TWO EMPTY WISCONSIN FUR FARMS CONTAMINATED WITH AULETIANS DISEASE.

29th December, Wisconsin USA.

Via: NAALPO

“it’s a good thing animal safe havens and wildlife rehabbers talk. we got word of a few mink infected with the deadly and contagious aleutians disease. we cared for these animals in their dying weeks, carefully saving the feces and urine.

we then bypassed security measures and entered the zimbal’s mink farm locations at 6437 abraham ct, sheboygan falls, wi 53085 and 9532 sauk trail rd,  oostburg, wi 53070 and sprayed down the cages with urine and infected the feed supply with a liquid mix of feces and urine.

zimbal farms are said to be the largest mink slaughterhouses in so called north america with up to 240,000 mink imprisoned. aleutian disease is highly transmittable, and once a farm is

infected, it spreads rapidly through the mink population. the only ethical (and profitable, if you don’t have ethics) thing to do would be to dispose of the food supply, disinfect the entire property and destroy all exisiting cages and never reopen.  go grow some vegetables.

fur is a disgusting and dying industry. close your farms and figure out how to actually be a contribution to the community.”

ATTACK AGAINST NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALFREDO COSPITO.

11th December, France.

Translated by: Act For Free!

“In May of this year, the anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito was transferred to the 41bis isolation regime.

The torture method of sensory deprivation aims to break his rebellious spirit and silence him. In order to achieve the removal of his isolation conditions, our comrade began an indefinite hunger strike on October 20. On December 1st – on the 42nd day of the hunger strike – a review of the conditions of detention decided to continue the torture procedure. If the Italian fascist state persists in its practice of isolation, Alfredo may not see the end of this year. But his death will not be a suicide: it will be the murder under torture of a vengeful political judiciary.

Let’s prevent this murder

The most passionate form of revolutionary solidarity is to continue the struggles for which our comrades are behind bars. It was in this spirit that on December 11, during a night-time sabotage action, we went to a pylon of the Fessenheim-Paris extra-high voltage line and unscrewed the bolts. The pylon is still standing, but its stability is clearly compromised. May our revolutionary anger act in alliance with nature, and may a winter storm do the rest!
Alfredo has always been able to tie the question of social revolution with that of ecology and, through his words and deeds, connect the ecocidal plundering of our planet with the struggle against the dominant powers, exploitation and oppression. In his statement on the kneecapping of the Italian nuclear industry leader Roberto Adinolfi (ansaldo nucleare) and later in various statements during the trial for the scripta manenta case, he described the need to anchor a revolutionary perspective in the anti-nuclear movement. In a valuable contribution to the debate, he also spoke in 2018 about the struggle against the CIGÉO project for the burial of nuclear waste in the French village of Bure in Meuse. Referring to the idea of diversity of tactics practiced there, he suggests an intensification of the forms of struggle that are chosen. This is one of the contributions that were later used to justify the tightening of his detention conditions.

As such, we wish to take back up this idea and to continue it following the thread of informal organization and of permanent attack towards all the dominant infrastructures that, in our opinion, have already put us in permanent cages. And this, without dissociating from the strategies that attack the physical integrity of targeted people, as was done for Roberto Adinolfi; not with a strategic document composed of empty words and pompous revolutionary phrases, but by the practical application of direct action.

The power line we attacked was not chosen at random. It is precisely the 400,000 volt line that will in the future supply electricity to the useless and controversial CIGÉO industrial project. At the same time, close to the Cigéo site, the public network operator RTE is planning to build a transformer station on an area the size of 20 soccer pitches, which will be able to satisfy the nuclear monster’s thirst for energy. The Declaration of Public Utility of this summer creates all the legal conditions allowing the expropriation of the necessary lands for this purpose.
The form of action we have chosen involves considerable risks. That is why we will soon publish a new communique with some technical instructions allowing to carry it out as safely as possible.

A warm embrace across seas, borders and walls.
For all prisoners in struggle!
Solidarity means attack!

Rage, Transmissions and Riots

Pylon Disconnection Service of all kinds.”

THE ATTACKS AGAINST HUNTING INFRASTRUCTURE DON’T STOP IN GERMANY.

December, Germany.

According to pro hunt magazines, multiple attacks on hunting infrastructure have taken place in the month of December.

In Bavaria, an unknown group of people toppled a hunting tower, dismantled it, set it alight and then cooked a meal using the embers. They left the pan behind when they were finished.

