Category: Animal Rights/Liberation

19th-29th April »

anony­mous report (pho­to above):

“Spring­time is here, and images of lambs frol­ick­ing in the sun­shine leap to mind. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, for most lambs the real­i­ty is much harsh­er – con­fined to met­al pens, with the slaugh­ter man’s noose per­ma­nent­ly weigh­ing around their necks. Well not if the ALF have any­thing to do with it..

Ten lambs have been lib­er­at­ed from this death sen­tence and giv­en lov­ing new homes. They are now free to live out their nat­ur­al lives away from abuse and repres­sion.

ALF – respect life..”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr29_08.htm

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anony­mous com­mu­nique:

“Dur­ing the night, activists broke into an inten­sive breed­ing unit in Hamp­shire. Inside this win­dow­less prison they found hun­dreds of young birds liv­ing in squalor with no access to fresh air or sun­light.

The hens were des­tined for a life­time of suf­fer­ing in mis­er­able egg farms where they would have been exploit­ed until no longer prof­itable and slaugh­tered. How­ev­er, in just over 2 hours vol­un­teers had loaded 530 of the birds and took them to safe­ty. As the morn­ing light rose, for the first time in their lives they saw day­break, sun­shine and felt the earth beneath their feet.

Ded­i­cat­ed to all those who act­ed to free ani­mals from their cages but end­ed up incar­cer­at­ed them­selves…

A.L.F.”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr28b_08.htm

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report­ed anony­mous­ly:

“In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the World Day demon­stra­tion out­side of Novar­tis’ tor­ture labs the fol­low­ing day, and to remind them that not all activists car­ry plac­ards and bull­horns, two Novar­tis vivi­sec­tors were vis­it­ed at home in Hor­sham on Fri­day night.

Steve Charl­ton of 7 Saint Christo­pher Close had glue put in his front door lock, and ‘Ani­mal Abuser at No. 7’ was paint­ed on a row of garages next to his house. We can’t be sure they were his, but we’ll leave it to him to explain that one to his neigh­bours.

At 5 Rye­croft Dri­ve, Ger­ald Dubois had left a car out under an open win­dow. Hard­ly a deter­rent. Silent as the night that hid us, we stripped the paint, slashed all the tires and left our call­ing card in our own paint.

You nev­er see us, and you can’t stop us.

Ani­mal Lib­er­a­tion Front”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr27_08.htm

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report­ed anony­mous­ly:

“Yet anoth­er hunt scum has received the ALF treat­ment in Hum­ber­side,
this time the tar­get was a dark blue Vol­vo estate dis­play­ing one of
those ridicu­lous coun­try­side alliance stick­ers.

The car was a piece of trash before we even got start­ed, miss­ing
lights and the front reg plate, cov­ered in dents etc. It’s a won­der
it’s even safe to dri­ve.

Thought we’d add to the dam­age already incurred by adding a few extra
dents and scratch­es, also let the tires down and super­glued the
valves shut.

Have a nice day, cour­tesy of the ALF”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr26c_08.htm

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anony­mous com­mu­nique:

“To give World Week For Lab ani­mals a good start, the ALF were out spread­ing the good news.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, Novar­tis direc­tor Kevin White at 3 Pip­son Close, Yate­ley, Hamp­shire, GU46 6JL for­got to leave us much to work with, so after the stan­dard pack­age — slo­ga­neer­ing of win­dows, doors and walls; glue­ing of locks — we had to impro­vise. For­tu­nate­ly we green-fin­gered types noticed that his daf­fodil bor­der looks a lot nicer when redis­trib­uted around his whole gar­den. We hope Kev likes our flower arrang­ing.

Novar­tis employ­ee Christo­pher Gol­un­s­ki of Carthena Dri­ve, Fleet, Hamp­shire, GU52 7SF was far more sport­ing, dis­play­ing his car under a very handy flood­light. An ‘ALF clas­sic’ was duly admin­is­tered.

Until next time…
ALF”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr24_08.htm

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received anony­mous­ly:

“There are some that would have domin­ion over England’s pas­ture­land, claim­ing to be its guardian but enslav­ing some ani­mals for food, and hunt­ing oth­ers for leisure. They must be resist­ed!

shoot­ing signs have been ripped from their posts

2 pheas­ant were pens were destroyed :- water hop­pers cut, elec­tric­i­ty lines chopped, fenc­ing torn and poles ripped from the ground and bro­ken, main water sup­ply and tub­ing sab­o­taged, locks glued on entrance gates, feed­ers removed and dis­man­tled

tyres were slashed on a land rover that vis­i­bly dis­played sup­port for the shoot­ing lob­by

Don’t let these scum get away with mur­der in the name of coun­try­side ‘con­ser­va­tion’.

