Defend Direct Action
26th August, Chicago USA.
received anonymously via email:
“We flushed two large rocks and paper towels down a toilet at a Burger King in Chicago. This will leave the toilet inoperable and force them to hire a plumber. Hide the rocks in your pockets and use the paper towels in the bathroom and flush.
THE FROGS”
North Italy, August.
received anonymously via email:
ENGLISH (translation):
“In Italy, the Senate has recently approved the reform of Law 157/1992.
Bill 1552 is now under discussion in the Chamber of Deputies. The hunting reform radically alters the historic Law 157/1992. The measure introduces the concept of ‘bioregulation’, redefining hunters as guardians of the environment and expanding the powers of the regions in wildlife management. The first dangerous change is, in fact, the alteration of the law’s title itself with the introduction of the notion of ‘management’ of wildlife, which aims to increase hunters’ involvement in local management bodies and recognises hunting as an ‘expression of a national tradition’ but also as a ‘sporting and physical activity’ and as a means of controlling invasive species. The overwhelming majority of Italians are opposed to this bloody and predatory activity, yet the Italian government has nevertheless decided to favour that 1 per cent of the population who take pleasure in abusing and plundering the woods for their own sadistic amusement: the hunters.Our response will always be one of animal liberation, because killing, abusing or keeping captive living beings who, like us, have a right to life is, in our view, unjust: we have therefore decided to go to one of the many fixed hunting posts used by hunters to free seven ducks who were shamefully kept in cages, awaiting use as live decoys – that is, as bait for other ducks that would then be killed by the cowardly hunter.
Instead of moving towards the abolition of hunting, Italy has chosen to increase the killing of animals, to expand the list of huntable species (including, if necessary for population control, even the wolf) and to allow hunters to manage all this, turning our lands into battlefields where the most dangerous predator always wins: the human being.
We say, and will always say, NO to the killing of any animal. Lex injusta non est lex.
THE A.L.F. IS WATCHING AND THERE IS NO PLACE TO HIDE.
A.L.F”
ITALIAN (original):
“In Italia in questi giorni e’ stata approvata dal Senato la riforma della Legge 157/1992.
Il DDL 1552 è ora in discussione alla Camera dei Deputati. La riforma della caccia modifica radicalmente la storica Legge 157/1992. Il provvedimento introduce il concetto di “bioregolazione”, ridefinendo i cacciatori come tutori dell’ambiente e ampliando le competenze delle Regioni nella gestione faunistica. La prima pericolosa novità infatti è il cambiamento del titolo della legge stessa con l’introduzione della nozione di «gestione» della fauna, che punta ad un maggiore coinvolgimento dei cacciatori negli organi territoriali di gestione e che riconosce la caccia come «espressione di una tradizione nazionale» ma anche come «attività sportiva e motoria» e come azione per il contenimento delle specie invasive. La stragrande maggioranza degli italiani è contro questa attività sanguinaria e predatoria, ma il governo italiano ha deciso ugualmente di favorire quell’ 1% di popolazione che si diverte ad abusare e saccheggiare i boschi per il proprio sadico divertimento: i cacciatori. La nostra risposta sarà sempre quella della liberazione animale perché uccidere, abusare, detenere essere viventi che hanno diritto come noi a vivere è per noi ingiusto: abbiamo deciso quindi di andare presso uno dei tanti appostamenti fissi utilizzati dai cacciatori per liberare n° 7 anatre vergognosamente detenute in gabbia in attesa di essere utilizzate come richiami vivi cioè come esche per altre anatre che sarebbero poi state uccise dal vigliacco cacciatore.
Invece di andare verso l’abolizione della caccia, l’Italia ha scelto di incrementare le uccisioni di animali, di aumentare le specie cacciabili (tra cui,se necessario per il contenimento, anche il lupo) e di permettere ai cacciatori di gestire tutto questo trasformando in campi di battaglia i nostri territori dove vince sempre il predatore più pericoloso: l’essere umano.
Noi diciamo e diremo sempre NO all’ uccisione di ogni animale. Lex injusta non est lex.
THE A.L.F. IS WATCHING AND THERE IS NOT PLACE TO HIDE.
A.L.F”
18th August, France.
received anonymously via email:
“COWS ARE NOT TOYS!
Every summer in the south of France, some shitty humans organize the so called games “Top à la vachette” where cows are being abused and mocked in an arena full of tourists.
The cities where it happens are spoiled with advertising banners like the one in the picture.
Tonight, multiple “Top à la vachette” ad banners have been vandalized.”
30th July, Iceland.
At this stage, we have not received any anonymous communiques about the action.
