At this stage, we have not received any anonymous communiques about the action.
According to local press, Dalsbú mink farm in Mosfellsdalur, Iceland, was raided overnight releasing all mink. Dalsbú was the last remaining operative mink farm in the country.
The owner of the farm explained that it would’ve taken about two hours to release the mink (8,000 of the 12,000 in the farm) and that due to loss of breeding records, the raid has had a devastating impact.
He also called the activists ‘terrorists’, especially ‘terrorists for the animals’ as ‘they have caused enormous suffering to the mink’.
The folks at Radical Animal Lib have sent us their event to promote. They organise an animal liberation corner at the Earth Frist UK Gathering, essentially marrying the eco anarchist and the animal liberationist into a force for change (and trouble).
They’re asking for more workshops, so if you have things to say, maybe hit them up over instagram (@radicalaniallib) or over email.
Last year we got hold of a banging little zine they had printed called ‘The Whole Point is Fighting’ and were told it was just exclusive to the event, who knows, maybe they do another one this year!
Read their words below, and go meet people and organise cool shit in the streets (or in the fields!) with them!:
“HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!
Earth First! UK summer gathering is coming, and with it, the Animal Liberation stream.
Come join us, mingle, meet new friends, learn new stuff and be inspired to keep pushing campaigns until all are free!
12th – 17th August.
Location undisclosed, Peak District, nearest train station is Sheffield. Exact location will be announced closer to the date.
Bring comfy clothes, a tent and sleeping bag.
Vegan food provided.
Entry cost is sliding scale at the gates, nobody will be turned back for lack of funds.
The folks at Earth First! have made public some more information about the location of the gathering this year. Of course, the exact location won’t be announced until the 12th as the site is squatted, but at least it will help folks prep their travel arrangements. Read below for more info!
Site location
This year, EF! will be squatting a site in the Peak District. As it will be non-permissive, the exact location can’t be shared ahead of time. It will be shared on this website on the morning of Wednesday 12th August.
However, the rough location can still be shared, as it’s often important to make bookings in advance.
Traveling from the East (Sheffield)
It’s recommended that people coming from the East side of the country make their way to Sheffield. The site location is accessible by a direct bus ride from the city centre, lasting no more than 45 minutes and costing £3. The bus runs from the morning until the early evening — any gaps in the service should be filled by a shuttle.
It will then be a 5 minute walk on slightly bumpy, narrow, and then steep terrain. (We appreciate this sounds concerning to people with mobility needs — please email us [email protected] if you’d like to talk about options)
Sheffield is accessible by train and coach from virtually all major cities.
Traveling from the West (Manchester then Bamford)
If you are traveling from the West of the country, you are still welcome to make your way to Sheffield, however you may also find it easier to go to Manchester and then take the Hope Valley line to Bamford, from which the site will be a half-hour direct bus ride, costing £3.
Manchester is accessible by train and coach from virtually all major cities. The train to Bamford normally runs hourly from about 6am to 10pm and lasts about an hour.
The anytime fare is £15.10 (£10.05 with a railcard) for a single, or £19.60 (£13.05 with a railcard) for a return. Often cheaper advance tickets are available.
When to arrive and leave
Site setup will start from the early morning on Wednesday 12th August, however it may take a few hours to secure it enough to be able to publicly announce it. It should be announced by 10am, from which point everyone is welcome and encouraged to come help set up the site! If you’re planning on arriving early, bring some water and a packed lunch, as the first scheduled meal won’t be until the evening.
The gathering will last until Monday 17th, which is the pack down day. There will be breakfast, but no lunch and dinner. Everyone should expect to leave by mid afternoon — please stay and help us to pack down if you can, but as it’s a squat you may not want to linger too long after most others have left. There will be plenty of other pretty places nearby if you wanted to stay in the Peaks!
“On July 19th the so-called “Slagter Morten” who sells dead bodies in Kerteminde, Denmark, was visited by activists. Six windows, a door and some electronics were destroyed. The pictures are taken by the animal abuser.”
”Times are getting harder, fascism is rising,and states, fascists and conservatives make us again the targets of their opposition – as progressive forces, Queers, Antifas, and Anarchists… … Join the International Week of Solidarity for Anarchist Prisoners! Organize a letter writing, solidarity event, film screeening, direct action, ralley, or whatever comes to your mind and send us pictures and a small report!”
