Defend Direct Action
17th October, Belgium.
received anonymously via email:
“Since hunters are also active at night and the hunting season has officially started on 15-10, we wish all fellow activists a lot of wisdom and safety.”
2nd October, Maipo River, Chile.
translated from spanish by a comrade and supporter:
“Facts.
On the night of Saturday, October 1, we materialized the attack in defense of the land and waters of the Maipo River through an incendiary sabotage to Empresas Baeza, located on the north bank of the Maipo River in the Puente Alto district, causing considerable damage valued at hundreds million pesos (380 million according to what they say).
Context.
Unlike other aggregates companies in the sector that can barely operate a couple of machines, Empresas Baeza generates millionaire profits through the direct devastation of the Maipo riverbank, digging it to extract aggregates and grit, renting machinery for excavation and movement of aggregates and land, contracts with the M.O.P. and highway construction, also counting on multiple tenders granted by municipalities, which largely come from mayors and councilors belonging to the National Renovation party, evidencing links, networks and historical complicity of the Baeza family towards its militants.
An example of their great earnings is the family “mansion” as they usually call their summer home located on Lake Rapel, to which they frequently go to enjoy the charming landscape that the environment offers, contrasting enormously with the surroundings of their company. , where misery and social and ecological degradation are breathed.
The Maipo River is of vital importance for much of the biodiversity in the Metropolitan Region, as well as for the large city founded on it, supplying the population about 70% of drinking water and 90% of irrigation water in addition to the large amount of electricity production generated by the many hydroelectric plants that exploit it (Aes Gener SA, Carbomet Energía SA, Mallarauco SA, Eléctrica Puntilla, Sociedad Canalistas del Maipo (SCM), among others).
However, instead of being deeply valued, respected and cared for, it is outraged and exploited by various companies from different industries in almost all sections of the river, for example:
exploited mainly by Alto Maipo (hydroelectric company belonging to Aes Gener S.A.), from the top of the mountain range to its arrival in the city.
multiple companies dedicated to the extraction and sale of aggregates born during the dictatorship, such as Empresas Baeza and its neighboring cement company of the TX Group, which through its Rosario mining company drills deep into the northern bank of the river. Large vineyards also abound here, mainly belonging to Viña Concha y Toro S.A., hydroelectric power plants such as those mentioned above, where we highlight Carbomet Energía S.A. and its Compañia Auxiliar de Eléctricidad del Maipo S.A. (CAEMSA), both belonging to the company. (CAEMSA), both belonging to Molymet and located in Puente Alto, which use the supposed La Carburera irrigation canal which, far from serving as a source of irrigation for farmers in rural areas, works exclusively for these two hydroelectric plants, in addition to EBAEZA for the operation of some of its aggregate processing machines, for which it is necessary to extract and divert water that significantly impacts the flow present in the Maipo River over a large stretch throughout the year.
Finally, its mouth in Llolleo is also affected by the threat of the expansion of the San Antonio mega-port, a fundamental part of COSIPLAN (ex IIRSA), an ecocidal and mega-extractivist project in the southern cone of Abya Yala. Amazon And as if that were not enough, the powerful and nefarious multinational
Amazon announces its arrival with the installation of its first data-center at South American level in the commune of Puente Alto, which in all probability will exploit the waters of the Maipo to feed its necessary cooling system, as well as the data-centers of Google, Microsoft and Huawei in the northern part of the Metropolitan Region that also need to consume huge amounts of groundwater thus enhancing the drought throughout the territory.
Know that their presence is hostile to Maipo and we will not hesitate to receive them in the worst way, attacking with fire, bullet and gunpowder if necessary!
Today more than ever it is urgent to stop the advance of devastation and prevent the land from continuing to be exploited. Today more than ever it is urgent to destroy everything that perpetuates ecocidal logics. For our part we are very clear that the denunciation and legislation in this regard are counter-times that entrap and minimize the struggle for land, that the cries, banners and slogans do not scratch or scare. That the verbiage and virtual activism remains just that. This is why we propagate here and now the offensive, direct action, without mediators, materializing the fire to the devastation with our own hands and we strongly encourage revolutionaries, insurrectionist, nihilists, rebels of all Abya Yala to take fire and gunpowder in their hands too and destroy companies, houses, offices, transports and lives of all those who destroy ours along with the land, forests, jungles, rivers and fauna. Because it is urgent to end this system of death on all fronts and the liberation of Abya Yala from plunder, colonization, imperialist depredation, extractivist and capitalist logics must happen now. For a free, autonomous and horizontal life between all species and the earth.
