Category: HIT Report

Late September, Camden County GA USA.

via: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest.

According to local media, several pieces of logging equipment were destroyed by fire on Highway 110 near Highway 40 in late September.

5th October, Hilton Head USA.

via: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest.

“In Hilton Head, SC I dumped half a bag of fast drying concrete (“quikrete”) into the toilet of Jeff Ware Insurance, a subsidiary of Nationwide Insurance. I agitated the mixture with the plunger to make sure it all got wet and then I flushed the mixture. It was already starting to back up when I left. if everything goes as hoped, the rest of the concrete will dry in the pipes of the building, causing thousands in damage to the system.

As of February of this year, Nationwide provides coverage for the Atlanta Police Foundation. I took this simple action to encourage them to drop Cop City. I strongly encourage others to copy this action. Other Nationwide subsidiaries near you can be found here: https://agency.nationwide.com/search

A Note on the Upcoming Block Cop City Action:

I am going to be there. Greetings to the wild ones who will also come. I just do not believe the entire weekend will go off without chaos. while I do not intend to go against the intentions of the main event organizers, and I hope the big action goes according to plan, but if the police freak out, I want to be there to see what happens next.”

6th October, South West UK.

received anonymously via email:

“During the night of the 6th we conducted a liberation of three rabbits in the south west of the UK. They lived in horrible hutches with no room to stand up, no toys and no warmth. Whilst they were incredibly scared, they became increasingly curious on their drive to freedom, sniffing our hands and asking for head rubs.

They will now live a life away from exploitation and abuse, able to express their emotions and needs and able to play, binky and run as much as they want.

With this action we remember Waka, fallen martyr in Rojava whilst fighting with the YPG.

To remember is to keep fighting for those who fell and to keep fighting for those who need us.

some anarchists.”

10th July, France.

[VIDEO REPORT BY @lucie_aragon]

“It’s with rage and determination that we headed back to the slaughterhouses – which have been the target of the 269LA collective for the past 8 years – and once again grabbed our crowbars to rescue 100 individuals from death in an industrial slaughterhouse !

We have been preparing this direct action for months to ensure its success, as it is difficult to liberate so many animals without being seen or heard.

Slaughterhouses are becoming more and more secure, but we have an overflowing imagination and we’re developing effective plans.

We were 25 comrades from all over Europe, who shared the same story, the one that 269LA writes with its radical theory and practice. The real “nightmare” we’ve been living since almost a year [* An important explanation of the situation can be found in the 296la’s profile] has strengthened our bonds and given rise to a new, closer-knit community, made up of comrades linked by militant acts, friendships, memories of past actions and the determination to revolt.

Because 269LA was born from the blood of slaughterhouses and from the soil of its sanctuary, we were truly reminded of what we are capable of doing together.

After 42 direct actions, which have ignited so many revolutionary sparks and led hundreds of comrades towards direct action, we remembered this beautiful and powerful history and decided that we won’t let it end.

269LA’s contribution has been to shed light on animal exploitation as a social and historical phenomenon, a system of domination in its own right, and to use offensive struggle practices that target its structures. And the animal cause is one of the struggles where the question of the immensity of the task at hand is particularly acute, and thus where reflection on the meaning and the form of political action is most developed.

Since its creation, our collective has liberated nearly 2400 oppressed animals. All these comrades live today in our sanctuary and friendly sanctuaries in Europe.

Please support us”

Find 269la: IG @269.liberation_animale

October, Midlands UK

received anonynously via email:

“As millions of turkeys are soon to be massacred, all in the name of ‘celebration’, we saved three individuals who would have been killed for a Christmas dinner.

We could see the scumbag farmers settling in to go to bed. We watched as they turned out their lights, not knowing that they were being spied on. We waited until we knew we would be able to safely save the lives of three birds.

We crept towards the shed, popped the lock off the door and saw hundreds of turkeys. Knowing that we could only take three, it was difficult leaving the others behind.

This action will not change the world, but it will change the world of these three turkeys.

Fuck celebrating violent holidays like ‘Thanksgiving’ with more violence. Fuck acting like Christmas is a time to be kind when it’s plagued with blood and suffering. Go smash those cages. Go liberate who you can. We must fight against this oppressive system.

