Direct Action: 8 countries and 8 days
Liberationists | 22.10.2009 22:17 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Social Struggles | World
15th-22nd October
FOUR MINK FARMS RAIDED IN ONE NIGHT! (Spain)
MINK FARMER RUINED AFTER RAID (France)
OPEN SEASON ON HUNTER'S CARS (Italy)
FUR SHOP OWNER GETS A HOME VISIT (UK)
BURNING BURGER KING LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY (Mexico)
SIGN TEMPTS BEE LIBERATOR (USA)
HUNT CLUB ADVERTISEMENTS PAINTBOMBED (Ireland)
DOGS ABUSED BY HUNTERS RESCUED (Spain)
SUSANNE FUR SHOP PAINTED (Spain)
10 CHICKENS RESCUED FROM MEANINGLESS SUFFERING (Czech Republic)
BIRD LIBERATED, CAGE DESTROYED (Spain)
MAGPIE FREED FROM HUNTER'S CAGE (Spain)
FOUR MINK FARMS RAIDED IN ONE NIGHT! (Spain)
MINK FARMER RUINED AFTER RAID (France)
OPEN SEASON ON HUNTER'S CARS (Italy)
FUR SHOP OWNER GETS A HOME VISIT (UK)
BURNING BURGER KING LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY (Mexico)
SIGN TEMPTS BEE LIBERATOR (USA)
HUNT CLUB ADVERTISEMENTS PAINTBOMBED (Ireland)
DOGS ABUSED BY HUNTERS RESCUED (Spain)
SUSANNE FUR SHOP PAINTED (Spain)
10 CHICKENS RESCUED FROM MEANINGLESS SUFFERING (Czech Republic)
BIRD LIBERATED, CAGE DESTROYED (Spain)
MAGPIE FREED FROM HUNTER'S CAGE (Spain)
BIRD LIBERATED, CAGE DESTROYED (Spain)
- video/mp4 4.9M
FOUR MINK FARMS RAIDED IN ONE NIGHT! (Spain)
MINK FARMER RUINED AFTER RAID (France)
SIGN TEMPTS BEE LIBERATOR (USA)
HUNT CLUB ADVERTISEMENTS PAINTBOMBED (Ireland)
10 CHICKENS RESCUED FROM MEANINGLESS SUFFERING (Czech Republic)
FOUR MINK FARMS RAIDED IN ONE NIGHT! (Spain)
In the early morning hours of October 19, approximately 17,500 mink were released from cages at four fur farms in northern Spain.
Three of the farms were located near Abegondo (Galicia). The fourth farm was located several hundred miles away in Lubia (Soria).
In Lubia, some of the mink were recaptured, but others have been spotted miles away from the farm.
Charo Carrillo, the owner of a farm in the town of Oza dos Ríos, near Abegondo, told local media that the raid on her farm has ruined 20 years of work breeding mink for fur quality, color and other traits desired by the fur industry.
Another fur farmer, Pancho Vázquez Larumbe, estimated his losses at 300,000 Euros.
Photo: laopinioncoruna.es / Carlos Pardellas
>>
MINK FARMER RUINED AFTER RAID (France)
According to media reports, during the night of October 15, approximately 4,200 mink escaped from a fur farm in the village of Saint-Cybranet (Dordogne) in southwest France. Cages were opened and the fence surrounding the farm was cut. A water system at the farm was also vandalized. Two days later, only 1,000 of the mink had been recaptured.
Thierry Agraffel, the owner of the farm (address: Lauzel, 24250 St Cybranet), cried to a local newspaper, "Twenty-one years of work and breeding completely destroyed...."
Photo: Titia carrizey-Jasik / sudouest.com
>>
OPEN SEASON ON HUNTER'S CARS (Italy)
reported on finoallafine.info:
"Sunday 18 October, Central Italy.
Windows broken on 11 hunter's cars. The hunting season has also opened for us... We only have to go to the countryside and choose our prey."
>>
FUR SHOP OWNER GETS A HOME VISIT (UK)
received anonymously:
"Ismet Keles, proprietor of Next One Leather, and purveyor of fur trimmed coats recently received a visit. A message was spraypainted in the doorway, his car tyres slashed and paint stripper poured over his car.
The cruel, outdated, unnecessary suffering of animals will not go unopposed.
You know what to do.
