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December 2021, January 2022, Bristol UK
received anonymously via email:
“Four tyres on a Pak’s butchers van, December.
Two large windows smashed of butchers in Clifton at the mill 30th Dec.
Window and door butchers Srt Werbergs 15th January”
Photo: Unrelated, butchers attacked by the ALF in Bristol in solidarity with Bristol rioters back in 2021.
9th January, Italy
via: Frente De Liberacion Animal (translation)
ENG:
“The Animal Liberation Front has liberated a hunting dog that was extremelly ill in Veneto (Italy).
Their liberation was the only viable solution. Overnight, hidden in the shadows, the liberators broke their chains.
Now they are being treated by a vet and will live in a home where they will be respected and lovel til the end of their life.”
SPANISH:
«El Frente de Liberación Animal libera a un ex perro de caza enfermo in Veneto (Italia).
Su liberación fue la única solución, durante la noche, ocultxs, su liberadores rompieron su cadenas .
Ahora está en cuidado veterinario y estará en un hogar donde será respetado y querido hasta el final de sus días”.
18th January, Barcelona.
According to reports on Twitter, the University of Barcelona was the target of spray painting warning them to liberate the beagles they have contracted to be killed by Vivotecnia.
The University contracted the services of Vivotecnia to test a new pharmacological drug, paying them 255.648,8 euros for it. The trial is supposed to last 28 days and 38 beagle puppies are being tested. At the end of the test, the dogs are scheduled to be killed.
Their murder date is the 24th of January, and people are fighting in many different ways to force them to release the dogs. In this case, anonymous folk spray painted “LAST WARNING”, “LIBERATE THE BEAGLES” and “STOP VIVOTECNIA” on the walls of the university.
January, France.
received anonymously via email:
“We took action in a hen breeding place in France. We rescued five young hens so that they could avoid a short life of exploitation before being slaughtered. These lucky people are now far away from this speciesist farm and will hopefully live a long life full of joy with other species friends.
Liberate, sabotage, block, destroy, let’s end this oppressive system!”
January, Europe.
via NAALPO:
“NEW YEAR” CELEBRATED IN OUR WAY: 10 PIGS LIBERATED FROM A FARM LAST NIGHT (EUROPE)! WHAT DO WE WANT FOR 2022 ? THE ADVENT OF A REAL REVOLUTIONARY ANTI-SPECIESIST STRUGGLE !
LE “NOUVEL AN” CÉLÉBRÉ À NOTRE FAÇON : 10 COCHONS LIBÉRÉS D’UN ÉLEVAGE LA NUIT DERNIÈRE (EUROPE) ! CE QUE NOUS VOULONS POUR 2022 ? L’AVÈNEMENT D’UNE VRAIE LUTTE ANTISPÉCISTE RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE !
While everyone was busy celebrating the new year, some comrades of the collective broke into a farm last night to free 10 pigs for which private sanctuaries had been found beforehand.
For obvious security reasons, we will not mention any indication of the target location, nor its geographical situation. These details are not important anyway, because we have a systemic, materialist, and internationalist approach of speciesism. This action took place somewhere in Europe, that’s all we can tell you.
Entering these places – slaughterhouses, farms and laboratories – means daring to face the reality and to get rid of abstract speeches. Our oppressed comrades are in front of us and we suddenly have the responsibility to make a decision that can change their lives.
We need to overcome the failure of the “animalist movement” that complies with reformism, to attack the structures of the speciesist domination and to act concretely in solidarity with our exploited comrades.
Last night, with our desire of action, our rage, and our determination, we broke into a farm that we had already spotted several months ago in order to join our words with actions.
The symbols and structures of the speciesist domination are everywhere if we dare leading concrete actions linked to our ideas and values of liberation, our complicities, our knowledge, and our ingenuity in strategy.
This is the perspective of our collective that supports a revolutionary antispeciesism based on direct action and built with the oppressed animals. We want to get rid of the civilisational, paternalistic, and bourgeois animalist movement supported by most of animal rights activists and associations.”