To the three individuals who were rescued: you will now know peace, love and respect. You will be given everything you desire to lead a fulfilling life. We hope that your siblings find a way out too.”

11th September, Frankfurt Germany.

via: sansnom Translated by Act for freedom now!

“The International Motor Show (IAA) was held in Munich last week. At this summer show, all manner of multinationals were once again able to show off their gleaming, beautiful cars and congratulate themselves on their economic success in their air-conditioned conference rooms, limousines and exhibition halls.

At the same time, this summer has once again been full of fires. In Rhodes. In Portugal. In Maui (island of Hawaii). At the same time, many people’s homes were flooded. In Slovenia and Austria.
Many people’s lives were shattered. These deadly catastrophes have many causes, and the IAA is just one of them. We say Switch off the system of destruction!

So we torched a few new Tesla cars this evening in Frankfurt. In salute to the Munich protests. One of many attacks on the destructive automotive industry.

Tesla is one of our greatest enemies. This company represents better than any other the ideology of green capitalism and the pursuit of global and colonial destruction. Electric motors are constantly presented as the clean alternative. This is a cynical lie. Like other companies, Tesla exploits resources all over the world. The raw materials needed for electric car batteries, such as lithium and cobalt, are mined in Latin America or Africa under miserable conditions. Despite the pretty green paint job, fossil fuels are used to transport and extract them.

All this is linked to the oppression of indigenous communities, whose resistance must spur us to action.

Tesla accepts all this in order to produce cars that can slither through city centers. Which will show day after day that there is wealth to be had. But not for everyone. According to Tesla’s logic, only a few are entitled to own such cars. It’s a question of class that determines who drives or has the right to drive these cars.

This time, in a show of resistance, we attacked a parking lot housing Teslas for sale. Often, and just about everywhere, it’s Teslas belonging to private individuals that are hit, when it’s not the construction of its factories that are sabotaged, as in Berlin-Grünheide. All these acts are important to damage this group. Not only economically, but above all politically. To show that we don’t agree with the green lies, the plundering of raw materials or the cities and roads that belong only to the rich. In our opinion, these poisoners must pay a high price!

Tesla is part of a conglomerate of groups owned by Elon Musk. His patriarchal fantasies are apparently inexhaustible. He is one of those people who want to dominate the Internet, space, new technologies and artificial intelligence, and seems to know no limits to his fantasies of domination.

SpaceX, for example, is a company that wants to create more resources, rockets and spaceships to make space a vacation destination for the rich and advance the idea of one day inhabiting Mars. The appropriation and subjugation of territories for capitalism continues, all the way to Mars. A dystopia that speaks volumes.

As for the neurotechnology company Neuralink, its aim is to link the human brain to machines. They are experimenting on animals to see how thought flows can be read. In the long term, this is claimed to be used for curing diseases.

But like SpaceX and Tesla, Neuralink also aspires to a longer-term perspective, in which individuals have a different value. In which some people have a right to a better life in the midst of the ecological catastrophe that is already upon us. Incorporating certain thoughts and ideas into the development of AI can only give rise to a deeply racist technology.

Some may claim that their electric cars are not responsible for the destruction of the world’s ecosystems, exploitation and displacement of populations. Some grant themselves the right to be blind to their privilege of colonial and ecological destruction. We must destroy these patriarchal and colonialist conceptions of the future. They are the enemy of a world and a way of life that are ecological and based on solidarity.

Greetings to all those on the run and in prison!
Switch Off – the system of destruction!”

30th September, Puente Alto Chile.

Editor’s note: Since receiving this article, we have been told that whilst many fire engines had to work on extinguishing the fire, police and press are silencing this action, having published nothing about it. They are probably trying to handle the heat of Celula Insurreccional por el Maipo receiving more attention when they already made international headlines last year due to an arson at an amazon facility.

[Photo is a placeholder. The single photo that was sent with the report is very blurry and can be seen below]

ENGLISH (translated):

“ADJUDICATION OF ARSON ATTACK ON THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE AND MEAT PACKING PLANT CORDILLERA OF DINACAR HOLDING. PUENTE ALTO, CHILE.