The Coun­try­side Resis­tance”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr24b_08.htm

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anony­mous com­mu­nique:

“That dis­gust­ing piece of scum Tris­t­ian Roberts might get a lit­tle
sur­prise when he opens his post, paint and bricks through the win­dows
are going to be the least of his wor­ries.

He seems to think that it’s ok to tor­ture and kill inno­cent ani­mals,
and that muti­lat­ing a preg­nant sheep with pitch­forks and fence posts
before dump­ing the body in a wheel­ie bin is just a bit of Sat­ur­day
night fun. You may get off light­ly in the courts because of your age,
but we’ll make sure jus­tice is done.

We don’t just tar­get vivi­sec­tion all forms of ani­mal abuse are
equal­ly wrong.

Ani­mal Rights Mili­tia”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr23_08.htm

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anony­mous report:

“Oops we acci­den­tal­ly squirt­ed super glue into the locks at a butch­ers
store in Hull, how clum­sy of us.

Have fun open­ing the locks on your shut­ters, might need a drill
rather than a key though.

In sol­i­dar­i­ty with the actions against butch­ers at Nor­wich mar­ket
ear­li­er in the month.

York­shire ALF”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr23b_08.htm

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report­ed by activists in the UK (see pho­tos in link below):

“So we recog­nised a lit­tle prob­lem (if you can real­ly call it that) with­in the ani­mal rights move­ment as activists con­tin­ue to argue and dis­agree over what forms of activism are most or more effec­tive.

This is called the Direct Action vs. Out­reach debate, which is known through­out the broad­er rev­o­lu­tion by com­pas­sion­ate indi­vid­u­als look­ing for real change. A solu­tion to this is ALF Out­reach, tak­ing direct action pri­mar­i­ly to edu­cate oth­ers about the atroc­i­ties and crimes towards the non-human ani­mals on this earth.

Since under­stand­ing that an unde­clared war against inno­cent indi­vid­u­als is cur­rent­ly tak­ing place, we knew we had to take action. Our cell demon­strat­ed our com­mit­ment in the last few months by sten­cil­ing ‘ani­mal lib­er­a­tion’ over 40 times on walls, bol­lards, pil­lars, elec­tric­i­ty pylons, water meters & carparks. Iden­ti­cal tag­ging years ago inspired our activ­i­ty.

This is ded­i­cat­ed to 90% of the pub­lic who con­tin­ue to con­sume grave­yard food and to the bad­ger who caught us off guard recent­ly, the only indi­vid­ual who has.

Here is a tip for those who have spent a lot of effort to remove our work. It takes far less time for us to tag than it does for you to clean up after us. The bot­tom line is we will be back to replace our work time and time again and that this is a much larg­er bat­tle that you are not pre­pared for. Just remem­ber that you own the paths and streets just as much as we do, we claim the right to dec­o­rate because nobody else has. Whether its ani­mals in bat­tery farms or those starv­ing in pover­ty, veg­an­ism is the solu­tion for the forth­com­ing rev­o­lu­tion. Until all are free!

Want to join in? Get your sten­cils from http://www.animalrightsmerchandise.com, they are only £1.50 and can be shipped world­wide. A mes­sage for the police: you can raid their offices, but we’ll just dou­ble our actions to sup­port them.

Tag­ging the state and reclaim­ing the streets,
ALF Out­reach-South West”

Source: http://directaction.info/news_apr19_08.htm

14/04/2008 — Today 5 mem­bers and sup­port­ers ofthe Sea Shep­herd crew, the ‘Steve Irwin’ occu­pied the offices of the Cana­di­an con­sulates rep­re­sen­ta­tive in Mel­bourne with over 40 activists demon­strat­ing out the front…

Ships man­ag­er Ben­jamin Bald­win said, “We are stand­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty with our fel­low crew who were mis­treat­ed and ille­gal­ly detained in inter­na­tion­al waters.

‘We were here to present our con­cerns to the Hon­orary Con­sul, Lois Apple­by. We are call­ing on the Cana­di­an gov­ern­ment to drop charges against our crew and apol­o­gise to the crew for this gross breach of inter­na­tion­al law.

‘We are relieved upon hear­ing this morn­ing that charges were dropped against some of the crew, how­ev­er call on the Cana­di­an gov­ern­ment to drop all charges against the Cap­tain and First Offi­cer pri­or to their next hear­ing on the 1st May – they have no juris­dic­tion.

‘We demand an end to the seal slaugh­ter and call on Aus­tralians to make their views known to the Cana­di­an con­sulate.

The activists were escort­ed from the build­ing by police after being threat­ened with arrest as a result of their peace­ful protest. There were manyges­tures of sup­port from the gen­er­al pub­lic out the front of the action with many peo­ple shocked that the hunt was still tak­ing place.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion: Ben­jamin Bald­win on 0412 730 813 or 0422 990 040

A pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­ph­er was on hand and fur­ther pic­tures are avail­able.

