Unoffensive Animal

May, Germany.

received anonymosuly via email:

“We got a call saying that some rabbits were about to sneak out of cages to finally run freely under the starry sky. We decided to help them reach a safe place.

We met them in the middle of the night. They couldn’t fully trust us, being specimens of that specie wich already made them suffer so much. But they were determined to not stay locked up any more time.

We all made in to a hideout, waiting for the perfect time to leave. Meanwhile, they started to wonder around in the grass, jumping and getting more and more confident.
Chewing on local hay for the first time.

Once it was time to go, everyone got driven to a safe place to rest and start recovering, being provided fresh air, vegetables, silence and crisp water.

They are now safe and taken care of. But saying that everything went fine would be lying : we lost two freedom fighters during this process.

One person was not feeling well from the start. Their health state rapidly got worse. They passed away in the grass before we could leave the surroundings. A second person died several days later, caught back by the physical pain they went through there.

It always fill our minds with anger and sorrow when someone physically makes it out of a cage to die hours, days, months or years later because of what they went through. Obviously no one comes out of there totally healthy. Every single one of them will run into medical problems soon or later. But when someone can finally experience running around but gets denied a safe and happy life right after, it’s just heartbreaking !

Fight speciesism forever !
Fight WITH them, not FOR them !
HELP them fight, don’t take their space in their own liberation.
It’s their struggle, not ours. It’s their story not ours.
Fight the state and it’s lockdown and curfew.
Fight curfew. Fight during curfew.
Make troubles and run fast.
Every night is a call for action. Don’t ignore them.
To everyone who’s about to break free, we’ll be right on time waiting for you.
See you tonight friends.”

6th May, Mapuche Territory.

via: AMWEnglish

“In the Mapuche territory, in the south of Chile, a beautiful coordinated attack conducted in full day made great noise on Thursday, May 6, 2021 in the region of Araucanía. It is nothing less than eight incendiary attacks in less than 6 hours, from noon to 6 pm, against no less than 26 machines of all types (trucks, carriers, skidders) of the forest industry, On the P90 road that leads from Lumaco to Tirúa, in the fields of Los Laureles, the way to Rilún, in Rilún even and at Pishi PiCheen, operated by the company CMPC. The latter, founded in 1920, is one of the forty greatest in the country and is a major player in the paper and forest industry, which destroys and operates the forests of the large-scale zone, and is the subject of a fierce opposition by certain Mapuche groups.

This destructive attack is one of the most important in southern Chile, with that of 2017 when 29 trucks had gone in smoke in Mariquina, in the region of Los Ríos. In the midst of the cries of various state stooges who are now asking for the choice to reinstate the state of siege in the region or to involve the army to protect the forest operators-in particular because a cop who came to stop the attacks took a shot in his bulletproof vest-, this attack was claimed by the RESISTENCIA WEICHAN AUKA MAPU (WAP) group, which left a message on one of the eight sites taken for target: “freedom For Mapuche political prisoners and those of revolt. Down with the forest industry, gravel, latifundists, hydroelectric dams. Down with the Yanaconas [pejorative term that refers to the “traitors”, or the Mapuche working for the forest industry]. Marichiweu.” This last word, a well-known battle cry in Chile, means in Mapuche “ten and a thousand times we will defeat them.””

Winter 2020 (*delayed report), Belgium.

received anonymosuly via email:

“Belgium – winter 2020 | 99 hens were liberated from an egg farm .

All tough these caged systems are prohibited in Europe from 2012, “enriched” caged are not by far better than their previous systems.

The animals at this egg farm never saw daylight, and don’t have access to clean fresh air, and a minimum of food and water. Some animals had severe leg problems, underweight and respiratory problems, their feathers in rough condition.

In two hours, 2 activists managed to liberate 99 birds and still handling the animals with respect and caution, bringing them to a safe location to recuperate and heal before send to adoption.

All now live a life free from harm at homes with excellent accommodations.”

