Liberation Gathering

Lib­er­a­tion!

9–11th June 2017

bristolliberationgathering.wordpress.com

A gath­er­ing aimed at rebuild­ing and pro­gress­ing the ani­mal lib­er­a­tion move­ment. It will be com­ing from an anar­chist per­spec­tive and will be espe­cial­ly look­ing at ani­mal exploita­tion as a result of cap­i­tal­ism and domes­ti­ca­tion and how best to chal­lenge it in this con­text.

Lib­er­a­tion!

9–11th June 2017

bristolliberationgathering.wordpress.com

A gath­er­ing aimed at rebuild­ing and pro­gress­ing the ani­mal lib­er­a­tion move­ment. It will be com­ing from an anar­chist per­spec­tive and will be espe­cial­ly look­ing at ani­mal exploita­tion as a result of cap­i­tal­ism and domes­ti­ca­tion and how best to chal­lenge it in this con­text.

We would like to avoid get­ting dis­tract­ed with dis­cus­sions around the pros and cons of reformism, veg­an out­reach or oth­er lib­er­al, ani­mal rights con­cerns. While we think it is use­ful for these con­ver­sa­tions to take place we want this week­end to be about com­ing up with an action plan, between us, to move things for­ward.

If this is some­thing you are inter­est­ed in being part of we would love to hear from you. We are real­ly hop­ing that this gath­er­ing will be a col­lec­tive project and if any­one wants to be part of organ­is­ing before­hand or dur­ing the week­end that would be amaz­ing.

We are keen for the gath­er­ing not to be pure­ly the­o­ret­i­cal and want def­i­nite plans to come out of it. We hope for there to be a mix of prac­ti­cal, the­o­ret­i­cal and strate­gic work­shops and dis­cus­sions, all of which will be as par­tic­i­pa­to­ry as pos­si­ble. If you have a work­shop or dis­cus­sion that you would like to see hap­pen or that you can offer, let us know.

We look for­ward to hear­ing from you

Lib­er­a­tion! col­lec­tive
Bris­tol
UK
liberation.gathering@riseup.net

 

 

Snowy Beagles

In bliz­zard con­di­tions (well a lit­tle light snow any­way) we went to the Pevensey Marsh Bea­gles, who hunt hares, this week. It did­n’t take too long for them to realise they had no chance of hunt­ing with us around. They went back to the meet and hung around look­ing grumpy while we prac­ticed crack­ing whips and cracked open the brandy cof­fee.

In bliz­zard con­di­tions (well a lit­tle light snow any­way) we went to the Pevensey Marsh Bea­gles, who hunt hares, this week. It did­n’t take too long for them to realise they had no chance of hunt­ing with us around. They went back to the meet and hung around look­ing grumpy while we prac­ticed crack­ing whips and cracked open the brandy cof­fee.

On the way to the hunt we took a diver­sion to East Sus­sex WRAS with an injured pheas­ant we found.

Our friends at South Coast Hunt Sabs had their Lan­drover stolen this week, so if you can spare a few quid to help them get anoth­er, then head to the Go Fund Me page below. In the mean­time, they are still get­ting out — we even let some of them into our trea­sured Landy!

https://www.gofundme.com/new-sabbing-vehicle-for-scoast-sabs

 

UK: 4 new releases from green anarchist zine Return Fire (PDFs)

Just now we’ve sent out the PDF ver­sions of our recent releas­es, for down­load­ing and print­ing (for past issues, see 325).

https://en-contrainfo.espiv.net/2016/06/05/uk-4-new-releases-from-green-anarchist-zine-return-fire-pdfs/ for links to the PDFs

Just now we’ve sent out the PDF ver­sions of our recent releas­es, for down­load­ing and print­ing (for past issues, see 325). To sum­marise, there’s the full length edi­tion of Return Fire vol.3 (Win­ter 2015–2016), full of news, the­o­ry, poet­ry and antag­o­nism (down­load in low-res here); a com­pan­ion piece con­sist­ing of our ‘glos­sary’ entry for the issue, on Coloni­sa­tion; an imposed and print-ready ver­sion of ‘Smarter Prison?’ as a sup­ple­ment to vol.3, which we received from ‘Rad­i­cal Inter­fer­ence’ and released for Decem­ber of 2015; and last­ly, we’ve uploaded one of the fea­ture texts from vol.3, ‘The Veil Drops’, to theanarchistlibrary.org as a sep­a­rate file for read­ing and repro­duc­tion. Also, there is both colour and black-and-white ver­sions of the cov­er includ­ed, in case some com­rades want to do their own print­ing.

