When we thought we were more or less safe on all our internet accounts after the introduction of our website, Patreon sent us an email informing us that they did not want to host us any longer. Even though we have communicated to them that our aim isn’t “promoting criminal damage” -as they seem to believe – but to inform and produce media for the public, they are not willing to allow us back in their platform.
Money is always a nasty subject for us. We fucking hate money, but we see how useful it is in some aspects. Although none of us ever would use donations for financial gain, there are quite a few expenses related to UA’s work that make money a need to carry on with the project. Our website, hosting, internet and phone bills, the (not very regular) trip to give workshops or to assist at occupations and the legal fees and prison support work, all requires money.
We have always been very open about how we use money and how we do not pay for our food, personal bills, whatever. Mostly because we live like street rats so our life might be many things, but it isn’t expensive.
So here we are, once again, asking for your support. We’ve created a LiberaPay account and we are hoping it will work well for us and for you. We don’t know anyone who uses it so we have no references. If you are able to help us either by donating or by sharing the appeal, that would be amazing.
You don’t have to donate much. £1, £5, £0.50… everything helps. We have well over 10k followers cross platform so it shouldn’t be too difficult to reach our goal of £150 a week. Certainly loosing Patreon hit us hard when our monthly income had reached 535 dollars a month.
So, have a look at the new platform, tell us what you think, join if you can and share regardless. We can only survive through mutual aid.
When we thought we were more or less safe on all our internet accounts after the introduction of our website, Patreon sent us an email informing us that they did not want to host us any longer. Even though we have communicated to them that our aim isn’t “promoting criminal damage” -as they seem to believe – but to inform and produce media for the public, they are not willing to allow us back in their platform.
Money is always a nasty subject for us. We fucking hate money, but we see how useful it is in some aspects. Although none of us ever would use donations for financial gain, there are quite a few expenses related to UA’s work that make money a need to carry on with the project. Our website, hosting, internet and phone bills, the (not very regular) trip to give workshops or to assist at occupations and the legal fees and prison support work, all requires money.
We have always been very open about how we use money and how we do not pay for our food, personal bills, whatever. Mostly because we live like street rats so our life might be many things, but it isn’t expensive.
So here we are, once again, asking for your support. We’ve created a LiberaPay account and we are hoping it will work well for us and for you. We don’t know anyone who uses it so we have no references. If you are able to help us either by donating or by sharing the appeal, that would be amazing.
You don’t have to donate much. £1, £5, £0.50… everything helps. We have well over 10k followers cross platform so it shouldn’t be too difficult to reach our goal of £150 a week. Certainly loosing Patreon hit us hard when our monthly income had reached 535 dollars a month.
So, have a look at the new platform, tell us what you think, join if you can and share regardless. We can only survive through mutual aid.
During this winter time of uncertainty in Hambacher Forst we’ve been trying to push building structures whilst awaiting to see what the political decision is. An answer could come as soon as Friday this week so we would recommend anyone wanting to come when the eviction happens to be ready for it.
Within Unoffensive we have been wondering what’s next. We still want to organise Liberate Or Die but we do not know if the forest will hold until May, so if anyone knows of a different space in Europe that would be happy to host it please drop us a message!
We also want to organise some workshops. Do you think your group would benefit from a chat with UA folks? Message us and let’s get organised. For now we are unable to travel outside of Europe, but hopefully in a few years we can travel somewhere else!
We published A is for Anarchy yesterday for the first time in a few months. What did you think of it?
Lastly, we would like to appeal for a lil help. It’s been almost a year that we’ve been without a good camera and it would really help us with bringing you news from the front line, so if you’re able to support us be it by dropping some coins or by sharing the word, please do so.
During this winter time of uncertainty in Hambacher Forst we’ve been trying to push building structures whilst awaiting to see what the political decision is. An answer could come as soon as Friday this week so we would recommend anyone wanting to come when the eviction happens to be ready for it.
Within Unoffensive we have been wondering what’s next. We still want to organise Liberate Or Die but we do not know if the forest will hold until May, so if anyone knows of a different space in Europe that would be happy to host it please drop us a message!
We also want to organise some workshops. Do you think your group would benefit from a chat with UA folks? Message us and let’s get organised. For now we are unable to travel outside of Europe, but hopefully in a few years we can travel somewhere else!