To reforest the native, with direct and combative attack!
Let us clarify.
Regarding the similarities that our action and objective may have with those happened in the Wallmapu and the predictable distortion and manipulation of the ill-intentioned bourgeois press always servile to power. Regarding the discourse that “everything is a set-up” that is constantly raised by some sectors of the citizenry and even many pseudo-revolutionary sectors, we clarify that:
Mónica Caballero, Francisco Solar, Mawünhko, Tomás, Joaquín Garcia, Juan Aliste, Marcelo Villaroel, Mayo, subversive and Mapuche prisoners and clandestinxs, anti-authoritarian and subversive prisoners from all of Abya Yala and the rest of the continents: each one of these fires seeks to give you moments of escape and bring you here because that is how we continue to find ourselves in each attack. With Emilia Bau strongly present in the memory of the Maipo Valley and the liberation of the land.
With Santiago Maldonado, Macarena Valdés, Ruben Collío, Claudia Lopez, Punky Mauri, Pelao Angry. By spreading fire against devastation, we also spread memory and revenge.
Weeks away from the third anniversary of that October 18, we do not forget Cristián Valdebenito or all the dead of the revolt. Revenge and the constant attack on power will be where we will permanently meet all our dead.
Death to TPP-11 and all treaties at the service of capital’s devastation and looting of the land and our autonomy.
For anarchy, for the land, for our lives.
Insurrectionary Cell for the Maipo.”
12th October, Philadelphia, USA:
received anonymously via email:
“On Columbus day, in the early morning we vandalized a colonizer statue on the Wissahickon trail. Phrases included: Decolonize, Land and Freedom, No Borders, No Nations, No More USA, (A)
We also covered the colonizer’s face, hands, and scroll in red paint.
Fighting colonization is a way to nurture a less hierarchical relation with the land and those that live on it.”
Photo: as the report did not have a photo attached, we have used a Toleration Statue image from the internet.
Our comrades from Sweden Hunt Saboteurs are once again having to fight against the messacre that is the Wolf Cull. This time, 75 wolves are scheduled to be murdered at the begining of January.
We have attached their words below, but pleasem, if you can afford it, donate to their FireFund and support them as much as you can from wherever you are in the world. The group fights constantly against hunting praqctives throughout the country, but their members are also strong antispeciesist comrades who take on the fight in many different fronts and are deserving of as much solidarity as you can extend. If you are unable to donate, please share as much as possible!
“On January 2nd the wolf hunt starts in Sweden and 75 wolves have been sentenced to lose their lives in brutal and ruthless ways. The hunters will tear families apart, torture them to death and traumatize not only the wolves but all the inhabitants of the forest. The wolf hatred is both great and accepted in Sweden which results in wolves being tortured and poisoned to death. Wolves are also a big part of the trophy hunt which means that their lives will be sold to the highest bidder, both legally and illegally.
Hunt Saboteurs Sweden intends to make the hunting difficult and prevent the killing in every possible way to protect the wolves. We will do everything in our power to protect and save these innocent and amazing creatures from the hunters bloodlust. Do you want to help the wolves and our work? Read more about it or donate by clicking the link.The security of the page is high and all the money goes directly to the protection of the wolves.
Protect the wolves – hunt the hunters!
https://www.firefund.net/protectthewolves“
Find Sweden Hunt Saboteurs here:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HuntSaboteursSweden
Instagram: @huntsabssweden https://www.instagram.com/huntsabssweden/
24th September, Netherlands.
via Animal Liberation Press Office
Received anonymously:
“24.09. The A.L.F. saves 18 brown chickens & 6 white chickens in two different intensive farms In the Netherlands”
10th October, Cambridge UK
via: This is Not a Drill.
“In the last few hours, climate activists broke all the front windows of Schlumberger’s fossil fuel research centre located on the University of Cambridge’s West Site. Reporting their actions to the direct action website This Is Not a Drill this morning, the activists said they did this in reaction to the news that over a third of Pakistan had been flooded due to climate change caused by oil and gas extraction. They targeted Schlumberger because it’s the world’s biggest fossil fuel services company and the largest provider of oil and gas technology to fossil fuel companies in the world. The research centre targeted is of strategic importance as it’s one of just five the company has around the world.
