SEND STOP COP CITY FOREST DEFENDER LARRY SOME LOVE

The City of Atlanta has leased 381-acres of Weelaunee Forest, stolen Muscogee land, to the Atlanta Police Foundation for a police military facility funded by corporations. The protests against this have been receiving increasingly high levels of state violence and repression.

Larry is the last #stopcopcity forest defender currently behind bars and would like to receive more letters to keep them connected to the outside world. Write to them and remind them they are not alone.

Remember not to mention any illegal activity, these letters will be read by prison staff.

Laurance Clark #2404538
2 North 604 C/O Securus Digital Mail Center
Fulton County Jail
PO Box 989
Lebanon, MO
65536
USA

SMASH ALL PRISONS! STOP COP CITY!

THE ANIMAL LIBERATION SUMMIT IN AMSTERDAM

WHAT: One-day gathering / workshop event.

WHERE: Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

WHEN: 11 May

From the event website:

“Fighting for animal liberation can feel lonely and pointless. As there will never be a means to and end to these violent industries. Collectively, however, we can bring about meaningful change and connect on our struggle to see it through.

The animal liberation movement nowadays seems to be comprised by a lot of separate groups and individuals working to accomplish similar goals. By organising this event we hope to bring these groups and individuals together and create a wider and more connected movement.”

The Animal Liberation Summit in Amsterdam promises to be an interesting event of solidarity and practice, where you can meet like-minded activists, brainstorm within groups and create a more cohesive animal liberation movement.

So far a number of workshops have been announced, including how to talk to journalists, how to plan direct action, digital security, two separate talks by Christopher Sebastian, a puppet show on security culture and much more. The full programme can be found on their website:

https://animalliberationsummit.nl/program

The event is pay-as-you-feel and the suggested donation for those who can afford it is 5-10 EUR. This does not include meals, which must be paid for separately, with a suggested donation of 8 EUR to cover coffee, lunch and dinner.

More practical information can be found here:

https://animalliberationsummit.nl/practical-information

UNTIL WE WIN!

ANONYMOUS SUBMISSION AFTER THE GLOBAL WEEKEND OF ACTION AGAINST MAX MARA

{editor’s note: we’ve received a report back from a demo in North Italy against Max Mara. Read the activists words below.}

ENGLISH (TRANSLATION):

“On 20 April, we responded to the call to action calling for activists to protest against Max Mara, guilty of not wanting to subscribe to a no fur policy.

We went in front of their shop in Monza (Monza Brianza) in northern Italy and held up signs showing with pictures and describing in writing the suffering to which foxes and mink used by the Max Mara group to make cuffs and hoods are subjected. We also went into the shop to protest and talked to people on the street. People supported us and spoke out against the use of fur.

We also spread the information on the fur free alliance website and invited people to download the format to write to the Max Mara Group asking them to join the fur free alliance as so many of their high fashion colleagues have already done.

No more cruelty.

MAX MARA YOU ARE GUILTY OF ANIMAL SUFFERING. “

ITALIAN (ORIGINAL):

“Il 20 aprile abbiamo risposto alla chiamata all’ azione che invitava gli attivisti a protestare contro Max Mara colpevole di non volere sottoscrivere una politica no fur. Ci siamo recati davanti al loro negozio di Monza (Monza Brianza) nel Nord Italia e abbiamo esposto dei cartelli che mostravano con delle immagini e descrivevano con delle scritte la sofferenza a cui sono sottoposti volpi e visoni utilizzati dal gruppo Max Mara per fare polsini e cappucci. Siamo entrati anche nel negozio a protestare e abbiamo parlato con la gente in strada. Le persone ci hanno sostenuto e si sono dichiarate contrarie all’uso delle pellicce. Abbiamo anche diffuso le informazioni presenti sul sito delle fur free alliance e invitato a scaricare il format per scrivere al Gruppo Max Mara chiedendogli di unirsi alla fur free alliance come già fatto da tanti dei loro colleghi dell’alta moda. Basta crudeltà. MAX MARA SEI COLPEVOLE DELLA SOFFERENZA DEGLI ANIMALI.”

APRIL DIRECT ACTION ROUND-UP: AUSTRALIA HAS SOMETHING TO SAY!

