WHAT: Three day event, workshops, plotting and socialising WHEN: 27th, 28th, 29th September WHERE: Can La Fou, Vallbona D’Ainoa, Catalunya.
@Plumas_y_cizallas is organising an intersectional animal liberation gathering with workshops, tattoo artists, self defence lessons and talks by campaigning collectives in Can La Fou, Catalunya (so called Spain) this weekend.
There are sleeping spaces for anyone who needs it, mattresses, places to pitch tents and spots to park vans.
They suggest a minimum donation of 3€ per day, with all profits going to sanctuaries in south america. Food will be provided by @foodnotbombsbcn
They ask to not bring doggos to site to respect the current animal residents.
Fascist, transphobic, ableist, antispeciesist or otherwise any form of bigotry is not welcome in the event.
Leonard Peltier has celebrated his 80th birthday in prison, having been locked up for half a century for a crime he isn’t guilty of. His conviction was riddled with dodgy acts to convince a racist, hand selected jury of his involvement in the murder of two FBI agents inside Pine Ridge Reservation.
Leonard is truly just paying for the crime of standing up for native rights in the so-called USA, and has been used as a political scapegoat for decades. Even in his old age, using a walker to move around and experiencing partial blindness, he is still being thrown in solitary lockdown without much explanation. His health is continuously deteriorating and he does not have a release date, with every single previous campaign to seek his freedom failing to make a dent against the cruel jaws of the carceral system.
Currently he is unable to access the phone and emails are an issue due to the current lockdown. He can still receive letters,although he might not be able to answer to them. Please write to him today. He has a great sense of humour and really enjoys jokes.
Please only write on white paper, with white, big and bold letters so he can read due to his vision. DO NOT add stickers, feathers or else any other non white paper items in the letter.
Leonard Peltier #89637-132 USP Coleman I U.S. PENITENTIARY P.O. BOX 1033 COLEMAN, FL 33521 U.S.A
Wildfire volume 4 has landed! We are so excited to be stocking it on our website and cannot recommend it more!
60+ beautifully designed pages on aninal liberation, anarchism, direct action and prisoner support on mat paper, with amazing articles ranging from how to asses corvids before releasing from traps, anarchism in the animal liberation movement and Praxis’ ‘Blackmask’ comic to top it off.
We are selling them for £4 plus postage and we ship worldwide, so go get one from our site and share with all your comrades!
@wildfire.zine has distributed zines across the globe so check with them to see if you can support a local group by purchasing one nearby, and tell your local groups to stock Wildfire too!
We hope you enjoy the read, for the animals always!
“During a walk in the Dorset countryside, we happened upon a strange fence in a small area of woodland.
Behind the fence were several hundred young pheasants, who we realised had been bred to be chased across nearby fields and shot.
They looked so innocent, so unaware of the violent fate that lay in store for them, so we simply could not walk by.
After disconnecting and removing the battery for the electric fence, we removed several fence panels, and the door to the enclosure. Once we had emptied all of the feed and water, to ensure the birds had no reason to return, we helped usher them out of their prison and into freedom. Run free little ones, you’re safe now x”
For a little over three months, ‘MBR Suppliers’ has focused on plucking away any and all businesses that work with or supply MBR Acres in Cambridgeshire, UK, supporting the broader ‘Free the MBR Beagles campaign’ fighting against the puppy mill that breeds beagles for vivisection in the UK.
Since its inception they have managed to sign up 10 MBR Suppliers to a business boycott where they promise not to work with MBR again. A notable example would be JRS bedding supplier, which was also supplying with bedding to huge companies like Pets at Home. When folks contacted Pets at Home to tell them the supplier also sold bedding to MBR Acres, PaH threatened to pull and JRS decided not to sell bedding to MBR any longer. Other companies joining the boycott have been Acourt Group (they collected MBR Acres dog waste)and Bender, who did their human waste.
IMPEX (the company who transports the dogs from the farm to the labs) was targeted after people found their new van depot, so the farm that rented them a shed to store the vans evicted them and forced them to park in the owner’s house instead. They also lost the company who sold, serviced and modified their vans.