In Lower Saxony, five hunter’s cars had their tyres slashed whilst they were out shooting in the mountains. Whilst nobody claimed the action, the only vehicles targeted in the parking spot were the ones owned by hunters.

In Nordholdz another tower was targeted, using branches to break the windows and doors, then toppling the tower and leaving behind fences and rotting flesh for the owner to find.

No suspects have been identified for any of the actions.

IF YOU DO ONE THING IN THE NEW YEAR

This year has been lively, with many campaigns kicking hard worldwide and a hunger for change. The resurgence of a strong front against vivisection and fur is a refreshing and welcomed shift which reminds us that target-specific campaigns have historically proven to bring change much faster than the simple advocacy against speciesism or for veganism, but it also reminds us that pressure campaigns bring heavier blows from the state.

It is not difficult to be beaten by the state. They not only use violence and brutality, but they are skilled at mental warfare. The struggles of allowing new people into your circle, the fear of not knowing how far they will go to destroy us and the constant battle between fighting and retreating take a toll on everybody’s mind.

If you do one thing in the new year, you should check on your comrades to ensure they are doing ok. We constantly feed our brains with the need for secrecy and keep our cards close to our chests. We encrypt our messages, only telling those who need to know where we are going tonight, we plan our actions in silence, we burn letters we receive through punk mail, and we trust no one but those close to us. It is easy to forget that you can share your feelings with your comrades. Make sure you remind them.

If you do one thing in the new year, build safe spaces where people can recover when they experience burnout. Make sure that after fighting for months on a tree sit or after nights of rain, mud and ammonia smell from a chicken farm, people have a warm and welcoming place to recover. Take care of your comrades, make them feel safe, and ensure you tell them you love them. The resistance will grow stronger than we can ever imagine.

Stick together, fight stronger and check on your comrades until we win.

With equal parts of love and rage;

UA Collective.

See you in the next riot <3

FUTURO VEGETAL SABOTAGES THE BIGGEST SLAUGHTERHOUSE IN EUROPE.

23rd December, Binefar Spain.

Via: Futuro Vegetal (translation)

ENGLISH:

“The biggest slaughterhouse in Europe is in Binefar, Huesca, where 30,000 animals are killed ever single day.

The vast majority of the animals killed come from farms in Lleida and Huesca, and the flesh is then exported to China and Northern European countries.

This week, we entered the buildings and sabotaged the electricity boxes that service the fridges and the curing rooms, stopping the production.

We continue with the #HoHoHoChallenge.

We will keep causing economical damage to all ecocidal corporations until the government stops paying subsidies to the animal industry and until they start funding social and ecologically responsible alternatives based on vegetables.

#futurovegetal #corajevegetal #corajefuturovegetal #juststopjamon”

SPANISH:

“El macromatadero de Binéfar, en Huesca, tiene capacidad para matar hasta 30.000 animales al día.

La mayoría de su producción, proveniente de granjas situadas en Lleida y Huesca principalmente, se exporta a países del norte de Europa y China.

Esta semana, hemos entrado en sus instalaciones y saboteado el sistema eléctrico de las cámaras frigoríficas y los túneles de oreo, paralizando la cadena productiva durante horas.

Seguimos con el #JouJouJouChallenge.

Y seguiremos provocando daños económicos a las corporaciones ecocidas hasta que el gobierno acceda a su demanda: dejar de subvencionar la industria cárnica y fomentar las alternativas social y ecológicamente responsables basadas en vegetales.

#futurovegetal #corajevegetal #corajefuturovegetal #juststopjamon”

A YEAR IN REVIEW

As 2022 comes to an end, we have the numbers of worldwide reported actions by ALF / ELF and other groups and individuals fighting against animal exploitation and defending the planet.

It is worth to note that the number of actions will certainly not account for even half of the total as many folks might not report their actions and it is very obvious that certain parts of the world where English might not be used as regularly could be publishing reports in platforms we do not access.

The total number of reported actions during 2022 is 177. There were 95 sabotage actions, 61 liberations, 19 arsons, 1 bomb hoax and 1 Animal Rights Militia communique.

Seven of the reported actions related to the fur industry, unsurprisingly as we have seen a relentless campaign against fur worldwide spearheaded by CAFT USA and a short lived yet incredibly successful campaign against T&S Rabbits in the UK.