12.04.2008 At 0700 Hours (PST) and 1100 Hours Atlantic time the Sea Shep­herd Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety ves­sel Far­ley Mowat was attacked by offi­cers from two Cana­di­an Coast Guard ice­break­ers the Des Gro­seil­liers and the Sir Wifred Gren­fell. Cap­tain Alex Cor­nelis­sen informed the board­ers that the Far­ley Mowat is a Dutch reg­is­tered ship in inter­na­tion­al waters and that Cana­da had no legal right to restrict the free pas­sage of the ves­sel through inter­na­tion­al waters. The ship was in the Gulf of St. Lawrence well beyond the Cana­di­an twelve mile ter­ri­to­r­i­al lim­it. It has been report­ed that both the 1st offi­cer and the cap­tain of the ship have been arrest­ed and will be brought before a court in Syd­ney, Cana­da. Accord­ing to Fed­er­al Fish­eries Min­is­ter Loy­ola Hearn, the “safe­ty and secu­ri­ty” of the seal­ers is the gov­ern­men­t’s main focus and the seiz­ing of the Sea Shep­herd ves­sel will ensure a “safe and order­ly” seal hunt. Last week, the same Mr. Hearn announced that Cana­da would lay charges against the cap­tain and first offi­cer of the anti-seal­ing ves­sel for com­ing too close to the seal hunt.

Cap­tain Paul Wat­son was speak­ing by phone with Far­ley Mowat com­mu­ni­ca­tions offi­cer Shan­non Mann when he heard the voic­es of men scream­ing for the crew to fall to the floor. The men car­ried guns accord­ing to Mann and could be heard by Cap­tain Wat­son threat­en­ing the Far­ley Mowat’s crew. As Cap­tain Wat­son was speak­ing with Shan­non Mann, the Satel­lite phone went dead and noth­ing more has been heard from the Sea Shep­herd crew. The Far­ley Mowat was doc­u­ment­ing vio­la­tions of the humane reg­u­la­tions and gath­er­ing proof that the seals were being killed in an inhu­mane man­ner. The Sea Shep­herd Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety is assum­ing that the video tapes will be seized by the Cana­di­an author­i­ties. There are 17 crewmem­bers onboard the Dutch reg­is­tered Far­ley Mowat from the Nether­lands, the Unit­ed King­dom, France, Swe­den, South Africa, Cana­da and the Unit­ed States.

The Sea Shep­herd Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety has been cut off from com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the crew and has no infor­ma­tion on where the ves­sel will be tak­en. Sea Shep­herd has no infor­ma­tion on the con­di­tion of the crew and the Soci­ety is deeply con­cerned for their crew. “This is an act of war,” said Cap­tain Paul Wat­son. “The Cana­di­an gov­ern­ment has just sent an armed board­ing par­ty onto a Dutch reg­is­tered yacht in inter­na­tion­al waters and has seized the ship. Con­sid­er­ing that the mis­sion of the Far­ley Mowat was to doc­u­ment evi­dence of cru­el­ty by seal­ers to sup­port a Euro­pean ini­tia­tive to ban seal prod­ucts, I can pre­dict that the Euro­peans will not be very pleased with this move and most like­ly this move by Loy­ola Hearn will guar­an­tee that this bill is passed. In oth­er words the Min­is­ter of Fish­eries and Oceans has just hand­ed us the vic­to­ry that we were look­ing for.”

The Sea Shep­herd has been doc­u­ment­ing the Cana­di­an seal hunt off the coast of New­found­land since the mid­dle of March. On the 30th March, the Cana­di­an Coast Guard rammed the Sea Shep­herd ship twice, in an attempt to keep it away from the scene of the seal hunt. On 5th April, the ship (Far­ley Mowat) was attacked by a mob of 30–40 angry seal hunters. The attack took place while anchored in the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. The Far­ley Mowat was berthed in St. Pierre to trans­fer video footage of the Cana­di­an seal slaugh­ter onto shore and await the resump­tion of the slaugh­ter, which was tem­porar­i­ly sus­pend­ed after the death of four seal­ers.

Sea Shep­herd Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety
http://www.seashepherd.org/

31.03.2008
The Cana­di­an Coast Guard ice­break­er CCGS Des Gro­seil­liers twice rammed the Sea Shep­herd Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety ship Far­ley Mowat today. The Sea Shep­herd is present at the baby seal hunt to doc­u­ment the killings. Wit­ness­ing a seal being clubbed is a crime in Cana­da.

The Coast Guard had ordered the Far­ley Mowat to not approach the area where seals are being slaugh­tered. When the Far­ley Mowat did not com­ply, the Coast Guard rammed the ves­sel near the port aft stern area. After the Far­ley Mowat stopped in the ice, the Coast Guard rammed the ship a sec­ond time in the same area of the ship caus­ing dam­age to the plates in that area.

