SEVEN FOIE GRAS FARM DUCKS RESCUED.

3rd July, France.

received anonymously via BiteBack Magazine:

“Around July 3, 2020, in France, we, antispeciesist activists, managed to exfiltrate 7 ducks from a foie gras farm and place them where they will never be considered as anything but people again.

We were dropped off near the farm where these ducks were kept. The driver then drove away with the car, because parking for a long time in the middle of a usually deserted road at night we knew that we risked attracting the attention of a police patrol or other people who could have passed by.

We then crossed crop fields to avoid passing in front of the house of the humans who are exploiting them …
When we finally arrived at the place where the duck shelters are, we came face to face with… nothingness. The shelters were empty… There was no noise. No more presence. The shelters we were targeting were those of the ducks who were not yet force-fed… and obviously we were too late.

We wondered if we should go and see the force-feeding building, which was much closer to the house of their oppressors. As we walked towards it, we could also see that one of their windows was lit. The operation then seemed difficult.

Looking around, despite the almost complete darkness of the night, we thought we saw something that looked like a shelter, further away from the others.

As we got closer we started to smell the droppings, typical of bird breeding. When we inspected the door to see if it was locked and not equipped with an alarm system, we heard the flapping of the wings of something like 40 birds panicking.

We finally found them. Well… those who had not yet been subjected to the force-feeding torture or the horror of their killing.

Several of us went inside to catch the 7 ducks to whom we had previously found a family. They then had no idea that we would take them to a place where they would no longer be considered anything other than what they are : people who should have the right not to be exploited, dominated, tortured, or killed needlessly.

We almost had to jump on them because they were so suspicious, strong and absolutely not ready to cooperate. It is a shame that this is not enough in the face of their oppressors and that there is a need for activists like us to get them out of their hell…

After catching everyone, we contacted the person in charge of the transport by walkie-talkie so that he/she would come back to pick us up at the meeting point.

On the way back, the ducks were terrified and glued to each other to reassure themselves. Only we knew that afterwards it would be better for them. Only we knew that they were part of those who would live, opposed to all those who were, are and will still be in farms and slaughterhouses after this day, until the abolition of Speciesism.
For all human and non-human people, we pass this message to you : Do the same, be the ones that act and fight for a true social justice for all!”

French:

“Aux alentours du 3 juillet 2020, en France, nous, activistes antispécistes, avons réussi à exfiltrer 7 canards d’un élevage de foie gras et les placer dans un lieu où ils ne seront plus jamais considérés comme autre chose que des personnes.

Nous avons été déposé-es à proximité de l’élevage où ces canards étaient détenus. La personne qui conduit est ensuite repartie plus loin avec la voiture, car en stationnant longtemps au milieu d’une route habituellement déserte en pleine nuit nous savions que nous risquions d’attirer l’attention d’une patrouille de police ou d’autres personnes qui auraient pu passer par là.

Nous avons ensuite traversé des champs pour éviter de passer devant la maison des humain-es qui les exploitent…

Quand nous sommes enfin arrivé-es à l’endroit où se trouvent les abris des canards, nous sommes tombé-es nez à nez… avec le néant. Les abris étaient vides… Il n’y avait plus aucun bruit. Plus aucune présence. Les abris que nous visions étaient ceux des canards qui n’étaient pas encore en phase de gavage… et visiblement, nous étions arrivé-es trop tard.

Nous nous sommes posé-es la question si nous devions aller voir le batiment de gavage, qui lui était beaucoup plus proche de la maison de leurs oppress-eurs.euses. En nous avançant, nous pouvions d’ailleurs apercevoir qu’une de leur fenêtre était allumée. L’opération semblait alors difficile.

En regardant autour de nous, malgré le noir quasi-complet de la nuit, nous avons cru apercevoir quelque-chose qui ressemblait à un abri, davantage excentré par rapport aux autres.