1st January, Stuttgart Germany
received anonymously via email:
“Exactly while others caused senseless noise and dirt and animals thereby got killed and disturbed, we ended the danger for many rats by 22 abnormal poisoning murder stations to die miserably!
Around the city hall and the adjacent rich quarter no rat will die anymore while people are happily walking around and buying fur or meat and milk.
Fuck your speciesism!
#totalliberation”
2021, Czech Republic
received anonymously via email:
“Darkness has fallen down. I can hear only my own breath and steps in a muddy field. It is a couple minutes before the action. The spotter gives us a green light. We are coming closer to the place of torture. The closer we get, the heavier the odor gets.
Last look back and we are inside the hall. Routine is still the same. Take the animals and get them out, seeing what they had to live through in between those concrete walls soaked by the smell of despair. A screenplay for the action is identical, but the feelings are a little different, mixed and always depressive. Dead bodies lying on the floor. Sorrowful looks of mutilated animal beings with no space to move around, spread their wings, no chance to feel fresh air and a solid ground beneath their feet. Even though the only thing separating them from freedom is fucking door and fence. We are on our way out, carrying a few saved lives. Feelings are still depressive, but slightly better because of the survivors.
Last year we managed to liberate 190 animals from factory farms and 38 from laboratories.”
1st January, Sweden.
received anonymously via email:
“FOR THE WOLVES – A FIRE BURNS IN THE SWEDISH FOREST! HUNTING HIGH SCHOOL VANDALIZED! HUNTING TOWERS SABOTAGED!
Hunters in so-called Sweden began this year with the mass murder of wolves. The snow is stained with blood. SCUM! Unfortunately we were unable to prevent the wolf slaughter, this time. Yet ALF went out into the woods. On the first day of the year we vandalized and sabotaged, against the hunters. We caused financial damage to a hunting high school! Vile hunters should not teach children to kill nonhuman animals. We destroyed five hunting towers! Death monuments do not belong in the wild. Hunting is murder! We lit a, fitting, fire in the night! In honor of the wolves killed in the forests. To show our anger.
We will never stop fighting hunting, saving lifes.
FCK HUNT!
UNTIL EVERYONE IS FREE!
ALF”
25th December, UK.
Received anonymously via email:
“Whilst everybody was getting drunk and partying on Christmas Eve, we broke into T&S. They are still going, still torturing rabbits, still murdering them “for their meat” and making bank selling their fur.
The place is disgusting. The smell of rotten flesh is a permanent feature in the farm, and the rabbits show all kinds of illnesses, from mites and head tilt to lack of limbs.
We took as many as we had houses for and we left without being seen. Rudolf the anarcho-reindeer made sure they were delivered to safety. They will no longer know human cruelty and will be allowed the space and time they need to heal physically and mentally.
To everybody fighting T&S, we see you. Keep at it, and let’s make that company a thing of the past once and for all.
bunnies against Phill Kerry.”
23rd December, Madrid Spain.
Received anonymously via email:
“We were bored in a winter afternoon thinking about our miserable lives, but we thought “fuck depression, lets do direct action”.
We started to think about all the people who lives in prison and the different types of prisons. We realised that near us were people locked up in little plastic cages; a lot of crickets. They were in a pet shop called Petiberia with more species locked up inside, so we made a plan and we went there.
We entered the shop and while a person was distracting the security people, the other took as much as possible of the plastic prisons with the people inside and went out of the shop. The workers were thinking in their dumb lives so they didn’t realise about was was happening.
After, we looked for a safe place for the crickets, and we ended up in a field. We opened the cages there and they jumped out. But some of them were dead, so we estimate that the number of people that escaped that day was 125.
This is a simple and easy action and you can help a lot of people with it. Go to your local pet shop and do it!!!
FREE YOUR RAGE, NEVER STOP THE ATTACK.
Kisses for the workers <3 we’ll see each other again :P”
Photo: stock image, no photo was sent with the reprot