Category: Unoffensive Reports

Eight years ago we decided to start Unoffensive Animal because we found the Animal Lib movement devoid of anarchist views and the anarchist movement devoid of animal liberation struggle.

Since then we have acted as an anonymous platform for direct action reports, trying to keep those taking direct action safe and unknown, while giving them a microphone to express themselves and their reasons for taking action.

We have also worked very hard on prisoner support and court support, from fundraising for people who are locked up to giving advice and coins to people who are facing charges or fines, because we believe that people should feel safe that if they are caught breaking the law for their beliefs, they will have people behind them to support them.

We still believe in educating the general public about tech safety, security culture, and anarchism in general, even though we have stopped running workshops. We realised that Unoffensive Animal could not continue to do public speaking events with the amount of repression we were facing.

It hasn’t been easy to keep going for eight years, and we’ve been close to shutting down for good on several occasions. This is not only because of the legal difficulties of running the platform, but also because it is a lot of work for a small number of volunteers who put in a lot of time to make sure we are up to date.

However, we have grown as a collective and there are now a few more people taking care of the content for Unoffensive. We couldn’t be more proud of the small team we’ve built and would like to remind you that you can be part of the collective too!

Finally, we would like to mention how grateful we are to all of you, those who have appeared over the years, but also those who shared our first post and still comment on our stuff from time to time. We are incredibly grateful to all the supporters who donate via Patreon or PayPal, and everyone who has bought some merch to keep us going. It is because of all of you that we can continue to work.

To many more years of direct action until we fucking win.

Unoffensive Animal Collective

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May was a busy month and we received a total of 16 direct action reports this month. Seven of these reports were liberations and the other 9 were sabotage actions.

By country, the number of reports received is as follows

Germany: 5
Argentina: 4
France: 1
Australia: 1
Italy: 1
Sweden: 1
UK: 1
Ireland: 1
Czech Republic: 1

While a large number of actions were related to either hunting or the flesh industry, it was interesting to see that three reports were related to pethood, ranging from pet shop liberations to individual liberations at places of imprisonment. There was also a vivisection liberation in solidarity with Operation 1000, which is the first vivisection liberation in a couple of years.

On the prisoner support page, we posted about Larry, the last Atlanta Forest Defender still incarcerated. If you can, please write to them! We have also finally published the translated statement from Presos Caso Susaron. We are preparing to print t-shirts to raise funds for them, so keep an eye out for that!

In terms of events, it has been quite a busy month! We published about EF! Gathering UK, the call for solidarity on June 11th, the National Animal Rights March in London this summer and the Animal Liberation Gathering in the Netherlands in August.

Finally, Operation 1000 outside MBR Acres came and went and from what we have heard it felt like a huge injection of power into the UK grassroots movement.

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via: NAALPO.

“Recently, aboveground activists visited Utah to determine the operational status of known fur farms in the state. 25 fur farms were surveilled, and only 1 was confirmed as currently in operation.

This is the grim state of the U.S. fur industry.

Activists found dilapidated sheds, piles of rusted and decayed cages and nesting boxes, and complete silence on properties that once echoed with the simultaneous cries of thousands of mink yearning for freedom.

The Salt Lake Valley was once the nerve center of the fur industry – where mink murderers once operated not in rural isolation – but within blocks of elementary schools and where tens of thousands of mink languished at farms directly off of major interstates.

Utah has seen at least 12 raids on fur farms, and numerous sabotage actions by the Animal Liberation Front. At least 16,790 wild animals have been liberated from captivity into their natural environment.

In 1997, the most vital component to the proliferation of the fur industry in the state was bombed – the Fur Breeders Agricultural Cooperative in Sandy – with over $1 million in damages resulting.

Most recently, in 2020, an ALF cell visited an unknown Utah mink farm, and released over 1100 mink.

That ALF cell said it best – calling on us all to finish the work of past liberators who fought hard when there was no light at the end of the tunnel – and now every bankrupted fur farmer and abandoned wildlife prison is that light.

“Caging the wild is a heinous offense against life – against freedom. Every cage is worth emptying, and to begin this work is not difficult. Pressure from animal liberation activists, a declining demand for the products and economic downswings have come together to push the archaic fur industry further than ever towards full collapse. Wiping fur farms off the landscape is a worthy and attainable goal. What’s needed now is for the reader to reflect on what is stopping them from picking up where others left off.”