Return Fire vol.3

A con­tin­u­a­tion of our project to bring inci­sive anar­chic con­tent from around to world to an anglo­phone read­er­ship. New edi­to­r­i­al con­tent, reprints of things we’ve found use­ful, art­work, action list­ings, for­ag­ing infor­ma­tion, the usu­al.

There’s a few pre­vi­ous­ly-untrans­lat­ed arti­cles in this issue. For exam­ple, one is an extract from the lat­est cov­er sto­ry of Italy’s eco-insur­rec­tionary peri­od­i­cal Ter­ra Sel­vaggia, on ‘The Advance of Urban­i­sa­tion’ and, simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, cracks open­ing in the con­crete which we could utilise… Annie Archet mean­while tells a life-sto­ry of evad­ing iden­ti­ty, in Por­trait of the Invis­i­ble Woman in Front of Her Mir­ror. To name some out of the texts we’ve assem­bled from selec­tions of pre-exist­ing ones, David King looks at the reduc­tion­ist and patri­ar­chal impli­ca­tions of mod­ern repro­duc­tive tech­nolo­gies in ‘Into Her Inner Cham­bers’, and Nico­la Gai speaks to act­ing with­in ‘The Max­i­mum That Our Abil­i­ties Allow’ (from his con­tri­bu­tion to the found­ing issue of the Croce Nera Anar­chi­ca).

The con­tent we have har­vest­ed whole includes The Inten­si­fi­ca­tion of Inde­pen­dence in Wallma­pu, John Severino’s poignant reflec­tions on a project with­in an indige­nous Mapuche com­mu­ni­ty; The ‘Wild’ as Will and Rep­re­sen­ta­tion, about com­mod­i­fied and alien­at­ed approach­es in the urgent need for land recon­nec­tion, sim­ply signed M.; and Sean Dunohoe’s har­row­ing (if lim­it­ed) polemic against the Close Super­vi­sion Cen­tres with­in the British prison sys­tem. (We note that this year the organ­is­ing col­lec­tive for the June 11 project of sol­i­dar­i­ty with long-term anar­chist pris­on­ers has called for a focus on such units wher­ev­er they are in the world; hence we’d like to ded­i­cate this ver­sion in that direc­tion.)

As for our usu­al columns… We take a ret­ro­spec­tive look at some Glob­al Flash-Points of insur­gent activ­i­ty in the months fol­low­ing our last vol­ume. Rebels Behinds Bars cov­ers the State’s aggres­sions against our com­rades, and the latter’s thoughts on top­ics from sur­viv­ing incar­cer­a­tion or repres­sion to (anti-)organisation for the attack on author­i­ty. ‘To Cre­ate & Main­tain Their Wealth’ and ‘Sen­su­al­i­ty, Mag­ic & Anar­chist Vio­lence’ address gen­dered and speciesist dom­i­na­tion through reviews of Sil­via Fed­eri­ci, Arthur Evans and Jason Hrib­al.

The Poems for Love, Loss & War are from Rydra Cos­mo, Hen­ry Zegar­run­do, Natasha Alvarez and oth­er appre­ci­a­tors of all things fer­al. For our Mem­o­ry as a Weapon seg­ment, we’ve used Unset­tling America’s spell­bind­ing telling of civilisation’s spread through Europe from the south and beyond, and sub­se­quent tra­jec­to­ry, in The Witch’s Child.

And of course, much more! (All pris­on­er address­es and also some court-case news is now up to date in the PDF ver­sion.)

Coloni­sa­tion

This time, we end­ed up print­ing the ‘glos­sary’ sep­a­rate­ly to the main body of the zine. This size­able essay could be a stand-alone on the sub­ject (one which we feel to be both key and mis­un­der­stood by anar­chists in much of the world) and dis­trib­uted as such, but is also rel­e­vant to sev­er­al items in con­tents of vol.3.

‘Smarter Prison?’

