέλει τους ζωολογικούς κήπους να αποτελούν μέρη όπου οι άνθρωποι έρχονται πιο κοντά με την φύση αποτελεί έναν εξουσιαστικό παραλογισμό καθώς η επιβολή μιας ζωής στη φυλακή μόνο ως κάτι φυσιολογικό δεν μπορεί να θεωρηθεί. Η μοναδική εικόνα που μπορούμε να ξεχωρίσουμε πίσω από τα κελιά των ζώων είναι αρρωστημένα σώματα, καταθλιπτικά βλέμματα, νευρικές συμπεριφορές από την συνθήκη της αιχμαλωσίας. Η επαφή με την άγρια ζωή δεν γίνεται να συμβαίνει μέσα από αυτούς τους χώρους στους οποίους τα κράτη σκλαβώνουν και βασανίζουν ζώα με μοναδικό όφελος το θέαμα και την άντληση οικονομικών πόρων.
Ταυτόχρονα δεν είναι λίγες οι φορές όπου ζώα που δραπετεύουν από τα κελιά τους σκοτώνονται εν ψυχρώ από εργαζόμενους των ζωολογικών κήπων. Χαρακτηριστική περίπτωση στον ελλαδικό χώρο το αττικό ζωολογικό πάρκο όπου τα τελευταία χρόνια έχουν δολοφονηθεί τζάγκουαρ και χιμπατζήδες επειδή απλά θέλησαν να ζήσουν ελεύθερα.
Γυρνώντας στην περίπτωση του εθνικού κήπου συχνά χρησιμοποιείται η δικαιολογία ότι οι αμερικάνικες νεροχελώνες αποτελούν ξενικό είδος και εχθρικό για το ελλαδικό περιβάλλον και έτσι δεν μπορούν να αφεθούν ελεύθερες. Δεν μπορούμε βέβαια να μην σχολιάσουμε το παραπάνω επιχείρημα καθώς τα κράτη και το εμπόριο ζώων είναι υπεύθυνα για την αρπαγή ζώων από τις φυσικές τους κατοικίες και την μεταφορά τους σε τελείως διαφορετικά περιβάλλοντα από αυτά που συνηθίζουν να ζουν. Με παρόμοιο τρόπο ο εθνικός κήπος αποτελεί αποθετήριο «ανεπιθύμητων» ζώων από τους αγοραστές τους, οι οποίοι αφού τα βαρεθούν τα εγκαταλείπουν ανεύθυνα στα κλουβιά του εθνικού κήπου μεταθέτοντας αόριστα τη φροντίδα τους.
Κλείνοντας συμπεραίνουμε ότι οι ζωολογικοί κήποι αν έχουν να διδάξουν κάτι αυτό είναι η εξουσιαστική πρακτική των σύγχρονων κοινωνιών πάνω στα ζώα και τίποτα άλλο πέρα από αυτό. Δεν διεκδικούμε ούτε καλύτερες συνθήκες εγκλεισμού ούτε πιο μεγάλα και καθαρότερα κλουβιά. Διεκδικούμε όλα τα ζώα όπου κρατούνται φυλακισμένα να αφεθούν ελεύθερα στα φυσικά τους περιβάλλοντα και να παλεύουμε για να σταματήσει η εκμετάλλευσή τους.
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