We published A is for Anarchy yesterday for the first time in a few months. What did you think of it?
Lastly, we would like to appeal for a lil help. It’s been almost a year that we’ve been without a good camera and it would really help us with bringing you news from the front line, so if you’re able to support us be it by dropping some coins or by sharing the word, please do so.
During this winter time of uncertainty in Hambacher Forst we’ve been trying to push building structures whilst awaiting to see what the political decision is. An answer could come as soon as Friday this week so we would recommend anyone wanting to come when the eviction happens to be ready for it.
Within Unoffensive we have been wondering what’s next. We still want to organise Liberate Or Die but we do not know if the forest will hold until May, so if anyone knows of a different space in Europe that would be happy to host it please drop us a message!
We also want to organise some workshops. Do you think your group would benefit from a chat with UA folks? Message us and let’s get organised. For now we are unable to travel outside of Europe, but hopefully in a few years we can travel somewhere else!
We published A is for Anarchy yesterday for the first time in a few months. What did you think of it?
Lastly, we would like to appeal for a lil help. It’s been almost a year that we’ve been without a good camera and it would really help us with bringing you news from the front line, so if you’re able to support us be it by dropping some coins or by sharing the word, please do so.
We have been at this for a little while and many people contact us with loads of different queries. From questions about workshops to Hit Reports, there are safe ways to send us whatever information is needed.
Many times folks private message us about a question related to a post or asking how to support us. We are always happy to receive those messages via social media.
For Hit Reports and any other lengthier topics like workshops or joining a future action or event, we ask you to take safety steps to protect your identity from a system that will most likely be monitoring our conversations.
On our website we have a “Contact” tab where you can learn about how to do so safely, but we wanted to make a post about it so folks are informed in every platform.
To mask your Internet address, we strongly advise you to use a VPN (winscribe, ProtonVPN or maybe the beta version of RiseUpVPN) and a Tor Browser. That helps you putting layers in between your internet service and the receiver, and whoever could be trying to access the information in between. This will only work if you close all other software applications connected to the internet and only use Tor after connecting the VPN.
To mask your identity we ask folks to not use their personal email address. This will certainly contain personal information that should never be attached to a hit report, for example. Using a spam address like GuerrillaMail should work perfectly.
When sending a report, personal details like names and ages should be completely avoided. It is unnecessary and unrelated to the action. Media (photos or videos) are strongly encouraged. They should be attached to the same mail, or uploaded (through Tor) to wetransfer, then pasting the link onto the email.
PGP encryption is also advised but if the other steps have been taken and there is no need for a response, you should be sound enough to send it without it. If you use PGP, we might take over a week to be able to decrypt the mail so be mindful about the wetransfer self deleting times.
This steps with links and our PGP key can be found on the link below.
During the last weeks we have been working hard in Hambi, building a treehouse in memory of Waka and getting used to a forest really hurt after the big eviction. Two ground evictions were endured before the holidays with RWE and the cops showing incredibly disproportionate violence and destroying people’s homes.
During the holidays, multiple actions took place around the mine. The Spiegel reported two security cars set on fire after a rain of Moldova cocktails fell into the secu point. Must be climate change.
A report on Indymedia also popped up claiming responsibility for the arson of a pumping station that drains the forest of much needed water and signed “Hambi Chaos Christmas”.
Yesterday, NRW police announced a raid in the Meadow (legal protest camp next to the woods) and in the WAA, a house that has served as a base for hambis outside of the forest, 45 minutes away from Hambacher. They justified the raid as a search of dangerous tools and materials that could be used for future actions. HambiEA (the legal team for the forest) was stolen of their phones during the WAA raid, ensuring that any ambi arrested during the police action would not be able to let the legal team know. In the Meadow, in an attempt to evict three people from a small hut, the police emptied almost 8 litres of pepper spray in the 6sqm holding to later arrest the three folk living inside.
Meanwhile, the forest was also under attack. RWE workers protected by cops smashed windows, fire places and communal areas. Our sleeping space was once again destroyed. Whilst we were attempting to move some of our belongings and materials to hide them deep in the woods, a team of eight cops tackled us to the ground and arrested us.