The campaign has seen multiple creative protest, but the vast majority of the action has been even simpler; emails and phone calls have achieved a lot of the wins so far. This means that the campaign is accessible to most, even internationally, but organisers insist that there is a place for all who want to take part, from leafletting and wheat pasting to emailing, protest, phone calls and researching, there are so many ways people can help that you will find a way to join them too! They are mostly operation on a Facebook group, which can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mbrsuppliers
Campaigning takes a million and one forms, and once you have identified your target, sometimes it is smarter to zoom out slightly to see the connections they have to the outside world. Plucking MBR suppliers away from the dog farm means they slowly asphyxiate trying to find someone else who will work with them, allowing other companies to demand more money for the same service to then pull out of the deal when they feel the pressure.
Join them, and destroy MBR!
{photo at a demo in front of Stericycle in Bournemouth}
“We are living through hard times, and they are only getting harder. Our movements, friends, comrades, organizations, protests, neighbors and activities are falling more and more on the wrong side of law enforcement, regardless of legality or illegality. Some of us will be kidnapped by the state, to be punished for the crime of seeking justice or even basic survival… … We can neither meet this with despair, nor let the state take away our people so easily.”
Nattsvart Verkstad will hold an art show and education weekend, 20-22 September, at Cyklopen, in Högdalen, Stockholm Sweden. The event will featuring the art, literature, music, and words of imprisoned comrades. Nattsvart have worked together with an international array of anti-carceral groups to make this happen, like Free Marius Mason.
“There will be artwork from prisoners from many parts of the world, letter writing, book table, as well as panel talks and lectures on prison abolition, solidarity and how to get organised in the face of the increasingly rampant carcerality seeping into every aspect of our lives…”
Check out Nattsvart Verkstads website for more information: https://nattsvartverkstad.noblogs.org
“We liberated a badly abused dog from the Raubeckhof in Dürnau. Many people are aware of the many problems there, the veterinary office knows about it for months, the public prosecutor’s office is active and yet almost nothing is happening. Once again, it took people like us to bring about change.
He now lifes a happy life. With very good food that nobody has to die for. We left a letter and sent it to the people of the region.
“Every year about a million pheasants are bred in captivity in Denmark and released into the wild, so that insecure men, who like to kill innocent beings, can go out and shoot them for fun.
14 pheasants was taken from one of these farms a few days before they would be released, and moved to a different forest, where hunting isn’t allowed. We know of the problems with releasing animals bred in captivity into the wild, but these pheasants would be released either way. The main difference is that now they were released into a forest where humans aren’t allowed to shoot them, instead of being released on “hunting grounds”.”
Two hunting towers were put out of action in the Belgian Ardennes. In solidarity with everyone fighting for liberation across the world, and for the animals, always.”
WHAT: Night vigil in front of a slaughterhouse WHERE: Multiple countries around the globe, and near you if you organise one too! WHEN: 25th to 26th of September (night).
Our comrades at 269 liberation animale have sent us a call to action to share. It is their 4th international event in front of a slaughterhouse. A night for people to transform their street activism into activism in front of a place of exploitation, giving them a taste of what a night out looks like within the confines of a vigil (and thus, legal and safe!)
If you want to organise (or want to join one of the multiple vigils across the globe), get in touch with them over social media.
Read the call to action below:
“« NIGHTS OUT IN FRONT OF SLAUGHTERHOUSES » : PLEASE SHARE THIS CALL TO ACTION ★
When ? During the night of Wednesday the 25th to Thursday the 26th of September.
Where ? It’s an international event taking place in several countries simultaneously : the list of the targeted slaughterhouses is to be found in our previous publication.
In the night of the 25th to the 26th of September, 269 Liberation Animale will organise it’s 4th edition of the « Nights out in front of slaughterhouses ».
An international event taking place in several countries simultaneously. This event was first initiated [email protected]_animale to encourage antispeciesist activists to go from street activism to targeting places exploiting animals.
To build the fight WITH THEM and not anymore « in their name ». A first step towards a confrontational activism.
Exploited animals arrive in the middle of the nigt at the slaughterhouse and get killed at dusk, with no one to care about them. But we’ll be there. Not to cry, not to take photos of the victims, but to trigger a revolutionary spark.
May this night call for direct actions by people who will for the first time witness the materiality of the speciesist oppression.
In order for this event to become a menace for the animal exploitation system, we call for all motivated comrades, who share our vision, to contact us if willing to organise a night, in front of a slaughterhouse in their area.
Those gatherings are legal and hold no risks of legal consequences.
Join one of the many nights being organised, and together, let’s become slaughterhouse’s worst nightmare, on the night of this coming 26/9”
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