THE ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS BY ATTACKING NATIONAL HUNTING INFRASTRUCTURE.

24th December, provincial di Milano, North Italy

[EDITOR’S NOTE: As far as we can tell, Federacaccia is the National Hunting federation in Italy, and EnalCaccia is a national union for hunters and fishermen. Their offices were targeted with spray paint and by pouring paint over walls and doors.]

ENGLISH (translation):

“EnalCaccia and Federcaccia offices attacked.

Every hunter’s Christmas is dirty with the blood of their victims! Hunting is legalized murder and where the law is unjust, disobedience is a must.

In these festive days we wanted to remember all the victims of hunting including the dog Uma who was killed by a hunter in front of her owner- a child! Hunters: you are the violent ones!

We will continue to fight in every way until all animals can live free and be recognized as sentient beings with their own innate rights and not seen as objects for the use and consumption of the ‘criminal human.

On the wolf issue, we wanted to respond to the statement of MEP Fiocchi who said that between the wolf and the sheep he chooses the sheep: those who, like him, are on the front lines of killing innocents in the course of hunting activity, certainly cannot choose to stand next to another innocent person who is certainly also food on his plate. We have too much respect for the wolf to compare him to Fiocchi who pretends not to know that while the wolf kills by nature, hunters like him do it for pure enjoyment. Shame on him.

Long live the wolf!

ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT”

ITALIAN (original)

“colpite le sedi di EnalCaccia e Federcaccia.

Il Natale di ogni cacciatore è sporco del sangue delle loro vittime! La caccia è un assassinio legalizzato e laddove la legge è ingiusta, la disobbedienza è un atto dovuto.

In questi giorni di festa abbiamo voluto ricordare tutte le vittime della caccia tra cui il cane Uma che è stato ucciso da un cacciatore davanti al suo proprietario: un bambino! Cacciatori: i violenti sieti voi!

Continueremo a lottare in ogni modo fino a quando tutti gli animali potranno vivere liberi ed essere riconosciuti come esseri senzienti con propri diritti innati e non visti come oggetti ad uso e consumo dell’ umano criminale.

Sulla questione lupo abbiamo voluto rispondere all’affermazione dell’ eurodeputato Fiocchi che ha detto che tra il lupo e la pecora sceglie la pecora: chi, come lui, è in prima linea nell’ uccidere gli innocenti nello svolgimento dell’ attività venatoria, non può di certo scegliere di stare accanto ad un altro innocente che di sicuro è anche cibo nel suo piatto. Abbiamo troppo rispetto per il lupo per paragonarlo a Fiocchi che finge di non sapere che mentre il lupo uccide per natura, i cacciatori come lui lo fanno per puro divertimento. Vergogna!

Viva il lupo! i

ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT”

MOUNTAIN VALLEY PIPELINE ACTIVISTS FOLLOWED AND HARRASSED.

(Reports from local media)

As Mountain Valley Pipeline and its benefactors become more desperate to complete this pipeline, protestors have seen increased violence from workers, malicious prosecution in the courts, and a complicit police force willing to carry out the dirty work of the state. Despite these unprecedented levels of repression against pipeline protesters in this region, people are still finding ways to disrupt work where possible. Today, folks decided to take back their own roads.

Across three locations at least 30 pipeline workers were slowed, stuck behind protesters in cars and on bikes. These actions not only slowed down work but also put the brakes on workers who have been known to drive recklessly. There have been reports of a high frequency of of DUIs among pipeline workers, as well as complaints from those who live along the routes they use to get to work. As long as MVP construction on this pipeline persists, people will continue acting to ensure MVP will not be allowed to damage the environment and endanger local communities.

Join the fight against the MVP: bit.ly/aapintakeform

MOUNTAIN VALLEY PIPELINE ACTIVIST INCARCERATED

Last week, a pipeline fighter was sentenced to three months in jail for stopping construction on a Mountain Valley Pipeline drill site as part of a mass action in October. A Montgomery County judge imposed this sentence after the land defender took their case to trial rather than pleading guilty to the misdemeanor charges. During their first week in jail, they released this statement:

“In considering the prosecution’s plea offer, I felt how much the state threatens you by fear- fear of loss, fear of the unknown, attachment interrupted. The threat isn’t necessarily in the months or convictions, it’s. in the assurance that they could do it even worse. Jail is made to make people fearful, yet people endure it all the time. In recent weeks, I’ve experienced how people come to know their own strengths and how they
handle their fear.

For ‘brave people’, fear still comes up. It’s a feeling that comes and goes like all other feelings. Fear is mixed in with feelings of freedom, empowerment, aliveness. These feelings can all exist in the same cell, considering the same plea offer, anticipating the same unknown futures. But a lot can change in how we relate to the feelings.

