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Environmental health forces us all to put rat traps down when having a food related business. How can you deal with them once you’ve had your inspection? Today, we talk about rat traps!
We’ve all seen them. Tucked in a corner, under furniture, or attached with cable to a wall. Made out of metal or plastic, they usually have rat sized holes on either end.
Rat traps tend to litter the landscape everywhere, and in this article, we will discuss how you can deal with YOUR OWN rat traps once you’re done with them.
If they are attached via a wire to something, then wire cutters might be useful to remove them. Once you have them in your possession, your next step is to open them. Sometimes they open easily, but sometimes you might need a 4 way key or a screwdriver to pry them open. If plastic, they can often be opened by placing them sideways and stomping on the seam. Once they are open, you need to inspect inside.
If they have a weird colour block, or maybe some wheat looking grain, usually dyed red, that is a poison trap. Poison needs to be disposed by burning, as putting poison in the bin will just send the poison somewhere else where a different rat population might live and eat it.
You can do a BBQ one day, or you can put it in a dog poo bin if your local council disposes of dog poop by burning and not by composting.
If they have sticky paper, that’s a glue trap!!! You can put those in the bin, but before you do, make sure you cover all the glue with sand, dirt, or any other granular material that will ensure all the glue is no longer dangerous to anyone.
Lastly, you might find the notorious spring traps, which get set off and are supposed to break the spine of any small animal. All you need to do with those is set them off before disposing.
If the boxes that house the murdering devices are plastic, a good kick works wonders to make them less useful. If they are metal, they might need a hammer!
If by any chance you are unable to remove the traps because you can’t cut the wire or you’re unable to open them to check if there is poison inside, remember that expanding foam sprayed into the holes will ensure whatever is inside stays inside and all the animals outside stay protected from the trap when you put it in the bin!
Now you know how to deal with YOUR OWN rat traps. Don’t do this to other people’s traps. That would be illegal.
[Editor’s note: Anarcho Anti-Speciesists for Palestine sent a write up and video about their disruption in the Animal Rights Forum in Melbourne due to the welcoming of zionists as speakers. Read it below:]
“THIS IS FOR REEM – THEY ARE ALL REEM
Saturday 24 February 2024
We are autonomous anarcho anti-speciesist actionists who disrupted the platforming of a zionist speaker at the Animal Rights Forum in Naarm (so called Melbourne). We opened the action stating “This is for Reem, they are all Reem” followed by “This is how Palestinians are notified that they are being targeted by the IOF” whilst throwing pieces of paper in the air titled with these words and also quotes from the Zionist speaker, Maya Cohen-Ronen (M.C. Ronen). We then commenced our speakout. We will let the video speak for itself from there.
We refuse to have veganism co-opted by spaces that platform genocide supporters with blood on their hands. Nor will we cower to misogynistic violence and bootlickers.
Boycott and disrupt all spaces where zionists are platformed! Total Liberation Now! Long live the Palestinian Resistance!
This is our statement:
We acknowledge that our resistance is being undertaken on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded and we acknowledge the ongoing effects and suffering of colonisation on this land and those who have been fighting against and resisting the oppression for over 250 years. We also acknowledge the Elders past and present who continue to guide and teach. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
We are here today to oppose this zionist named M.C. Ronen (aka Maya) being platformed at this forum in full knowledge that she is a genocide supporter with blood on her hands.
We are here today because we oppose the genocide of the Indigenous people of Palestine and some of us have had our community killed and injured in the bombing of the oldest Greek Orthodox church in Palestine by the Israeli Occupation Forces.
Over 29,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed since October, including over 14,000 children – more than 260 babies didn’t get to celebrate their first birthday. Over 70,000 Palestinians are injured to date. THIS IS GENOCIDE.
The fascist settler-colonial state of israel has ensured that there is nowhere safe for the Palestinian people – the “safe” corridors are corridors of execution. Rafah with over 1.5 million people cornered is now a target.
