Defend Direct Action
4th February, Germany
Received anonymously via email:
“Single chicken without any companions rescued from a small and dark shed in Germany, in February 2020. She was soon going to be killed and consumed by the owners. Now she lives on an animal sanctuary together with other chickens.”
28th January, France.
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[FRENCH BELOW]
“We know the cages, the horrible smell, the corpses, the mechanical noise made by the industrialization of death. And yet whenever we dig to these places far away from everyone’s eyes, the horror of seeing one of the worst inventions of humanity strikes us.
We can be paralyzed by our helplessness in front of the thousands of people locked up, exploited and massacred, looking at them through the bars and hating to have the responsibility of choosing which ones will be able to get out.
Tonight, 10 hens exploited for their eggs will never see the cages again. 10 lives changed in the midst of thousands of others, 10 people who were incaged for humans to eat their secretions. These resistance fighters show us every day their strength, their autonomy and the need to snatch them out from these hells.
We have an obligation to get out of a passive veganism that is done in our kitchens, we do not fight with money to support vegan capitalism but with our guts alongside those who fall asleep locked up. No social progress has ever been made without including the oppressed in their struggle. The reality is happening on farms, confronting it is a matter of life and death for the victims.
Tonight, 10 people will be guaranteed to live far from Hell, but all the other faces, the looks in which we get lost those nights, the people we could not help must be engraved in our minds and push us to become their fight’s accomplices.
To our comrades who have left us and to those who inspire us day after day,
The other animals are powerful.
The other animals are not “voiceless”.
Until everyone is forced to hear their howls, until each cage is destroyed,
ALF
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28 janvier 2020, quelque part en France
On connait les cages, l’odeur horrible, les cadavres, le bruit mécanique de l’industrialisation de la mort. Et pourtant dès que l’on creuse jusqu’à ces endroits loin des yeux du monde, l’horreur de voir encore l’une des pires inventions de l’humanité nous frappe.
On peut être paralysé.e par notre impuissance devant les milliers de personnes enfermées, exploitées, massacrées, les regarder à travers les barreaux et détester avoir la responsabilité de choisir lesquelles pourront en sortir.
Cette nuit ce sont 10 poules exploitées pour leurs oeufs qui ne reverront plus jamais les cages. 10 vies changées au milieu des milliers d’autres, 10 personnes qui étaient encagées pour que des humain.e.s mangent leurs sécrétions. Ces résistantes nous montrent chaque jour leur force, leur autonomie et la nécessité de les arracher à ces enfers.
Nous avons l’obligation de sortir d’un véganisme passif qui se fait dans nos cuisines, on ne lutte pas avec des billets pour soutenir un capitalisme végane mais avec nos tripes aux côtés de celles et ceux qui s’endorment enfermé.e.s. Aucun progrès social ne s’est fait sans inclure les opprimé.e.s dans leur lutte. La réalité se passe dans les élevages, s’y confronter est une question de vie ou de mort pour les victimes.
Ce soir, 10 personnes auront la garantie de vivre loin de l’Enfer, mais tous les autres visages, les regards dans lesquels on se perd ces nuits-là, les personnes que nous n’avons pas pu aider doivent être gravés en nous et nous pousser à devenir des complices de lutte pour les autres animaux.
A nos camarades qui nous ont quitté et à celles et ceux qui nous inspirent jour après jour,
Les autres animaux sont puissant.e.s.
Les autres animaux ne sont pas des “sans voix”.
Jusqu’à ce que tout le monde soit forcé d’entendre leurs hurlements, jusqu’à ce que chaque cage soit détruite,
ALF”
9th February, Kent UK.
Received anonymously via email:
“Fuck you Little Oakhurst.
After reading about this filthy shithole and the 177 cows that were brutally shot because Tracy Middleton is a lazy piece of shit, I felt a lone journey out to Kent was in order, making my way through the back field, I came across 2 lambs stuck between fencing and bramble, it didnt suprise me, I’ve read the previous hit reports, I know how disgusting this farm is but I was still moved, shoving my hands through the bramble, I grabbed the first one, the second doesnt move, like it knows I’m trying to help, I pull them both out, hold them tight and get back to the vehicle, as I approach the farm house, I’m raging at her lack of basic care, who the fuck acts like this? so this is a fuck you Middleton, 2 more lives you wont be destroying any time soon.
