Unoffensive Animal

May, Midlands UK.

received anonymously via email:

“A few days ago we visited a shooting estate in the Midlands. Almost immediately, we stumbled upon a Larsen trap. A magpie had been locked inside as bait, so we checked her over and took her to a safe refuge where she could receive veterinary treatment and recover. The trap was torn apart and put out of commission.

In the bushes nearby, we found a big floppy dildo. Presumably, it belonged to the gamekeeper, so after disinfecting it, we gave it back by super-glueing it to the seat of a shooting platform near his house. We left as quickly as we had arrived, but not as silently. Three other shooting platforms were torn to the ground and destroyed as we fled into the darkness with our rescued magpie friend.

Until every gun is silenced, we will be in the forests, the fields, and the country estates to save our wildlife, and to say it loudly: all shooters are big floppy dildos.”

3rd April, Argentina.

via: @anarcoveganismo.arg

ENGLISH (translation):

“It’s their lives, not ours” is often shouted in the streets among speciesists but how much do we value their lives? Imagine being tortured/slaved and that your destiny is to have your throat slit, would you expect total abolition or at least that someone would risk everything to at least help you escape from that misery? This is what we always ask ourselves with some, very few companions.

There are people who rescue animals from the streets that are abandoned to their fate (dogs or cats) there are other people who rescue together with the police using the few laws that are left on their side to non-human animals, such as horses for example, but what is left to animals from exploitation?

There are no laws that regulate their fate whether they are pigs, cows or chickens. One thing is to rescue and another to liberate.

Even if it is a life “it is their life”.
Animals cannot wait for the end of speciesism, our complacency limits us to what we are doing and “up to here I can do” for the other animals, but is it enough? Do you really believe that you save animals without cutting their cages? We don’t think so.

As we firmly maintain that animals are not anyone’s property, and that it is not even expropriation.  It is an act of liberation of slaves to take direct action in our hands and save lives…which are theirs, not ours. Even if in the act we consequently lose our own freedom because we owe it to them.

Self-organising can be achieved collectively with an objective purpose as long as we are clear about the urgency that the end deserves. We are also clear to those pessimists that we will not free all the animals in the world in this way, but “What if you were in their place?
“IF YOU WERE THE VICTIM?” ”How long would you give your oppressor?” Self-organise now!”

SPANISH (original):

“Son sus vidas, no las nuestras” se suele gritar en las calles entre especistas pero que tanto valoramos sus vidas? Imagínate estar siendo tortutado/esclavizado y que tu destino sea ser degollado , esperarías la abolicion total o al menos que alguien lo arriesgue todo para al menos ayudarte a escapar de esa miseria? Es lo que siempre nos preguntamos con algunxs, muy pocxs compañerxs.Hay personas que rescatan animales de las calles que son abandonados a su suerte(perros o gatos) hay otras personas que rescatan junto a la policía utilizando las pocas leyes que les quedan de su lado a los animales no humanos, como a caballos por ejemplo, pero que les queda a los animales de la explotación? No hay leyes que regulen su destino si son cerdos ,vacas o pollos. Una cosa es rescatar y otra liberar.Aun que sea una vida “es su vida”Los animales no pueden esperar por el fin de el especismo, nuestra autocomplacencia nos limita a lo que estamos haciendo y “hasta acá puedo hacer” por los demás animales, pero es suficiente? De verdad creen que salvan a los animales sin cortar sus jaulas? No lo creemos así. Como sostenemos firmemente que los animales no son la propiedad de nadie,y que no es expropiación siquiera. Es un acto de liberacion de esclavxs tomar en nuestras manos la acción directa y salvar vidas…que son las suyas , no las nuestras . Aun que en el acto por consecuencia perdamos nuestra propia libertad porque se lo debemos.Lo autogestivo puede lograrse de manera colectiva con un propósito objetivo siempre y cuando tengamos en claro la urgencia qué merece el fin. Tenemos también bien en claro para esxs pesimistas que de esta manera no liberaremos a todos los animales del mundo,pero “y si estuvieras en su lugar?” “SI FUERAS VOS LA VÍCTIMA?” “Cuanto tiempo le darías a tu opresor?” Autogestionate ya!”