Unoffensive Animal

October, Northamptonshire UK.

received anonymously via email:

“Back in October in the countryside of Northamptonshire we found a very disgusting place that stunk of rotting and looked like an animal incinerator. There was a dog locked up inside without water, drinking from puddles filled up with blood from dead animals rotting in bins and with a very infected eye. We decided to take her to give her proper care.

Later on we learnt that it was in fact a pet crematorium where an ex hunt master was burning badgers from the cull. Triple scum, seems like we scored.

ALF”

3rd December, Serbia.

Received anonymously via email:

“The night after the international day against hunting, 13 hunting towers were destroyed in Serbia.
~ for freedom – for justice – for peace”

September, Šakvice, Czech republic.

Received anonymously via email:

“6 hunting towers destroyed!!

This action was for all our non-human brothers and sisters, and for our inspiration – Michal Kolesar.

Vegan straight edge for animals!!”

15th November, Atlanta USA.

Originally Published: Scenes From The Atlanta Forest

“In the late afternoon hours of Tuesday, November 8 (Election Day), another tow truck entered the parking lot of the Weelaunee People’s Park with the intention of carrying away the charred remains of Ryan Millsap’s tow truck, which was burnt back in July. The latter truck has become a monument to the power of this movement, and had already been defended from extraction at least once before. So when this new truck came–its driver saying that he had already called the cops, and he’d be towing our truck as soon as they arrived–forest defenders were quick to respond. The police, on the other hand, were not. When it became clear to the driver that the cops were too lazy, overextended, and scared to come to his aid, he abandoned the vehicle with the keys inside. When DKPD did finally arrive on the scene, they were too scared to even enter the parking lot, let alone the forest. Forest defenders drove the truck to the RC field in an attempt to block the path where a bulldozer had entered last May. Then they set it ablaze, taking great care to ensure that the surrounding grass didn’t catch.

Meanwhile, those Americans that still believe in the ritual of voting were casting their ballots for the maintenance of one or the other version of the status quo. They think of this as freedom, as though the choice between 100 brands of cereal were the same as choosing how to live. We chose another route. We chose to defend a territory that has been claimed by the people, for the people–where the police do not dare to go because they have seen what happens to enemy vehicles. We elected a raging fire beneath a full moon!

Sincerely,The Committee to Elect Stacey Abrams”

20th November, unknown location.

Originally published: Animal Liberation Press Office.

“a woman a fight Animal Liberation Front Direct night action that saves 100 wild animals”

4th December, Italy.

Received anonymously via email:

ENG (translation):

“As a cell belonging to the Animal Liberation Front, we claim this action completed against a duck hunting facility.

The shed where the hunters were mercilessly killing was destroyed and rendered harmless for a long time.

The 4 ducks held in cages to be used as live decoys were taken away and released where they will no longer have to fear these murderous criminals.

We will not stop!
A.L.F.”

ITALIAN (original)

“Come cellula appartenente al Fronte di Liberazione Animale, rivendichiamo questa azione portata a termine contro una struttura per la caccia alle anatre.

Il capanno dove i cacciatori uccidevano senza pieta’ e’ stato distrutto e reso inoffensivo per molto tempo.

Le 4 anatre detenute nelle gabbie per essere usate come richiami vivi sono state portate via e liberate dove non dovranno piu avere paura di questi criminali assassini.

Non ci fermeremo!
A.L.F.”

19th November, Atlanta USA.

Originally published: Scenes From The Atlanta Forest

“On the evening of Saturday, November 19, chainsaw-wielding militants took action to close down the Atlanta Police Department’s shooting range inside the Weelaunee Forest, where APD trains weekly to kill and maim the people of Atlanta. A few small trees were selectively felled in order to block the access road to the shooting range. One of the felled trees hit a power line which provides electricity to the shooting range, leading to a power surge which blew a transformer and disabled the cameras, which were then destroyed with fire and hammers. The power line only services the shooting range. No residential areas were impacted by the outage.

In the middle of the range is a yellow school bus. The windows are shattered from bullet holes, and spent munitions –flash grenades and tear gas – lie under the seats. Its purpose on the range is clear: the only ‘protection’ police offer is violence and death.

The decision to cut a living tree should never be taken lightly. The ongoing presence of the shooting range was an affront to the forest and all who live in or near it; the gunfire and explosions at all hours of day and night, the toxic lead ammunition poisoning the soil and leaching into the water, the way Black and brown people living nearby were forced to listen daily to the police training to murder them.

Weighed against these impacts and the Atlanta Police Foundation’s plan to destroy the entire forest, we understand the felling of these few trees as the forest defending itself. At a moment when the USA’s model of militarized policing is being actively exported around the world to facilitate the destruction of the Amazon and others of the last great forests and indigenous strongholds which stand between us and mass extinction, we know that if these trees could talk, they would say “fuck the police” and would happily volunteer to fall and crush them.

Since the closing of the shooting range, the Weelaunee forest has not been quiet – even the cold November woods are full of life and noise – but it has been more peaceful without the police filling it with the sounds of war. We hope that all the residents of the forest and the surrounding neighborhood can relax better in the relative silence, but we must be clear that we didn’t do this for their sake.

We took this action for the dead – for Rayshard Brooks and every person killed by the Atlanta Police, for every murdered revolutionary, for the Muskogee who were forced from this land, for every enslaved person who lived and died on the plantation here, for every prisoner killed by guards at the old prison farm and buried in unmarked graves in the forest. This forest is theirs and we will not allow the police to desecrate it with their presence.

We will not allow the police to bulldoze over the history of their own crimes.

The land remembers. We remember. Cop city will never be built.”

PHOTO: Unrelated.

5th November, Burggriesbach Germany.

According to local press, a 71-year-old hunter was about to climb his raised hunting hide near Burggriesbach when the structure collapsed. The hunter fell backwards to the ground.

According to the Neumarkt police station in the Upper Palatinate, the hunter suffered minor injuries as a result of the fall. As cause it was determined that the supports of the high seat had been sawed off. According to police, the act must have been committed between October 22 and November 5. The officials investigate now because of damage to property and bodily injury.