During the month of April we received 14 reports of direct action for animal liberation. Most of these were related to the flesh/egg/dairy industry, with ten actions being liberations. Australia saw the largest liberation this month, with 73 pullets, and was also the country with the most reports, with a total of 4. This is partly due to the start of the duck hunting season, which has attracted a lot of direct action since the beginning of the year.

THE NUMBER OF ACTIONS REPORTED BY COUNTRY IN APRIL WAS AS FOLLOWS

AUSTRALIA: 4
UNITED KINGDOM: 2
DENMARK: 2
GERMANY: 2
ITALY: 1
SPAIN: 1
USA: 1
FRANCE: 1

This month was the Global Weekend of Action against Max Mara, with activists around the world putting pressure on Max Mara to ditch fur once and for all. It was also World Day for Animals in Laboratories, and we understand that the Liverpool demo in the UK was a blast!

We also heard that snitch David Agranoff was confronted at an event where he was trying to promote his book. The movement does not forget snitches!

We’ve heard that Sindre has been receiving letters since the support group changed the delivery address. Please write to Sindre today and send some love.

Finally, May is an expensive month for UA, covering the cost of servers and other tech logistics to keep the platform alive. If you can afford it, please donate via PayPal or Patreon. All the links are here: 

https://linkstack.lgbt/@animalliberation

SOLIDARITY!

UA

IF YOU WANT US, SUPPORT US

It’s that time of year again when we have to get some cash together to pay for servers, domains, and other tech maintenance. If you value the work we do, then show us some support and keep things ticking over. We’re all volunteers; none of us are ever paid for the work we do, from providing prisoner support to writing articles, keeping folks informed about various campaigns, and providing a safe place where people can send word of their actions anonymously and get them published. We even spend hours translating many reports.

There’s constant work behind the scenes to keep things as safe as possible and prisoner info up-to-date. We dealt with a hack on the website only recently and have been working to get everything cleaned up but we might want a fresh start with a new website at some point.

Drop us some coins via PayPal or even better, set up a regular donation by supporting us on Patreon. You can find links to both here:

https://linkstack.lgbt/@animalliberation

Coins aren’t the only way you can support us (though they are needed and appreciated), we’re also open to submissions. Are you involved in a campaign or project you want to talk about? Some banging art to share? Or have something else to say? Drop us a message via email or our ‘contact us’ form on our website.

https://unoffensiveanimal.is/contact-us/

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PS: We have a sick design ready and might do a pre-order only T-shirt for Lado who is in need of funds after a long stint in prison. Are folks interested?

WORLD DAY FOR ANIMALS IN LABORATORIES DEMO IN UK – CALL TO ACTION

What?: March and protest against vivisection
When?: 27th April, 12pm – 5pm.
Where?: Liverpool UK.

World Day for Animals in Laboratories is over 40 years old. The day was founded by the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) in 1979. Throughout the 1980s there were demonstrations and protests to mark World Day by anti-vivisection organizations in the UK and overseas. Among the targets were the Ministry of Defence’s Porton Down laboratory, Cambridge University and Shamrock Farm primate breeder.

Over the years WDAIL has been a day to fight against the torture of animals in labs. This year, the main national demo in UK is in Liverpool. Joi thousands of others and fight back against vivisection!

Via WDAIL UK:

“Come and join us for the 2024 march through Liverpool.

Meet in St John`s Gardens 12pm. The first speech will be at 1pm, with the march starting at 13:30pm. There will be speeches and stops en route. Veggies will be there to keep you filled with fabulous food (and there are amazing veggie/vegan restaurants in Liverpool).

If you cant attend the march we hope you can demonstrate outside your local labs, or shops with links to vivisection. Tag #wdail2024 in your social media posts so we get to see you in action. Lets make it the biggest range of demonstrations against animal testing held in one day!”

More info:

www.wdail.uk

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A MILITANT? – BEING PART OF THE ROJAVA REVOLUTION.

Received anonymously:

“What does it mean to be a militant? Being part of the Rojava Revolution

“95% of our struggle is that against ourselves. Only the other 5% are against the enemy” Abdullah Ocalan

The last weeks have been my toughest here so far. I have been unable to contribute much and continue working on my projects here, due to poor health. The perfect time for some self-reflection and introducing one of the core pillars of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement. Many great revolutionaries have contributed to the idea of self-reflection and militancy.

