PRISON SUPPORT – SIX PEOPLE ARRESTED IN FRANCE AND ACCUSED OF ARSON AT A SLAUGHTERHOUSE.
PRISON SUPPORT – THREE PEOPLE IN PRISON ACCUSED OF “PROPERTY DESTRUCTION”. ANOTHER PERSON FINED 10,000 SWISS FRANCS FOR BEING PART OF AN OPEN RESCUE.
News arrive from our comrades in Switzerland. Three people are in preventive prison accused of property destruction in relation to multiple actions against speciesist business after a wave of window breaking in Switzerland. They will be held for a whole month before seeing the judge, even though the police has no evidence that links them with the butcher windows targeted or any other actions. They are being isolated in order to keep them away from news, they are not allowed to receive letters and the lawyers have warned that more arrests are still possible.
Meanwhile, an activist involved in a slaughterhouse blockade and open rescue of goats early this year has received their sentence and has to pay 10,000 Swiss francs in total. They have a gofundme and it would be appreciated if people donate and share as much as possible.
https://www.gofundme.com/soutiendurgence
It is in times like this, when the state clamps down with repression overwhelmingly higher than the judges action that we need to realise they must be scared of the tactics. And it is in times like this that we should show solidarity the most.
FIRE TO ALL PRISONS. FREEDOM TO ALL PRISONERS!
PRISON SUPPORT – THREE PEOPLE IN PRISON ACCUSED OF “PROPERTY DESTRUCTION”. ANOTHER PERSON FINED 10,000 SWISS FRANCS FOR BEING PART OF AN OPEN RESCUE.
News arrive from our comrades in Switzerland. Three people are in preventive prison accused of property destruction in relation to multiple actions against speciesist business after a wave of window breaking in Switzerland. They will be held for a whole month before seeing the judge, even though the police has no evidence that links them with the butcher windows targeted or any other actions. They are being isolated in order to keep them away from news, they are not allowed to receive letters and the lawyers have warned that more arrests are still possible.
Meanwhile, an activist involved in a slaughterhouse blockade and open rescue of goats early this year has received their sentence and has to pay 10,000 Swiss francs in total. They have a gofundme and it would be appreciated if people donate and share as much as possible.
https://www.gofundme.com/soutiendurgence
It is in times like this, when the state clamps down with repression overwhelmingly higher than the judges action that we need to realise they must be scared of the tactics. And it is in times like this that we should show solidarity the most.
FIRE TO ALL PRISONS. FREEDOM TO ALL PRISONERS!
PRISON SUPPORT – UPDATE ON ERIK AND RED FAWN.
His address has changed so please direct letters to:
Eric King #27090-045
USP LEAVENWORTH
U.S. PENITENTIARY
P.O. BOX 1000
LEAVENWORTH, KS 66048
USA
The folks at Free RedFawn have updated her address too. She is doing well but would like to receive publications of Native American content. Letters are also important but to show her she is not alone.
Write to her to:
REDFAWN FALLIS
16358-059
FMC, Carswell
P.O Box 27137
Ft. Worth, TX 76127
USA
PRISONS ARE FOR BURNING!
NEW ANIMAL RIGHTS PRISONERS.
Sven and Natasha were sentenced yesterday. Charged with “conspiracy to blackmail” on their involvement with the highly successful SHAC campaign, Natasha was given 2 years in prison suspended for 2 years (which means that her conditions will be horrible and alienating and that if she breaches ANY she could be sent to prison) whilst Sven was given 5 years in prison.
This is a show of the state repression and their protection of capitalism. This is another example of how the system works to protect itself, to put profit over anything else, to eliminate the threats.
Sven, Natasha and many others involved in SHAC were true warriors against vivisection. They were fearless and they were effective. They run a campaign so incredibly powerful that the government had to make up laws to stop them.
Don’t let the state win and do not let Sven or Natasha feel alienated.
Please write to Sven here:
Sven van Hasselt A3021ED
HMP Winchester
Romsey Road
Winchester
SO22 5DF
UNTIL EVERY PRISON IS A LIBRARY.
MORE THAN 30 PRISONERS IN SOFIA PRISON ARE ON HUNGER STRIKE!