On the night of Saturday, September 30, we successfully attacked the Cordillera slaughterhouse and meat packing plant, setting fire to part of its infrastructure and logistics, aiming to cause as much damage as possible with the care and confidence that there were no live animals in the place. With this attack we sought to sabotage the production and transport of the slaughterhouse and the supply line of butcher shops, both belonging to the DINACAR holding, which is also dedicated to the breeding of pigs (Porky/Viña Vieja) and cows (chain of farms “Viento Sur”), thus completing the chain of the industry of death from beginning to end.

This is not merely an anti-speciesist action but also a direct attack on the existing power relations in projects like this one, where we can see the precariousness of the territories where they are located, generating pollution, degrading the quality of life of the environment; extractivism, present in the direct use of the waters of the Maipo and its subsequent return of dirty water; and the capitalist logics that commodify and trade in life, exploiting everything that can generate profits.

We are not heroes, we are enemies of all forms of domination, embracing attack as a concrete practice that materializes our anarchist desires to live without cages or oppression for anyone. Antispeciesism requires attack, leaving behind victimhood and its inaction!

We continue taking direct action and consolidating and expanding the conflict for land, both urban and rural.

We salute the territories resisting against progress and capital, and those who materialize animal liberation through fire and/or the erection of spaces of anti-speciesist solidarity known as sanctuaries.

Fire to traditions and to speciesist culture!

Through this action we send revolutionary hugs to our comrades Monica and Francisco, prisoners of the Susaron case and prisoners of the gendarmerie case.

Anarchist, subversive and Mapuche prisoners: free them all!

An end the sentences of the military justice!

In memory of Emilia Bau and all comrades killed in the struggle for animal and land liberation.

Free Maipo.

For anarchy, for the earth, for our lives!

Celula insurreccional por el Maipo – Nueva Subversion.”

SPANISH (original):

ADJUDICACIÓN DE ATAQUE INCENDIARIO A FAENADORA Y FRIGORÍFICO CORDILLERA DEL HOLDING DINACAR. PUENTE ALTO, CHILE.

La noche del sábado 30 de septiembre atacamos con éxito la faenadora y frigorífico cordillera, incendiando parte de su infraestructura y logística, apostando a generar el mayor daño posible con la precaución y certeza de que no hubiesen animales vivxs en el lugar. Con este ataque buscamos sabotear la producción y transporte de la faenadora y frigorífico cordillera, linea de abastecimiento de carnicerías “productor”, ambas pertenecientes al holding DINACAR, el cual se dedica también a la crianza de cerdos (Criadero Porky/Viña Vieja) y vacas (cadena de granjas “Viento Sur”), completando así la cadena de la industria de muerte de principio a fin.

Esta no es solo una acción antiespecista sino también un ataque directo a las relaciones de poder existentes en proyectos como éste, donde se dejan ver la precarización de los territorios donde se ubican, generando contaminación odorífica, degradando con esto la calidad de vida del entorno; el extractivismo, presente en el uso directo de las aguas del maipo y su posterior devolución de aguas tratadas; y las lógicas capitalistas que mercantilizan y cosifican la vida, explotando todo lo que pueda generar ganancias.

No somos héroes ni iluminadxs, somos antagonistas de toda forma de dominación, abrazando la ofensiva como una práctica concreta que materializa nuestros deseos anárquicos de vivir sin jaulas ni dominación para nadie. ¡El antiespecismo requiere de la ofensiva, dejando atrás el eterno victimismo y su inacción!

Seguimos desde la acción directa consolidando y expandiendo el conflicto por la tierra, tanto en lo urbano como en lo rural.

Saludamos a los territorios en resistencia contra el progreso y el capital, y a quienes materializan la liberación animal desde el fuego y/o el levantamiento de espacios de solidaridad antiespecista conocidos como santuarios.

Fuego a las tradiciones y la cultura especista!!

Abrazamos mediante esta acción a lxs compañerxs Mónica y Francisco, presxs del caso susaron y presxs del caso gendarmería.

Presxs anarquistas, subversivxs y mapuche: a la calle!!

Fin a las condenas de la justicia militar!!

En memoria de Emilia Bau y todxs lxs compañerxs muertxs en la lucha por la liberación animal y de la tierra.

Maipo libre.

¡Por la anarquía, por la tierra, por nuestras vidas!

Célula insurreccional por el Maipo – Nueva Subversión.

September 25th, Portland, Oregon, USA

received anonymously via email:

“No one owns the forest!

