Category: Unoffensive Reports

So the unofficial anniversary of Unoffensive Animal has arrived! Nine years ago we started this journey with the intention of bringing radical news and anarchist theory to the broader animal liberation movement. Its been such a long time and yet it almost feels like it was yesterday!

We’ve had many iterations of what the collective meant, working inside of protest camps, giving workshops, reporting within civil disobedience actions, producing how to guides, sharing and fundraising for prisoners and so much more.

Over the years we have received quite a lot of repression from the government machine. Blocked websites, disappearing social media accounts, censorship and surveillance. We resist because resistance is life, because the project is worth it and because we believe the radical flank of the movement deserves an anonymous platform where to express themselves to the broader public. The latest repression attack has come in the form of blocking our money accounts. The accounts we use to raise funds for prisoners, arrestees, and other activists in need of legal support. This is not new, and the machine has done this to other anti-repression collectives in the past years.

Unfortunately this does mean we need to shift gears. We will no longer be selling anything on the website to fundraise, and we will no longer ask for donations for prisoners. We see this as leaving a gap in the movement for folks to take on and organise, prisoner support is extremely necessary and we would love to lift up any projects through our platform that do just that, but unfortunately it cannot be us any longer. This doesn’t mean we will stop sharing about prisoners or fundraisers, it just means we won’t be doing the fundraising ourselves.

We will, though, keep informing you about direct action, about news on the movement and about those who keep fighting for total liberation.

To another year of loving and fighting.

Unoffensive Animal Collective.

In the month of May we have received a total of 9 direct action reports from around the world. By country, those are:

GERMANY 3

UK 2

ARGENTINA 2

ITALY 1

USA 1

Interestingly for the first time this year, flesh, dairy and eggs targets landed on top of hunting targets! There were also five different liberations in UK, Argentina, Germany and the USA.

In other news, we shared about the boycott of IARC due to their pro-zionist stance. They made an announcement were they sat on the fence, but then in the comment section IARC’s founder showed their true colours with a nice little “not all zionists”. So we doubled down and shared animal liberation summer gatherings we think are worth going to instead of IARC. We are open to sharing more, so please send us your links! For now we have published about EF! Animal Lib stream, Denmark conference for animal liberation, Total Liberation Gathering and International animal liberation gathering. If you know of any other events, do share!

Our paypal also went down and we had to ask for donations over crypto. Unfortunately we did not receive any donations, but a private individual reached out to offer support and paid for our servers. Please, if you can afford it, donate some coins to UA. We don’t do this for money but the infrastructure is costly and we cannot just expect private individuals to cover the costs when we hit an emergency situation!

That’s all for May, keep fighting!

A couple of weeks ago we echoed the boycott of IARC due to their behaviour towards activists wearing a keffiyeh at the 2024 event and their unwillingness to recognize the genocide happening in Gaza.

Last week IARC made a statement which no only showed fence sitting but also promoted narratives directly from Israel’s kool aid sippy bottle. Not only that but we then saw IARC’s founder once again showing their true colours when saying “Equating all forms of Zionism with genocide erases the complexities of this conflict.”

Let us be clear, there is no way to further Zionism without genocide and apartheid, and there are no forms of Zionism that magically hit the delete button on the 70+ years of invasion over Palestine. Zionism’s target to create the estate of Israel over Palestinian land cannot happen without the subjugation of peoples who were there before Israel was forcefully created.

After we had posted about the boycott we felt there was no need to add anything else to the conversation, but their response activated the salty queens in us and we have decided it is now the time to share with you multiple animal liberation events, gatherings and conferences that are worth going to. Over the next few days we will be sharing some of those events so folks can put them in their calendar and participate in meaningful discussion at animal liberation focused events that do not sit on the fence when it comes to apartheid or murdering children.

If you’re reading this and think we should share an event please email us! We have a few on the list, but we might’ve missed some!

Total liberation is not a slogan. It’s a promise.

March was a busy month around the world for direct action for animal liberation. A total of twelve anonymous reports were reported, coming from nine different countries (plus a report from an unknown country in Europe). Reports were also a lot more varied than normal. Whilst a big number were related to either hunting or flesh/animal consumption, there were reports against the pet industry, against the fur trade and against circuses too.

By country, these are the numbers of received reports during March:

POLAND: 2

SWEDEN: 1

ITALY: 2

FINLAND: 1

DENMARK: 1

GREECE: 1

AUSTRALIA: 1

GERMANY: 1

USA: 1

UNKNOWN (EUROPE): 1

On the prisoner support we also heard good news during March. After years locked up, Leonard Peltier was finally released home. Sindre also was released in Sweden.

We also received an anonymous reportback from a fash march in UK, a solidarity photo from hambi and we published a guide on how to safely submit reports.

As always, keep fighting!

UA

Hi friends, we’ve just added a new zine to our web shop. We only have 35 of them, so if you want one, act fast!

THE GREAT UNWASHED – STILL UNWASHED is a photo zine about anti hunting direct action, about traps, smashing traps, comradery, freeing wildlife from imminent murder, tactics, sneaking at night and making hunters sad.

