WILDFIRE MAGAZINE: LAST WEEK TO PLACE ORDERS + LOWERING THE MINIMUM ORDER + USA ORDERS OPEN!!!!

via: Wildfire Magazine.

“Last orders starts now folks!

If you’ve been wondering if you should order some bulk, now is your chance to do it! We will only print as many magazines as we’ve received orders, and we will make sure to publicise the groups, shops and collectives that have stocked Wildfire, but we will not ourselves we selling individual copies, so if you’d like to see us stocked locally, reach out to your local sab groups, animal lib groups or other collectives and distros to tell them you’d like them to stock Wildfire magazine!

What is Wildfire magzine you ask? A zine about animal liberation, direct action, anarchism, art and lots more! On volume 4 you can expect direct action news, pressure campaign history, Blackmask comic raiding a fur farm, how to asses corvids before releasing them from a trap and so so much more, accopanied by artwork and photography by artists and activists within the movement.

We have heard from multiple groups that stocking 30 is too many, so we have lowered the minimum order to 20 instead. This is due to the fact that we have not reached the minimum printing numbers to be able to afford the print out! 


Due to low numbers of orders we have abandoned the idea of printing for the USA directly in the USA, we are aware that this brings the costs of postage up but we didn’t have enough orders in Europe to afford printing the batch! So all USA groups that have shown an interest in Wildfire, reach out now and let’s calculate postage!

As always here are the maths:

Bulk price per zine 1.5 GBP
Minimum order for bulk price: 20 magazines
Total cost: zines+postage.

Recommended sale price: 4GBP”

To order, drop a DM to @wildfire.zine on Instagram or email [email protected]

ARE YOU THINKING OF GOING TO AN ANTIFASCIST DEMO THIS WEEK? HERE ARE A FEW TIPS.

Hey friends!

The fash have kicked off across England with extreme anti-migrant rhetoric and in one case they even managed to set fire to a hotel hosting refugees. It’s up to all of us to fight back and protect communities, so we’ve decided to write a quick guide on how to look after yourself when you go to a counter-demo.

Organise off social media. Don’t tell your friends about your plans on IG, either publicly or via DM. Signal app is your best option for organising. On the subject of technology, there is always the risk of getting arrested, so leave your phone at home. You can always use a burner phone for the day, or a burner phone for your group of friends!

Organise into affinity groups. Don’t go alone, meet with people you trust. Keep an eye on them, keep them safe, keep them mobile at all times.

Mask up properly and consistently. Unless otherwise specified by the organisers, dress in all black, with comfortable clothes that aren’t super tight so that your body shape isn’t an identifier.

A small, inconspicuous rucksack with a colourful change of clothes, a snack, a water bottle and some medical masks won’t go amiss.

Don’t talk to the cops. Not the yellow ones. Not the blue ones, not the ones that look like special ops. The orange ones will try to film your face. Cover their cameras with banners. Don’t talk to them either. If you actually get into shit and get arrested, say NO COMMENT, ask for a NETPOL recommended criminal solicitor (check their list online beforehand and write their name, cop shop visit is free) and never accept a caution.

Watch the police movements. They tend to nab agitators and they are prone to kettling. Keep moving and do not stand still so that someone can easily target you. Keep your friends close and make sure you’re looking out for them too.

The demos at the weekend were knee-jerk reactions, with many people not knowing how to organise. Nazis and fascists have now had a few days to actually plan shit, so expect the demographics to be less erratic and the demos more planned.

For more information on your rights have a look at NETPOL.

For more info on dates of demos and other antifascist work, check London Anti Fascist Assembly (LAFA) and your local antifascist groups.

Keep fighting Nazis, look out for each other and build the solidarity networks your community deserves.

See you in the streets!

EAT FASCISTS, NOT ANIMALS // NAZIS NOT WELCOME // NO PASARAN!

IMAGE BY PRAXIS, WHO SPED-DESIGNED IT IN A HANDFUL OF HOURS <3

IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE! // JULY DIRECT ACTION ROUNDUP

July is soo far the month with more reported arsons in 2024. A total of four separate arsons were reported, all targeting hunting infrastructure. There were two liberations (both of chickens) and three other acts of sabotage also reported this month.

By country, reported actions came from:

DENMARK: 4
GERMANY: 2
ARGENTINA: 1
AUSTRALIA: 1
ITALY: 1

On the prisoner support corner, we have now posted all Susaron fundraiser tees and tote bags, and we will work out how much we’ve managed to fundraise later on in the week.