“Whilst everybody is focused on stuff happening elsewhere in the world, we plan to break into a place of slavery.
The anxiety is high, the night camouflages us between the mud and the dry weeds, we cut the wire and there we are, in front of them, all of them scared and cold, pushed against each other. They look at us fearful, but tonight some are coming out of the cages and will never suffer because of them again, they will stretch their legs and open their wings.
To us, that is veganism. because we cannot keep asking humans to please stop enslaving and murdering our animal siblings, because there is no more time to wait. And we also can’t pretend to care about regulating or welfarising the chains of speciesism.
Everybody can do this, everybody can take in their own hands direct action if they are brave enough.
Why would we wait anymore? Away from victimhood and against all odds, that’s our duty.
Those six lives are now safe, their life will be different, they will live with dignity and freedom.
All the other chickens are suffering the slavery that the system forces upon them by describing them as property and using them until death.
Their eyes see their sisters dying in cages, or being slaughtered. Their liberation is in your hands. Who, if not you?”
SPANISH (original):
TRES ANARQUISTAS LIBERAN 6 GALLINAS PONEDORAS
“Mientras todxs están pendientes de lo que sucede en otra parte del mundo, nosotrxs planeamos el ingreso a un centro de esclavitud. La ansiedad en inmensa, la noche nos camufla entre el barro y la hierba seca, se corta el alambre y ya estamos ahí frente a ellas, todas temerosas con frío, acurrucadas y juntas. Nos miran con desconfianza, pero esta noche algunas van a salir de esas jaulas y nunca más volverán a padecerlas, estirarán sus patas y abrirán sus alas. Para nosotrxs esto es veganismo, porque no podemos seguir pidiendo a lxs seres humanxs que por favor dejen de esclavizar y asesinar a nuestrxs hermanxs animales, ya no hay más tiempo. Así como tampoco, pretender que regulen las cadenas del especismo. Cualquiera puede hacerlo, cualquiera puede tomar entre sus manos la acción directa si tiene el valor. Que más vamos a esperar? Lejos del victimismo y contra todo pronóstico es nuestro deber. Estas 6 vidas ya están a resguardo, les espera una vida diferente, les espera una vida digna en libertad. Lxs demás animales están en este mundo sufriendo la esclavitud que el sistema les impone, lxs cataloga como mercancías y asi lxs utiliza hasta su muerte.
Sus ojos ven a sus hermanxs muriendo en jaulas o siendo asesinadxs, depende de vos su liberación. Si no sos vos, quien entonces?”
Daniel ”Des” Sanchez Estrada is convicted for moving a box of anarchist zines. On June 23th Des was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, for “corruptly concealing a document or record”. The trial is a political witch hunt, in which the Trump administration is targeting people for being so called ”antifa”.
Des is one of 19 people who was arrested in the so called Prairieland Case, in which defendants as of now is sentenced to more than a total of 562 years in prison, for what allegedly happened around a solidarity noise demo outside the ICE Prairieland detention centre in Alvarado Texas on 4th July 2025. People came to the noise demo to show solidarity with the immigrants and detainees inside the ICE centre, and now they and others are facing decades in prison. There are a lot more details regarding the bogus case and trial, and all is not said and done for the defendants. Read more in the links below.
Des where not at the noise demo at the ICE detention centre. He was arrested two days after and accused of transporting ”antifa materials” (a box of zines), and of being part of a (fictitious) “North Texas Antifa Cell”. Also Des is currently on an ICE hold, and he has been publicly doxxed by fascists.
At the trial Des said:
“I worked really hard every day in this country, and I believe in human rights and helping others in need. I donate money and art to help animals and other people… I am a father, I am a husband, I am a teacher, a poet — I am many things, Your Honor, but I am not a terrorist.”
There are several ways to support Des.
