So the unofficial anniversary of Unoffensive Animal has arrived! Nine years ago we started this journey with the intention of bringing radical news and anarchist theory to the broader animal liberation movement. Its been such a long time and yet it almost feels like it was yesterday!
We’ve had many iterations of what the collective meant, working inside of protest camps, giving workshops, reporting within civil disobedience actions, producing how to guides, sharing and fundraising for prisoners and so much more.
Over the years we have received quite a lot of repression from the government machine. Blocked websites, disappearing social media accounts, censorship and surveillance. We resist because resistance is life, because the project is worth it and because we believe the radical flank of the movement deserves an anonymous platform where to express themselves to the broader public. The latest repression attack has come in the form of blocking our money accounts. The accounts we use to raise funds for prisoners, arrestees, and other activists in need of legal support. This is not new, and the machine has done this to other anti-repression collectives in the past years.
Unfortunately this does mean we need to shift gears. We will no longer be selling anything on the website to fundraise, and we will no longer ask for donations for prisoners. We see this as leaving a gap in the movement for folks to take on and organise, prisoner support is extremely necessary and we would love to lift up any projects through our platform that do just that, but unfortunately it cannot be us any longer. This doesn’t mean we will stop sharing about prisoners or fundraisers, it just means we won’t be doing the fundraising ourselves.
We will, though, keep informing you about direct action, about news on the movement and about those who keep fighting for total liberation.
To another year of loving and fighting.
Unoffensive Animal Collective.
