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WHAT THE FUCK IS UNOFFENSIVE ANIMAL (PART 1, WHO WE ARE)

During the holidays a lot of new people found us on the internet and we believe there is a need to explain who we are and what we do. We have written a few short posts that will help new people know what we are up to and why we are here!

Unoffensive Animal started a little over five years ago as a platform to breach the gap between direct action for animal liberation and the fast-growing number of activists using social media. We felt there was a need to collect reports from the Animal Liberation Front and other groups and show them to folks who were organising above ground actions on social media but maybe were unaware of a whole other world outside of Facebook!

We set off with two objectives. To radicalise (that is, to bring it back to the roots) animal liberation activists by exposing them to direct action news and anarchist concepts, whilst putting effort into elevating animal liberation concepts in the anarchist discourse that we felt was hugely missing.

So we are anarchists (shock horror, we believe that the current system does not allow anyone to be free) and anticapitalists, we firmly believe in animal liberation as part of a much broader struggle for the betterment of our societies and of the earth we inhabit and we think that direct action is a very good tool to use in order to fight back against oppression.

We believe in total prison abolition and in the creation of systems that allow for conflict resolution and restorative justice. No one is free until all are free!

So you can see Unoffensive Animal for what we truly are, an unapologetically radical press and media platform, heavily dependent on the information submitted by people who read us that is trying to add a little dressing to the salad that is total liberation.

In future instalments, we will explain how we operate and how people can get involved, but until then;

SEE YOU IN THE NEXT RIOT!

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TEN PIGS LIBERATED FROM A FARM.

January, Europe.

via NAALPO:

“NEW YEAR” CELEBRATED IN OUR WAY: 10 PIGS LIBERATED FROM A FARM LAST NIGHT (EUROPE)! WHAT DO WE WANT FOR 2022 ? THE ADVENT OF A REAL REVOLUTIONARY ANTI-SPECIESIST STRUGGLE !

LE “NOUVEL AN” CÉLÉBRÉ À NOTRE FAÇON : 10 COCHONS LIBÉRÉS D’UN ÉLEVAGE LA NUIT DERNIÈRE (EUROPE) ! CE QUE NOUS VOULONS POUR 2022 ? L’AVÈNEMENT D’UNE VRAIE LUTTE ANTISPÉCISTE RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE !

While everyone was busy celebrating the new year, some comrades of the collective broke into a farm last night to free 10 pigs for which private sanctuaries had been found beforehand.

For obvious security reasons, we will not mention any indication of the target location, nor its geographical situation. These details are not important anyway, because we have a systemic, materialist, and internationalist approach of speciesism. This action took place somewhere in Europe, that’s all we can tell you.

Entering these places – slaughterhouses, farms and laboratories – means daring to face the reality and to get rid of abstract speeches. Our oppressed comrades are in front of us and we suddenly have the responsibility to make a decision that can change their lives.

We need to overcome the failure of the “animalist movement” that complies with reformism, to attack the structures of the speciesist domination and to act concretely in solidarity with our exploited comrades.

Last night, with our desire of action, our rage, and our determination, we broke into a farm that we had already spotted several months ago in order to join our words with actions.

The symbols and structures of the speciesist domination are everywhere if we dare leading concrete actions linked to our ideas and values of liberation, our complicities, our knowledge, and our ingenuity in strategy.

This is the perspective of our collective that supports a revolutionary antispeciesism based on direct action and built with the oppressed animals. We want to get rid of the civilisational, paternalistic, and bourgeois animalist movement supported by most of animal rights activists and associations.”

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RODENT BAIT TRAPS SABOTAGED.

1st January, Stuttgart Germany

received anonymously via email:

“Exactly while others caused senseless noise and dirt and animals thereby got killed and disturbed, we ended the danger for many rats by 22 abnormal poisoning murder stations to die miserably!

Around the city hall and the adjacent rich quarter no rat will die anymore while people are happily walking around and buying fur or meat and milk.

Fuck your speciesism!

#totalliberation”

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190 ANIMALS FROM FACTORY FARMS AND 38 LABORATORY ANIMALS LIBERATED THROUGHOUT 2021.

2021, Czech Republic

received anonymously via email:

“Darkness has fallen down. I can hear only my own breath and steps in a muddy field. It is a couple minutes before the action. The spotter gives us a green light. We are coming closer to the place of torture. The closer we get, the heavier the odor gets.