ALF"
Related article: Next One Leather Go Fur-Free After Protests
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/440383.html
>>
BURNING BURGER KING LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY (Mexico)
anonymous communique (translation):
"Incendiary attack at a Burger King. Mexico City
On Friday, October 16, around 3 in the morning, we, comrades from the cell of milicia incendiaria por la liberación animal (M.I.L.A) [incendiary militia for animal liberation], were ready to again hit one of the most anthropocentrist, earth-destroying multinationals, McDonald's. Unfortunately, upon arriving at our target we realized that police officers were guarding the site, at both entrances of the establishment. But we did not let that stop us from attacking the murderer capitalism. Armed with all our anti-anthropocentrist anger and assisted by 10 liters of gasoline we turned to another equally exploitive multinational, this time the target was a Burger King located in the south of the city. Upon arriving at the place, a considerable amount of gasoline was sprayed around and some bottles with more gasoline and incendiary devices were also left. After leaving all this we withdrew into the darkness waiting for the devices to do their job and the sky could be seen illuminated by the beautiful abolitionist and anti-anthropocentric fire.
The action was planned that day against McDonald's. We want to make it clear that we will not accept any reform or laws to protect and ensure a better murder of our non-human comrades in the slaughterhouse, because we do not fight for the 'rights of animals' as the reformist groups do. We are fighting for animal liberation and against anthropocentric, speciesist and dominating attitudes and we will not rest until all the cages and the bars of the prisons fall and until the exploiters are destroyed, and while a being continues suffering because of this capitalist society, we will continue attacking.
Let's turn these words into action.
Milicia incendiaria por la liberación animal (M.I.L.A)"
>>
SIGN TEMPTS BEE LIBERATOR (USA)
received anonymously:
"saw this sign while out and about. couldn't resist the temptation. released thousands and thousands of bees from confinement at an undisclosed location in Utah. how surprised farmer brown will be when he returns to find his precious honey bees missing. on top of that we also smashed 4 crates of honey.
...BLF... The Bee Liberation Front"
>>
HUNT CLUB ADVERTISEMENTS PAINTBOMBED (Ireland)
reported by activists in Ireland:
"The Waterford Foxhounds are holding a charity fun in Portlaw, Co. Waterford on the 25th of October 2009.
Road signs advertising this event have been placed on the N25 leading into Waterford city. For the past week the main sign in the village of Kilmeaden has been paintbombed with the word 'blood' in red paint written across the white board sign advertising the event. On two occasions the sign had to be cleaned. Today the Waterford Hunt banner above the white board sign was paintbombed.
Another roadside sign that was also paintbombed has been removed by the hunt."
>>
DOGS ABUSED BY HUNTERS RESCUED (Spain)
received anonymously:
"Greetings compañeros: A few weeks ago we rescued seven dogs in appalling conditions from a farm that breeds hunting dogs. Although an animal protection organization had been denouncing it for several months, including appearances in local newspapers, the person running the farm continued keeping dogs (although it is true that there were far fewer than in earlier reports), a horse with a wound infested with parasites, and a calf who didn't look any better. The dogs were permanently chained, without water, with their tails cut off, in a state of panic whenever anyone approached, squalid, and worst of all, full of mange, fleas and ticks. And all this, we emphasize, is despite several complaints and a visit from the Seprona [Servicio de Protección de la Naturaleza]. As always, these people take advantage of the fact that authorities ignore the complaints, since the members of the Civil Guard and the local police in those towns are themselves hunters and friends of the dog breeders, if not the breeders themselves.
We were able to rescue the dogs, but unfortunately not the horse and calf; they remain there with their wounds and without water.
With this communication we intend to make public all the information at our disposal. We include several photos of the state the animals were in. We encourage you to continue acting for their dignity, to continue fighting against what symbolizes hunting in Spain.
The details of where this liberation was carried out are:
Farm on km 35-36 on the CM 1002 road, outside of Uceda in the direction of El Cubillo de Uceda (Guadalajara province, Spain). The parcel is on the left side of the road, down an embankment.
Three of the seven dogs liberated had a 'chip'.
The details are:
Gregorio Pérez Bueno
c / Mayor, 79
UCEDA (GUADALAJARA, ESPAÑA)
Tel 949 856 026"
>>
SUSANNE FUR SHOP PAINTED (Spain)
reported on Acción Vegana (translation): http://www.accionvegana.org/
"Graffiti against businesses that engage in animal exploitation
-The owners of the Susanne fur shop were again the target of the actions of those who defend animals. On this occasion graffiti was painted on their garage. 'FURRIER SUSANNE MURDERERS' could be read in enormous red letters. To this day the graffiti remains.