New­ly laid out in A5 imposed for­mat, this explo­ration of the ‘Inter­net of Things’ and the tech­no­log­i­cal ide­ol­o­gy which it advances was first sub­mit­ted to us dur­ing the Black Decem­ber mobil­i­sa­tion. (We’re hap­py that since then, Sil­via, Bil­ly and Cos­ta, who are ref­er­enced in ‘Smarter Prison?’, have been told they will not face tri­al again for their thwart­ed attack on the IBM facil­i­ty.) The strug­gle against the nano-world con­tin­ues…

‘The Veil Drops’

This is a read­er on counter-insur­gency through the lens of ‘cri­sis’, the social and de-civil­is­ing. It’s the longest edi­to­r­i­al piece from vol.3, and up on The Anar­chist Library for wider acces­si­bil­i­ty.

Until next time,
R.F.

Ahousaht First Nation Blockade Open Net Salmon Farm

Clayoquot Sound
An aer­i­al view of Clay­oquot Sound, just north of Tofi­no, B.C., is shown in this hand­out pho­to. The Ahousaht First Nation are protest­ing an open-net salmon farm in the area.

Sep­tem­ber 11th, 2015

TOFINO, B.C. — Mem­bers of a Van­cou­ver Island First Nation are vow­ing to risk arrest rather than allow an inter­na­tion­al fish farm­ing com­pa­ny to anchor an open-net salmon farm north of Tofi­no.

Mem­bers of the Ahousaht First Nation say they set up a boat block­ade Wednes­day at the site of the new farm, owned by Nor­we­gian-based Cer­maq.

The Ahousaht say the com­pa­ny holds 17 salmon farm tenures in Clay­oquot Sound and applied for two new tenures in the same area last year.

The First Nation believes the appli­ca­tions sig­nal a new round of fish farm expan­sion on the West Coast, with the Ahousaht Fish Farm Com­mit­tee pre­dict­ing a four-fold increase in the indus­try over the next 15 years.

Pro­test­ers oppose any new fish farms in the area.

They fear pos­si­ble dis­eases bred in fish with­in the open nets could be passed to clam beds or wild salmon trav­el­ling to and from near­by spawn­ing grounds.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/first-nations-blockade-halts-anchoring-of-tofino-area-salmon-farm‑1.2556934

First Nations blockade Clayoquot Sound salmon farm

This is a media release from UBCIC.

Mem­bers of Ahousaht First Nations are cur­rent­ly blockad­ing the attempts of Cer­maq to install a new open-net salmon farm at Yaak­swi­is, north of Tofi­no BC.

On Wednes­day Ahousaht mem­bers took boats out to the site and pre­vent­ed Cer­maq from anchor­ing the con­tro­ver­sial new farm, which was assem­bled off-site and towed to Yaak­swi­is.

“Wild salmon are in decline every­where salmon feed­lots are in oper­a­tion around the world. We will stop any future activ­i­ty at this loca­tion”, said Tom Paul, an Ahousaht mem­ber. “We will stay out there until we are moved—we will be arrest­ed if need be” he added.

The Ahousaht Fish Farm Com­mit­tee strong­ly opposed any fish farms at the Yaak­swi­is loca­tion, due to con­cerns about prox­im­i­ty to rich seafood resources such as clam beds and wild salmon rivers.

Cer­maq is a Nor­we­gian-based cor­po­ra­tion recent­ly acquired by Mit­subishi. They cur­rent­ly hold 17 salmon farm tenures in Clay­oquot Sound, which was the site of major log­ging con­fronta­tions in 1993.

Cer­maq applied in 2014 for two new tenures in Ahousaht First Nations ter­ri­to­ries. The Depart­ment of Fish­eries and Oceans approved one appli­ca­tion in late July this year, and one was refused.

The salmon farm­ing indus­try is poised to increase four-fold on the BC coast by 2030. These new appli­ca­tions are the first round of this major expan­sion.

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/first-nations-blockade-clayoquot-sound-salmon-farm

Three Sea Shepherd Crewmembers Arrested in Faroe Islands for Protecting Hundreds of Dolphins

news-140917-1-20140915_BV_OP_STOP-280x186Sep­tem­ber 19th, 2014

news-140917-1-20140915_BV_OP_STOP-280x186Sep­tem­ber 19th, 2014

Three vol­un­teer mem­bers of Sea Shepherd’s pilot whale and small cetacean defense cam­paign Oper­a­tion Grind­Stop 2014 were arrest­ed today just out­side the Faroese cap­i­tal of Tor­shavn for pro­tect­ing a large pod of hun­dreds of Atlantic white-sided dol­phins, pre­vent­ing them from approach­ing the dan­ger­ous killing shores of the Faroe Islands.

