Bristol Zoo Front Entrance Attacked - NYE
Anonymous | 01.01.2013 19:37
We started 2013 as we mean to carry on, with an attack on the front entrance building of Bristol Zoo. All the glass front doors and windows were smashed. The building and "Bristol Zoo" lettering was attacked with paint bombs as well as a paint bomb inside the building. "Liberate" was sprayed across the front.
Zoos put themselves forward as champions of conservation but the reality is very different. Their 'conservation' is part of the same arrogant hypocritical mindset that places humans separate and above all other living things, and aims for domination and subjugation of nature. Wild creatures are hunted, some to extinction, exploited, and their habitats wrecked. The ones that are lucky enough to be 'saved' are put in cages and this is presented as somehow protecting and helping them.
Zoos are upheld as bastions of education. We can know all we need to know about this or that creature except how to show them basic respect. What it's really about is teaching people that non-human animals are there for our entertainment, and that the entire non-human world exists only for our use. People's need to see and experience something wild is very marketable and exploitable. Behind all the rhetoric and reinvention of zoos lies the cruel reality as always of money and profit by all means necessary. Once we see through their carefully constructed image there is no defence such institutions of slavery can employ against our reasons to attack them.
In the zoo, people get used to the necessity and desirability of cages. Once free animals, pacing their cages and staring vacantly at the bars are a sad reflection of our own captivity.
With this small but successful act we draw a line in the sand between us and the dominator of every creature including ourselves.
On New Years Eve there is a tradition around the world of taking action against the prison system and showing solidarity with prisoners. We continue and extend this tradition in the spirit of total liberation for human and non-human animals alike. We also have not forgotten or forgiven the violence used by the police against demonstrators outside Horfield prison last new years eve.
We will keep hitting them where and when they don't expect it - They can never be everywhere and we will never accept captivity or imprisonment of any sort. We dedicate this action to anarchist prisoners Marco Camenisch, Cristobal Franke “Mono” and Osman Evcan.
Zoos put themselves forward as champions of conservation but the reality is very different. Their 'conservation' is part of the same arrogant hypocritical mindset that places humans separate and above all other living things, and aims for domination and subjugation of nature. Wild creatures are hunted, some to extinction, exploited, and their habitats wrecked. The ones that are lucky enough to be 'saved' are put in cages and this is presented as somehow protecting and helping them.
Zoos are upheld as bastions of education. We can know all we need to know about this or that creature except how to show them basic respect. What it's really about is teaching people that non-human animals are there for our entertainment, and that the entire non-human world exists only for our use. People's need to see and experience something wild is very marketable and exploitable. Behind all the rhetoric and reinvention of zoos lies the cruel reality as always of money and profit by all means necessary. Once we see through their carefully constructed image there is no defence such institutions of slavery can employ against our reasons to attack them.
In the zoo, people get used to the necessity and desirability of cages. Once free animals, pacing their cages and staring vacantly at the bars are a sad reflection of our own captivity.
With this small but successful act we draw a line in the sand between us and the dominator of every creature including ourselves.
On New Years Eve there is a tradition around the world of taking action against the prison system and showing solidarity with prisoners. We continue and extend this tradition in the spirit of total liberation for human and non-human animals alike. We also have not forgotten or forgiven the violence used by the police against demonstrators outside Horfield prison last new years eve.
We will keep hitting them where and when they don't expect it - They can never be everywhere and we will never accept captivity or imprisonment of any sort. We dedicate this action to anarchist prisoners Marco Camenisch, Cristobal Franke “Mono” and Osman Evcan.
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distress
01.01.2013 20:53
anon
Pointless action
01.01.2013 22:22
Animal liberation? More like self centred fools looking to massage your own ego's via pointless and ultimately futile vandalism. You achieved absolutely nothing via this action, the glass will be repaired at little cost to the zoo and it'll be business as usual.
Why don't you stick your money where your mouth is, get on a plane and actually attempt to improve the prospects for animals in the wild? Or would that require too much thought and effort? Takes balls to stand between a hunter and his prey. No doubt too afraid you'd shit your pants if confronted by poachers hacking rhino's to death for their horns!
Every weekend I stand between fox hunters and the foxes they want to rip to pieces, I've been punched, kicked and hit with a land rover. Rather than getting a few teenage kicks breaking a bit of glass and achieving nothing about time you got your hands dirty and tried some real direct action. Get your bloody boots on and get out in the countryside, look the hunt scum and poachers in the eye, and make it your aim to save a life that day. Until hunters and poachers are confronted face to face everywhere, they will kill, and kill and kill until they've bagged every animal they can get their blood stained hands on. There's no place for things like rhinos and elephants in the wild with nutjobs hacking their horns/tusks off to make nonsense pseudo medicines. Until the hunters, poachers and environmental destruction is stopped some animals have to be protected from humanity and its blood thirsty stupidity.