Overnight, a group of anarchists attacked the World Forestry Center museum and its conference building next door, destroying doors, windows, and the museum’s glass facade before dissapearing into the darkness. The Center is set to host the “Who Will Own the Forest?” conference September 26th-28th. The conference brings together “landowners, asset managers, investors, forest industry executives” and other vampires to plan and adapt their plundering of the forests for capitalist growth.

To truly defend the forests requires the destruction of capitalism altogether. Knowing there can be no dialogue with what must be destroyed, we turn to the attack.

We hope the damage presents an obstacle to the conference going as planned. Though we don’t mind the ambience of broken glass and missing windows, we expect the industry executives might!

Love to those fighting against Cop City, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and their world!”

Image unrelated to the action

Received anonymously via email

September, France

ENGLISH

“Locks of butcher shops and cheese shops glued

3 millions animals die every day in french slaughter houses.
Reminders of this massacre are everywhere, so common that they become normal. Butcher shops, cheese shops, dairy shops… These industries are based on the killing and exploitation of individuals. These industries are all over. As a consequence, no one is stunned at seeing dead bodies in a showcase. Activists tried to break, for a few hours, this grim reality. During the night, locks of speciesist shops have been glued to prevent them from opening, as a warning we do not forget the violence they represent and we will stand tall.

With this action, we also want to show or love and support to all the animal right activist who are suffering state repression, and especially to the activist of the french group Animal1st who, after a violent investigation, are now facing multiple trials and potential jail sentences.”

FRANCAIS

“Glutage de serrures de commerces spécistes

3 millions d’animaux agonisent chaque jour dans les abattoirs français.
Des rappels de ce massacre sont présents dans tous les recoins de nos vies et de nos villes. Leur présence est tellement omniprésente qu’elle a fini par devenir la norme. Boucherie, fromagerie, laiterie… Toutes ces industries se basent sur l’exploitation et la mise à mort d’une catégorie d’individus. Toutes ces industries ont pignon sur rue, au point que l’on ne s’étonne plus de voir des cadavres exposés en vitrine. Des militant.e.s ont tenté de rompre, quelques heures durant, cette normalité mortifère. Dans la nuit du 18 au 19 septembre, des commerces représentant l’exploitation spéciste ont vu leurs serrures gluées, car nous n’oublions pas la violence qu’ils représentent et nous entendons être le grain de sable dans le mécanisme.

Nous attaquons de front l’économie spéciste.
Nous nous inscrivons en solidarité avec les animaux non-humains.
Nous luttons pour un monde où l’égalité deviendrait la norme.

Cette action s’inscrit également comme un message d’amour et de soutien envers les nombreux.ses antispécistes victimes d’une répression étatique démesurée, signe que ce combat fait peur et que l’on cherche à l’étouffer dans l’œuf. Toutes nos pensées vont aux militant.e.s du collectif Animal1st, confronté.e.s à une violente enquête à plusieurs centaines de milliers d’euros, une condamnation pour « association de malfaiteurs » et des procès à répétitions, pour des faits présumés… de tags, dégradations légères et libérations d’animaux. Mais peu importe la répression, des personnes déterminées répondront toujours présentes pour continuer la lutte.”

via: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest.

August, Milwaukie USA.

[photo unrelated to the action]

“Last week, to commemorate the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners, under the cover of darkness a small incendiary device was placed on the wheel arc of a Vertiv truck located on the edge of a sleepy office park in Milwaukie OR. The delay was lit before we disappeared back into the forest

Vertiv Corporation develops critical support equipment and services for commercial IT systems—technology that is utilized by United States military in addition to state and federal law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI and ICE. Vertiv is part of the broad corporate infrastructure of state repression that condemns us all to a world of mass surveillance, borders, and militarized police

AGAINST COP CITY

This action was inspired in part by the continued militancy and creativity of the movement to stop the construction of Cop City in Atlanta GA. Cop City is a testing ground for other law enforcement agencies across the country to construct similar facilities—continuing a broader trend towards the militarization of policing and domestic counter-insurgency. For their part, Vertiv is a supplier to the Atlanta Police Department. Just in the year 2023 alone, the APD paid Vertiv $168,315 to utilize their technology.

Cop City is everywhere, so our resistance will be everywhere. March 5th was our call to war…

For Tort

For Rayshard Brooks

March 5th Movement (M5M)”