The Dan­ish Navy chased, board­ed and seized Sea Shepherd’s UK-reg­is­tered boat, the Spit­fire, and arrest­ed its three crewmem­bers — Jessie Tre­ver­ton of the UK and Celine Le Diouron and Mar­i­on Seligh­i­ni, both from France.

Though it is against Faroese law to inter­fere with the mass cetacean slaugh­ter known as the “grindadrap” or “grind,” no grind had been called when Sea Shep­herd pre­vent­ed the dol­phins from reach­ing shore. More­over, white-sided dol­phins are a pro­tect­ed species and are not to be killed. The Dan­ish Police, how­ev­er, have charged the Sea Shep­herd vol­un­teers with fail­ure to report the dol­phin sight­ings to the grind mas­ter and police and, iron­i­cal­ly, with “harass­ing dol­phins.”

Sea Shep­herd Founder Cap­tain Paul Wat­son respond­ed, “Appar­ent­ly in the Faroe Islands it is per­fect­ly legal to kill a pro­tect­ed species, but it is ille­gal to push them back out to sea in order to keep them from harm’s way because that is con­sid­ered ‘harass­ment.’ So these three Sea Shep­herd women can proud­ly say that they suc­cess­ful­ly ‘harassed’ the dol­phins for the pur­pose of sav­ing their lives.”

“The good news is, how­ev­er, that a pod of hun­dreds of white-sided dol­phins were suc­cess­ful­ly ‘harassed’ away from the vicious knives of the whalers. Last year, in August 2013, 450 white-sided dol­phins fell to the cru­el knives of these cetacean-slaugh­ter­ing thugs. For­tu­nate­ly the hun­dreds spot­ted today remain safe at sea,” added Cap­tain Wat­son.

Sea Shep­herd cur­rent­ly has an attor­ney involved. The crew and the Spit­fire were released late this evening in the Faroes. They were escort­ed to the Spit­fire and per­mit­ted to leave. The crew is to appear in court tomor­row at 2 pm Faroes time. How­ev­er, the vol­un­teers face depor­ta­tion from the Faroe Islands by Den­mark, and if deport­ed, would not be allowed to return to the Faroes for at least one year.

Despite being an anti-whal­ing mem­ber nation of the Euro­pean Union, sub­ject to laws pro­hibit­ing the slaugh­ter of cetaceans, Den­mark con­tin­ues to show its sup­port and even col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Faroese whalers to kill small cetaceans.

The Spit­fire is the fourth ves­sel seized by the Dan­ish Navy in the Faroe Islands dur­ing Oper­a­tion Grind­Stop 2014, as Sea Shepherd’s three small boats — the Loki, the Mike Gale­si and the B.S. Sheen (spon­sored by actor Char­lie Sheen) were seized on August 30th. They are being held as evi­dence await­ing the tri­al of eight Sea Shep­herd crew from those boats. Along with the small boat crew, 6 mem­bers of Sea Shepherd’s onshore team were also arrest­ed for attempt­ing to pre­vent the bru­tal slaugh­ter of a pod of 33 pilot whales on August 30.

“Though three vol­un­teers have been arrest­ed and the Dan­ish Navy has once again act­ed in defense of the bru­tal grind by seiz­ing one of our boats, Sea Shep­herd con­sid­ers this a vic­to­ry. Hun­dreds of dol­phins are still swim­ming safe­ly as a fam­i­ly because of our brave vol­un­teers, and Sea Shep­herd will con­tin­ue to act in defense of its clients,” said Lamya Essem­lali, Pres­i­dent of Sea Shep­herd France and Grind­Stop 2014 Off­shore Leader.

There are two Sea Shep­herd ves­sels cur­rent­ly oper­at­ing in the Faroes — the Spit­fire, and the Clemen­tine, from France. Thor had to be removed from the water ear­li­er today, as for­eign ves­sels can only be in Faroese waters for a max­i­mum of three months.