If you want to save the animals you need to tackle the two core problems, hunting and environmental destruction first. Only then can you render zoo's and other wildlife holding areas pointless. I can guarantee if you released the animals from the zoo back into their respective habitats tomorrow all that'd happen is that fat yanks with oversized rifles would chase them around the plains for a few trophy kills.
A hunt sab
Inspiring
01.01.2013 22:38
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well done
01.01.2013 23:00
shiek foukya
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Cunts
02.01.2013 00:22
Anne Bowlin
Excellent start to 2013
02.01.2013 00:23
But will the rest of you (by that I mean the same couple of loons who troll every post on Indymedia), please feck off from this site? Are your lives really so pointless and empty that you have to search for stories of other people's successes to rant and whine about? I actually feel sorry for you.
(A)
Solidarity!
02.01.2013 02:06
As for the so-called "hunt sab" who believes that animals should be kept in zoos for their "own protection": Please learn what animal rights/liberation actually stands for. It does not stand for keeping animals locked away in unnatural conditions for the profit/enjoyment of humans.
If you really believe that zoos are beneficial to animals in any way, shape or form then you're deluded and should probably stick to hunt sabotage.
The only true way to conserve endangered species is to protect them as close to their natural habits as possible, not trap them in the wild, shove them into a tiny box, fly them half-way across the world, put them in a enclosure 100x smaller than their natural stalking grounds and let hundreds of gawking humans pay money to come see them.
Veganarchist
You awful people
02.01.2013 10:19
You say "Once free animals, pacing their cages and staring vacantly at the bars "
Not true, I'd say all the animals there were born (rightly or wrongly) in captivity.
But why let facts affect your tiny minds!
They dont need brainless morons like you "fighting" their case.
Jenny Mitchell
Filth manipulating media as cover up
02.01.2013 15:04
4C4B
ALF!
02.01.2013 17:30
its like army of 12 monkeys or somethin!
cuntface
They'd like us to think
02.01.2013 18:20
Cuntface.In.Deed
haha
02.01.2013 23:44
Futile and pointless. Statistically, you will get caught if you keep doing it too.
They will watch zoo and catch you in the act, as an easy way to catch criminals is to watch their MOD and baviour and wait for a pattern to emerge.
This is a one shot deal. You do it again - you lose!
James Bond
@James Bond
03.01.2013 12:23
shame
@Veganarchist
03.01.2013 14:18
false claim
Your naivety does not reflect reality.
03.01.2013 14:59
This is not a case of either/or - what is needed, for the time-being at least, is both. Of course your first option is the ideal but in reality it is simply not possible. People are starving, and bush meat is often their only source of food. You cannot police billions of desperate people across billions of square miles all the time. Other people's traditional practices of hunting animals for their horns/bones/whatever are so ingrained, and there are now so many of them, that even if we could somehow educate all of them to stop what they are doing in a generation or two, it will be too late for many species.
Zoos are unpleasant, but until the world is truly safe for animals in the wild, they are necessary.
We have to be practical and choose from the only real options available from us - the necessary evil of zoos, or the loss of many entire species.
This is real life. This is not some naive, idealistic fairytale world where if you believe hard enough everything will work out. The world is an incredibly nasty place, and sometimes you have to make very tough choices.
You cannot have your cake and eat it.
MikeS
@MikeS
03.01.2013 16:14
death to capital
@death to capital
03.01.2013 16:32
Most of the endangered species in zoos have traditionally been eaten as bush meat for millenia in Africa, not known as a hot-bed of big capitalism, and are mainly being poached for the Chinese market, where they have been highly prized for their medicinal properties for thousands of years.
The massive reduction in infant mortality, and increase in life expectancy in these countries has lead to a population explosion, which is the main cause of these problems. Sure, you could 'blame' capitalism for that, but would you want to?
MikeS
well meaning but
03.01.2013 21:26
You can't destroy an idea! Long live capitalism and freedom
Socialism is a drain on life and the system. It goes against evolution and survival of a species.
god
Bristol Zoo
03.01.2013 23:47
Gil
uninformed, outdated, arrogant and dispicable
06.01.2013 11:36
Even ignoring my feelings and opinions do they really expect smashing windows and graffiti to change anything? This it just taking money away from the animals and turning the public against them. It is childish and idiotic. If they really feel that way then how about trying to educate the public instead of disgusting them with such acts and thus harming the whole of the animal rights movement.
And they have the downright arrogance to dedicate the "action" to a number of anarchist prisoners. I do not know what the views of these guys are but would be very interested in hearing how they feel about being connected to such an event. (I intend to write to them to find out.)
At least attempt to find out the truth. Educate yourself.
www.zsl.org is the website of the organisation of which Whipsnade wildlife park and London zoo are just a tiny part of.
www.eaza.net is the website of the European association of zoos and aquariums.
This is a link to a publication that outlines the conservation work carried out by zoos both in the zoo and on location around the world. just one source of information on this.
Kathrine
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