We also produced an interview with Sindre, who is still locked up due to actions against a fur farmer in Sweden, and we also heard about Leonard’s parole denying his release, essentially condemning him to die in prison. We keep fighting on prisoner support every single day because those inside need us, and we truly appreciate the support you lend us to help us do the job!

Earth First! UK gathering came and went and we heard it was a blast of plotting, planning and mingling with likeminded individuals, and we also heard from Wildfire Magazine, who said they are very close to printing volume 4. We certainly cannot wait and will be bulk ordering a couple hundred, so that folks can buy them from the shop whenever they want.

Short update this month because we also took a break, so we produced less content, but just a quick reminder that taking time off is extremely revolutionary, and that productivity is a tool useably the capitalist system to keep us oppressed.

KEEP FIGHTING, ALWAYS!

PS: Please if you can afford it, support our work by donating to our PayPal or by joining us on Patreon:


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IT IS TIME FOR A LIL BREAK!

Hey friends!

We are taking a little break. We could write heaps about how rest is revolutionary and whatever else, but we are burnt out enough to not want to take it on.

Over this week we will publish all prisoner support posts, submissions and hit reports sent to us through the last couple of weeks. After that, we will not monitor our emails or socials until the 29th. This means that any submissions sent between today til the 29th need to be set with a longer expiration date than normal, as we will not be taking care of emails for the next 14 days!

We will resume our standard work on the 29th, and if we could request for people to email us if they need something instead of DMing us, that’d be grand. We don’t really give many fucks about social media and it is very possible we will not see your DMs, but we always check emails!

If in the meantime folks need to publish any submissions that cannot wait, we are sure that NAALPO will take reports, just email [email protected] to contact them.

We hope you all keep causing chaos!

UA

WILDFIRE VOLUME 4 COMING SOON AND LOOKING FOR SUBMISSIONS!

Received via email from @wildfire.zine

Hey shoplifting raccoons!

We’re super excited to let you all know that Wildfire Vol.4 is coming (yeah yeah yeah, we know, Vol.3 was in 2022, we’ve been busy!) and we’d love to get some submissions.

We have enough articles for it, but it would be great to get more visuals to populate the zine. We are looking for artists who would like to send us some radical drawings, or photographers who would like us to publish some of their photos from demos, riots or actions!

If you send photos, please understand that we will not publish uncensored faces. As for drawings or other forms of graphic art, anything from anarchist to trans to animal liberationist is welcome!


The deadline for submissions is the 10th of July, so please drop us an email if you would like to submit some visuals. Please also include in the email if you’d like your website or social handle or whatever to be used to credit the images.

All submissions to wildfiremagazine (at) riseup (dot) net

For anarchy, for animal liberation!

TAKE CONCRETE ACTION 2: PULP FICTION – CLIMATE CAMP & BLOCKADE AGAINST THE PULP INDUSTRY, STORA ENSO SWEDEN

Between June 15-19, around 300 activists from different parts of Europe and the Nordics gathered for a climate camp in Gävle, Sweden.

The camp was organized by the Take Concrete Action network, which previously organized a camp and blockade against the cement factory Cementa on Gotland in 2022. (Link: https://youtu.be/zROOiTOEafE)

At the camp in Gävle, folks from the radical movement came together with people from the broad environmental one, you could make contacts, there were opportunities for learning, and to mobilize future climate actions. One could contribute to the escalation needed in the climate struggle.

The camp had a schedule filled with interesting talks. It was five days with, among other things, anti-colonial perspectives, reports from anti-fascists, information on anti-repression. There was a good atmosphere in the camp, with vegan food, and action training. On Monday, June 15, it was time for mass action, when more than a hundred activists blocked two entrances to Stora Enso’s pulp factory in Gävle. Stora Enso is an international pulp company, which depletes forests around the world, which has fatal consequences for non-human animals, and minority groups, for example in both Sweden and Uruguay.

The day of action began on Sunday night, when the activists gathered and made their way to the action site and structured themselves into friend groups and finger formations. Of course, they were closely pursued by cops, who awkwardly stumbled around the forest in useless attempts to keep track of the activists. When the activists marched towards the industrial building, singing “Tout Le Monde Dèteste La Police”, there were police cars both in front and behind the demonstration train. Nevertheless, the demonstration reached its goal.

Arriving at Stora Enso, the activists split into two groups, one finger blocking the West Gate, and another finger blocking the East Entrance. At 07:00 the blockade began, after which it did not end until 10 hours later. At 17:00 the activists chose to end the blockade. Then they had caused trouble for Stora Enso’s operations all day, prevented transport from getting in and out of the area.