When I first came across the word militancy, I imagined somehow becoming hard: always working, never complaining. In short, becoming a revolutionary robot, able to surpass the mental, physical and emotional ‘constraints’ of being human. In Europe – even though I had slowly widened my understanding a bit more – I still somehow held to this ideal of a revolutionary. Someone who is young, fit, able-bodied and smart. Indeed, I have pushed myself more than I thought I could do, stayed up longer than I thought I could and achieved things I never thought possible. However, while this can be part of being a militant, it is not the whole story.

Coming here, the militancy of the comrades you meet is undeniable. There are heroic resistance stories, people sacrificing their life to save that of their comrades or to prevent themselves falling in the hands of the enemies. These include that of Sehid Berxwedan, or Ryan Lock, who instead of falling in the hands of ISIS, ended his own life. These stories and examples are invaluable for us, and yet this is only one part of a much broader understanding of militancy here. Soon after arriving, I realized the broadness of who is a Kurdish revolutionary. I sat together with comrades in their 70’s, sick and worn down from 20 years fighting as a Guerilla, joking how I have become a “terrorist” alongside them simply for being here. Sharing stories of undeniable love and care for the people of the world. For weeks, another comrade gave us dance lessons. She was a ballet dancer before she joined the struggle. She fought with the Guerilla for 14 years and got severely wounded. She is in constant pain, until she forgets it through her much beloved dancing. Yesterday evening, we sat together with an older comrade. She is fifty and was born in Rojava. Her brother was killed in Bakur (North Kurdistan) only two years ago. She was describing to us how she followed the front lines in Raqqa together with other comrades from Kongra Star (the women’s umbrella organization), founding and building up people’s councils in every newly-liberated village.

These efforts to cultivate a mentality and practice of grass-roots democracy are as much a part of militancy as the military battles are. The constant drive to build up alternatives: dreaming about them, realizing them, having many hard conversations, making many mistakes, learning from them and not giving up hope. Mariame Kaba, a black abolitionist from New York once said hope is a constant discipline – here I see this coming true.

Things are hard here. Things are far from perfect. Many women still live in incredibly difficult situations, the spiralling economy is crushing household finances and most people with essential qualifications – such as doctors and engineers – have left for Europe. Several rounds of systematic Turkish airstrikes on power stations and oil infrastructure have shattered the already-frail energy sector in Rojava, making electricity, gas and fuel even more expensive and scarce for the population. Meanwhile, Turkey continues to assassinate scores of top YPG and YPJ commanders, as well as those working as society organizers and women’s activists, through targeted drone strikes.

Yet despite all this, the comrades manage to keep alive within themselves an unparalleled energy, will to continue and spirit of optimism. When setbacks occur, when problems emerge (and of these there is no scarcity), when the circumstances make it seem like there is no way forward, still the comrades – and the people of Rojava – continue to push forwards. Of course, there are not many options other than to continue to struggle, given the situation. Yet as described before the deep culture that the Kurdish movement has built around their martyrs – the immense value given to those who gave their lives in the fight for freedom and their constant presence in our daily life through photos, memorials and stories – also offers the strength and will needed to renew a spirit of hope each day. To not just move, but move with momentum.

One rainy March day, I meet some comrades from Kobane (the place made famous in 2015, when a Kurdish-led resistance effort handed ISIS their first major loss and kick-started the liberation campaign that would result in the territorial defeat of the so-called caliphate in 2019) in the city’s large martyr’s graveyard. When countless childhood friends, family members, neighbours, loved ones and strangers have given their life for a cause that you believe in, to not try to carry on their struggle, channel their determination and passion and pursue their dreams of a better world in their place amounts to betraying them, they say.

This is the discipline Kaba speaks of: every day choosing to renew your will to hope, to dream and to continue to believe that against all the odds, it is possible to succeed. This is a kind of militancy that requires a strength that is not confined to the physically strong, young and able-bodied figure. A ‘robot revolutionary’ could never achieve this kind of militancy, because it is built on a deep emotional connection with your own spirit, your comrades, the path you have chosen to take together and the life around you. For me, this has meant to except my physical boundaries the last weeks, rely on my comrades support, listen to their harsh criticisms when I tried to move too much and reflect how I too, can expand my idea of militancy.”