Decolonisation is and should be the cornerstone of the Human Liberation movement. This means cultural, psychological and economic freedom for Indigenous Communities to have the right and ability to practice self determination over their land, cultures, political and economic systems. The colonisation of Palestine has caused the occupation and dispossession of land, military rule over social, political and economic systems which exploit the Palestinian people and their resources.
Animal Rights Forum – have you not noticed the countless numbers of other animals that have been killed by the zionists, either at point blank or through the endless bombings in Palestine? Thousands are traumatized, lying injured or deceased, under the ruins and rubble. The donkeys, the cats, the dogs, the sheep that have been killed by IOF snipers as ‘target practice’.
Animal Rights Forum – the weapons which are “field” tested on and used to kill the Palestinian people are FIRST tested on and used to kill other animals. The connect is here!
And yet, HERE WE ARE TODAY.
In front of a zionist being platformed at an animal rights forum ready to deliver a speech about animal and human rights – but just not those of all Palestinians and most certainly not those she labels with the speciesist slur “vermin”.
She talks of human rights as though she is the defender of those rights.
She talks of human rights as though she is not the violator of those rights.
She talks of human rights as though she is not part of a political ideology responsible for perpetrating the genocide of the Palestinian people.
She talks of human rights as though the zionist state has not been ethnically cleansing Palestine for over 75 years in the world’s largest open air prison – by land, air and sea.
We reject the vegan washing of the zionist state. No amount of vegan boots in so-called vegan armies will ever inform our position. The oppression of other animals cannot be used to mask the subjugation of the Palestinians over decades.
Zionists have turned Palestine into an open air slaughterhouse – and here you have your token zionist platformed today.
We stand with anti-zionist Jews who are on the frontlines of solidarity actions with Palestine. Judaism is not Zionism. It is not anti-semitic to oppose zionism and this genocide.
The Palestinian resistance has deep seeded roots in every corner of the world, including at this forum.
Blood on your hands Animal Rights Forum!
Shame on anyone speaking at this forum in full knowledge that a zionist is being platformed! Get that Keffiyeh off your neck!
And shame on the Animal Rights Forum for also platforming transphobes this weekend!
Long live the Palestinian Resistance!
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Whilst we would have liked to to keep this write up strictly about the genocide in Palestine and our solidarity action, we will touch on a few other going ons (briefly as we don’t want this to detract from why we took action):
We were physically and verbally attacked by organisers at the forum, especially the lead organiser who launched at the activists pulling speeches and flags from their hands, pulled at a keffiyeh wrapped around of one of our queer comrades necks which started to choke them, pushing and shoving us as mock security. We will always push back against misogynistic violence in any space. This ugly display of unprovoked violence towards women and non-binary folk was a microcosm of the very violence the people in the room proclaim to oppose towards other animals but then without hesitation replicate this violence for all to witness. You have all become the very thing you claim to be fighting against. In that moment you could have listened – a mirror was being held up to a room full of hypocrisy because it is necessary and long overdue. You’re also a bunch of bootlickers for calling cops on other activists.
We thank our comrades at Melbourne Hunt Saboteurs for stepping up and having our backs in a room full of bystanders showing them all what being an accomplice to the Palestinian resistance looks like whilst others stood back and told us “we aren’t discussing that (genocide) here” and “you’re disgusting”. MHS also pulled out from the forum without hesitation in an act of unwavering solidarity with Palestine and our action. Head over to the hunt sabs facebook page to read their statement and show them some solidarity. Link here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/dMTHyz6KWEPNT6p5/?mibextid=oFDknk
To the orgs and individuals who have an endless list of pathetic reasons why they couldn’t walk away from this forum in full knowledge (prior to the forum commencing) that a zionist was being platformed – f*ck you. We repeat, f*ck you. For all the times you have looked away – for ignoring the fascists, the misogynists, the transphobes, the conspiracy theorists, the anti-vaxxers, the zionists in animal rights spaces. It is counter revolutionary! And again, you looked away even though you were presented with an opportunity to do better this time. If only you had an ounce of the integrity our sab comrades have. Keep waving the flag of faux solidarity with Palestine whilst some of you are even on the record as financial sponsors of this forum. Your rich whyt girl tears don’t affect us and nor does sliding into our DMs to attempt to school us. You do not get to drive the narrative here. Your solidarity with Palestine in the time of genocide shouldn’t be difficult – it should be easy. Solidarity isn’t selfies months ago at a Palestinian rally you attended, it is every day and in every space. There is nowhere to hide now, you had the opportunity to walk – the rest is on you.