En nous rapprochant nous commençions à sentir les odeurs de fientes, typique des élevages d’ois-eaux.elles. Lorsque nous avons inspecté la porte pour voir si elle n’était pas verrouillée et qu’elle n’était pas équipée d’un système d’alarme, nous avons entendu les battements d’ailes d’une bonne quarantaine d’ois-eaux.elles pris-es de panique.

Nous les avions enfin trouvés. Enfin… ceux qui n’avaient pas encore subi la torture du gavage ou l’horreur de leur mise à mort.

Plusieurs d’entre-nous sommes rentré-es à l’intérieur pour attraper les 7 canards à qui nous avions préalablement trouvé une famille. Ils n’avaient alors aucune idée que nous les emmenerions vers un lieu où ils ne seraient plus considérés comme autre chose que ce qu’ils sont : des personnes qui devraient avoir le droit de ne pas être exploitées, dominées, torturées, ou tuées sans nécessité.

Nous avons quasiment dû leur sauter dessus tellement ils étaient méfiants, forts et absolument pas prêts à se laisser faire. Il est bien dommage que cela ne suffise pas face à leurs oppress-eurs.euses et qu’il y ait besoin d’activistes comme nous pour les sortir de leur enfer…

Après avoir attrapé tout le monde, nous avons contacté par talkie walkie la personne chargée du transport pour qu’elle revienne nous chercher au point de rendez-vous.

Sur le trajet du retour, les canards étaient terrifiés et se collaient les uns aux autres pour se rassurer. Seuls nous savions qu’après ce serait mieux pour eux. Seuls nous savions qu’ils faisaient partis de ceux qui vivraient, contrairement à tous ceux qui étaient, sont et seront encore dans les élevages et les abattoirs après ce jour, et ce, jusqu’à l’abolition du Spécisme.

Pour toutes les personnes humaines et non-humaines, nous vous passons ce message : Faites de même, soyez celles et ceux qui agissent et luttent pour une réelle justice sociale pour tout-es !”

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BUTCHER SHOP WINDOWS SMASHED.

21st June, Toulouse France.

VIA: Attaque

ENG:

“A butcher shop called Direct Viandes in Toulouse received a few hammer blows in its windows and a tag suggesting they eat their own hands instead of eating innocent beings.

Death to speciesism.”

FR:

“Le magasin Direct Viandes sur Toulouse a eu le droit à quelques coups de marteau dans ses vitrines et un tag leur suggérant de bouffer leur propre main plutôt que d’innocentes personnes esclavagisées.

Mort au spécisme”

JOIN THE ONLINE “WRITE TO PRISONERS” EVENT!

WHEN? 29th July.
WHERE? Wherever the fuck you want.

Folks at @heartcureclothing reached out to organise a collaborative event to raise awareness about anti-prison politics as well as to show solidarity with prisoners. All you need is to get some supplies. Pens pencils, plain paper and maybe some postcards. On the day, we will share addresses of prisoners for you to write to as well as tips on how to write to prisoners.

You’ll need to keep an eye out to know who can receive drawings or postcards and who has restrictions on post and can only receive letters on plain paper with black pen.

If you cannot afford that, you can also visit our website and use the contact for on our prisoner support page to write letters that we will print and post for you. Handy isn’t it?

Keep an eye out for any more information about the online event and spread the word far and wide. Remember that solidarity is our weapon!

PS: Wildfire Magazine has a whole article on how to write to prisoners. Grab yourself a copy of the magazine from our website (because we have a lot of them still!)

UA.

MAKSHIM KRIVOSH AND THE EARTHLINGS BUS HOSTAGE SITUATION – NUANCE, NUANCE, NUANCE.

We have received 53 emails and messages about the “gunman action” in Ukraine, asking us why we hadn’t reported on it, our opinion on it and if we have more information. Initially we did not want to reply to them, but seeing that so many people are actually reaching out, we’ve decided to write something.

Let’s get the standard things out of the way. We don’t have an opinion as a collective because our job isn’t to pass on judgement on the actions that folks take. We have personal opinions, but Unoffensive Animal is a media platform and we are not going to decide what is a good action and what is a bad action.