They managed to destroy our harnesses using nail planks and stepping over them, they took our material and clothes and they threatened us with lengthier arrest and possible imprisonment if we did not give our personal details. Through the threats, we did not give in and kept ourselves anonymous. After a few hours we were released with a ban on Hambacher Forst for “the next 24 hours”.
We are back building today.
They only make us stronger.
They only make us angrier.
FOR THE WILD.
If you want to support our work both, informing in the front line and fighting the fight, grab yourself some merch through our website or join our patreon team!
During the last weeks we have been working hard in Hambi, building a treehouse in memory of Waka and getting used to a forest really hurt after the big eviction. Two ground evictions were endured before the holidays with RWE and the cops showing incredibly disproportionate violence and destroying people’s homes.
During the holidays, multiple actions took place around the mine. The Spiegel reported two security cars set on fire after a rain of Moldova cocktails fell into the secu point. Must be climate change.
A report on Indymedia also popped up claiming responsibility for the arson of a pumping station that drains the forest of much needed water and signed “Hambi Chaos Christmas”.
Yesterday, NRW police announced a raid in the Meadow (legal protest camp next to the woods) and in the WAA, a house that has served as a base for hambis outside of the forest, 45 minutes away from Hambacher. They justified the raid as a search of dangerous tools and materials that could be used for future actions. HambiEA (the legal team for the forest) was stolen of their phones during the WAA raid, ensuring that any ambi arrested during the police action would not be able to let the legal team know. In the Meadow, in an attempt to evict three people from a small hut, the police emptied almost 8 litres of pepper spray in the 6sqm holding to later arrest the three folk living inside.
Meanwhile, the forest was also under attack. RWE workers protected by cops smashed windows, fire places and communal areas. Our sleeping space was once again destroyed. Whilst we were attempting to move some of our belongings and materials to hide them deep in the woods, a team of eight cops tackled us to the ground and arrested us.
They managed to destroy our harnesses using nail planks and stepping over them, they took our material and clothes and they threatened us with lengthier arrest and possible imprisonment if we did not give our personal details. Through the threats, we did not give in and kept ourselves anonymous. After a few hours we were released with a ban on Hambacher Forst for “the next 24 hours”.
We are back building today.
They only make us stronger.
They only make us angrier.
FOR THE WILD.
If you want to support our work both, informing in the front line and fighting the fight, grab yourself some merch through our website or join our patreon team!
It has taken us quite a while to collect the footage but here is the speech we gave in the animal rights march in London last August. Many people requested us to upload it so after some time trying to find the whole video, here it is for you to share!
We would like to note that the human reading the speech was a volunteer and not necessarily affiliated with UA. We always attempt to put forward a different voice and our aim to push women and non binary voices will always be a priority. This year one of our followers stepped up to it and did an amazing job delivering the words we had put together and we couldn’t be more grateful.
If you are able to support us, we could do with a few more patreons.
www.patreon.com/LiberateOrDie
Also, if you haven’t seen it already, we have a website you can check out!
www.unoffensiveanimal.is
Accessibility: we have pasted the speech in the comments. We apologise for the lack of subtitles and hope that this will be enough for those who are unable to listen to the video!
“Aren’t you angry enough? Unilever, one of the biggest corporate companies that use vivisection, are profiting from vegan ice cream. The tories voting that animals are not sentient beings and are therefore
unable to feel pain. Judges repeatedly pardoning and excusing hunting communities all over the country, just so they can continue their gruesome bloodsports.
Aren’t you angry enough? How many more times can you bear to watch yet another innocent being driven to their slaughter? How many more times do you need to hear of another horse being shot at the races? How many more times do these things need to happen until we stand up and make sure that they cannot, and will not profit from the fear and suffering of innocent creatures ever again?
Let’s remember why we are here. We are here to achieve total animal liberation, not to enlarge the vegan aisle in the supermarket. We are here to stand beside the exploited and aid them to achieve the freedom that is rightfully theirs, not to convert those who consume animal flesh into simply consuming veggie burgers with no rage inside of them.
Are you angry enough? The British state has kidnapped animal rights activist Sven Van Hasselt and will keep him for five years based on a law specifically tailored to stop him and his coworkers from bringing a vivisection company to the ground. The German government has taken UPiii behind bars because she dared to protect nature. The states have taken Red Fawn, Joseph Dibee, Walter Bond, Marius Mason and an uncountable number of people because they dared to act for a better world. Doesn’t that make you angry enough?
