Defend Direct Action
13th August, Oregon USA.
According to local press, anonymous folk released 1500 captive mink from Cascade Fur Farm at 7582 Hunsaker Road SE in Turner, Oregon on the night of the 13th of August.
No communiquee has been received at this time.
August, Portsmouth UK
received anonymously via email:
“Another hit from the newly formed ‘South West Animal Defence’.
This slaughterhouse was targeted for its on going killing of the most defenceless individuals on the planet, mainly sheep and cows.
They also kill unwanted male calfs from the dairy industry here, who are just weeks old. They were also exposed in 2019 shooting horses in the face in front of their friends. Horses who were in a losing streak, or simply unwanted individuals. And if you don’t have a vegan mindset yet then you give these evil scum your money.
Four vehicles were targeted with all windscreens damaged and the truth spray painted on the sides.”
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!
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.”
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?”
9th May, Bristol UK.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Photo unrelated, we did not receive media with this report]
received anonymously via email:
“In the early hours of 9th May some hooded creatures gained access to the yard of John Sheppard, a ‘family owned & operated’ butchers and slashed the tires of around 15-20 refrigerated vans, also tagging the sides and using leftover paint to cover the wing mirrors and headlamps.
This small action was done in solidarity with the Filton24, anarcho-nihilist vegan Ru of Susaron case and T, anarchist accused of torching a cop car in Brussels.
Free Palestine!
Fire to all cages!
– ALF anarchists”
17th June, Bratislava, Slovakia.
received anonymously:
“Tagging and poster campaign in Bratislava, Slovakia, in the early morning of Wednesday”