Sea Shep­herd has led the oppo­si­tion to the mass slaugh­ter of cetaceans in the Faroe Islands since the 1980s. Oper­a­tion Grind­Stop 2014 is Sea Shepherd’s largest Faroese cam­paign to date, and a mul­ti-nation­al team of Sea Shep­herd vol­un­teers has been patrolling land and sea in the islands since mid-June. Sea Shep­herd will remain in the Faroes until the begin­ning of Octo­ber. The cam­paign spans the typ­i­cal­ly blood­i­est months of the grindadrap hunt sea­son, in an effort to save as many lives as pos­si­ble.

New £15.8m GlaxoSmithKline Laboratory “Completely Destroyed”

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6893498from In the Bel­ly of the Beast

Sep­tem­ber 14th, 2014

A £15 mil­lion wood­en chem­istry lab­o­ra­to­ry will con­tin­ue to burn for a fur­ther 24 hours, fire­fight­ers con­firmed today.

The Car­bon Neu­tral Lab­o­ra­to­ry for Sus­tain­able Chem­istry at Not­ting­ham Uni­ver­si­ty was destroyed after it sev­er­al fires broke out inside the state-of-the-art build­ing on Fri­day night.

The lab­o­ra­to­ry, which was part-fund­ed by a £12 mil­lion grant from phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­ny Glax­o­SmithK­line was due to open for the first time next year.

Not­ting­hamshire Fire and Res­cue Ser­vice were called to the scene at 8.30pm after res­i­dents spot­ted the blaze…

…The build­ing was designed to reach car­bon neu­tral sta­tus in 25 years to make up the ener­gy expend­ed dur­ing its con­struc­tion.

‘The Glax­o­SmithK­line Car­bon Neu­tral Lab­o­ra­to­ry for Sus­tain­able Chem­istry is a land­mark build­ing which is the embod­i­ment of the University’s com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty in all its forms, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the area of green chem­istry and we will be work­ing close­ly with our part­ners at GSK, and the con­trac­tors Mor­gan Sin­dall, to devel­op a pos­i­tive plan of action for rebuild­ing.’

It is not yet known what caused the blaze and a spokesper­son for NFRS said work to estab­lish the cause of the blaze can only begin ful­ly once the fire is entire­ly out.

 

source: the dai­ly heil

No-one was injured and no oth­er build­ings were affect­ed

images from many sources, nation­al & local media scum:

Gua­di­an UK Video

Verdict Handed Down for Six Sea Shepherd Volunteers on Faroe Islands

9.9.14

9.9.14

Vol­un­teers from Sea Shep­herd Con­ser­va­tion Society’s pilot whale defense cam­paign Oper­a­tion Grind­Stop 2014 appeared before a court in the Faroe Islands on Mon­day fol­low­ing their recent arrest in con­junc­tion with try­ing to pre­vent the mur­der of pilot whales. These vol­un­teer crewmem­bers – many of whom are Euro­pean cit­i­zens – have been found guilty of defend­ing the whales, while Den­mark has act­ed in bla­tant defi­ance of Euro­pean Union reg­u­la­tions by defend­ing the slaugh­ter of whales. Sea Shep­herd has issued a state­ment per­tain­ing to the ver­dicts and sup­port­er and actor Mar­tin Sheen is speak­ing out.

The six mem­bers of Sea Shepherd’s onshore team were among a total of 14 vol­un­teers arrest­ed on August 30 on the Faroese island of San­doy for attempt­ing to pro­tect 33 pilot whales from the bru­tal mass slaugh­ter known as “grindadrap” or the “grind.” The onshore crewmem­bers entered the water, bang­ing poles, in an attempt to lead the pilot whales back out to sea and out of dan­ger, but as the pod was dri­ven in quick­ly from close to shore, there was lit­tle time to pre­vent the slaugh­ter. The Roy­al Dan­ish Navy arrest­ed Sea Shepherd’s off­shore crew and seized three of their small boats – the Loki, the Mike Gale­si, and the B.S. Sheen (spon­sored by actor Char­lie Sheen). Despite being an anti-whal­ing EU mem­ber nation, Den­mark act­ed in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the whalers, enabling 33 whales to be killed.