According to local press, Dalsbú mink farm in Mosfellsdalur, Iceland, was raided overnight releasing all mink. Dalsbú was the last remaining operative mink farm in the country.
The owner of the farm explained that it would’ve taken about two hours to release the mink (8,000 of the 12,000 in the farm) and that due to loss of breeding records, the raid has had a devastating impact.
He also called the activists ‘terrorists’, especially ‘terrorists for the animals’ as ‘they have caused enormous suffering to the mink’.
May the mink (and the raider!) run fast and free!
The folks at Radical Animal Lib have sent us their event to promote. They organise an animal liberation corner at the Earth Frist UK Gathering, essentially marrying the eco anarchist and the animal liberationist into a force for change (and trouble).
They’re asking for more workshops, so if you have things to say, maybe hit them up over instagram (@radicalaniallib) or over email.
Last year we got hold of a banging little zine they had printed called ‘The Whole Point is Fighting’ and were told it was just exclusive to the event, who knows, maybe they do another one this year!
Read their words below, and go meet people and organise cool shit in the streets (or in the fields!) with them!:
“HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!
Earth First! UK summer gathering is coming, and with it, the Animal Liberation stream.
Come join us, mingle, meet new friends, learn new stuff and be inspired to keep pushing campaigns until all are free!
12th – 17th August.
Location undisclosed, Peak District, nearest train station is Sheffield. Exact location will be announced closer to the date.
Bring comfy clothes, a tent and sleeping bag.
Vegan food provided.
Entry cost is sliding scale at the gates, nobody will be turned back for lack of funds.
Let us know if you would like to give a workshop!
Contact us: [email protected]
More info: www.earthfirst.uk“
The folks at Earth First! have made public some more information about the location of the gathering this year. Of course, the exact location won’t be announced until the 12th as the site is squatted, but at least it will help folks prep their travel arrangements. Read below for more info!
This year, EF! will be squatting a site in the Peak District. As it will be non-permissive, the exact location can’t be shared ahead of time. It will be shared on this website on the morning of Wednesday 12th August.
However, the rough location can still be shared, as it’s often important to make bookings in advance.
It’s recommended that people coming from the East side of the country make their way to Sheffield. The site location is accessible by a direct bus ride from the city centre, lasting no more than 45 minutes and costing £3. The bus runs from the morning until the early evening — any gaps in the service should be filled by a shuttle.
It will then be a 5 minute walk on slightly bumpy, narrow, and then steep terrain. (We appreciate this sounds concerning to people with mobility needs — please email us [email protected] if you’d like to talk about options)
Sheffield is accessible by train and coach from virtually all major cities.
If you are traveling from the West of the country, you are still welcome to make your way to Sheffield, however you may also find it easier to go to Manchester and then take the Hope Valley line to Bamford, from which the site will be a half-hour direct bus ride, costing £3.
Manchester is accessible by train and coach from virtually all major cities. The train to Bamford normally runs hourly from about 6am to 10pm and lasts about an hour.
The anytime fare is £15.10 (£10.05 with a railcard) for a single, or £19.60 (£13.05 with a railcard) for a return. Often cheaper advance tickets are available.
Site setup will start from the early morning on Wednesday 12th August, however it may take a few hours to secure it enough to be able to publicly announce it. It should be announced by 10am, from which point everyone is welcome and encouraged to come help set up the site! If you’re planning on arriving early, bring some water and a packed lunch, as the first scheduled meal won’t be until the evening.
The gathering will last until Monday 17th, which is the pack down day. There will be breakfast, but no lunch and dinner. Everyone should expect to leave by mid afternoon — please stay and help us to pack down if you can, but as it’s a squat you may not want to linger too long after most others have left. There will be plenty of other pretty places nearby if you wanted to stay in the Peaks!
19th July, Denmark.
received anonymously via email:
“On July 19th the so-called “Slagter Morten” who sells dead bodies in Kerteminde, Denmark, was visited by activists. Six windows, a door and some electronics were destroyed. The pictures are taken by the animal abuser.”
Call for the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners August 23 – 30, 2026.
Please send your events and actions to [email protected].
”Times are getting harder, fascism is rising,and states, fascists and conservatives make us again the targets of their opposition – as progressive forces, Queers, Antifas, and Anarchists… … Join the International Week of Solidarity for Anarchist Prisoners! Organize a letter writing, solidarity event, film screeening, direct action, ralley, or whatever comes to your mind and send us pictures and a small report!”
Checkout the website for more info: https://solidarity.international/
TOGETHER IN LOVE, RAGE AND SOLIDARITY
July, Argentina.
via @anarcoveganismo.arg
ENGLISH (translation):
“Whilst everybody is focused on stuff happening elsewhere in the world, we plan to break into a place of slavery.