WRITING A LETTER TO A POLITICAL PRISONER – PRISONER SUPPORT

Writing a letter in solidarity to a political prisoner is not complicated. You don’t have to write a long letter, nor do you have to know the person you are writing to. There are however some things that are important to think about.

  • Don’t write anything incriminating, or about the person’s case. Your letter could be monitored by the guards. 
  • In your first letter you can write a little introduction of yourself, and your intentions to stay in correspondence.
  • Include a name and return address, both at the back of your letter, and the envelope. You don’t necessarily have to put your own legal name as recipient. 
  • Check what rules the prison have regarding mail to the prisoners. If the prisoner has s support crew, also check with them if there are certain things the prisoner needs, that you maybe can help with, like sending books. 

Check the list of political prisoners at our web site, for more info and details about which prisoners you can write to

IN SOLIDARITY!

GREEN SCARE SNITCH DAVID AGRANOFF GETS CONFRONTED AT A BOOK TALK /// WE DO NOT FORGET ABOUT SNITCHES.

{editor’s note: David Agranoff collaborated with the cops during the green scare investigation and subsequent wave of repression. He received an incredibly lenient sentence because of it. Slowly during the trial’s David’s lies about who he had snitched on were uncovered, starting with having talked “only about Marius because he is already in prison” and realising that he had been collaborating with investigators for at least three years.

The movement does not forget about snitches, and both old and new activists should understand this and re-refresh it in their day to day life. If you collaborate with the police, you are an enemy of the animals, you are an enemy of the earth, you are an enemy of the struggle, and should be treated accordingly. 

There is a zine worth reading (thankfully preserved by The Talon Conspiracy) called “GOT THE HOLLOWPOINTS FOR THE SNITCHES”, which analyses how other revolutionary groups have historically handled snitch culture.

You can find it here: https://thetalonconspiracy.com/2012/03/got-the-hollowpoints-for-the-snitches/}

Originally published by Unravel:

“Green Scare snitch David Agranoff was shouted down at the beginning of his book talk in Bloomington, IN on April 7th, 2024. We distributed fliers with his picture and information to the event attendees, and we called him out for the coward and snitch that he is. He and an event organizer quickly took it upon themselves to collect the fliers and physically usher us out of the event. He replied with some retorts about how “we weren’t there”, asking “what have you done for the movement?”

David seems to believe enough time has passed, and that he should be able to move in spaces without consequence. He wants to claim positive contributions towards the struggle for animal and earth liberation, despite the reality that he is a part of its undoing. David might be on the periphery of vegan, straightedge punk scenes, where people are perhaps not familiar with his past. David will always be a threat to those around him, especially as the State is ramping up its use of social associations as grounds for investigation. Once someone has cooperated, they can be called on to do so again.

Look for him around his home (San Diego, CA as cited on his blog on 1/21/24), and perhaps giving a talk on one of his corny-looking books in a town near you! David runs a blog (https://davidagranoff.blogspot.com), has an instagram (Count.Agranoff), and has another book coming out soon from Anti-Oedipus Press (@antioedipuspress).

More information about his cooperation, and information about other Green Scare snitches, can be found at:
https://animalliberationpressoffice.org/NAALPO/snitches/

https://earthfirstjournal.news/informants/

Cooperation is never an option. Remember, some anarchists never forget a betrayal!”

THE ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT TRAPS HUNTERS IN THE WETLAND.

14th April 2024, Victoria, Australia

Received anonymously via email:

“Sunday morning the A.L.F visited Lake Colac in Victoria, so-called Australia to let hunters know they aren’t welcome to shoot innocent animals on these wetlands. We put a lock and chain on a gate at one of the entrances into the wetlands preventing hunters getting into the wetlands and preventing the hunters who camped from leaving. A slight disturbance to their day and we hope it ruined it for them! We also put up a little home-made banner at another entrance for them to see on their way out of the wetlands as the opening week of shooting ends.

We will be back in full force with some more creative ideas in the weeks to come. To anyone that can get out to a wetland, please do. Make these hunters don’t come back. Ruin their day, destroy their vehicles, just be a general nuisance!”