THE ALF LIBERATES 21 ANIMALS FROM AN ILLEGAL FARM.

20th February, North Italy.

ENGLISH (translation):

“When it comes to animals, institutions almost always do not exist. This is one of many cases that we have had to solve (for the second time in two years) in our own way because, although the law exists, the state decides that if it comes to animals, we can wait (months, years, forever?) waiting, perhaps, for them to be forgotten.

Should we forget about dogs left night and day without water inside a nailed-down pallet little more than their size unable to take more than a step? About chickens and ducks living in a few meters without adequate food and in deplorable hygienic conditions, filthy with mud and droppings, surrounded by rats, with injured legs and wings?about little birds inside cramped and dirty aviaries hatched to be illegally sold?

They were 21 animals kept inside a few square meters in the dark, without air in a dilapidated structure equipped only with a small grate placed on top, living beings in a serious state of suffering that could not be forgotten about, and so after seeing, we decided to act by releasing them and bringing them to safety.

We also did damage to everything inside and outside the structure.

This dilapidated shack has been declared illegal by the authorities and is waiting for the municipality to follow up on the application for its demolition but, for years, its “owner” has been imprisoning animals of various species by keeping them in conditions incompatible with their nature (as established by law) and the authorities postpone the established intervention as they are busy with “more serious things.” But we ask the Lords of Power what is more serious for an institution than punishing offenders of a crime, fighting injustice and restoring dignity to sentient and innocent beings by thus establishing a clear line (which should never be crossed) between what is right and what is not, between what is human and what is inhuman? By not doing so, the ‘authority admits not only that the law is not the same for everyone but also pulls down the mask on its own cruelty, which is that of a social and cultural system now adrift. Having no compassion the human being is doomed to extinction. We confidently await that day certain that the deprived nature of the human species will be able to regain vigor, nobility, dignity and thrive in the beauty and harmony with which she alone is endowed.

That said, we specify that for us any law that allows the exploitation of animals for human purposes is unjust and we fight for animal liberation-the only law to which we respond today, tomorrow and forever.

THE ALF IS WATCHING AND THERE IS NOT PLACE TO HIDE.
GO VEGAN.
A.L.F”

ITALIAN (original):

“Quando si tratta di animali quasi sempre le istituzioni non esistono. Questo è uno dei tanti casi che abbiamo dovuto risolvere (per la seconda volta in due anni) a modo nostro perchè, nonostante la legge esista, lo Stato decide che, se si tratta di animali, si può aspettare (mesi, anni, per sempre?) in attesa, forse, che ci si dimentichi.

Dovremmo dimenticarci di cani lasciati notte e giorno senza acqua all’interno di un bancale inchiodato largo poco più delle loro dimensioni impossibilitati nel fare più di un passo? di galline e anatre che convivono in pochi metri senza cibo adeguato e in condizioni igieniche deplorevoli, sporchi di fango e deiezioni, circondati dai topi, con zampe e ali ferite?di uccellini all’interno di anguste e sporche voliere fatti nascere per essere illegalmente venduti?

Erano n°21 animali detenuti all’interno di pochi metri quadrati al buio, senza aria in una struttura fatiscente dotata solo di una piccola grata posizionata in alto, esseri viventi in grave stato di sofferenza dei quali non ci si poteva dimenticare e quindi dopo aver visto, abbiamo deciso di agire liberandoli e portandoli al sicuro.

Abbiamo anche arrecato danni a tutto ciò che era presente dentro e fuori la struttura.