One participant, who did not give their name, said: “Schlumberger is the home of oil and gas in Cambridge. They’re the biggest offshore drilling company in the world and do untold harm to us. They have 36,000 fossil fuel technology patents, work with every single major oil company, and have a test oil drill in their Cambridge research centre connected to huge tanks of mud to simulate drilling the seabed. Their well-paid scientists and engineers could absolutely find jobs in renewables or other positive sectors if they wanted to, but it seems they just don’t care that their work kills people or that their employer steals and destroys land and water from indigenous people. The company is evil. They have to go.”
Another anonymous activist said: “We’re so tired from the anger and despair we feel towards the University of Cambridge, our government, and other institutions that are supposed to be doing good but constantly and by default do the opposite. They pay for, host, and promote these awful companies who murder our friends in the Global South and destroy the planet simply to make money. We’re tired of trying again and again to make positive change in a system designed to ignore us while rich companies, insulated for now from the carnage, laugh at our suffering. We’re done blocking roads and we’re done chanting. We’ve come to disarm fossil fuel companies wherever we find them and we call anyone else who can’t stand the death and indifference any longer to join us. Pick your target – there are plenty in Cambridge and thousands more around the UK. Together, decentralised, we can dismantle the fossil fuel empire that cares more about its executives’ private jets than it does about our lives.”
26th September, Germany
received anonymously via email:
“Before and after photos of our forest walk.
Grüsse aus Deustchland”
25th September, France.
Received anonymously via email:
ENG:
“LET’S OPEN THE HUTCHES OF THE WORLD!
Small hutches or large camps, a stolen freedom is a stolen life. No matter the size of the concentration camp, imprisonment is an abomination, we have the duty to open them all! Before their programmed murder… Let’s free the mothers and their babies and prevent the criminals from giving birth to millions of fattening slaves!
How magical it is to see you discovering grass… How magical it is to see you cavorting in the freedom of nature… Nature… Your home…
No more fences, no more sham! Let’s open the cages to stop the carnage!
Let every animalist open a camp, let every animalist open the cages of hell to hope for Justice in this prison world…
Sisters and brothers, we liberate you at night so that your freedom may see the day…
Women of the world fighting for a world of peace and freedom.”
FR:
“OUVRONS LES CLAPIERS DU MONDE ENTIER !
Petits clapiers ou grands camps, une liberté volée est une vie volée. Peu importe la taille du camp de concentration, l’emprisonnement est une abomination, nous avons le devoir de tous les ouvrir ! Avant leur assassinat programmé… Libérons les mamans et leurs bébés et empêchons les criminels de faire naître par millions les esclaves d’engraissement !
Qu’il est magique de vous voir découvrir l’herbe… Qu’il est magique de vous voir faire des cabrioles dans cet espace de liberté qu’est la nature… La nature… Votre maison…
Plus de clôtures, plus d’imposture ! Ouvrons les cages pour arrêter le carnage !
Que chaque animaliste ouvre un camp, que chaque animaliste ouvre les cages de l’enfer pour espérer une Justice dans ce monde carcéral…
Sœurs et frères, nous vous libérons la nuit pour que votre liberté voit le jour…
Des habitantes du monde se battant pour un monde de paix et de liberté.”
September, Brittany France.
“WE CAME BACK FOR THE RAINBOW TROUTS
A few months ago, we went to an organic trout farm in Brittany, France. We liberated 16 animals from it in a river. We thought that this was not enough and came back there in the beginning of September.
We liberated 24 other trouts from this farm, and then we sabotaged the fish vacuum pump, a machine used to get the animals out of the water before killing them. We cut the electric cables, the pipes, and removed various parts of it. The machine might be repairable, but it will surely cost time and money to the breeders.
In our last report, some people accused us of endangering the wild animals by freeing the trouts in nature : we did not act without thinking and searching. There is no risk because of the few number of individuals released and their inability to reproduce themselves in a such environment.
However we would be pleased to see other direct actions that help the fish, so often forgotten in the antispeciesist fight.”
5th September, Leicestershire UK.
“While checking in on local wildlife a group of activists came across a whole heap of shotgun pellets and a pheasant feeder. That night the country was hit by fierce storms that damaged the feeder deeming it unusable!
Note wherever animals are being killed storms will continue to rage!”
Photo: Unrelated image from a pheasant farm raid in Belgium, 2019.