17th May, Atlanta USA.

via: AMWEnglish

“No Whistling In The Atlanta Forest: A Communique

This is a story about a couple of queers who gathered last night in Intrenchment Creek Park to reject destruction in the name of profit and power and to destroy the machinery of the nefarious polities that have defiled the Atlanta Forest. We have deep respect and regard for acknowledging that this is Muskogee land and was the site of horrific abuses, of displacement, chattel slavery, and prison slavery.

They set out meandering through the forest, touching undergrowth, brush, breathing the cleanest air in the city, feeling the wetland take them in as their heels sunk beneath them. After a short walk, they reached an artificial break in the embrace of the forest. They found themselves upon the intrepid mound of dirt, a site of destruction, a jarring crack in the rythym of the forest. In the distance, 7 unguarded machines were illuminated by the moonlight. They knew what they had to do.

As hammers met windows and knives cut tubing, the undoing of the mechanical monsters that had violated the forest begun. No tool of the evildoers went unharmed. Many antagonistic and proclamatory messages were left by the hissing sound of rattling cans. In little time, the moon was far from the only light that shone over the mound of dirt left by the machines’ destruction. The splash of gasoline as an extension of the blood that fuels the burning fire in their hearts became alight with the rage that they felt. By the time the fire department took notice, the deed was done and the culprits had already dissipated into the night like the curling black smoke that drifted into the sky. It was upon unusable machines that the fires were extinguished. Fires are temporary and can be undone. The connection that those who live in a forest, who breathe its air, and who drink water filtered in its wetlands is not so easily broken.

We hope that in telling our story, we can call you to our side in defending the Atlanta Forest, and inspire others to be dangerous towards everything that wages war on our bodies, on the earth, and on our very lives.

We are outraged by the destruction already done to the Atlanta forest by Blackhall Studios and the so-called governments that gave them permission.

We will not allow any further destruction; we will not allow the so-called City of Atlanta to build a horrific 300-acre training facility for police that they will call the “Institute For Social Justice.”

We will not abide the destruction of the Old Atlanta Prison farm, further erasing history and concealing the connection and transition between chattel slavery and modern prison slavery.

We condemn the swapping of the 250 acres of beautiful forest that Blackhall Studios destroyed when they thought they could develop the wetland.

We condemn Blackhall Studios’ hasty cover-up: the proposed “Michelle Obama Park” that will sit on the mound of dirt they left in their wake. We will not allow them to destroy any more forest for the building of a massive soundstage.

We don’t need a soundstage for entertainment. Everything we need is already there.

We don’t need police training facilties. We demand an end to policing.

To the developers, governments, contractors, corporations, and politicians that perpetrated the heinous deforestation of the part of the forest along “Bouldercrest Road,” there’s something you should know.

Any further attempts at destroying the Atlanta Forest will be met with similar response. This forest was here long before us, and it will be here long after.

We’ll see to that.

Defend The Atlanta Forest

5/17/2021″

May, Cheshire UK

received anonymously via email:

“WE’VE HAD ENOUGH OF DAIRY!

Stop pushing your violent propaganda on us. We do not want it. The animals do not need it. We will not allow it.

If you promote violence, watch your backs, as we are coming. SCUM!”

14th May, Norfolk UK.

received anonymously, via BitebackMagazine:

“14th May 2021

More shooting towers taken down in Norfolk, UK.

Photos show the toppled towers, which then had parts removed, bent and scattered.

Shame on Norfolk Wildlife ‘Trust’ for putting these in ‘their’ woodland.”

Delayed report: April, Lincolnshire UK

Received anonymously via email:

“By sneaking in through the conveyor belt system, we were able to get in and out with 12 lives in the matter of minutes, without leaving a trace.

Be tactful. Save lives. Fuck oppression!”

14th May, Serbia

received anonymously via email:

“On the night of May 14-15 in Serbia, ALF activists destroyed two hunting towers and damaged two more.

It is a great honor to be part of the global ALF team.

For freedom – for justice – for peace”