The Coast Guard has demon­strat­ed extreme reck­less­ness with this move. The crew of the Far­ley Mowat were engaged in doc­u­ment­ing the slaugh­ter of seals. They were not inter­fer­ing with the hunt. The annu­al slaugh­ter of baby harp seals has start­ed off the east coast of Cana­da in New­found­land last week. The slaugh­ter of over 325.000 baby seals has been wide­ly con­demned around the world, but the Cana­di­an gov­ern­ment is adamant in its con­tin­ued sup­port for it.

“I’m begin­ning to won­der if any­one on the bridge of the Gro­seil­liers has a license to com­mand a ship,” said Cap­tain Alex Cor­nelis­sen. “The incom­pe­tence of the Coast Guard has already cost the lives of four seal­ers this week-end and now they are ram­ming ships in dan­ger­ous ice con­di­tions. This is unbe­liev­able. It’s like the Coast Guard has declared war on seal defend­ers and the seal­ers are col­lat­er­al dam­age.”

The Far­ley Mowat will remain in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and will con­tin­ue to doc­u­ment the atroc­i­ties on the ice. Already the crew have seen enough evi­dence to under­stand that the Cana­di­an government’s pre­tense that the slaugh­ter is humane has no basis in real­i­ty – in oth­er words it’s a state spon­sored lie.

“It appears that Cana­da is pre­pared to use vio­lence to cov­er-up the truth of this slaugh­ter,” said Cap­tain Paul Wat­son. “Our duty is to resist their vio­lence and con­tin­ue to doc­u­ment the truth.”

Back­ground —

The annu­al slaugh­ter of baby harp seals has start­ed off the east coast of Cana­da in New­found­land. The slaugh­ter of over 325.000 baby seals has been wide­ly con­demned around the world, but the Cana­di­an gov­ern­ment is ade­mend in its con­tin­ued sup­port for the bar­bar­ic mass killings. The EU is said to pass leg­is­la­tion this year to ban the sale and/or export of seal prod­ucts with­in its bor­ders.

Last week, the Sea Shep­herd Con­ser­va­tion Soci­ety ship ‘Far­ley Mowat’ set off from Bermu­da to make its way to the killing fields. The last time the Sea Shep­herd went out to con­front the seal hunt was in 2005 when eleven Sea Shep­herd crew were arrest­ed. The aim of this year’s ‘Seal Defence Cam­paign’ is to try and doc­u­ment the atroc­i­ties. In Cana­da it is a crime wit­ness a seal being killed. Nev­er mind going out there pur­pose­ful­ly to doc­u­ment whats going on ” It is a crime to take a pho­to­graph of a dying seal. It is a crime to video tape or film a seal­er doing his gris­ly work. Unless you have a per­mit and the gov­ern­ment is not grant­i­ng per­mits. And the reg­u­la­tions that ban any­one approach­ing the slaugh­ter are actu­al­ly called the ‘Seal Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tions’.”

Four seal hunters drown after boat cap­sizes

Main­stream media out­lets are report­ing that four seal hunters have drowned off the coast of New­found­land after their trawler cap­sized in the ice.

The Cana­di­an Navy states that the three bod­ies have so far been locat­ed with one still miss­ing pre­sumed dead.

Footage obtained from the hunt has shown the hunters ignor­ing guide­lines on ani­mal wel­fare dis­trib­uted by the Cana­di­an gov­ern­ment, seal car­cass­es have been left on the ice, whilst some reports are emerg­ing on seals being skinned alive despite a ban on the prac­tice. Fur­ther reports of mal­prac­tice and ille­gal activ­i­ties are still incom­ing.

The direct action con­ser­va­tion group Sea Shep­herd is expect­ed to arrive off the coast of New­found­land with­in the next day, despite threats from the coast­guard warn­ing of arrest. Sea Shep­herd founder and direc­tor Cap­tain Paul Wat­son has this to say:

“The Min­is­ter is mak­ing some very irre­spon­si­ble state­ments here. Cana­da has no right to restrict entry of a for­eign reg­is­tered ship into the 200 mile eco­nom­ic exclu­sion zone when said ship is not engaged in eco­nom­ic activ­i­ty. The Far­ley Mowat is a Dutch reg­is­tered yacht crewed by inter­na­tion­al vol­un­teers, none of who are paid to be on that ship. The ship has the right of pas­sage and that is guar­an­teed by inter­na­tion­al mar­itime law. We sug­gest that the Min­is­ter con­sult with his attor­neys before mak­ing fur­ther threats”

With the prospects of a Euro­pean seal pelt ban loom­ing and increased pres­sure by activists, it is only a mat­ter of time before the hunt is final­ly stopped. By hit­ting the sell­ers of this prod­uct the hunt can effec­tive­ly be bank­rupt­ed.

http://www.seashepherd.org/