Nothing is guaranteed in the jail/legal system, etc. There are “rights” granted to defendants/prisoners, and then there is reality. Jail seeks to objectify us and detach us from ourselves, from our strength. By way of overt abuses to simple ignoring, COs and all their kin (*REDACTED*) aim to disappoint, to assert that they are in charge of this building/reality, and to claim they are in charge of us. By way of fear, we learn to manage our behaviors to do what they want, even if we don’t want to.

We have some say in how much we lose track of ourselves. Following their procedures to play the game is different than believing it’ll work. The game is set up to pit you against yourself, use your expectations and attachments against you, turning them into losses, again reinforcing fear of the unknown.

Of course we have human vulnerabilities, mental health shit, trauma shit, all of which is exacerbated in jail. But we need to be careful to not overstate our vulnerabilities and limitations. I’ve lived through many hells and I know shit can get dark. I’m also not an expert on these kinds of moments for myself in a jail context. Inside, it’s acute activation.

It’s times of living in the abusive relationship, not the times of healing from it.
It’s also the times of endurance, compassion, commitment, caring for each other, and dignity in a place that’s actively trying to break all that.

I feel very lucky. While my problems are personal and difficult to me, they are relatively minimal. I’m surrounded by people who have shown tons of kindness and support, in this pod and outside these walls. People are making sure I’m sufficiently fed, caffeinated, entertained, and avoiding petty fuck ups. The vibe is caring for each other and keeping spirits high, or at least calm. The environment I came from into jail is full of wild, cackling laughter. Laughter of strength and freedom and defiance. I feel lucky to experience the same here. In both places it interrupts my sleep, and in both it makes me smile.

I hope my time in jail inspires others to be a little more brave in whatever ways make sense for them. Kill the cop in your head, let’s be stronger together. End all settler colonialism and extractive industries. Doom to the pipeline. Defend the forest everywhere.”

PRISON TIME IS NOT A HOLIDAY – PRISONER SOLIDARITY

Being locked up in prison can be a really lonely time. Especially over the so-called holidays. Receiving or answering letters can therefore be very important in these dark days, for our comrades in prison. Why don’t you bring some light and write!

If you have a friend in prison, you can send them a postcard to let them know they are not forgotten. If this is the first time you are writing to a prisoner, we have a list of prisoners to send letters to. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be highlighting various prisoners that may need some attention.

First out is our friends in the SUSARON4. You could simply write an email to the following address, specifying which one of them you are sending it to: [email protected]

Write to:

RU/GATO is an anarcho-nihilist, vegan, straight edge prisoner. He is 28 years old, loves animals and hates drugs. He maintains his belief in illegal direct action as the tool to fight for animal and total liberation. He considers himself a proud political prisoner against the business that controls the Chilean territory.

PANDA is a straight edge, vegan anarchist prisoner. He is 26 years old. Enemy of the law and order forcefully imposed by the capitalist system. Loves nature, ecosystems, animals and simplicity. Proud political prisoner, honest with his politics and vehemently in favour of animal and human liberation from the business-territory so-called Chile.

ITA is a vegan, straight edge prisoner. She is 23 years old. She loves nature, animals and specially colours and cats! She opposed the system and the so called law and order. Proud antispeciesist political prisoner. She feels calm and patient with the consequences of the illegal fight against speciesism.

TORTU is a vegan, anarcho-nihilist, straight edge political prisoner. Hates the system, loves nature, animals and freedom for all. Proud political prisoner for animal liberation.

Find out more about SUSARON4:s case at: https://unoffensiveanimal.is/prisoner-support/

NEVER ALONE / NEVER FORGOTTEN – BURN EVERY PRISON AND SLAUGHTERHOUSE – SOLIDARITY FOREVER

SIX TURKEYS ESCAPE RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

23rd December, France.

Received anonymously via email:

“Liberation of 6 turkeys right before Christmas. ( France )

These 6 individuals were sequestrated in a factory farm.

They are now safe and free and will live the rest of their life in a sanctuary, where they will be able to express themselves fully.

Our thoughts go to all the turkeys we were not able to take with us, and all the victims of this “Christmas celebration / consumerism time”

We can all do something, and take action to help them escape from hell

They need all of us, to resist by their side.

Until all are free !”

“OPERATION CUORE LIBERI” : FOUR PIGS LIBERATED

via: 269 Liberation animale

3rd December, europe?

“HIT REPORT OF THE “CUORE LIBERI OPERATION” : FOUR PIGS LIBERATED FROM A FACTORY FARM ON THE NIGHT OF THE THIRD OF DECEMBER [DIRECT ACTION FROM THE 269 LIBÉRATION ANIMALE COLLECTIVE] !

We were shrouded in mist on that night, like a very welcomed protection.

Thieves met up in an improbable place, for the usual briefing ritual, before the action.

So happy to get together, once again, under the moonlight. We hugged and cheared each other up, to give ourselves courage.

Then, around midnight, we sunk into this other half of the world. The one that starts where small country roads end. Behind creepy hangars, where, “others” are nothing more than bodies to kill. Fully trapped by capitalism, except maybe for their screams.