Questa baracca fatiscente è stata dichiarata abusiva dalle autorità ed è in attesa che il Comune dia seguito all’istanza di abbattimento ma, da anni, il suo “proprietario” imprigiona animali di varie specie detenendoli in condizioni incompatibili con la loro natura (come stabilito dalla legge) e le autorità rimandano l’intervento stabilito poichè impegnate in “cose più serie”. Ma noi domandiamo ai Signori del Potere che cosa ci sia di più serio per un’istituzione del punire i trasgressori di un reato, combattere le ingiustizie e riconsegnare la dignità ad esseri senzienti e innocenti stabilendo in questo modo una linea netta di confine (che non dovrebbe mai essere oltrepassata) tra ciò che è giusto e ciò che non lo è, tra ciò che è umano e ciò che è DISUMANO? Non facendolo l’ autorità ammette non solo che la legge non è uguale per tutti ma fa calare la maschera sulla propria crudeltà che è quella di un sistema sociale e culturale oramai alla deriva. Non avendo nessuna compassione l’essere umano è condannato all’estinzione. Noi attendiamo con fiducia quel giorno certi che la natura privata della specie umana potrà riprendere vigore, nobiltà, dignità e prosperare nella bellezza e armonia di cui solo lei è dotata.

Detto questo specifichiamo che per noi ogni legge che ammette lo sfruttamento degli animali per scopi umani è ingiusta e combattiamo per la liberazione animale: l’unica legge a cui rispondiamo oggi, domani e per sempre.

THE ALF IS WATCHING AND THERE IS NOT PLACE TO HIDE.
GO VEGAN.
A.L.F”

LEONARD PELTIER, FINALLY AT HOME.

At 80 years old, Leonard has finally arrived home following one of the last presidential orders Joe Biden would sign before leaving office. He was accused of the murder of two FBI agents in Pine Ridge, during an armed altercation that also saw a member of the American Indian Movement dead back in 1975. Since the beginning of his imprisonment he has maintained his innocence, and multiple groups have shown that the FBI had no evidence that Peltier was the shooter that made contact with those two FBI agents.

Joe Biden did not pardon Peltier. He signed an allowance to serve the rest of his life sentence in house arrest, so Peltier now is confined to his house and immediate community. Nevertheless, this means he has access to the people around him without the oppressive eyes of the prison system, and it also means he now can access medical care he so immediately needs. When being asked why he wouldn’t plead guilt and remorse in front of parole boards in an attempt to gain his freedom sooner, he says “Well, that’s just not what I’m fighting for, grandson,” ‘I’m sorry for what happened to those agents, but I’m not going to sit here and admit to something I didn’t do. And if I have to die in here for that, I’m going to.’”

Now, back in North Dakota, he says sometimes he still wakes up terrified that it was all a dream and he is still in a cell, but he feels positive about young natives still keeping up the fight. “It makes me feel so good, man, it does,” “I’m thinking, well, I didn’t give my life for nothing.”

Welcome back home, Leonard. We all keep fighting.

OPPOSING ‘RE-MIGRATION’ NATIONAL DEMO, A REPORTBACK AND THOUGHTS.

Read below an anonymously sent report back of the counter demonstration against Britain First national march and the writer’s thoughts on antifascism organising in the UK.

“BRITAIN FIRST’S NATIONAL MARCH AND RALLY: THEY FLOPPED, BUT WE NEED TO DO A LOT MORE WORK.

Britain First made no secret of their planned march and rally for St David’s day in Nuneaton. They got council approval to set up a large stage with expensive screen and sound equipment in the ironically named ‘justice centre’ car park. They hired security, Paul Golding begged everyone he could to attend and claimed 10k was spent on the event.

However, I’m sad to say that while there were many ‘Stand up to Racism’ aka ‘Socialist Workers Party’ placards, as to be expected, quite a few communist flags and a Palestinian flag, there wasn’t a single antifascist flag flown…

Trying to get antifascist groups, even the local ones, to attend a fascist event has been like pulling teeth. And while we share the same critiques of SUTR/SWP: they are transphobic, they are misogynistic, there has been a number of fucked up insistences involving them and they insist on not only cooperating with filth like absolute wet wipes but also their stewards will kettle the crowd before the police even start positioning themselves. But a SUTR presence is not an excuse to not oppose fascists. If anything, it makes the need for other groups attendance even greater.

You cannot leave a void that STUR fills and then complain they are occupying all the space.