Let us read you a letter from an anonymous comrade that wishes not to be named:
‘It is the 5th of November. The day Barry Horne died. A team of four.
One van, one crowbar, one spray can. Another fucking shed. Filthy, full of scared chickens, piles of shit and a metal grid as a floor.
Systematically we load box after box until a hundred hens are waiting for us in the back of the van. One hundred animals from that day will live on surrounded by love until they pass. The camera person lets us know they have taken enough footage for a video. It has taken us twelve minutes.
I take special delight in smashing the machine that disinfects the eggs, hanging from the ceiling. I then turn back and focus on the conveyor belt that transports the eggs from the shed to the front room. The farmer probably doesn’t visit the hens more than once every couple of months. Everything is automated. Much better. The more machinery: the more to be destroyed. Behind me are eggs flying in all directions, smashing against the floor. The team has managed to flip up a pallet of packaged eggs and the floor is now dripping with a sticky mess.
Another shed, another night, another raid. This time, though, it isn’t enough with just taking some animals. I want the farmer to cry when they wake up in the morning. I want them to see the pain they are causing.
Fuck, I’d like to bankrupt them!
Someone points out the time. Twenty minutes since entering. The machines are destroyed. We’ve just about left the water and feed intact to make sure the rest of the hens don’t die.
I jump back on the van and sit on the floor with the birds. I pull a few eggs from my pocket and crack them open, showing the hens for the first time what probably is their favourite treat now. They seem happy, between the mess, splashing egg all over my face. They will be much happier tomorrow when they feel grass for the first time.
Meanwhile, I feel destroyed. I always leave a piece of myself behind, with all the other animals that I cannot take with me. Another shed, another night, another raid. Another step closer until each and every one of them are free’
This letter is just to show, one of the many raids carried out in the last twelve months. 431 animals in the UK have been reported as liberated and 20,000 partridges released to the wild since the last AR march. 431 animals plus as many unreported ones, plus the sabotage of traps and shooting towers, butcher shops, meat trucks and an uncountable list of actions to further the cause of animal liberation.
This amalgamation of actions between the overground and underground scene is the key to revolution. Diversity of tactics was, is and will be the only way to achieve systematic change. Direct action gets the goods, but by itself is ineffective if we don’t create social conscience of why morality and legality don’t align and if we don’t start supporting those behind actions and those behind bars.
Sure, spray painting ‘go vegan’ on the butchers in Kent didn’t get the butcher’s son to stop eating meat. However, it did start a conversation.
In newspapers and on the TV and on social media, arguments against the so-called vandals and discussions about the legitimacy of meat consumption popped up left, right and centre. That is the key to total liberation. That mix between the action and the effect it causes. The conversations that people will have afterwards. The questioning of any and all moral baseline that constructs our society.
There are only 3 ALF guidelines;
1. To liberate animals from their hell
2. To cause economic damage to those who profit from them
3. To not harm anyone, human or non-human in the process
We have been given the green light to announce something historical; after a few years gap, the UK now has an Animal Liberation Front Press officer. They can speak out for activists and explain their actions
So, we will ask again. How many more animals need to die? How many more millions do they need to make? How many more days of torture inside of a lab? How many more photos do you need to see?
It has taken us quite a while to collect the footage but here is the speech we gave in the animal rights march in London last August. Many people requested us to upload it so after some time trying to find the whole video, here it is for you to share!
We would like to note that the human reading the speech was a volunteer and not necessarily affiliated with UA. We always attempt to put forward a different voice and our aim to push women and non binary voices will always be a priority. This year one of our followers stepped up to it and did an amazing job delivering the words we had put together and we couldn’t be more grateful.
If you are able to support us, we could do with a few more patreons.
www.patreon.com/LiberateOrDie
Also, if you haven’t seen it already, we have a website you can check out!
www.unoffensiveanimal.is
Accessibility: we have pasted the speech in the comments. We apologise for the lack of subtitles and hope that this will be enough for those who are unable to listen to the video!
“Aren’t you angry enough? Unilever, one of the biggest corporate companies that use vivisection, are profiting from vegan ice cream. The tories voting that animals are not sentient beings and are therefore
unable to feel pain. Judges repeatedly pardoning and excusing hunting communities all over the country, just so they can continue their gruesome bloodsports.