Last look back and we are inside the hall. Routine is still the same. Take the animals and get them out, seeing what they had to live through in between those concrete walls soaked by the smell of despair. A screenplay for the action is identical, but the feelings are a little different, mixed and always depressive. Dead bodies lying on the floor. Sorrowful looks of mutilated animal beings with no space to move around, spread their wings, no chance to feel fresh air and a solid ground beneath their feet. Even though the only thing separating them from freedom is fucking door and fence. We are on our way out, carrying a few saved lives. Feelings are still depressive, but slightly better because of the survivors.

Last year we managed to liberate 190 animals from factory farms and 38 from laboratories.”

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HUNTING HIGH SCHOOL VANDALIZED, HUNTING TOWERS SABOTAGED.

1st January, Sweden.

received anonymously via email:

“FOR THE WOLVES – A FIRE BURNS IN THE SWEDISH FOREST! HUNTING HIGH SCHOOL VANDALIZED! HUNTING TOWERS SABOTAGED!

Hunters in so-called Sweden began this year with the mass murder of wolves. The snow is stained with blood. SCUM! Unfortunately we were unable to prevent the wolf slaughter, this time. Yet ALF went out into the woods. On the first day of the year we vandalized and sabotaged, against the hunters. We caused financial damage to a hunting high school! Vile hunters should not teach children to kill nonhuman animals. We destroyed five hunting towers! Death monuments do not belong in the wild. Hunting is murder! We lit a, fitting, fire in the night! In honor of the wolves killed in the forests. To show our anger.

We will never stop fighting hunting, saving lifes.

FCK HUNT!

UNTIL EVERYONE IS FREE!

ALF”

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MULTIPLE BEEHIVES RELOCATED.

received anonymously via email (translation):

ENGLISH:

31st December, Argentina.

“The human species has a disgusting capability to exploit and destroy all life forms.

Insects are no exception and that is why they exploit bees in a very peculiar way; they kidnap the queen and from her, they build a new hive. They steal their honey, made through strenuous labour collecting pollen from flowers. When they steal their honey they make the bees work overtime until they die of exhaustion.

Whilst bees are pollinators, those bees are not endemic and were imported from Africa. For that reason and being aware of the very little biodiversity left on the planet, honey bees mean competition for native pollinators.

In one of our walks, we walk by multiple hives of exploited honey bees, living in one of the only areas around with actual flora and fauna endemic to the region.

We did not doubt and took as many bees as we could without harming them and without being harmed, to leave them somewhere else where they will not be exploited, will live in harmony and will not damage the biodiversity. We also took multiple boxes used to attract bees and to build new hives.

For animal liberation, and for the liberation of nature from human domination.

Animal and Earth Liberation Front.”

SPANISH:

31 Diciembre, Argentina.

“La especie humana tiene la macabra capacidad de explotar, rebajar, destruir, todas las formas de vida.

Los insectos no son la excepción, por eso explotan abejas de una manera peculiar, secuestran una abeja reina, y a partir de ello genera un nuevo enjambre, les roban su miel, que producen en base al arduo trabajo de recolectar polen de las flores. Al robarles la miel, genera que las abejas tengan que trabajar constantemente hasta su colapso vital. Si bien las abejas polinizan las flores, estas abejas son de origen africano, por lo que, con la poca biodiversidad que queda en el planeta, las abajas pueden suponer una competencia para otrxs polinizadores nativxs.

En uno de nuestros paseos, nos cruzamos con muchos enjambres de abejas explotadas, las cuales estaban en una de las pocas zonas con flora y fauna nativa de la region.

No dudamos en usar nuestro ingenio, para llevarnos toda las abejas que pudimos sin lastimarlas y sin salir lastimadxs nosotrxs, para dejarlas en algún lugar donde no sean explotadas, puedan vivir bien, y no perjudiquen a su entorno. También nos llevamos varias cajas que utilizan para atraer abejas y construir nuevos enjambres.

Por la liberación animal y liberación de la naturaleza del nauseabundo dominio de la humanidad.

Frente de liberación animal y de la tierra”

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T&S FUR FARM RAIDED, RABBITS LIBERATED DURING CHRISTMAS.

25th December, UK.

Received anonymously via email:

“Whilst everybody was getting drunk and partying on Christmas Eve, we broke into T&S. They are still going, still torturing rabbits, still murdering them “for their meat” and making bank selling their fur.