As always, the first team went few minutes ahead towards the massive factory farm.

Pigs were sleeping, snuggling with one another in their holding pens. It was painfully beautiful.

Our truck comes, and, organised in teams of four comrades, we start lifting pigs from the ground, covered in filth.

It’s hard.

We struggle.

We do it again and again, over and over.

We run out of breath while carrying them, as they’re already very heavy.

But eventually, we manage.

Four pigs are in the truck and we fuck off before cops arrive.

A beautiful story of a liberation, that we share, wishing for rage and anger to rise. And to mourn all the liberations that never happened, on that same night.

Politics sits in that gap.

We write to avenge them.

Our vehicles left the country with, at the back, some who will get to live.

While hundreds of ghosts come to tap on our shoulders, every night ever since.

The four pigs were transported to an allied sanctuary where they’re starting up a new life.

We post this report, wanting the practice of direct action to spread and for the flame to burn hotter and brighter in the heart of every comrade who’s reading us.

Suddenly, we come out of traditional paths, of lame protests, to invent something else.

Something that doesn’t depend on adhesion, but on being stronger than what we’re up against.

We have to accept that our struggles have to be offensive, threatening. We have to be in a spirit of conflict, with all hopes and limits this political tactic comes with.

On our long way home, we remembered all the pigs liberated by 269 Animal Liberation since 2016 : this gorgeous bunch of escapees, with Malcolm, Charlotte, Patrick, Serhildan, Sacco, Vanzetti, Sissi, Pino, Pomme, Y., Y., and so many others.

No matter who they are or where they are today, we all belong to the same community, forever bonded.

This action is dedicated to our Italian comrades, from the « Cuore Liberi » sanctuary, who lost 9 pig comrades, murdered by the veterinary police : The State will never be the ally of our struggles for liberation.”

PROTEST OUTSIDE OF MAX MARA IN ATHENS.

We’ve received a reportback from a protest agains Max Mara in Athens.

“Protest outside the MaxMara store #FurFreeFriday

On Saturday, November 25, members of the Open Antispeciesist Assembly in Athens, Greece, held a protest against the fur industry outside the MaxMara store in Kolonaki.

“We chose this specific store, to support a global campaign that has cbeen ongoing since the summer against major fur companies that continue to sell fur from tortured animals. For almost an hour, we managed to blockc the entrance of the store with banners and disrupt the smooth flow of goods and customers on a Saturday morning. In this context, flyers were distributed to passersby and slogans were chanted.

NO ANIMAL IS A COMMODITY – NO MORE BLOOD FOR THEIR PROFITS

BOYCOTT EVERY COMPANY THAT TORTURES AND MURDERS ANIMALS FOR PROFITS

TOTAL STRUGGLE AGAINST THE STATE AND EVERY FORM OF AUTHORITY”

ANONYMOUS PEOPLE RELEASE A FOX AND DESTROY THE TRAP.

December, England

Received anonymously via email:

“Inspired by other actions we’d seen reported we ventured out to explore a turkey farm. Already worried it was too late our concerns were confirmed when we checked what was now empty barns. Heartbroken by what that meant, we stood in silence for a moment and suddenly became aware of a desperate thrashing sound. On the outside of one of the barns we found a cold, muddy and terrified young fox caught in a cage.

They were so afraid that when we opened the cage we had to push them out and it took a few steps for them to realise their regained freedom. Naturally we decided to remove and destroy the deathtrap that had imprisoned them. Despite the cage being so massive that it could easily fit a human, we bashed it to an unusable state. We wish we could also of helped some turkeys, whose lifeless bodies are now strung up across the world for the holidays, but we are happy to have at least saved a fox a bullet.”

SOME AMAZING NEWS TO CELEBRATE: ERIC KING IS FINALLY FREE!

Eric was handed a ten year sentence for his involvement in a cop shop arson in support of the Ferguson upraising. Last week, he was released to a half way house.

Through his incarceration he has been the target of Neo nazis but also has suffered in the hands of the screws, who attempted to frame him for an attack to add another 20 years to his sentence. He has been tortured, beaten and left tied and naked in the SHU. In 2022, he managed to come out victorious in the frame-up trial.

He has recently published “Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners”, with profits going to the ABC as well as his own support network.

We couldn’t be happier to hear about Eric’s release. He has shown incredible resilience whilst incarcerated and deserves nothing but support and love. We can only imagine how happy his support network and wife must feel seeing him out from behind bars and away from a plot of fascist screws out to get him.

From Unoffensive Animal, and with our deepest love and solidarity; welcome back Eric!!!!!

PS: Coming out of prison is still a difficult time. Please, donate to his release fund so he can find his feet after a long prison sentence!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/release-funds-for-political-prisoner-eric-king

FUCK ALL CAGES, FIGHT WITH JOY, SHOW SOLIDARITY!