For a full list of U.S. fur farms visit finalnail.com”

Imagine that someone (not you, you would never break the law) has done some crime to help some animals, or to hurt a nazi, or to scare some earth destroyer, and that someone wishes to share their story with the world in hopes that others might too take action. It is difficult to navigate digital forensics, but fear not!, UA is here to help. We have existed as an anonymous platform for direct action for nearly eight years, we have never wanted to know who the ‘criminals’ are and we have set up a system that helps everybody stay anonymous.

1- write your story. Tell us fun details and motivations and whatever else feels right, but don’t give personal information out. We don’t want it. Also avoid writing fascist shit because we will literally not publish it. 161 always.

2- open the TOR Browser. It exists for computer, it exists for smartphones, literally no excuse. This browser helps you keep anonymous by routing your connection through multiple nodes around the world, like an onion with many layers! It means it is a little slower, but worth the anonymity.

3- Head to www.unoffensiveanimal.is/contact-us and scroll down til you find the contact us box. Paste your text.

4- If you have images, use (through the TOR Browser) any of the service providers that allow for media upload (ufile.io, wetransfer.com…). You should probably clean the metadata first. Use Obscurecam or ExifCleaner. Once you have the media link, paste it with your text in the contact us box.

5- answer the math question. You’re allowed to use calculators if you fancy!!!

6- tap on send. That’s it

If after doing that, your little story is not anonymously published within two weeks, you can use a throwaways email like anonymouse to send us an email with message and media. Hopefully we hear about it that way! If it still doesn’t appear, then consider re-reading your report and checking if you’re a fast. We don’t publish fast shit.

And that’s about it. Happy anonymous reporting!

UA.

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{editor’s note: We are aware UA is mentioned in this article and will address this issue as well as another not mentioned here in the coming days}

Anonymous submission:

Not long ago, a horse that had been locked up in an Atlanta police station was released into the city to fend for themselves. Today I check news from around the world to read that the Atlanta Police Department’s recruitment meeting was sabotaged by pulling a fire alarm AND releasing 300 crickets.

But this is not exclusive to the Atlanta forest struggle. Just this year, the animal rights organisation Viva! UK came under fire for parading a purchased whole pig dead body around London to make the point that animal murder is not OK. Just last week I saw the announcement of National Animal Rights Day 2024, where dozens of groups around the world will organise activists to stand in the centre of their city holding dead bodies in a macabre show to discourage people from eating animals.

These are not made up situations and we need to do much better. As anarchists, anti imperialists and anti capitalists, we cannot buy into the grossly hierarchical notion that animals are props we can use to shock the public, any more than we can buy into the notion that animals are tools to sabotage or inconvenience our enemy.

The mistreatment of dogs and horses (and other animals) by the police is a great injustice that we should be addressing, but releasing a domesecrated animal into a city is irresponsible, not cute and liberating. Those who released crickets in the hotel signed as “the horde of locusts that will destroy you”. You’re not a horde of locusts, in fact you see insects as disposable tools you can condemn to die to make a point.

Until the wild is wild again and we stop the ongoing abuse that is domestication, we have a responsibility to all the animals around us. Not only must we fight for their freedom by any means necessary, but we must understand what that freedom means and make the sacrifices necessary to ensure their safety and well-being.

When we analyse the hierarchy imposed by speciesism, lack of consent is the main explanation for the blatant injustice that is the subjugation of animals for food, entertainment, experimentation or any other use. The excuse that corpses are buried or cremated after being used as shock props does not change the fact that they are completely incapable of consenting to being used as shock props.

Finally, I cannot in good faith send this statement without acknowledging that I am enormously disappointed that platforms such as Scenes from the Atlanta Forest and Unoffensive Animal are platforming these kinds of actions. Do better, because your promotion of animal use only means more animal use.

When I die, you must use my entrails to stink up the ventilation systems of the CEO of RWE, the owners of Faccenda and any police station you like, and I hope you dry my bones and use them as ammunition to smash as many butcher’s shops as possible with a catapult. That is consent. The animals have not given you theirs.

Dismantle your speciesist hierarchy to fight a system that is stronger when you hold oppressive thoughts.

For anarchy, for antispeciesism.

An anarchist.

During the month of April we received 14 reports of direct action for animal liberation. Most of these were related to the flesh/egg/dairy industry, with ten actions being liberations. Australia saw the largest liberation this month, with 73 pullets, and was also the country with the most reports, with a total of 4. This is partly due to the start of the duck hunting season, which has attracted a lot of direct action since the beginning of the year.