The onshore crewmem­bers face small fines as well as pos­si­ble depor­ta­tion from the Faroes by Den­mark. The court date for the eight mem­bers of the off­shore crew has been sched­uled for Sep­tem­ber 25, and Sea Shepherd’s three small boats will be held “as evi­dence” until that time.

Read more at SeaShepherd.org

Minks released from cages, vehicles demaged at two fur farms in Czech Republic

Anony­mous report from GreenAction.cz

Anony­mous report from GreenAction.cz

„We vis­it­ed two fur farms in the last two weeks. At first were released approx­i­mate­ly 50 minks from cages on the farm in Dol­ní Cerekev (farm is cur­rent­ly almost emp­ty). Dur­ing the sec­ond vis­it were dam­aged two cars and trac­tor, also with using pyrotech­nic mix­ture – ther­mite. On the oth­er farm in Velký Rat­mírov were dam­aged truck, exca­va­tor and next things for man­ag­ing the farm.

ARM, 20.6.2014″

anarchists claim string of fires in east bristol

Just before sun­rise this morn­ing we launched a tar­get­ed arson spree along Glebe Road — which meets the main east Bris­tol thor­ough­fare of Church Road — and burned out cor­po­rate, lux­u­ry, pri­vate secu­ri­ty and hunt-scum vehi­cles.

Just before sun­rise this morn­ing we launched a tar­get­ed arson spree along Glebe Road — which meets the main east Bris­tol thor­ough­fare of Church Road — and burned out cor­po­rate, lux­u­ry, pri­vate secu­ri­ty and hunt-scum vehi­cles. Wild­fire in the arter­ies of the city-prison! To break the lie of social peace and inten­si­fy the hos­til­i­ties!

Emer­gency ser­vices were too slow to catch the respon­si­ble as the emp­ty street was bright­ened from end to end as by torch­es. In a few words, the select­ed vans and cars were active com­po­nents of the life they rep­re­sent and also enforce.

Vir­gin Media sup­ply tele­vi­sion and also inter­net, and a nation­al fibre optic cable net­work. To keep us enmeshed in the mod­ern infor­ma­tion econ­o­my and the spec­ta­cle of celebri­ties, video games and adver­tis­ing is their busi­ness. Destroy what domes­ti­cates and stu­pe­fies us!

A car as fan­cy as a Quat­tro is an extra spit in the face for the prop­er­ty-less as well as the earth. In wealthy areas or parts under­go­ing gen­tri­fi­ca­tion they’re com­mon­place, in Eng­land as in Argenti­na, Syd­ney as in Berlin, and there to be picked off at our leisure.

BWS’s secu­ri­ty vehi­cle in ash­es is one less to aid their task across the UK of keep­ing the haves from the have-nots by threat or force and of expand­ing the matrix of sur­veil­lance cam­eras we pass under hun­dreds of times in a day. Min­ions of the estab­lished order have cho­sen their side! Insur­rec­tion­al action against the con­structs of author­i­ty above us, around us, with­in us.

Either an active fox hunter or a sup­port­er and pro­mot­er of killing wild ani­mals sole­ly for enter­tain­ment — either way, own­er of a heavy-duty 4x4 bear­ing pro-hunt stick­ers — got their incen­di­ary gift too. Some call blood­sport uncivilised, but it’s real­ly per­fect­ly reflec­tive of the dis­dain for the non­hu­man, upper class enti­tle­ment and also cross-class col­lab­o­ra­tion which is the basis and con­tent of civil­i­sa­tion. Let’s make the rich and their ter­ri­er-boys the hunt­ed, let’s harass them in city or coun­try­side.

This deed coin­cid­ed with the call for col­lec­tive action in sup­port of our caged broth­er G. Pom­bo da Sil­va (Spain), who’s resist­ing his forced trans­fer to a max­i­mum secu­ri­ty mod­ule. Hope­ful­ly our flam­ing regards will also make it through the prison bars to the wan­der­ing she-wolves A. Trudeau and F. Rouiller along with com­pa C. ‘Chi­vo’ López (Mex­i­co) — they all face charges over Molo­tov attacks against State and Cap­i­tal­ism. We’re also think­ing of the unnamed ani­mal lib­er­a­tion fight­er who pros­e­cu­tors have tried to link to the anar­chist paper Upprors­Bladet (Swe­den) and the co-con­vict­ed who also had the sense to stay silent before the cops. While A. Cospi­to and N. Gai, G. Iaco­v­ac­ci and A. Antonac­ci will all be tried next on July 4th, we take aim to light up their jail cells with the warmth of our sol­i­dar­i­ty. Pris­on­ers to the streets, run­ning wild and free!