Her sentencing is this Thursday in Margate Magistrates, if you,re in the area, be there.
love and Rage”
4th February, Lewes UK.
received anonymously via email:
“We saw the call to action from dxe frontlines against the free range egg industry, so on the 4th of February, we paid a quick visit to Mac’s farm in Lewes. It is currently enjoying a wave of good publicity, with people all over the internet directing those concerned about Hoads Farm since last week’s investigation to instead just buy from Mac’s.
People have been twisting the narrative to promote organic instead of free range, because organic actually give a shit about animals, right? Well we call bullshit.
Their site is littered with poison traps for rodents, which we filled with expanding foam to stop anyone going inside and getting killed. The poison had also spilled out of the trap and being on a public footpath, could easily be eaten by dogs on walks. Speciesism always gives way to more speciesism.
There is no ethical egg and there is no ethical exploitation.
Fuck Mac’s farm for pretending otherwise, and #FuckFreeRange!”
31th January, Germany.
Received anonymously via email:
“Statement against fur of some concerned citizens in Cologne.
#banfur #PelzAdrian”
January, Denmark.
Received anonymously via email:
“On a stormy night in January this little boy was liberated from an intensive pig breeding farm in Denmark.
Denmark prides itself on high animal welfare but it is clear in all of these farms that all they care about is money. This little baby was liberated from a life time of exploitation, but our fight for his thousands of brothers and sisters that die everyday continues.”
5th February, Kent UK.
received anonymously over email:
“We’d heard of the horror farm in Kent owned and run by Tracy Middleton and the campaign folks are running. We saw the photos they had taken of dead bodies in piles next to young lambs and other sheep still clinging on to life.
So as we were in the area we went to Little Oakhurst Brissenden Farm to see for ourselves. We saw the starving sheep, their bones visible even through their wool. We saw the awful conditions and the sickness. Don’t get us wrong we fucking hate every farm and there’s no nice exploitation but this was something else. This is what happens when a lazy psychopath get their hands on animals. We aided those we could grab away from this hell hole and to somewhere safe where they won’t be neglected or sent to slaughter. Even with multiple cop cars showing up we still managed to evade them and make our joint escape. It tore us apart to leave so many comrades behind, knowing that only more suffering lay ahead for them.
We hear there’s a protest at Tracy’s on the 9th, we won’t be able to make it so we hope you will. People should be fucking raging!
We dedicate this action to the memory of Jill Phipps who lived and died fighting for animal liberation.
The fight continues.”
27th January, Sweden.
Via: BiteBack Magazine.
“The local meat shop/cafe in Eslöv Sweden got a visit by the DBF, a message was left and their locks glued.
DBF”
18th January, Czech Republic.
‘I stop the car in the forest on the side of the road. Several people get out with the necessary equipment and get lost among the trees. Me and Petra are going to park the car. Later we meet with others near the object. When the patrols are on their spots we go to the large metal door. The silence and stink is everywhere.
In a little while we are inside. Every time it looks the same. Life in liquidation proceedings.
Lukas and Petra prepare the bags and I collect animals. They don’t even run away. We take some pictures. No art, just documentation. After that we are ready to leave with six ducks for whom kind people prepared a wonderful new home.
In Memory of Bill “Avalon” Rodgers
Bill Rodgers was found dead on December 21, 2005 in his cell. According to police, he committed suicide using a plastic bag. He choked himself.
Together with six other activists he was arrested on December 7, 2005 as part of Operation Backfire (FBI).
Before he suffocated, he wrote, “I didn’t leave. I just changed form. With or without me, resistance is getting stronger every day.” ‘
January, Kent UK.
received anonymously via email:
“How to steal pigs and be a dickhead…..
Liberating animals without a forward plan is just stressful and reckless and puts so much strain on your community and mental health. Don’t be that dickhead.
Thankfully folks came through for this sweet girl who, despite being on a non intensive type pig exploitation facility was still tail banded and had a hoof injury. She is safe now and despite what she has been through trusts humans so much.”
