Defend Direct Action
29th October, Sweden.
anonymous report:
“On the 29th of October Djurrättsmilisen (the Swedish Animal Rights Militia) celebrated an early Halloween together with fur farmer Niclas Pettersson. Loads of cat shit was thrown into his beloved garden. And a Halloween prop, a gravestone, was put in his garden as well. The gravestone was marked with ‘RIP Niclas Pettersson ex-mink farmer’.
Happy Halloween you disgusting animal abusing scum! //Djurrättsmilisen”
Photo: Unrelated lab raid in the late 80s.
reported anonymously:
“Switzerland – End of September
Three young goats and two rabbits destined to death were rescued and brought to a safe place.
We couldn’t stay still watching them incarcerated in tiny spaces while bred to become pieces of meat.
With this action we want to send a solidarity sign to Matthias who is in prison in Switzerland accused of different actions against animal exploitation businesses and whose trial will start on the 6th of November.
The best solidarity is DIRECT ACTION and continuing the struggle!
For total liberation, for anarchy!”
30th October, Italy.
According to a report on frentedeliberacionanimal.net, the Animal Liberation Front destroyed a hunter’s cabin in Castel d’Ario.
9th October, Cremona, Italy.
via: Frentedeliberacionanimal.net
“On her neck she wears the wounds of the chain, in her mind the traces of solitude. She was an object, not even worthy of a name. Forced to drink rotten water and food leftovers, without any contact or even any interaction with his “owner”. A pure soul that has suffered repeated physical violence.
The liberators could not look away, they had to save him and they did. His recovery will be long, at some point he will be able to trust humans again. Now she will be given the chance to live in a place where she will receive love, a word unknown to her, hundreds of miles away from cruelty.
The deep wound in her neck will sooner or later disappear, but within her a very heavy scar with which she will have to live will remain forever.
Long live ‘Little Sweet Angel’.”
October, Germany.
via: BiteBack Magazine.
According to media reports, “militant hunting opponents” are suspected of being behind the destruction of numerous hunting towers near the city of Celle in recent months. Four hunting towers were set on fire in the last week alone.
Other reports from Northern Germany and Bavaria put the count of hunting towers destroyed up to 30.
The police has offered money for anyone who wishes to be shanked for being a snitch.
15th October, Italy.
via: BiteBack Magazine
“Red paint was thrown onto windows of a fur shop in Como during the night of October 15-16. According to media reports, a nearby fur/leather company was also spray-painted.”
20th October, Paris.
received anonymously
“On the night of October 20th, in the Paris region, we released a partridge exploited as a decoy.
Hunters raise and exploit people of other species, lock them in cages or tie them to strings to attract their peers and then kill them all.
We do not know how long this person was locked up in this cage, and we can only imagine the number of his/her congeners he/she saw die before her/his eyes.
The cage was at the edge of a wood, near a field. We cut the wire mesh from the cage using scissors for metal. Then we took the person with us to free him/her in a forest where hunting is less present and where he/she will not be tempted to come back to eat where he/she was being held.
What we have done is illegal because speciesism is the norm. Exploitation and killing is socially accepted, and those who actively oppose it to help the victims are tracked down, tried and locked up by the state.
Revolt with us against all the oppressive norms, destroy what allows them to continue, and this, until the end of all dominations!”
French:
“Dans la nuit du 20 octobre, en région parisienne, nous avons libéré un.e perdrix / garbon exploité.e en tant qu’appelant.e.
Les chass.eurs/euses élèvent et exploitent des personnes d’autres espèces, les enferment dans des cages ou les attachent à des ficelles pour attirer leurs congénères et ensuite tou.te.s les assassiner.
Nous ne savons pas depuis quand cette personne était enfermée dans cette cage, et nous ne pouvons qu’imaginer le nombre de ses congénères qu’elle a vu mourir sous ses yeux.
La cage était à la lisière d’un bois, proche d’un champs. Nous avons découpé le grillage de la cage à l’aide de ciseaux à métaux. Puis nous avons emmené la personne avec nous pour la libérer dans une forêt où la chasse est moins présente et où elle ne sera pas tentée de revenir manger à l’endroit où elle était détenue.
Ce que nous avons fait est illégal, car le spécisme est la norme. Exploiter et tuer est socialement admis, et celleux qui s’y opposent activement pour aider les victimes sont traqué.e.s, jugé.e.s et enfermé.e.s par l’État.
Révoltez-vous à nos côtés contre toutes les normes oppressives, détruisons ce qui leur permet de perdurer, et ce, jusqu’à la fin de toutes les dominations !”
31st November, (FRENCH SPEAKING COUNTRY).
Received anonymously via email:
[FRENCH BELOW]
Trick or treat !
During the night of October 31st to November 1st, 2019, poltergeists went to work. In reaction to the hunters who tortured and wounded the inhabitants of the forest, we bit back with the teeth of a saber saw. 8 hunting towers were targeted by the spell ACTIVISTA ANTISPECISTUM. They were cut up, dismantled and then collapsed on the ground. Saturday’s hunting party will be severely compromised …
The revengeful spirits have also left a trace on their way (“Their life, your profits, die”) on a neighboring farm “respectful of animal welfare” to remind that respect does not stand for a haystack on the ground of a prison and as a promise of an imminent return.
Happy Halloween to the forest people
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Des bonbons ou un sort !
Dans la nuit du 31 octobre au 1er novembre 2019, des esprits frappeurs facétieux se sont mis au travail. Les chasseur.esse.s ayant torturé et meurtri les habitant.e.s de la forêt se sont pris.e.s un retour de baton, ou plutôt de scie sabre. 8 miradors ont subi le sort ACTIVISTA ANTISPECISTUM. Ils ont été découpés, démantelés puis se sont effondrés au sol. La partie de chasse de samedi va être sévèrement compromise…
Les esprits vengeurs ont également laissé une trace de leur passage (“Leur vie, vos profits, crevez”) sur un élevage voisin “respectueux du bien-être animal” pour rappeler que le respect ne tient pas à une botte de paille sur le sol d’une prison. Promesse d’un retour imminent.
Joyeux halloween aux habitant.e.s de la forêt
1st November, Denver, Colorado USA.
Received anonymously via email:
“For “World Vegan Day”, Ben & Jerry’s decided to advertise free plant based ice cream for a day. So we decided to show them that this advertising attracts actual vegans as well.
The paint on the side of their building ensures that anyone who walks by will know what they are walking by; a company whose massive profits come from the sexual violation of millions of persons, all while pretending to “resist” and be “woke” in their online presence.
We do not want your vegan capitalism. We don’t want vegan options. We want animal liberation. Take your cash grab and shove it.
Until all your exploitative business fronts and factories are rubble.
ALF”
28th October, South West UK.
Received anonymously via encrypted email:
“We start the yearly Antispeciesist Week of Action in Memory of Barry Horne with a smashing time.
As farmers have been busy turning the countryside into a bloody badger massacre we thought we’d celebrate the end of the cull with a visit to the National Farmers Union building. We took a break from muddy fields and took our rage for all the badger families that have been attacked this year out on their glass doors and windows. We left them many messages sprayed on their walls that read ‘ANIMAL MURDERERS’, ‘SMASH FARMERS’ and ‘ALF’.
With the anniversary of Barry’s death approaching we cannot stress more the importance of taking action. Not only to spark change, to hurt the pockets of animal abusers or to free individuals from their prisons, but also to remember those who fought before us.
We want to send solidarity to the Ramsgate 3 and the Watford 1, who have to appear in court this week in relation to animal liberation actions. Our fight is one, whatever the tactic used.
Until all are free.
SWALF.”