Defend Direct Action
September, Šakvice, Czech republic.
Received anonymously via email:
“6 hunting towers destroyed!!
This action was for all our non-human brothers and sisters, and for our inspiration – Michal Kolesar.
Vegan straight edge for animals!!”
15th November, Atlanta USA.
Originally Published: Scenes From The Atlanta Forest
“In the late afternoon hours of Tuesday, November 8 (Election Day), another tow truck entered the parking lot of the Weelaunee People’s Park with the intention of carrying away the charred remains of Ryan Millsap’s tow truck, which was burnt back in July. The latter truck has become a monument to the power of this movement, and had already been defended from extraction at least once before. So when this new truck came–its driver saying that he had already called the cops, and he’d be towing our truck as soon as they arrived–forest defenders were quick to respond. The police, on the other hand, were not. When it became clear to the driver that the cops were too lazy, overextended, and scared to come to his aid, he abandoned the vehicle with the keys inside. When DKPD did finally arrive on the scene, they were too scared to even enter the parking lot, let alone the forest. Forest defenders drove the truck to the RC field in an attempt to block the path where a bulldozer had entered last May. Then they set it ablaze, taking great care to ensure that the surrounding grass didn’t catch.
Meanwhile, those Americans that still believe in the ritual of voting were casting their ballots for the maintenance of one or the other version of the status quo. They think of this as freedom, as though the choice between 100 brands of cereal were the same as choosing how to live. We chose another route. We chose to defend a territory that has been claimed by the people, for the people–where the police do not dare to go because they have seen what happens to enemy vehicles. We elected a raging fire beneath a full moon!
Sincerely,The Committee to Elect Stacey Abrams”
20th November, unknown location.
Originally published: Animal Liberation Press Office.
“a woman a fight Animal Liberation Front Direct night action that saves 100 wild animals”
4th December, Italy.
Received anonymously via email:
ENG (translation):
“As a cell belonging to the Animal Liberation Front, we claim this action completed against a duck hunting facility.
The shed where the hunters were mercilessly killing was destroyed and rendered harmless for a long time.
The 4 ducks held in cages to be used as live decoys were taken away and released where they will no longer have to fear these murderous criminals.
We will not stop!
A.L.F.”
ITALIAN (original)
“Come cellula appartenente al Fronte di Liberazione Animale, rivendichiamo questa azione portata a termine contro una struttura per la caccia alle anatre.
Il capanno dove i cacciatori uccidevano senza pieta’ e’ stato distrutto e reso inoffensivo per molto tempo.
Le 4 anatre detenute nelle gabbie per essere usate come richiami vivi sono state portate via e liberate dove non dovranno piu avere paura di questi criminali assassini.
Non ci fermeremo!
A.L.F.”
19th November, Atlanta USA.
Originally published: Scenes From The Atlanta Forest
“On the evening of Saturday, November 19, chainsaw-wielding militants took action to close down the Atlanta Police Department’s shooting range inside the Weelaunee Forest, where APD trains weekly to kill and maim the people of Atlanta. A few small trees were selectively felled in order to block the access road to the shooting range. One of the felled trees hit a power line which provides electricity to the shooting range, leading to a power surge which blew a transformer and disabled the cameras, which were then destroyed with fire and hammers. The power line only services the shooting range. No residential areas were impacted by the outage.
In the middle of the range is a yellow school bus. The windows are shattered from bullet holes, and spent munitions –flash grenades and tear gas – lie under the seats. Its purpose on the range is clear: the only ‘protection’ police offer is violence and death.
The decision to cut a living tree should never be taken lightly. The ongoing presence of the shooting range was an affront to the forest and all who live in or near it; the gunfire and explosions at all hours of day and night, the toxic lead ammunition poisoning the soil and leaching into the water, the way Black and brown people living nearby were forced to listen daily to the police training to murder them.
Weighed against these impacts and the Atlanta Police Foundation’s plan to destroy the entire forest, we understand the felling of these few trees as the forest defending itself. At a moment when the USA’s model of militarized policing is being actively exported around the world to facilitate the destruction of the Amazon and others of the last great forests and indigenous strongholds which stand between us and mass extinction, we know that if these trees could talk, they would say “fuck the police” and would happily volunteer to fall and crush them.