The place is disgusting. The smell of rotten flesh is a permanent feature in the farm, and the rabbits show all kinds of illnesses, from mites and head tilt to lack of limbs.

We took as many as we had houses for and we left without being seen. Rudolf the anarcho-reindeer made sure they were delivered to safety. They will no longer know human cruelty and will be allowed the space and time they need to heal physically and mentally.

To everybody fighting T&S, we see you. Keep at it, and let’s make that company a thing of the past once and for all.

bunnies against Phill Kerry.”

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A QUICK UPDATE ON FINES, FUNDRAISING AND MORE.

As you might’ve read, we have been trying to raise enough funds to cover the fines to a comrade in Sweden who was sentenced after being charged with criminal damage and theft. We are very happy to announce that thanks to the incredible generosity of people, those fines have been paid in full and the person will not have to take on a loan to cover costs. We are immensely grateful to all that donated, shared and showed solidarity one way or another. Thank you!

Heading into the new year we would like to create a good “emergency” fund that can be used for situations like this. It is difficult for us to get it done because expenses are constant and because folks (be it prisoners, campaign groups or people’s sentencing) always need support, so we distribute everything that comes in and there is never some extra cash to put aside.

If you like the work we do and think you can spare a few coins, we would be really grateful for your support. In the new year we will break down exactly how we work with money and explain a bit more how we intend to create that emergency fund, but for the time being, any new patreons and or PayPal donations are very welcome. We also have a Monero and a Bitcoin wallet if you prefer to make donations over cryptocurrencies.

Paypal: unoffensive_animal(at)tutanota.com

Patreon: www.patreon.com/animalliberation

Cryptocurrency wallets can be found on our website: www.unoffensiveanimal.is

We are going to continue with normal schedule, but this is probably the last UA Update of 2021, so we wish all of you a very merry fucking riot. May the new year bring the revolution, and with it, all your intention to not be a show watcher, but an action taker.

UNTIL WE WIN.

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SIXTEEN HENS AND FOUR TURKEYS LIBERATED FOR CHRISTMAS – ALFRIDAYS (2014)

Christmas has always been a busy time for direct action. There are meant reasons, from people wanting to catch the eye during the holidays, to the obvious distraction by authorities dealing with parties, fireworks and crowds. It only takes a few minutes to find many reports of actions during Christmas throughout the years.

In 2014, a report from Austria by the Association Against Animal Factories explained how someone dressed as an angel and someone dressed as Santa broke into a turkey farm to liberate four birds and then rescued another sixteen hens from an egg farm.

The visuals are interesting, with the Santa costume sporting an almost scary face mask, but it hits a point that attracts many. The costumes, the time to celebrate, the will to give gifts and the spirit of helping directed towards direct action.

You can read the report, copied from BiteBack, just below:

reported by the Association Against Animal Factories (translation):

“The greatest gift is freedom – a Christmas story with a difference:During this visit, unfortunately, only 16 hens and 4 turkeys could be saved. For these creatures, however, now begins a new life in freedom with animal-loving people.”

It is hard to predict what the holidays will bring, but remember that Saint Nicholas is the patron of thieves and he breaks into houses in December after watching people all year round.

May you bring the spirit of freedom to all around you.

PS: Sorry for the shit music, we did not choose it.

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MORE THAN 120 CRICKETS FREE

23rd December, Madrid Spain.

Received anonymously via email:

“We were bored in a winter afternoon thinking about our miserable lives, but we thought “fuck depression, lets do direct action”.

We started to think about all the people who lives in prison and the different types of prisons. We realised that near us were people locked up in little plastic cages; a lot of crickets. They were in a pet shop called Petiberia with more species locked up inside, so we made a plan and we went there.

We entered the shop and while a person was distracting the security people, the other took as much as possible of the plastic prisons with the people inside and went out of the shop. The workers were thinking in their dumb lives so they didn’t realise about was was happening.

After, we looked for a safe place for the crickets, and we ended up in a field. We opened the cages there and they jumped out. But some of them were dead, so we estimate that the number of people that escaped that day was 125.

This is a simple and easy action and you can help a lot of people with it. Go to your local pet shop and do it!!!

FREE YOUR RAGE, NEVER STOP THE ATTACK.

Kisses for the workers <3 we’ll see each other again :P”

Photo: stock image, no photo was sent with the reprot