The Susanne fur shop, after continuous attacks has now hung a huge banner, 'everything 40% off.' Are they thinking of leaving? That would be a shame...
-The van from a seafood restaurant for the filthy rich appeared a few weeks ago with tires slashed. A few days later the windscreen was covered with a thick coat of white paint.
Fuck the bastards!"
>>
10 CHICKENS RESCUED FROM MEANINGLESS SUFFERING (Czech Republic)
open rescue; click here for additional photos: http://michalkolesar.net/?p=3015
"Ten chickens rescued from meaningless suffering and meaningless deaths. They were moved to a new, safe home. Ahead of them is not a long and full life, because their genoms were destroyed so that their bodies grow faster and bear more flesh and so that the business is more profitable. But despite of it, this way they’ll be better off. They will learn what sun is and what fresh air is and what are people who do not see them as just meat and money. Spread the message."
>>
BIRD LIBERATED, CAGE DESTROYED (Spain)
anonymous report:
"On Wednesday, October 14th we freed a bird who was living locked inside a cage in the warehouse of a pig farm in Teruel (Spain). We are sure the pig exploiters kept this animal deprived of freedom simply for the pleasure of seeing her day after day living behind bars. After opening the cage and watching how she flew away in the middle of the night, we made sure that cage would never again be the obstacle to freedom for anyone.
We couldn't liberate the thousands of pigs who were being exploited in that farm but we can all help many others by becoming vegan and joining the fight for their rights, because to each animal, her life is as important as yours is to you. Not bigger cages nor longer chains: empty cages and animal liberation.
Against speciesism: action!
>>
MAGPIE FREED FROM HUNTER'S CAGE (Spain)
reported on Acción Vegana:
"During the summer of 2009, a magpie kept by hunters to teach their hounds was freed.
Dozens of circus posters were destroyed.
The windows of a hunter's car were smashed."
>>
Related articles
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/439850.html (14th)
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/439648.html (11th)
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/439140.html (3rd)
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/439007.html (1st)
More information
http://www.animalliberationfront.com
In the early morning hours of October 19, approximately 17,500 mink were released from cages at four fur farms in northern Spain.
Three of the farms were located near Abegondo (Galicia). The fourth farm was located several hundred miles away in Lubia (Soria).
In Lubia, some of the mink were recaptured, but others have been spotted miles away from the farm.
Charo Carrillo, the owner of a farm in the town of Oza dos Ríos, near Abegondo, told local media that the raid on her farm has ruined 20 years of work breeding mink for fur quality, color and other traits desired by the fur industry.
Another fur farmer, Pancho Vázquez Larumbe, estimated his losses at 300,000 Euros.
Photo: laopinioncoruna.es / Carlos Pardellas
>>
MINK FARMER RUINED AFTER RAID (France)
According to media reports, during the night of October 15, approximately 4,200 mink escaped from a fur farm in the village of Saint-Cybranet (Dordogne) in southwest France. Cages were opened and the fence surrounding the farm was cut. A water system at the farm was also vandalized. Two days later, only 1,000 of the mink had been recaptured.
Thierry Agraffel, the owner of the farm (address: Lauzel, 24250 St Cybranet), cried to a local newspaper, "Twenty-one years of work and breeding completely destroyed...."
Photo: Titia carrizey-Jasik / sudouest.com
>>
OPEN SEASON ON HUNTER'S CARS (Italy)
reported on finoallafine.info:
"Sunday 18 October, Central Italy.
Windows broken on 11 hunter's cars. The hunting season has also opened for us... We only have to go to the countryside and choose our prey."
>>
FUR SHOP OWNER GETS A HOME VISIT (UK)
received anonymously:
"Ismet Keles, proprietor of Next One Leather, and purveyor of fur trimmed coats recently received a visit. A message was spraypainted in the doorway, his car tyres slashed and paint stripper poured over his car.
The cruel, outdated, unnecessary suffering of animals will not go unopposed.
You know what to do.