That said, let’s talk about what’s important. NUANCE. It is missing.

What do we know about this action? We know that this person took hostages in a bus, apparently had explosives around and that there was a few shots fired. We know that there were eleven requests made by Makshim. We know that one of them was a request for the president of Ukraine to upload a video on Facebook endorsing Earthlings. We know that another request was for Orthodox oligarchs to “recognise live on social media that they are terrorists”. We know that Makshim wrote on his socials “Happy Anti-State day” just before the action.

And that’s all we know. There were ELEVEN requests. One of them had something to do with an animal rights documentary. Another one, with positions of power and religion. Yet we feel entitled to judge the action, to call it an animal rights action and to develop a discourse pro or against the actions of this person, who has not made any statements in relation to it and who’s whole character has been described for a single media channel.

If we were to judge this action based on the information given, we would understand it a lot more towards an anti-state, anarchist action than an animal rights action. They are connected and interlinked, but remember the nuances we were talking about? If this was (with a big IF) an anarchist action and knowing that this action was reported solely through a Russian-state owned media channel, it is of no surprise that we are missing most of the information about it, making it sound like a “crazy person who wanted people to watch earthlings”. (Let’s never forget the war against anarchism that Russia is fighting, sending 14 year old children to prison for having anarchist literature at home).

Where we want to go with this is that there is not enough information about this action to actually know what happened, and that instead if entertaining ourselves in the circus that social media has become we probably should get hands on and make this month be remembered in the history of animal liberation as something more than the Earthlings bus hostage action.

See you in the next riot.

UA.

PS: Portland riot-folk have issued a worldwide call to support. We will publish about it, but most of you can use fingers to type, so get clued up and start helping!!!!

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RAID, 2004.


On the 14th of November, 2004, ALF activists entered the University of Iowa’s psychology department and ensured that animals escaped the suffering whilst causing as much economic damage as they possibly could.

All 401 animals (88 mice and 313 rats) from the 3rd floor of the University of Iowa were taken. Computers, surgical equipment and paperwork was also destroyed in other laboratories in different floors.

This video, used as propaganda for the action, includes news reports as well as footage from the raid and showcases the damage caused as well as the animals being boxed up for transport.

The ALF activists wrote on their report: “This was not thoughtless vandalism but a methodical effort to cripple the UI psychology department’s animal research. Only equipment in rooms where animals were confined and tortured were targeted. Only computers belonging to or used in the work of vivisectors were destroyed. Only documents of animal researchers waere doused in acid. The acid a deliberately chosen paper dissolving agent. Our goal is total abolition of all animal exploitation. Achieved in the short term by delivering the 401 animals from UI’s chamber of hell. And in the extended term by shutting down the labs through the erasing of research and equipment used in the barbaric practice of vivisection. The entire raid was a careful and deliberate 5-pronged assault on UI’s animal research.”.

They sign the report with: “Let this message be clear to all who victimize the innocent: We’re watching. And by axe, drill, or crowbar — we’re coming through your door.

Stop or be stopped.

A.L.F.”

You can read the whole report and see almost 200 photos from the action on BiteBack Magazine’s website.

http://directaction.info/news_nov18_04.htm

FUR SHOP VANDALIZED.

6th July, Sweden.

anonymous report, via BiteBack Magazine:

“Action against fur shop, Sweden.
In solidarity with Richii Klinsmeister.
Free Richii.
-ALF”

As two different actions have been published in solidarity with richii, a few people have asked for an address too write to him in prison. Richii is still walking free, we will update his status and any way of supporting him as and when we are informed of any changes.

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HUNDREDS OF MINK RELEASED FROM FUR FARM AFTER TEARING DOWN A CONCRETE WALL.

January 2020, Italy (Delayed report)

VIA: BiteBack Magazine

“LIBERATION OF HUNDREDS OF MINK
FROM THE FARM IN CAPERGNANICA – CREMONA (ITALY)

THE ACTION TOOK PLACE IN JANUARY 2020

FIRST WE TORE DOWN THE SURROUNDING WALL
AND THEN OPENED ALL THE CAGES!!!