Aren’t you angry enough? How many more times can you bear to watch yet another innocent being driven to their slaughter? How many more times do you need to hear of another horse being shot at the races? How many more times do these things need to happen until we stand up and make sure that they cannot, and will not profit from the fear and suffering of innocent creatures ever again?
Let’s remember why we are here. We are here to achieve total animal liberation, not to enlarge the vegan aisle in the supermarket. We are here to stand beside the exploited and aid them to achieve the freedom that is rightfully theirs, not to convert those who consume animal flesh into simply consuming veggie burgers with no rage inside of them.
Are you angry enough? The British state has kidnapped animal rights activist Sven Van Hasselt and will keep him for five years based on a law specifically tailored to stop him and his coworkers from bringing a vivisection company to the ground. The German government has taken UPiii behind bars because she dared to protect nature. The states have taken Red Fawn, Joseph Dibee, Walter Bond, Marius Mason and an uncountable number of people because they dared to act for a better world. Doesn’t that make you angry enough?
Let us read you a letter from an anonymous comrade that wishes not to be named:
‘It is the 5th of November. The day Barry Horne died. A team of four.
One van, one crowbar, one spray can. Another fucking shed. Filthy, full of scared chickens, piles of shit and a metal grid as a floor.
Systematically we load box after box until a hundred hens are waiting for us in the back of the van. One hundred animals from that day will live on surrounded by love until they pass. The camera person lets us know they have taken enough footage for a video. It has taken us twelve minutes.
I take special delight in smashing the machine that disinfects the eggs, hanging from the ceiling. I then turn back and focus on the conveyor belt that transports the eggs from the shed to the front room. The farmer probably doesn’t visit the hens more than once every couple of months. Everything is automated. Much better. The more machinery: the more to be destroyed. Behind me are eggs flying in all directions, smashing against the floor. The team has managed to flip up a pallet of packaged eggs and the floor is now dripping with a sticky mess.
Another shed, another night, another raid. This time, though, it isn’t enough with just taking some animals. I want the farmer to cry when they wake up in the morning. I want them to see the pain they are causing.
Fuck, I’d like to bankrupt them!
Someone points out the time. Twenty minutes since entering. The machines are destroyed. We’ve just about left the water and feed intact to make sure the rest of the hens don’t die.
I jump back on the van and sit on the floor with the birds. I pull a few eggs from my pocket and crack them open, showing the hens for the first time what probably is their favourite treat now. They seem happy, between the mess, splashing egg all over my face. They will be much happier tomorrow when they feel grass for the first time.
Meanwhile, I feel destroyed. I always leave a piece of myself behind, with all the other animals that I cannot take with me. Another shed, another night, another raid. Another step closer until each and every one of them are free’
This letter is just to show, one of the many raids carried out in the last twelve months. 431 animals in the UK have been reported as liberated and 20,000 partridges released to the wild since the last AR march. 431 animals plus as many unreported ones, plus the sabotage of traps and shooting towers, butcher shops, meat trucks and an uncountable list of actions to further the cause of animal liberation.
This amalgamation of actions between the overground and underground scene is the key to revolution. Diversity of tactics was, is and will be the only way to achieve systematic change. Direct action gets the goods, but by itself is ineffective if we don’t create social conscience of why morality and legality don’t align and if we don’t start supporting those behind actions and those behind bars.
Sure, spray painting ‘go vegan’ on the butchers in Kent didn’t get the butcher’s son to stop eating meat. However, it did start a conversation.
In newspapers and on the TV and on social media, arguments against the so-called vandals and discussions about the legitimacy of meat consumption popped up left, right and centre. That is the key to total liberation. That mix between the action and the effect it causes. The conversations that people will have afterwards. The questioning of any and all moral baseline that constructs our society.
There are only 3 ALF guidelines;
1. To liberate animals from their hell
2. To cause economic damage to those who profit from them
3. To not harm anyone, human or non-human in the process
We have been given the green light to announce something historical; after a few years gap, the UK now has an Animal Liberation Front Press officer. They can speak out for activists and explain their actions
So, we will ask again. How many more animals need to die? How many more millions do they need to make? How many more days of torture inside of a lab? How many more photos do you need to see?
What is it, that you need, to get angry enough?”
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