This 48 pages photo zine, printed on gloss paper will take you on an adventure against hunting in the UK and the anonymous people who fight wildlife prosecution.

Grab it whilst stocks last! We have set the price to £5 but you can always donate more if you feel like it.

Find the author on instagram.com/thegreatunwashed_

Buy the zine: https://unoffensiveanimal.is/product/still-unwashed/

We have also sorted numbers of Wildfire III and Wildfire IV as we had a few extras we hadn’t realized, so if you’re still missing them, grab them whilst they are up!

Find Wildfire: https://unoffensiveanimal.is/product-category/mags/

We are currently saving money so we can pay for the costs of servers, domains and other tech related bits to upkeep UA, so every penny counts to ensure we keep going!

SOLIDARITY ALWAYS!

We’ve existed for a decade as a platform to educate, to support prisoners and to share anonymous reports of direct action. Over the years we have found a balance between anonymity and usability for those reporting and evolved the methods to submit reports. On this short article we just want to outline the method we recommend to submit reports anonymously.

Please note that we do not share fascist reports, reports containing transphobia or racism or any other form of hatred, reports submitted over social media DMs or reports of open rescues.

TO SUBMIT A REPORT:

1- We would advice people to use TOR browser for this, but we have no way of enforcing it. TOR will be A LOT more anonymous than replicating the process on other browsers.

Get it here: https://www.torproject.org/download/

1.1- if you need to really take care of your anonymity you should use TAILS OS, which can be flashed into a drive and used in any computer. This is not compulsory and you should decide if the report grants seeking that level of security. It might not be the same to report about mice traps than to report about an arson!

Learn about TailsOS here: https://tails.net/

2- Head to our website, under the tab “Contact Us”

Link here: https://unoffensiveanimal.is/contact-us/

3- Under the Contact Form box, write your report. Please include a date and a location. If you prefer to report in any other language than English please understand that some languages might be machine translated and might not completely reflect your exact words.

DO NOT include personal details, or a way to contact you back. We don’t want to know who you are. We don’t want to discuss anything. This is simply to keep the platform safe.

4- Have you got photos or videos of the action? Lets look into that:

4.1- Metadata might be betraying you. Use any metadata removing software to delete it. This is easier than it sounds. You can use ExifEraser, or simply upload and download it to signal to delete metadata (but be mindful if you’re using signal, should you be uploading incriminating photos to your personal chat app?)

4.2- Upload the media to any shitty service that keeps that media for a minimum of 7 days. Shorter periods will likely expire before we download it. We cant be held responsible for the loss of your media. Some suggestions of file uploader services might be WeTransfer, Ufile and SwissTransfer. PLEASE CHECK that you are sending a link with at least 7 days expiration date!

You DO NOT need to put a password on the files. This overcomplicates the transfer of media that will be publicly published anyway. We might be unable to decrypt your media and it doesn’t add any benefit to the security, as that media will be made public anyway!

5- Alongside your written report, paste the media download link.

6- complete a silly maths problem (this is supposed to keep robots at bay, but it really doesn’t tbf, who would’ve thought!)

7- Tap on “Encrypt and Send”. Your report will be encrypted by itself and sent to our inbox. You can re-send your report if you’ve not seen it appear online within 14 days.

Please don’t contact us about “getting you in touch with the ALF”. We don’t know who the anonymous reporters are.

Please do not give us personal information when reporting something. We don’t want to know who the anonymous reporters are.

KEEP FIGHTING!

The month of February was a tad slow in terms of reports, but this might have just been because our platform took a couple of weeks off so we count receive those reports! We received a total of 9 reports of direct action during the month, five of them from Germany, where activists targeted a butcher shop, a slaughterhouse, hunting towers and rat traps. Spain too hit against hunting by sabotaging a hunting shop in Madrid. The UK turned their sights against vivisection, and Argentina reported the only liberation action for the month.

Reported actions by country: 

GERMANY: 5
UK: 1
SPAIN: 1
ARGENTINA: 1
FINLAND: 1

SEE YOU IN THE STREETS!

UA

As you all know by now, UA is a volunteer run collective. We do our best to keep up with news about direct action and we try and help with prisoner support as much as we can, we don’t make money from it and do it because we care about counter info and about upholding a radical platform for people to connect and anonymously report what they’ve been up to.

But burnout sucks! And we’ve experienced many a times, with the collective shifting around and people quitting. We even reached the point of quitting not too long ago! We are approaching a whole decade of existence and do not want to get to the burnout stage again, so we are taking a couple of weeks off. This is not necessarily newsworthy, but we want to give a heads up because if anonymous people are sending reports the media links will likely expire before we check the emails, so do not submit anything until at least the 12th of February, we will be back on the 17th!

If on the other hand your reports can’t wait, remember that NAALPO has a system to receive reports too!

See you soon, remember radical self care, love your people, love yourself, cuddle some animals and please, keep fighting!

Unoffensive Animal