ABOUT THE ACCUSED IN BRISTOL
We learned from the scum-press news­pa­pers that ear­ly on June 12th an indi­vid­ual was stopped in their vehi­cle by police in the Bradley Stoke area and sus­pect­ed of going equipped to com­mit a crime, then arrest­ed on sus­pi­cion of four counts of arson. This was in the con­text of four coor­di­nat­ed sab­o­tages in the days before which took down many phone sig­nals and also radio ser­vices — all of which had already been claimed by Live Wires, FAI/ELF, as report­ed in the scum-press and car­ried by anar­chist counter-infor­ma­tion pages (although hid­den once again by the mod­er­a­tors of Bris­tol Indy­media).

After the resound­ing silence so far from the local anar­chist move­ment, the first thing we want to state is that — although none of our­selves, our wider net­work or fleet­ing affini­ties know who this per­son is or any­thing about their sym­pa­thies or com­plic­i­ties — the repres­sive move by the State aims to dis­cour­age sim­i­lar actions and we will not stand com­pla­cent. Either police made an uncon­nect­ed arrest in efforts to shed some of the crit­i­cism they’ve come under in the region­al and nation­al media for fail­ing to stem the flow of anar­chist attacks in their area, in which case it was a fruit­less provo­ca­tion as action con­tin­ues, or that indi­vid­ual real­ly did set out to some­how fight the sys­tem that night — sin­gu­lar­ly, in the con­text of decen­tralised infor­mal groups open to any­one such as FAI or ELF, or anony­mous — in which case they’re a poten­tial com­rade and we would defend them as such.

It seems for now that police have lit­tle inter­est in the arrest­ed indi­vid­ual as accord­ing to the scum-press they’re out on bail after ques­tion­ing, but we call on any­one with more infor­ma­tion to release it if they see fit. Mean­while, sol­i­dar­i­ty with the live wires and who­ev­er shares their moti­va­tions to do the same!

Infor­mal anar­chist federation/Earth lib­er­a­tion front
Rogue fire brigade.

MOBILE SLAUGHTER UNIT SABOTAGED

24th June received anony­mous­ly:

24th June received anony­mous­ly:

“Over the week­end, a mobile slaugh­ter unit oper­at­ed by Shoe’s Mobile
Slaugh­ter and Pro­cess­ing (14515 Coon Hol­low Rd, Sub­lim­i­ty, OR) was
decom­mis­sioned by hav­ing a gal­lon of bleach poured into its fuel tank.
When the liq­uid bleach comes into con­tact with the diesel in the tank it
will cre­ate a chem­i­cal reac­tion that will cause rapid cor­ro­sion to the
unit’s fuel system–forcing it to seize up. For the time being this
slaugh­ter unit will be unable to be used to spill the blood of anoth­er
ani­mal.

This method of sab­o­tage was cho­sen because it is silent, effec­tive, and
eas­i­ly repro­ducible. Sym­bol­ic protest and con­sumer boy­cotts in and of
them­selves are not suf­fi­cient in address­ing the imme­di­ate vio­lence that is
being car­ried out against non-human ani­mals every sec­ond of every­day.
Direct inter­ven­tion is nec­es­sary to free impris­oned non-humans and to
destroy the machines that facil­i­tate their exploita­tion.

This action is ded­i­cat­ed to the mem­o­ry of Clé­ment Méric, a veg­an and
anti-fas­cist who was beat­en to death by neo-nazis in Paris a lit­tle over a
year ago. Just as we strug­gle against those who abuse and exploit
non-human ani­mals; we also take an uncom­pro­mis­ing stance against the
far-right’s attempts to not only infil­trate the ani­mal lib­er­a­tion and
envi­ron­men­tal move­ments, but also against their attempts to assert
them­selves in soci­ety in gen­er­al. Let Clé­men­t’s trag­ic death be a
reminder of the neces­si­ty for the move­ment to main­tain a strong anti-fas­cist eth­ic and to oppose the fas­cist scum at every turn.

‘Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the liv­ing.’ ”