The anxiety is high, the night camouflages us between the mud and the dry weeds, we cut the wire and there we are, in front of them, all of them scared and cold, pushed against each other. They look at us fearful, but tonight some are coming out of the cages and will never suffer because of them again, they will stretch their legs and open their wings.
To us, that is veganism. because we cannot keep asking humans to please stop enslaving and murdering our animal siblings, because there is no more time to wait. And we also can’t pretend to care about regulating or welfarising the chains of speciesism.
Everybody can do this, everybody can take in their own hands direct action if they are brave enough.
Why would we wait anymore? Away from victimhood and against all odds, that’s our duty.
Those six lives are now safe, their life will be different, they will live with dignity and freedom.
All the other chickens are suffering the slavery that the system forces upon them by describing them as property and using them until death.
Their eyes see their sisters dying in cages, or being slaughtered. Their liberation is in your hands. Who, if not you?”
SPANISH (original):
TRES ANARQUISTAS LIBERAN 6 GALLINAS PONEDORAS
“Mientras todxs están pendientes de lo que sucede en otra parte del mundo, nosotrxs planeamos el ingreso a un centro de esclavitud.
La ansiedad en inmensa, la noche nos camufla entre el barro y la hierba seca, se corta el alambre y ya estamos ahí frente a ellas, todas temerosas con frío, acurrucadas y juntas. Nos miran con desconfianza, pero esta noche algunas van a salir de esas jaulas y nunca más volverán a padecerlas, estirarán sus patas y abrirán sus alas.
Para nosotrxs esto es veganismo, porque no podemos seguir pidiendo a lxs seres humanxs que por favor dejen de esclavizar y asesinar a nuestrxs hermanxs animales, ya no hay más tiempo. Así como tampoco, pretender que regulen las cadenas del especismo.
Cualquiera puede hacerlo, cualquiera puede tomar entre sus manos la acción directa si tiene el valor.
Que más vamos a esperar? Lejos del victimismo y contra todo pronóstico es nuestro deber.
Estas 6 vidas ya están a resguardo, les espera una vida diferente, les espera una vida digna en libertad.
Lxs demás animales están en este mundo sufriendo la esclavitud que el sistema les impone, lxs cataloga como mercancías y asi lxs utiliza hasta su muerte.
Sus ojos ven a sus hermanxs muriendo en jaulas o siendo asesinadxs, depende de vos su liberación. Si no sos vos, quien entonces?”
Daniel ”Des” Sanchez Estrada is convicted for moving a box of anarchist zines. On June 23th Des was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, for “corruptly concealing a document or record”. The trial is a political witch hunt, in which the Trump administration is targeting people for being so called ”antifa”.
Des is one of 19 people who was arrested in the so called Prairieland Case, in which defendants as of now is sentenced to more than a total of 562 years in prison, for what allegedly happened around a solidarity noise demo outside the ICE Prairieland detention centre in Alvarado Texas on 4th July 2025. People came to the noise demo to show solidarity with the immigrants and detainees inside the ICE centre, and now they and others are facing decades in prison. There are a lot more details regarding the bogus case and trial, and all is not said and done for the defendants. Read more in the links below.
Des where not at the noise demo at the ICE detention centre. He was arrested two days after and accused of transporting ”antifa materials” (a box of zines), and of being part of a (fictitious) “North Texas Antifa Cell”. Also Des is currently on an ICE hold, and he has been publicly doxxed by fascists.
At the trial Des said:
“I worked really hard every day in this country, and I believe in human rights and helping others in need. I donate money and art to help animals and other people… I am a father, I am a husband, I am a teacher, a poet — I am many things, Your Honor, but I am not a terrorist.”
There are several ways to support Des.
1. Write letters.
You can write to Des at the following address. (Please consider the guidelines for writing letters to his current address)
Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada, #95099-511
FMC Fort Worth Federal Medical Center
PO Box 15330 Fort Worth,
Texas 76119
USA
Guidelines: ”Write only in blue or black ink. No stickers, glitter, or whiteout. Include his first and last name as well as ID number, page numbers, date, and a return address at the top of each sheet. An example for the top of each page could look like this: First Name, Last Name, ID Number Page Number X/X Date Return Address All correspondence is read, scanned, and cataloged by facility staff. Do not say anything you don’t want read on Fox News or in court about you or Des.”
2. Donate.
You can donate money to help Des and his family using this fundraiser: https://fundrazr.com/c2kL18
For more information about Des and the Prairieland Case, see:
Free Des! Free them all!
SOLIDARITY IS OUR STRONGEST WEAPON