21st March, Poland
Received anonymously via email:
“Hunter table destroyed”
HUNTING TABLE BROKEN
“THE TIME IS NOW”, A PDF ON GAME FARM SABOTAGE.
VIA: 325.nostate.net
Last year we saw an increase on actions targeting the game bird farm industry by releasing thousands of birds into the wild from their breeding facilities, thus stopping the farmers from selling those birds to shoots. The aim was simple, climbing up the chain and stopping the industry where it starts, so that people don’t have to target the shooters on their day out. No birds to shoots no hunters to pester!
A map was produced outlining many of the UK based game farms, which most likely aided folks finding their local ones and targeting them immediately. That map has now been updated to include farms from many different parts of Europe, increasing the amount of people who have access to local farms and giving the resources to find them.
You can see the game farm map here:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1uzyEb2Z8EW7LLByNhU1L5t2Fpv6SjmKf&ll=45.38124331460442%2C9.630782699212887&z=5
Last week, another important document surfaced on 325. A PDF explaining step by step how to sabotage those farms and how to ensure that the industry loses enough money to stop once and for all. It also explains the urgency of taking action against game farms. It is a good read that we believe people should have at hand, just to be aware of how people operate. You can read it here:
We would like to finish this post by pointing at two sentences within the PDF:
“YOU CAN STOP THIS INDUSTRY BY WALKING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.”
When if not now?
Who, if not YOU.
TWENTY ONE HUNTING TOWERS DESTROYED
Early March, Pontaury, Belgium
Received anonymously via email:
“In early March 2020, near the village of Pontaury, activists again took action against hunting by destroying 21 hunting towers, many of which were new.
We do not communicate the precise date so as not to facilitate the repressive work of the Speciesist State.
This hunting area had already been targeted in October 2019, when 32 towers were destroyed and one hunting hut ransacked.
With this repeated attack, in the same area, the activists show their determination to fight against this leisure activity, which should no longer exist in a society that claims to be evolved, just and strongly linked to scientific and ethical knowledge.
We invite all those who oppose hunting to cause economic damage to hunting activities, everywhere, at all times.
In solidarity with animal species persecuted by hunters and humans in general.
Citizens fighting against speciesism.”
FRENCH:
“Début Mars 2020, à proximité du village de Pontaury, des activistes ont à nouveau agi contre la chasse en détruisant 21 miradors dont plusieurs étaient neufs.
Nous ne communiquons pas la date précise pour ne pas faciliter le travail de répression de l’État spéciste.
Cette zone de chasse avait déjà été visée en octobre 2019, 32 miradors avaient alors été détruits et une cabane de chasse saccagée.
Par cette réplique, sur une même zone, les activistes montrent leur détermination à lutter contre ce loisir qui n’a plus lieu d’exister dans une société se disant évoluée, juste et fortement liées aux connaissances scientifiques et éthiques.
Iels invitent toutes les personnes s’opposant à la chasse à causer des dégâts économiques aux activités de chasse, partout, en tout temps.
En solidarité avec les espèces animales persécutées par les chasseurs et les humains en général.
Ci-joint un communiqué de presse, réalisé à la suite de la première action en octobre 2019, et des photos récentes de 9 des 21 miradors détruits lors de la seconde action.
Des citoyen.ne.s en lutte contre le spécisme.”
WE ARE BACK!
We needed a little break so we decided to step back from work. It didn’t actually happen when a global pandemic kind of kicked in and we had to start working in local mutual aid. After a little longer than expected, we are ready to get back online and bring you all the news we’ve been bringing you until now, plus some of the series that we’ve been publishing before, plus some news ones!
There is a lot to discuss and a lot to share and we will be working constantly to catch up with the amount of stuff we want to share with you, but bare with us, we are all volunteers!
We believe this restart is actually a good moment to explain what Unoffensive Animal is and what we do, in case new people are not aware.
UA is a collective of likeminded individuals coming from an anarchist, animal liberation perspective that comprehends animal liberation as part of a wider fight to achieve total liberation. That means that our work is directed towards toppling the base of the institutional oppression, which hurts all, the earth and all the inhabitants within it, and that we understand the concept of privilege and the multiple faces that oppression might have, from sexism and transphobia to animal exploitation and the continuous bleeding of the planet Earth. We want to see capitalism toppled, we want to see the institutional chains of oppression overturned and we want to see a society where we can work through mutual aid for the betterment of everybody. A serious task!
We work as a media channel for those who take action and want to remain anonymous. We receive reports anonymously and give a platform for others to read about what has happened. We DO NOT take part in illegal actions, we DO NOT go into farms and help animals away and we DO NOT smash windows. We serve as a platform for anonymous individuals to report what they are up to. That means that there is no point messaging us asking “how to join” or “please help this poor dog in my neighbour’s garden”. The response to all them was given a long time by the ALF: “When, if not now? Who, if not you?”.