1. Write letters.
You can write to Des at the following address. (Please consider the guidelines for writing letters to his current address)
Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada, #95099-511
FMC Fort Worth Federal Medical Center
PO Box 15330 Fort Worth,
Texas 76119
USA
Guidelines: ”Write only in blue or black ink. No stickers, glitter, or whiteout. Include his first and last name as well as ID number, page numbers, date, and a return address at the top of each sheet. An example for the top of each page could look like this: First Name, Last Name, ID Number Page Number X/X Date Return Address All correspondence is read, scanned, and cataloged by facility staff. Do not say anything you don’t want read on Fox News or in court about you or Des.”
WHAT: Animal liberationist, green anarchist week, workshops and mingling.
WHEN: 12-17 August.
WHERE: Location undisclosed, Peak District, near Sheffield.
The folks at Radical Animal Lib have sent us their event to promote. They organise an animal liberation corner at the Earth Frist UK Gathering, essentially marrying the eco anarchist and the animal liberationist into a force for change (and trouble).
Yes, we know, it is the same weekend as VCO! It couldn’t get any better than to have a solid, political, animal liberationist event to go to when avoiding the capitalist cash grab, hey?
They’re asking for more workshops, so if you have things to say, maybe hit them up over instagram (@radicalaniallib) or over email.
Last year we got hold of a banging little zine they had printed called ‘The Whole Point is Fighting’ and were told it was just exclusive to the event, who knows, maybe they do another one this year!
Read their words below, and go meet people and organise cool shit in the streets (or in the fields!) with them!:
“HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!
Earth First! UK summer gathering is coming, and with it, the Animal Liberation stream.
Come join us, mingle, meet new friends, learn new stuff and be inspired to keep pushing campaigns until all are free!
12th – 17th August.
Location undisclosed, Peak District, nearest train station is Sheffield. Exact location will be announced closer to the date.
Bring comfy clothes, a tent and sleeping bag.
Vegan food provided.
Entry cost is sliding scale at the gates, nobody will be turned back for lack of funds.
[Editor’s note: This call to action was anonymously submited, we are sharing it but cannot confirm the authorship]
JUNE/JULY AS PART OF THE MONTHS OF SOLIDARITY WITH IMPRISONED ANARCHISTS
This is a call to break free from such passivity, an invitation, regardless of where you live, to all vegans, anti-speciesists, and anarchists who are fed up with animal exploitation.
Animals are not resources at the service of speciesist, capitalist, or state interests. For this reason, we urge you to fight against all forms of oppression.
We want to make it clear that animal liberation will not be achieved if we continue to sit idly by; it is very easy to talk the talk but not walk the walk as long as our necks are not on the line.
We want to make it clear that speciesism will not be stopped simply by adopting veganism: obviously, not collaborating with animal exploitation is the first step, but that is not enough. It is naive to think that simply by not participating in an evil, it will end without a serious and organized process of resistance.
We are aware that veganism has become just another trend, just another consumerist choice among many, losing all political substance that would enable the true emancipation of us animals, and in some cases perpetuating the very problem it claims to combat by failing to criticize and instead supporting capitalism.
We firmly believe that it is time for a radicalization of the struggle for animal liberation, understanding ‘radical’ to mean attaching a problem at its root, contrary to the negative perception that this word holds for many.
For these reasons, we invite our comrades in the struggle to truly attack every form of oppression against us animals with whatever means are available to them and within their power. Some actions they can carry out include the following: but do not limit yourselves to what is written in this text; let your imagination and your desire to achieve total liberation run wild. Let us use all the powerlessness, frustration, and rage we feel in the face of so much exploitation and slaughter to fight back:
Flyering
Graffitti
Demonstrations
Sabotage
Animal liberations
Film screenings
Discussions/debates
Performances/drama
Workshops
Study groups
Concerts
Fairs
Information sessions
Festivals
Creating written materials, posters, music, or anything else that helps spread the message of animal liberation.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Photo unrelated, we did not receive media with this report]
received anonymously via email:
“In the early hours of 9th May some hooded creatures gained access to the yard of John Sheppard, a ‘family owned & operated’ butchers and slashed the tires of around 15-20 refrigerated vans, also tagging the sides and using leftover paint to cover the wing mirrors and headlamps.
This small action was done in solidarity with the Filton24, anarcho-nihilist vegan Ru of Susaron case and T, anarchist accused of torching a cop car in Brussels.
Free Palestine!
Fire to all cages!
– ALF anarchists”
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