THE MINK FLED INTO THE FIELDS AND WILL
HAVE THE CHANCE TO LIVE FREE!!!

NO MINK FARMING
SAFE AND UNTOUCHABLE!!!

ALF”

Italian:
“LIBERAZIONE DI CENTINAIA DI VISONI
DALL’ALLEVAMENTO DI CAPERGNANICA – CREMONA (ITALIA)

L’AZIONE SI E’ SVOLTA A GENNAIO 2020

PRIMA BUTTANDO GIU’ EL MURO DI CINTA
E POI APRENDO TUTTE LE GABBIE!!!

I VISONI SONO COSI’ FUGGITI FRA
STERMINATI CAMPI ED AVRANNO LA
POSSIBILITA’ DI VIVERE LIBERI!!!

NESSUN ALLEVAMENTO DI VISONI
E’ AL SICURO ED INTOCCABILE!!!

ALF”

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BEA’S RESCUE.

19 July, Alberta Canada.

received anonymously via email:

“When we found Bea, we knew she didn’t have long. We believe her mother unintentionally stepped on her during birth causing a large gash where a part of her snout was completely gone, she was only 4-6hrs old when we found her. As the morning progressed into afternoon, the bruising on her head became darker and more pronounced.

We knew that she would not make it but we still remained hopeful. Either way, we wanted her to leave this world with dignity, respect, love and warmth. If she was left behind, she would’ve had to endure blunt force to the head or left to slowly die next to her family. Bea’s situation is not an anomaly, it is the norm, it is a cost of doing business; she is considered a product and treated as such. There a millions of piglets who do not survive their first 24hrs of life, left to die in front of their mothers and siblings, killed in front of their mothers and siblings, discarded like trash. Bea had endured more suffering, pain and trauma in 28 hours than any of us can even imagine or endure ourselves.

When we view non human and human animals as commodities, exploitation comes easily. We strip any individuality from them, we turn them into biological machines that have only one purpose, to serve.

Bea was someone, she mattered, she was loved and died with dignity. Her mother is still trapped inside that shit hole, her siblings will be sent off to be murdered; neither will ever know respect, dignity, love or warmth, only endless suffering and misery.

Rest In Peace, Bea.

It’s time to fight for them. It’s time for radical action. It’s time we stop relying on vegan consumerism to save animals. It’s time we stop asking and starting taking.


Do it for Bea.
Do it for her mother.
Do it for her siblings.”

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CHOICE CUTS BUTCHERS REVISITED, WINDOWS SMASHED AND SPRAY-PAINTED

4th July, Brighton UK.

anonymous report, via BiteBack Magazine:

“14th July, Brighton UK.

They are confined, deprived, bred, tortured and killed every day. This can’t get more urgent. There are things you can do about this.

There is profit in murder but smashed windows cost.

Find a target, know your route, wear gloves, collect some nice rocks, cover up, properly. Redecorate. Smash. Repeat.

This action is dedicated to angry butchers everywhere — we’ll see you soon.

Love, Animal Liberation Front.”

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200 PHEASANTS RELEASED FROM A GAME FARM.

11th July, Alberta Canada.

Received anonymously via email:

“In the early morning hours of July 11th, two animal rights activists paid a visit to a game bird farm in Alberta, Canada, The activists released approximately 200 pheasants into the wild- not only freeing them from captivity, but also from canned hunting and being used to train hunting dogs.

During a pre-investigation to capture footage and formulate a plan, 3 young, inured pheasants were liberated from the farm and brought somewhere safe until they were able to enter the wild themselves.

At $25 per bird, the activists caused the company around $5000 in financial damage but, most importantly, they saved around 200 lives.

You can see a map with a few game farms here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1uzyEb2Z8EW7LLByNhU1L5t2Fpv6SjmKf&ll

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