Since the closing of the shooting range, the Weelaunee forest has not been quiet – even the cold November woods are full of life and noise – but it has been more peaceful without the police filling it with the sounds of war. We hope that all the residents of the forest and the surrounding neighborhood can relax better in the relative silence, but we must be clear that we didn’t do this for their sake.
We took this action for the dead – for Rayshard Brooks and every person killed by the Atlanta Police, for every murdered revolutionary, for the Muskogee who were forced from this land, for every enslaved person who lived and died on the plantation here, for every prisoner killed by guards at the old prison farm and buried in unmarked graves in the forest. This forest is theirs and we will not allow the police to desecrate it with their presence.
We will not allow the police to bulldoze over the history of their own crimes.
The land remembers. We remember. Cop city will never be built.”
PHOTO: Unrelated.
5th November, Burggriesbach Germany.
According to local press, a 71-year-old hunter was about to climb his raised hunting hide near Burggriesbach when the structure collapsed. The hunter fell backwards to the ground.
According to the Neumarkt police station in the Upper Palatinate, the hunter suffered minor injuries as a result of the fall. As cause it was determined that the supports of the high seat had been sawed off. According to police, the act must have been committed between October 22 and November 5. The officials investigate now because of damage to property and bodily injury.
via: Act For Free
1st November, Athens Greece.
PHOTO: Unrelated, arson at a police dog training school in Germany, 2019.
“Athens, Explosive attack on meat industry – Signal of solidarity to G.Michailidis and to Alfredo Cospito by Anarchists
With this text we take responsibility for the fire of 3 refrigerator-trucks of Davoutis SA, in Nea Ionia, Athens. All three trucks, which were parked next to the main shop-slaughterhouse of the company, were completely destroyed by the flames. This company has been active for decades in the trade of murdered animals, making it one of the largest domestic ‘meat markets’.
Our action is a signal of solidarity, complicity and comradeship with comrade Giannis Michailidis and his struggle, not only in the capacity of a prisoner with a “just demand”, but with all the perspectives and contents of struggle that as an anarchist he has put on the table of subversive fermentations.
With this action, therefore, we in turn want to put a small stone in the broadening of the struggle for freedom and the enrichment of its perspectives and practices. We want to reposition in the integral place it occupies within the resistance to the plundering of nature, the targeting and sabotage of structures that enrich themselves through the torture and mass extermination of non-human animals.
The creation of communities of resistance and direct action against development projects on remote mountain tops and rivers. The struggles for the militant defence of the few remaining urban green zones (such as those evolving in the hills, parks and squares of Athens). The collective vigilance and organisation for the protection and rescue of forests from the devastating fires of urbanisation. Our self-education on the destructive consequences of the continuous development of industrial civilization, on the evolving climate change and further radical analysis and action against the hourglass of destruction.
All of the above go together with the recognition of the importance of saving biodiversity and animal ecosystems, they go together with the struggle for the liberation of every individual, every animal from the confinement structures of the “food” industry, from the experimental laboratories of “progress”, from the hands of the “clothing” skinners. They go along with the coherent attitude of vegetarianism, to the point at which the opposition to the domination of man over other animals is completed at the individual level. An opposition that emanates from the most elementary features of counter-authoritarian thought and practice.
The connection between the causes of the incessant deforestation, the overwhelming monocultures of cereals to feed farm animals, the enormous contribution of the livestock industry to the greenhouse effect and the pollution of the subsoil and aquifer, the mass extinction of species, is more obvious than ever. It is the background of the packaging that ends up on the shelves of supermarkets and large markets like Davoutis’ and then on the plates of a connoisseurial society living in generalised indifference. A backstage characterized from beginning to end by torture, confinement, the blood of those who have no voice to speak the obvious: We are not objects, we are not commodities!