We also serve as a platform for education. We produce written series about history, about theory and about security. We give talks and organise workshops.
Lastly, we serve as a prison support platform. We collect money for arrest support, for fines and other economic attacks by the state and for prisoners who need to get some stuff from commissary or to call their loved ones.
We do all of this out of love. We do it because we believe in a better future where people learn collectively and fight towards a more sustainable world. And we say this because it is important. We cannot do this alone. It is your job to help. It is your job to read, to learnt to expand, to organise, to take action and to support.
So, we are back, we have many plans on the works and we are asking YOU reading this to start organising too.
If anyone believes in what we do and how we work, we really could do with help. With the global pandemic hitting hard, some folks have (understandably) cancelled their Patreon donations and some others have reduced what they donate per month.
If you are able to join the mutual aid team behind Unoffensive Animal, please do so.
www.patreon.com/animalliberation
Back tomorrow with news and a whole lot of trouble.
Unoffensive.
PHOTO: 100 chinchillas liberated from a fur farm in Brazil, 2014.
IT WAS ABOUT TIME.
We are taking a break. We could explain all the reasons for it but the reality is that internet isn’t the whole of the world and it is very easy to get lost in it. With a project like Unoffensive, a great deal of time is spent in social media and in front of technology. Out of respect for our personal mental health, we need a little break.
We will be back in two weeks. That means no posts, stories or emails for the next 14 days. For immediate release Hit Reports, please contact BiteBack Magazine on info(at)directaction.info and please remember to take security steps sending reports.
Please continue to support prisoners and tell their stories. You all should check on the latest news on Eric King because it is so incredibly fucked up we cannot just explain it on a paragraph. Go read about it, send a letter, send some money and remember it could easily be you.
We hope this break allows us to breath for a little bit and to focus on the bigger projects we are working on. The documentary needs focus, the information series are lacking and there is at least one if not two major events to organise.
Liberate Or Die event in Hambacher Forst is still on the works. Folks are confirming workshops as we speak. If anyone needs information or wants to offer a talk, please email 3_LoD(at)riseup.net
And that’s basically it because part of learning self care is learning not to feel guilty about taking a break.
See you in the next riot.
Unoffensive Animal.
Photo: Lab raid in Iowa University, 2004. From No Compromise! Magazine n30.
RABBIT RESCUED DURING FARM CHECK.
22nd February, Kent UK.
Received anonymously via email:
“On Saturday 22nd February activists found a rabbit dumped within household rubbish whilst checking out a filthy farm where calves and cows were living in unbelievably disgusting conditions.
Bunny was liberated and now the work with the scum farmers start.
Kent, UK”
HUNTING STAND TOPPLED.
HIT REPORT!
25th February, North of France.
Received anonymously via email:
(French below)
“This Tuesday, 25.02.2020, during a walk in the north of France, a young woman saw a hunting stand and literally rushed at it to destroy it.
Let us recall that every speciesist system must be destroyed, the fight must always continue.
Nothing will stop us from fighting against speciesism.
ALF.”
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“Ce mardi 25.02.2020, lors d’une promenade dans le nord de la France, une jeune femme ayant vue une hutte de chasse ses littéralement précipiter dessus pour la détruire.
Rappelons que chaque système spéciste doit être anéanti, la lutte doit toujours continuer.
Rien peut nous empêcher à faire face à leur spéciste.
ALF.”
HUNTING TOWER DESTROYED
17th February, Sweden.
VIA: BITEBACK MAGAZINE
anonymous report:
“17th of February, Sweden
Two hunting towers were sabotaged in Sweden by DRM (the Swedish Animal Rights Militia).
One of the towers got a message sprayed on it: ‘DRM’ and ‘avskum’ (scum in Swedish).”
FUR SHOP VISITED, LOCKS GLUED, PAINT SPLATTERTED.
16th February, Sweden
Via: BiteBack Magazine
anonymous report:
“A fur selling store was attacked again in Stockholm, Sweden. Poster was placed, glues locked and paint poured. Their windows is still broken to. Mess with the animals and we’ll mess up your store!
In solidatity with innocent comrade Richii Klinsmeister, Djurfront, who was just sentenced to 6 months in prison (for ‘assault’), only for speaking in a megaphone, having a demo against Niclas Pettersson, mink murderer in
Glomen, Sweden.
Number to the mink farmer
(international): 004670869612.
Don’t call to late;)
UNTIL ALL ARE FREE
/ALF”
CALF RESCUED FROM A SLAUGHTERHOUSE.
20th February, Belgium.
via: frentedeliberacionanimal.net
“During the early hours of the 20th of February a calf has been liberated from a slaughterhouse in Belgium by the Animal Liberation Front.
In memory of Karel Van Noppen, murdered by the meat mafia the 20th of February, 1995.”