To the neo-liberal poster children for whyt and single issue veganism in the room – especially the vegan saviour yelling “are you vegan?” and “animal rights now” at us, role playing security trying to push us out of the zio space whilst pointing to his Palestinian wristband – yes, we are f*cking vegan and also yes, you’re a walking hypocrite. #WristbandsForLiberation
And lastly to the coppers outside the Melbourne Town Hall – we saw your hands on the OC spray simply because you were called to an action by Palestinian actionists. Upholding settler colonial violence everywhere you go.
Abolish the Police! F*ck The Police! ACAB!
After the outside action was concluded, one of our Palestinian comrades walked across the road to rescue a gull (“seagull”) that had just been hit by an ambulance. He held the gull with such tenderness and love, caressing their head and kissing them gently and then handed this individual over to us. We wrapped their dying, almost lifeless, body in our keffiyeh. It was in that keffiyeh that they died. In that moment it became clear to us that the love and compassion shown by the Palestinian people for this animal was in such stark contrast to the racism and hatred shown by the “animal rights” forum and associated folk towards Palestine only a few hours earlier.
“Fighting for animal liberation can feel lonely and pointless. As there will never be a means to and end to these violent industries. Collectively, however, we can bring about meaningful change and connect on our struggle to see it through.
The animal liberation movement nowadays seems to be comprised by a lot of separate groups and individuals working to accomplish similar goals. By organising this event we hope to bring these groups and individuals together and create a wider and more connected movement.
Come along and enjoy a day of workshops, connect with new people, and let’s blast some fresh energy into the Dutch movement and beyond.
“Humanity is so horrible that to celebrate Christmas and new year while promoting peace, they do so by filling their mouths with the abuse and murder of their victims. A few days before those dates we visited a chicken farm and took some of them. Once victims, they are now survivors.
We want to ensure people know that the welfare conditions were terrible, they could barely move due to extreme growth rates to exploit their body as much as possible, making their body way too big for their legs to support it naturally.
The survivors will live as long as their health allows them, but far away from the human monsters who exploited them.
For animal liberation Frente de liberación animal.”
SPANISH (original)
“es tan horrenda la humanidad que para celebrar su fechas miseras navideñas y año nuevo que pregonan la paz, lo hace llenandose la boca con el sometimiento y asesinato de sus victimas, poco antes de esas fechas aprovechamos para visitar un centro de exterminio de gallinas, y nos llevamos algunas de ellas. antes victimasy ahora sobrevivientes.
queremos destacar el hecho de que el estado en el que estaban era muy malo, dificilmente podian moverse ya que hacen que su crecimiento sea desmedido para explotar al maximo posible su cuerpo, tamaño con el que dificilmente se pueden mantener en pie de manera natural.
estas sobrevivientes viviran lo que su salud condicionada por el especismo les permita, pero lejos de monstruos humanos.
Por la liberacion animal frente de liberacion animal”
“it is no longer enough to liberate animals from abuse whilst causing the scum that abuse them no bother. for that reason, we fucked up a dairy parlour as much as we could and hope the farmer had an absolute nightmare of a morning when they woke up.
every single one of the milking hoses were cut, as was all the iodine pipes and the air compression pipes that produce suction to milk the cows. the touchscreen computer that controls the whole system was broken, connectors cut and screen smashed.
in the dead of night, with accomplice cows mooing to cover the sound of destruction, we fight back against the capitalist system that commodifies cows as milking machines.
“we’ll be the burning rage of a dying planet it’s not too late this is not the end.”
to jack in atlanta. fire burns in our hearts. the world keeps fighting.