Prison director Peter Krestev, who we have mentioned before in a previous call for solidarity for prisoners, is now attempting to stop symbolic protests for basic human rights in Bulgarian prisons by closing down the prison shop.
‘Prisoners have not been able to buy food or cigarettes for 4 days now. In reaction to this some prisoners have started a hunger strike demanding to meet the Ministry of Justice and representatives from the National Prison Authority.’
The Bulgarian Ministry of Justice has failed to take notice of repeated and legitimate complaints about Krestev, who was previously dismissed from the position as prison director due the long list of human rights abuses he carried out. The situation is now getting worse. Upon being reinstated in his position, Krestev is now protecting a narco gang who beat, rape and torture prisoners.
To learn more and also to know how you can support those suffering under Krestev, visit:
The Bulgarian Prisoners’ Association website: https://bpra.info/en/category/get-involved-en/
Bulgarian Prisoners’ Association
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PRISON RIOT.
STATE REPRESSION – ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST TARGETED.
This morning we received an anonymous email from a British activist. We would like to quote a few of their words.
“Yesterday I was sentenced for going into “free range” broiler facilities, to film and expose the truth, of what free range really is.
…
When I was arrested at my home it was done by 8 police officers, with 4 marked police cars outside my home and 2 of the officers were actually armed.
I was alone at the farm and 17 years old at the time.
…
It was a sentencing hearing for a guilty plea to “criminal damage”.
…
240 hours of unpaid work and an order to ‘Not linger within 200m of any private land where the intent is for the raising or slaughter of livestock for the next three years’, which makes me unable to even join a Save vigil.”
This is just one of the many examples of how the system works. The system will try to silence us, it will try to quiet us down and to make others blind to reality. The system will favour capitalism over any ethical standpoint. Profit over anything.
It is on us to retaliate and to show we are fearless. It is on us to stick our middle finger the the legal system, to the capitalist system and to the government structures. We are born free and leaderless. We are born without hierarchies.
Let this be your start to smash the barriers that we are forced to in society. Let this be the story that makes you realise we are not working within the system, but to tumble the system until it falls.
Smash all hierarchies, hierarchies between human and non human animals and hierarchies within society.
Solidarity with our troops.
PRISONS ARE FOR BURNING.
ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS – WRITE LETTERS TO THE HAMBI 9!
Nine Hambis are still locked up after the barricade eviction. We do not know for how long and when will they be released, so please consider writing to them and tell them about your day and remind them that they are awesome.
Please substitute UP for “unbekannte Person” and copy the address as it is shown!
The languages they speak are specified after their UP Number
UP #1: es&en
JVA Köln, Rochusstraße 350, 50827 Köln
UP #2: es&en
JVA Köln, Rochusstraße 350, 50827 Köln
UP #3: en&fr
JVA Köln, Rochusstraße 350, 50827 Köln
UP #4: de&en
JVA Aachen, Krefelderstr. 251, 52070 Aachen
UP #5: en&fr
JVA Aachen, Krefelderstr. 251, 52070 Aachen
UP #6: de&en&gr
JVA Köln, Rochusstraße 350, 50827 Köln
UP #8: de&en
JVA Aachen, Krefelderstr. 251, 52070 Aachen
UP #9: fr&en
JVA Köln, Rochusstraße 350, 50827 Köln
UP #11: de&en
JVA Köln, Rochusstraße 350, 50827 Köln
LOVE AND SOLIDARITY
WRITE TO ANIMAL RIGHTS PRISONERS!
We would like to encourage all of you to set some time aside today to write a letter for Sven and Natasha. We do not want either of them to feel alienated, and want them to know that they are not alone. They were so fearless in their involvement in the SHAC campaign, and now we must support the both of them in this period of state repression.
Sven’s address:
Sven van Hasselt A3021ED
HMP Winchester
Romsey Road
Winchester
SO22 5DF
There is also an address available on their support website for letters for Natasha, which will then be forwarded on to her.
Natasha’s address:
Free Sven and Natasha Support Group c/o Kebele
14 Robertson Rd
Bristol
BS5 6JZ
Unoffensive Animal would like to extend all of our love, big vegan hugs and solidarity to Natasha and Sven at this time.
UNTIL EVERY PRISON IS A LIBRARY.