ALF"
Related article: Next One Leather Go Fur-Free After Protests
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/440383.html >>
BURNING BURGER KING LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY (Mexico)
anonymous communique (translation):
"Incendiary attack at a Burger King. Mexico City
On Friday, October 16, around 3 in the morning, we, comrades from the cell of milicia incendiaria por la liberación animal (M.I.L.A) [incendiary militia for animal liberation], were ready to again hit one of the most anthropocentrist, earth-destroying multinationals, McDonald's. Unfortunately, upon arriving at our target we realized that police officers were guarding the site, at both entrances of the establishment. But we did not let that stop us from attacking the murderer capitalism. Armed with all our anti-anthropocentrist anger and assisted by 10 liters of gasoline we turned to another equally exploitive multinational, this time the target was a Burger King located in the south of the city. Upon arriving at the place, a considerable amount of gasoline was sprayed around and some bottles with more gasoline and incendiary devices were also left. After leaving all this we withdrew into the darkness waiting for the devices to do their job and the sky could be seen illuminated by the beautiful abolitionist and anti-anthropocentric fire.
The action was planned that day against McDonald's. We want to make it clear that we will not accept any reform or laws to protect and ensure a better murder of our non-human comrades in the slaughterhouse, because we do not fight for the 'rights of animals' as the reformist groups do. We are fighting for animal liberation and against anthropocentric, speciesist and dominating attitudes and we will not rest until all the cages and the bars of the prisons fall and until the exploiters are destroyed, and while a being continues suffering because of this capitalist society, we will continue attacking.
Let's turn these words into action.
Milicia incendiaria por la liberación animal (M.I.L.A)"
>>
SIGN TEMPTS BEE LIBERATOR (USA)
received anonymously:
"saw this sign while out and about. couldn't resist the temptation. released thousands and thousands of bees from confinement at an undisclosed location in Utah. how surprised farmer brown will be when he returns to find his precious honey bees missing. on top of that we also smashed 4 crates of honey.
...BLF... The Bee Liberation Front"
>>
HUNT CLUB ADVERTISEMENTS PAINTBOMBED (Ireland)
reported by activists in Ireland:
"The Waterford Foxhounds are holding a charity fun in Portlaw, Co. Waterford on the 25th of October 2009.
Road signs advertising this event have been placed on the N25 leading into Waterford city. For the past week the main sign in the village of Kilmeaden has been paintbombed with the word 'blood' in red paint written across the white board sign advertising the event. On two occasions the sign had to be cleaned. Today the Waterford Hunt banner above the white board sign was paintbombed.
Another roadside sign that was also paintbombed has been removed by the hunt."
>>
DOGS ABUSED BY HUNTERS RESCUED (Spain)
received anonymously:
"Greetings compañeros: A few weeks ago we rescued seven dogs in appalling conditions from a farm that breeds hunting dogs. Although an animal protection organization had been denouncing it for several months, including appearances in local newspapers, the person running the farm continued keeping dogs (although it is true that there were far fewer than in earlier reports), a horse with a wound infested with parasites, and a calf who didn't look any better. The dogs were permanently chained, without water, with their tails cut off, in a state of panic whenever anyone approached, squalid, and worst of all, full of mange, fleas and ticks. And all this, we emphasize, is despite several complaints and a visit from the Seprona [Servicio de Protección de la Naturaleza]. As always, these people take advantage of the fact that authorities ignore the complaints, since the members of the Civil Guard and the local police in those towns are themselves hunters and friends of the dog breeders, if not the breeders themselves.
We were able to rescue the dogs, but unfortunately not the horse and calf; they remain there with their wounds and without water.
With this communication we intend to make public all the information at our disposal. We include several photos of the state the animals were in. We encourage you to continue acting for their dignity, to continue fighting against what symbolizes hunting in Spain.
The details of where this liberation was carried out are:
Farm on km 35-36 on the CM 1002 road, outside of Uceda in the direction of El Cubillo de Uceda (Guadalajara province, Spain). The parcel is on the left side of the road, down an embankment.
Three of the seven dogs liberated had a 'chip'.
The details are:
Gregorio Pérez Bueno
c / Mayor, 79
UCEDA (GUADALAJARA, ESPAÑA)
Tel 949 856 026"
>>
SUSANNE FUR SHOP PAINTED (Spain)
reported on Acción Vegana (translation):
http://www.accionvegana.org/ "Graffiti against businesses that engage in animal exploitation
-The owners of the Susanne fur shop were again the target of the actions of those who defend animals. On this occasion graffiti was painted on their garage. 'FURRIER SUSANNE MURDERERS' could be read in enormous red letters. To this day the graffiti remains.
The Susanne fur shop, after continuous attacks has now hung a huge banner, 'everything 40% off.' Are they thinking of leaving? That would be a shame...
-The van from a seafood restaurant for the filthy rich appeared a few weeks ago with tires slashed. A few days later the windscreen was covered with a thick coat of white paint.