Vivisection also takes a chunk of the actions, with four liberations of animals destined to labs or in labs, three of them in UK and one in Czech Republic.

The number of actions per country are as follow:

UK – 39
GERMANY – 24
USA – 21
FRANCE – 19
NETHERLANDS – 8
CZECH REPUBLIC – 8
ITALY – 8
BELGIUM – 8
CHILE – 6
SWEDEN – 6
CANADA – 5
UNKNOWN LOCATION – 5
SPAIN – 4
ARGENTINA – 3
LUXEMBURG – 3
DENMARK – 3
AUSTRIA – 2
GREECE – 1
MEXICO – 1
ISRAEL – 1
IRELAND – 1
SERBIA – 1

The most prevalent action worldwide is without a doubt the sabotage against hunting infrastructure, be it by vandalism or arson, and Germany, France and Italy are the three countries with more anti hunting sabotage reports accounted for.

The USA had an interesting development where many of the actions reported related to the defence of the Atlanta forest, whilst the majority of anti-fur actions and fur farm liberations also came from the USA.

The number of arsons has also increased from last year, as well as reporting an increase in severity, with Chile’s six reported actions being all arsons of big infrastructure, rodeo rings and slaughterhouses within other targets.

For as long as there is oppression, there will be direct action to fight back against it.

May 2023 bring either less oppression, or more fighting!

ACTIVISTS SABOTAGE BUTCHERS AND AUTOMATIC FLESH MACHINES WITH BUTRYC ACID.

24th December, Stuttgart, Germany.

Received anonymously via email:

“Here is your vegan christmas gift! Buteric Acid is a fun thing to use! Specially on/in life destroying sausage automates.

On chrismas night, when most human celebrate the “love” and have death on their plates,
we reached out to stop their violence!

So 4 sausage automats got destroyed by an act of real love towards the animals that will not get murdered! One butcher got a really nice heavy smell and paint gift. The butcher from the last paint action.

Happy Veganarchy Atheist Christmas to all of you!”

GREAT NEWS ABOUT THE ATLANTA FOREST PRISONERS!

During the last police attack against the Atlanta Forest Defenders, six people were arrested and sent to jail on terrorism charges for simply sitting in treehouses to stop the felling of trees for the building of a new police training city and a sound stage.

We have received the news that after multiple court appeals, all the arrestees have been granted bail and will be able to come back out to loved ones instead of spending any ,more time in jail until their case is heard in court.

We have taken down the mailing information about the defendents, but remember that many other prisoners remain locked up. Please write a letter to someone today:

We could not be happier to hear the news and want to send all the love and support to everyone who have had to endure the prison system for the protection of the Atlanta Forest.

Welcome back to the woods.

PS: Atlanta Defence Fund is still up and in need of support, the defence work will still need to carry on until court and lawyers fees are expensive. If you can afford it, please drop them some coins:

https://atlsolidarity.org/

For more info on the campaign:

Scenes From the Atlanta Forest.

TWELVE DUCKS LIBERATED BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

21st December, Unknown Location.

received anonymously via email:

“Because their lives should never have be seen as anything other than their own. Because taste or tradition does not justify spilling a single drop of blood, or a single cry. Because legal does not equal moral

What will it take for you to not only stop participating in supporting these cruel and barbaric industries, but to actively start fighting against oppression and injustice, to stand up for what is right? As literally trillions of animals are being tortured, exploited, and sent to their deaths every year? What else will it take for you to join the fight against speciesism? Are you angry enough yet??”

SCHOLTEN MINK FARM AWAKES TO 4000 MINK LIBERATED AND FARM MACHINERY SABOTAGED.

19th December, Michigan USA.

via: NAALPO

Received anonymously:

“scholten farm and feed supply, at 260 139th ave in wayland michigan, recently woke up to the jubilation of 4,000 mink getting their first taste of freedom.

scholten farms has concrete walls surrounding their mink prisons, but 4 ramps were built (with their own materials) and lots of mink treats were laid along the ramps to entice mink out of the enclosure.

the mink killing machine was located and destroyed. the pvc water pipes that connect to each shed were dislodged and destroyed. to ensure this place closes, all 10 vehicles (including farm equipment) on property were sabotaged, by putting bleach, water, and sand in gas tanks and oil reservoirs.

free all prisoners and give the land back.”

PHOTO: UNRELATED.