The blockade was also well attended by journalists and cops (from at least three different police regions). Of course, representatives from Stora Enso refused to publicly comment on the activists’ criticism of their environmentally destructive activities.

Overall, the camp was well organized and inspiring. Activists met, exchanged experiences and started new fruitful relationships. The action, the blockade against Stora Enso, was successful and showed what can be achieved when enough people gather and take direct action together. We can shut down what destroys us, and expose the crap companies. It will be exciting to see what the next climate camp with Take Concrete Action mobilizes resistance against.

WE SHUT SHIT DOWN

Take Concrete Actions website: https://www.takeconcreteaction.info/

AND THE FUR FARM RAID SEASON HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN! – JUNE DIRECT ACTION ROUND UP

In the month of June we have heavily focused on raising funds for the Susaron prisoners by selling t-shirts and tote bags. You’ll be happy to hear that the pre-orders have now finished and you won’t see us promoting it any longer! 

We still don’t know how much money we’ve managed to raise (we will only know once we post all the parcels and pay for the postage), but we are hoping to have made a decent amount to support them in prison!

We also celebrated our 8th anniversary as a collective. Who would’ve thought we’d still be kicking after eight years!

Lastly on the prisoner support corner, we wrote about Marius needing support in order to get gender affirming surgery in prison. You can still help today!

In the direct action corner it looks like Denmark was busy this month. It was also interesting to see the first fur farm raid of the season, where people opened every fox cage at a fur farm in USA.

By country, the number of reported direct actions in June are: 



DENMARK: 3

UK: 3
USA: 1
ARGENTINA: 1

As always, if you appreciate the work that we do and would like to support us, please send us some coins.

Paypal: [email protected]
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FUR FARM RAIDING SEASON.

TW: Contains some footage of animal cruelty.

via: Animal Liberation Press Office

“Historically, June is the beginning of “fur farm raiding season”, when mink born in March mature to a state where they can be liberated into their natural environment.

Since 1995, there have been at least 116 fur farm raids across the United States. Raids peaked in 1997 and 1998, and continued with small surges in 2008, 2011, and a resurgence in 2013.

In 2022, three mink farms were emptied by the Animal Liberation Front. Over 15,000 mink were liberated into their natural environment, and at least one fur farm closed as a result.

2023 saw the ALF visit three fur farms and liberate over 11,000 mink and dozens of foxes.

The anonymous liberators wrote “people need to see the filthy & cramped conditions where these territorial & genetically wild animals are kept up to four in a single cage. and the joy that is possible when they experience freedom.”

Empty the prisons.”

UNOFFENSIVE ANIMAL IS EIGHT YEARS OLD! – 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

PS: Please, if you can afford it, donate some coins to the project, support your radical media!



Paypal: [email protected]
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UNOFFENSIVE SHOP IS BACK WITH A LIMITED STOCK FUNDRAISING DESIGN! – SUPPORT PRESOS CASO SUSARON!

PRESOS SUSARON A LA CALLE! – FREE PRESOS SUSARON!

(thanks Krime for the design, find more of their stuff here: www.krime.uk)

Folks have been asking for it for quite a while so we have partially re-opened the shop! 

We are bringing you a pre-order only t-shirt and tote bag to support our comrades at Caso Susaron in Chile.

This is a very limited pre-order run that will end the 3rd week of June. We will only print as many t-shirts and tote bags as there are orders and they will never be in stock again, so this is your chance to grab what you want! 



As always, stuff is printed on No Sweat garments (cooperative owned factory producing organic threads) using vegan ink at a printers that runs on solar power. It cannot get more greenwashed than this!

Tees available in grey and white. Tote bags are off-white, thick cotton material. 



We operate with Name your Price, at a minimum we’ve set tees at 20 GBP and Tote Bags at 12 GBP but if you can afford more please donate more. Every penny in profits will go directly to the support of Presos Susaron.

GRAB A TEE OR HOODIE HERE:
https://unoffensiveanimal.is/shop

Every order comes with free stickers and if you grab a tee and a tote bag we will send a Wildfire magazine for free too!

We have also re-listed some other items on the shop (prints, badges and patches). If you order those items alongside pre-order items, everything will be posted together. 

We aim to post the preorder items Mid July.

ABOUT CASO SUSARON:
Four antispeciesist comrades were arrested in September 2022 accused of setting a Susaron meat packaging plant alight, totally burning six lorries and partially burning a refrigerating unit. 

One of the four comrades was earlier this year sentenced to five years on tag and released to the streets, the other three are still awaiting trial. 

They need support, solidarity and money, so your donations here go a long way.

SOLIDARITY ALWAYS!!!!