THE NUMBER OF ACTIONS REPORTED BY COUNTRY IN APRIL WAS AS FOLLOWS

AUSTRALIA: 4
UNITED KINGDOM: 2
DENMARK: 2
GERMANY: 2
ITALY: 1
SPAIN: 1
USA: 1
FRANCE: 1

This month was the Global Weekend of Action against Max Mara, with activists around the world putting pressure on Max Mara to ditch fur once and for all. It was also World Day for Animals in Laboratories, and we understand that the Liverpool demo in the UK was a blast!

We also heard that snitch David Agranoff was confronted at an event where he was trying to promote his book. The movement does not forget snitches!

We’ve heard that Sindre has been receiving letters since the support group changed the delivery address. Please write to Sindre today and send some love.

Finally, May is an expensive month for UA, covering the cost of servers and other tech logistics to keep the platform alive. If you can afford it, please donate via PayPal or Patreon. All the links are here: 

https://linkstack.lgbt/@animalliberation

SOLIDARITY!

UA

It’s that time of year again when we have to get some cash together to pay for servers, domains, and other tech maintenance. If you value the work we do, then show us some support and keep things ticking over. We’re all volunteers; none of us are ever paid for the work we do, from providing prisoner support to writing articles, keeping folks informed about various campaigns, and providing a safe place where people can send word of their actions anonymously and get them published. We even spend hours translating many reports.

There’s constant work behind the scenes to keep things as safe as possible and prisoner info up-to-date. We dealt with a hack on the website only recently and have been working to get everything cleaned up but we might want a fresh start with a new website at some point.

Drop us some coins via PayPal or even better, set up a regular donation by supporting us on Patreon. You can find links to both here:

https://linkstack.lgbt/@animalliberation

Coins aren’t the only way you can support us (though they are needed and appreciated), we’re also open to submissions. Are you involved in a campaign or project you want to talk about? Some banging art to share? Or have something else to say? Drop us a message via email or our ‘contact us’ form on our website.

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

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PS: We have a sick design ready and might do a pre-order only T-shirt for Lado who is in need of funds after a long stint in prison. Are folks interested?

{editor’s note: David Agranoff collaborated with the cops during the green scare investigation and subsequent wave of repression. He received an incredibly lenient sentence because of it. Slowly during the trial’s David’s lies about who he had snitched on were uncovered, starting with having talked “only about Marius because he is already in prison” and realising that he had been collaborating with investigators for at least three years.

The movement does not forget about snitches, and both old and new activists should understand this and re-refresh it in their day to day life. If you collaborate with the police, you are an enemy of the animals, you are an enemy of the earth, you are an enemy of the struggle, and should be treated accordingly. 

There is a zine worth reading (thankfully preserved by The Talon Conspiracy) called “GOT THE HOLLOWPOINTS FOR THE SNITCHES”, which analyses how other revolutionary groups have historically handled snitch culture.

You can find it here: https://thetalonconspiracy.com/2012/03/got-the-hollowpoints-for-the-snitches/}

Originally published by Unravel:

“Green Scare snitch David Agranoff was shouted down at the beginning of his book talk in Bloomington, IN on April 7th, 2024. We distributed fliers with his picture and information to the event attendees, and we called him out for the coward and snitch that he is. He and an event organizer quickly took it upon themselves to collect the fliers and physically usher us out of the event. He replied with some retorts about how “we weren’t there”, asking “what have you done for the movement?”

David seems to believe enough time has passed, and that he should be able to move in spaces without consequence. He wants to claim positive contributions towards the struggle for animal and earth liberation, despite the reality that he is a part of its undoing. David might be on the periphery of vegan, straightedge punk scenes, where people are perhaps not familiar with his past. David will always be a threat to those around him, especially as the State is ramping up its use of social associations as grounds for investigation. Once someone has cooperated, they can be called on to do so again.

Look for him around his home (San Diego, CA as cited on his blog on 1/21/24), and perhaps giving a talk on one of his corny-looking books in a town near you! David runs a blog (https://davidagranoff.blogspot.com), has an instagram (Count.Agranoff), and has another book coming out soon from Anti-Oedipus Press (@antioedipuspress).

More information about his cooperation, and information about other Green Scare snitches, can be found at:
https://animalliberationpressoffice.org/NAALPO/snitches/

https://earthfirstjournal.news/informants/

Cooperation is never an option. Remember, some anarchists never forget a betrayal!”