Only a couple hundred pink-faced nationalists turned up to Nuneaton railway station, where the meet point was. Way too few to carry the thousand union jack and England flags that had been purchased for the event. The much bragged-about coaches from around the country turned out to be mostly empty minibuses. And the march that was due to start at 12 didn’t end up starting till almost 1pm. At that point, despite multiple pleas and warnings given to the crowd by the few antifascists present that they were positioned huddled to the side and would get kettled if they didn’t spread out, the stewards kept everyone in line and trapped. So as predicted, the counter protest was completely kettled by police and their vans while only a dozen antifascists went up against the line of police protecting Britain First as they marched down the street. The police were quick to use violence on the only actual resistance to the march. Vastly outnumbered by cops after awhile antifascists were pushed and dragged away by police who couldn’t hide their excitement at getting to use force. When about 10 antifascists had been pushed to the side to allow the BF march to go past, they ran down a side street in order to cut across and get back in front of the march. A gang of police took chase, pulled out their batons, and started threatening with breach of the peace and section 3. A few of them looked about ready to cum in their pants as they excitedly brandished their little metal rods. The kind of confidence you only see in the filth when they outnumber you and know it.

All this time the SUTR crowd remained in their self-imposed prison doing nothing by the train station, and it wasn’t until BF was safely at their destination and starting the rally that they moved on and did some drum banging from a safe distance.

If there had been an actual turnout of even just a few dozen more antifascists, we could have stopped that rally from taking place. We could have held their march at the train station till they were forced to go home. As has happened in the past. Instead, folks are too busy sitting in armchairs and complaining about how other groups do it badly to actually get to the streets and do it better. We need a presence, we need to recruit, and we need to teach crowds how to keep each other safe.

Just because we’ve got bigger and newer contenders to deal with, like Reform and Patriotic Alternative, that doesn’t mean that the pathetic BF aren’t capable of digging themselves out of the grave. And marches calling for “remigration”, stoking up racist and unfounded fears of a “demographic replacement” should always be opposed no matter how laughable we expect the turn out to be. If history and current events have taught us anything its how fast the political landscape can change and how vulnerable we make ourselves when we don’t organise and resist. And don’t mistake this failure of an event as a sign we don’t need to worry. The far right are organising and as we’ve seen with Reform they are gaining public support as well as opposition.

If you call yourself antifascist then you need to start asking yourself some questions. Where are you when the fascists are organising? Where are you when the fascists are marching? Where are you when they hold their rallies? Paul Golding claimed they have another event in the works, set to take place in Birmingham. So keep your eyes peeled and get your mates together.

Antifascist is not a label you give yourself because you say so. You’re antifascist when you oppose fascism. It requires action. “

SINDRE IS FREE!!

At the end of February, we received the wonderful news that Sindre has been released. We congratulate Sindre on the release! We hope that he and his loved ones, as well as his best friend, a pit bull mix named Kenzo, now can spend more time together.

Sindre is an animal rights activist from Sweden. In October 2023, Sindre was sentenced to forensic psychiatric compulsory care, for an indefinite period. (Sindre was also sentenced to pay SEK 10,000 in damages) The verdict refers to prosecution for actions in 2021, against the former fur farmer Niklas Pettersson (the fur farm is now closed, due to years of action). Sindre denies the alleged crime! Sindre was detained immediately after the trial, and then locked up, without an end date. Now he is finally free!

If Sindre had not been sentenced to forensic psychiatric care, his prison sentence would have been four months. Instead, he was locked up in forensic psychiatric care, for almost a year and a half.

IN SOLIDARITY

FEBRUARY DIRECT ACTION ROUND UP

The month of February was a tad slow in terms of reports, but this might have just been because our platform took a couple of weeks off so we count receive those reports! We received a total of 9 reports of direct action during the month, five of them from Germany, where activists targeted a butcher shop, a slaughterhouse, hunting towers and rat traps. Spain too hit against hunting by sabotaging a hunting shop in Madrid. The UK turned their sights against vivisection, and Argentina reported the only liberation action for the month.

Reported actions by country: 

GERMANY: 5
UK: 1
SPAIN: 1
ARGENTINA: 1
FINLAND: 1

SEE YOU IN THE STREETS!

UA