In the month of February we’ve received a total of 21 reports of direct action for animal liberation, many of them claimed by the Animal Liberation Front, some claimed by anarchists. A big majority of the reports were sabotage actions, specially directed at hunting towers. Australia also provided an oldie but a goldie, putting bricks through windows that contained very specific messages for Jacinta Allan, a politician responsible for the murder of wild birds in Victoria.
Switch Off! and Scenes did report lots of earth liberation direct actions, and specifically after Jack was sent to jail Scenes received some very encouraging reports. We’d like to quote a short excerpt of one of them: “We are not special. Our skills are not overly technical or advanced, and our tools are simple to acquire. If you are reading this, you are capable of doing what we do. We all have something to lose; it is simply a matter of living out our beliefs or submitting to the police state. Inaction is a choice just as much as action, and we all have to live with the choices we make.“
In the prisoner support corner, as we mentioned before, Jack was added to the prisoner support list, but we also heard that Victor had been released after eleven months of kidnapping, which was extremely heartwarming! We also added Sindre to the prisoner support list, so please write to him today! Lastly it is worth mentioning that Leonard Peltier has a fundraiser for medical expenses and that Jessica is in segregation. As soon as we hear she’s out, we will of course let everybody know. For now, please keep writing letters to as many prisoners as possible.
Of course, you can read the complete articles and anonymous reports on our website if you want more info! If you appreciate the work that Unoffensive Animal does, we could do with support to pay for website hosting, servers and so on, as well as to support prisoners and exprisoners.
This summer the network Take Concrete Action is going for the forestry capital. A mass direct action will take place in Gävle, in so called Sweden, 15-19 June.
“We’re a mixed group of climate activists from Sweden who are tired of politicians and their inability to take the climate crisis seriously.
We refuse to remain passive – we’re taking action, and YOU can be a part of it!
Join us in Gävle this summer for the raddest climate camp in sweden’s history, in tandem with an even radder mass action!”
“For years I had heard all these stories about Rojava – great stories of resistance, heartbreaking stories of comrades falling Sehid (martyr), being remembered through tears, laughter and action, and of difficulties. It had always caught my attention; this place, so far away from our reality. A place where I don’t need to fear the police raiding my house, but instead fear the bombs and drones Turkey sends over. The hope that shines in people’s eyes when they talk about Rojava and the fact that many of my beliefs are being put into practice there, was also something that had always caught my attention.
Now, I am here, living many of the things I had only heard about previously. In just the short time I have been here, Turkey has assassinated several comrades, including two YPJ commanders who were part of the famous resistance against ISIS in Kobane. They were wounded there and had been living in a house for comrades wounded in war. Yet, there is silence from the so-called democratic western states admit such clear war crimes. Only days later, I went to a march demanding the freedom for Abdullah Öcalan; we were thousands marching together through the city. And most beautifully, the same wounded friends who survived the attacks only days before were leading the march, showing the spirit of “no pasaran! Em nacim! You will not get through and we will not leave!”.
The revolutionary spirit cannot be denied here, whether it is in the streets talking to people, visiting families who have been part of the Kurdish movement for decades or spending time together with the small team of internationalists who have traveled a long way to get to know the Rojava Revolution.
So, I will try to write a small regular update on Rojava, the developments here, and how I connect it to the broader anarchist and liberationist political movement that we are all part of.”
After 11 months kidnapped by the state, Victor Puertas, an indigenous forest defender arrested during a festival in Cop City, has been released. He spent three months in DeKalb County jail without bail and then he was transferred to an ICE facility where he was held for another 8 months.
Now that he is free, he could do with some economic help to help him with medical, living and jail recovery expenses, as well as with legal fees to fight the domestic terrorism and RICO charges he is facing. If you can afford it, please drop a couple of coins
According to local media, a hunter in Ansbach has faced continuous sabotage for the past two years. A year ago he fell from a tower that had been sawn and put together again, breaking his hand. The latest attack was fire, and the hunter found his tower burnt to the ground. He estimates the latest attack to have costed him around 1400 EUR. The police say they have no clues as to who the culprits are.
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