But beyond the imposed conditions and the effects of the modern dystopia of mass societies. The project of a life without imposition and exploitation is completed and acquires a comprehensive perspective when, through opposition to power as the driving force of the suffering of this world, we place at its centre, as inherent characteristics in the here and now, freedom, self determination, life itself, of all living beings. For just as was said above: no life can be sacrificed as an object, as a commodity!
Let this action be taken as an address, a call to the comrades who share a common perspective for total liberation and are in the unfortunate position of a marginalized minority, to disentangle themselves and to speak out, to act, to organize. The massive social acceptance enjoyed by all these structures that torture and murder animals and projects that destroy nature makes their infrastructures targets beyond suspicion, in many cases unguarded and vulnerable. They are everywhere, inside and outside metropolitan centres.
Finally, we declare that we are closely following the development of Giannis’s case. We do not intend to treat the prolonged torture of the comrade during his hunger strike and his continued incarceration through bureaucratic mockery as mere dots on a chronology of events. They are experiences of particular pain and cost to the life and freedom of the comrade… they are causes of intensified hostilities.
Immediate release of the anarchist guerrilla Giannis Michaelidis
Support and Victory to the hunger strike of Alfredo Cospito
Sabotage the confinement and torture of human and non-animal animals
Until the destruction of the last cage….”
30th November, Mineappolis USA
received anonymously via email:
“We visited a health food store in Minneapolis for the third time. We filled a cart full with bison meat and left it in an aisle. The products will spoil fast for a $600 loss. It was asked if the store will replace the items. Yes. But after repeated actions they will stop ordering these products, causing economic damage to a small and niche industry like the buffalo meat industry. This would be most effective for stores smelling foie gras, cornish hens, buffalo meat, etc.”
received anonymously via email:
30th November, Mexico.
ENGLISH (translation)
“From the territory dominated by the mexican state.
We join the call to action for solidarity after the kidnap of four antispeciesist comrades in Chile by the state. They have been stolen from their freedom after being accused of arson on trucks and fridges against the Susaron meat packing plant the last september. After a repressive action by the police they were arrested and remanded on the 4th of November.
International solidarity with all fighting speciesism, capitalism and the state, sacrificing their life and freedom to defeat this exploitative, violent and hierarchical system.
You can send us to jail, but the flames that burn in our hearts will never be extinguished!
Fire to Susaron and to all other capitalist enterprises that profit from the bodies and lives of everybody else! May the fire of sabotage spread! Down with the prisons! “
SPANISH:
“Desde territorio dominado por el estado mexicano
Nos sumamos a las acciones solidarias y de protesta por la detención de 4 compas antiespecistas de Chile, que se encuentran ahora privadxs de su libertad por ser acusadxs de sabotaje incendiario contra frigoríficos y camiones de la empresa cárnica Susaron (ataque ocurrido en Septiembre). Tras una operación represiva fueron arrestadxs y acusadxs este 04 de noviembre.
Solidaridad internacional con todxs lxs que atentan al especismo, al capitalismo y al estado, sacrificando sus vidas y sus libertad por derrotar a este sistema explotador, depredador, violento y jerárquico.
Pueden encarcelarnos pero nunca podrán apagar las llamas que arden en nuestros corazones!
Que arda Susaron y todas las empresas capitalistas que lucran con los cuerpos y las vidas de lxs demas! Que se expanda el fuego del sabotaje! Abajo la cárcel!”
16th November, Northern Italy.
Received anonymously via email:
ENGLISH:
“In the night a group belonging to the Animal Liberation Front broke into one of the many prisons where suffering and death reign, freeing 40 animals from the evil fate imposed on them by criminal humans.
Our only regret is we were not able to save more.
In memory of Barry Horne.
A.L.F.”
ITALIAN
“16 novembre 2022, nord Italia.
Nella notte un gruppo appartenente
al Fronte di Liberazione Animale
si e’ introdotto in uno dei tanti lager
di detenzione dove regnano
sofferenza e morte,
liberando 40 animali dal malvagio
destino loro imposto
dall’umano criminale.
Il nostro unico rammarico e’
non essere riusciti a salvarne di piu’.
In memoria di Barry Horne.
A.L.F.”