Fuck the bastards!"
>>
10 CHICKENS RESCUED FROM MEANINGLESS SUFFERING (Czech Republic)
open rescue; click here for additional photos:
http://michalkolesar.net/?p=3015 "Ten chickens rescued from meaningless suffering and meaningless deaths. They were moved to a new, safe home. Ahead of them is not a long and full life, because their genoms were destroyed so that their bodies grow faster and bear more flesh and so that the business is more profitable. But despite of it, this way they’ll be better off. They will learn what sun is and what fresh air is and what are people who do not see them as just meat and money. Spread the message."
>>
BIRD LIBERATED, CAGE DESTROYED (Spain)
anonymous report:
"On Wednesday, October 14th we freed a bird who was living locked inside a cage in the warehouse of a pig farm in Teruel (Spain). We are sure the pig exploiters kept this animal deprived of freedom simply for the pleasure of seeing her day after day living behind bars. After opening the cage and watching how she flew away in the middle of the night, we made sure that cage would never again be the obstacle to freedom for anyone.
We couldn't liberate the thousands of pigs who were being exploited in that farm but we can all help many others by becoming vegan and joining the fight for their rights, because to each animal, her life is as important as yours is to you. Not bigger cages nor longer chains: empty cages and animal liberation.
Against speciesism: action!
>>
MAGPIE FREED FROM HUNTER'S CAGE (Spain)
reported on Acción Vegana:
"During the summer of 2009, a magpie kept by hunters to teach their hounds was freed.
Dozens of circus posters were destroyed.
The windows of a hunter's car were smashed."
>>
Related articles
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/439850.html (14th) http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/439648.html (11th) http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/439140.html (3rd) http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/439007.html (1st) More information
http://www.animalliberationfront.com
Liberationists
Homepage:
http://DirectAction.info
Comments
Hide the following 7 comments
class
22.10.2009 22:38
friends
bee liberation front? you're making this up right?
23.10.2009 00:51
despairing
despairing
23.10.2009 02:53
Goldfish at a fair were probably going to be taken home and put in a glass bowl by idiots without the first clue on how to care for a fish, evidently if you oppose liberating fish from fairs you are of the opinion that animals are property to be done with as one pleases? Yours to dish out in little bags because evidently life doesn't matter to you.
Animals are not ours to mass produce, harvest, then slaughter for our selfish needs. They are living breathing beings, not robots.
Green & Black
Silly trolls
23.10.2009 09:21
"Goldfish Rescued From Plastic Bag At Fair" - "Oh what a pathetic action, you should be doing bigger actions".
Um... why do I get the feeling that you will moan whatever happens?
Bilbo
some clarification
23.10.2009 12:19
Just out of curiosity what is the vegan position on eating crops that have been pollinated by bees that are kept for making honey?
honeymonster
honeymonster
23.10.2009 12:58
There is a difference between couping a creature up in a box keeping the hives queen captive for your own needs and then raiding the stores of honey that it produces for profit or personal taste, and consuming crops which have coincidently been pollinated by neighbouring bee colonies kept by private owners or farmers.
There would not be a need for mobile captive bee colonies to pollinate crops like they use in the USA if the agricultural system simply went organic and gave up the pesticides which not only impact upon the local flaura and fauna but also the wider communities. The natural environment is well adapted to the natural process of pollination, however continued human intervention, mechanisation and exploitation via the capitalist system has disrupted this natural balance.
If it was a closed environment system i.e. a glasshouse where the bees were deliberately confined to that environment because their sole purpose was to pollinate those crops. Then yes I would not eat them because that would be deliberate confinement and exploitation for ones own needs. But then again neither would many people opposed to the commercialisation and intensification of our food.
I have no problem with creating natural bee homes to help them, indeed I have pots in my garden which are used by bumble bees. However I wouldn't in a million years think of disrupting that nest, and stealing the sugary reserves the bees produce to feed their young and themselves over winter with.
Either way you look at the debate, bees were not designed to be kept couped up in unnatural hives. Bee's following natural instincts often swarm when the numbers are too high for the size of the nest or when new queens are born, man made hives prevent this from happening (due to slots placed over entrances) and disrupt the natural cycle of the environment. Keeping bees for honey simply amounts to exploiting, mass producing, manipulating, and stealing.
Green & Black
Of course
24.10.2009 12:01
This message was bought to you by sarcasm incorporated.
Bee lover