"Our message to Dicky Chipperfield [Pinder's] is: GIVE UP" Animal Defenders International (ADI), 2004
"March 14:
The war against speciesist shops and businesses is just starting in Mexico; we recognize that the radical Animal Liberation movement is only just being born, hoping that it reaches a higher level than what they are accustomed to seeing. The Mexican people are unconscious of what is happening with the beings who inhabit the same planet and therefore deserve to enjoy it as much as possible.
This war cannot be stepped up a notch without someone, a group of people who have dedicated themselves to do things and act in favor of the rights of our animal brothers and sisters; it's because of this that we desire to make the name of the international ALF reach all those who profit from the parts of living, intelligent, sociable and sentient beings, all who wanted to be free, but by the anthropocentric attitude of the degenerated monkey have not come to feel that freedom and the only thing that s/he felt and feels is sadness, slavery and imprisonment.
As a result of all this and more, we attacked, painting slogans "ANIMALS ARE NOT MERCHANDISE! on a pet store and MEAT IS DEATH! at a meat market. Victory for the ALF.
For the animals, here and now!
FLA México"
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anonymous communique:
"During the month of March, Circus Pinder was targeted in Montpellier. Trucks were burned after billboards were destroyed and tires punctured. The losses amount to several thousand Euros.
They have, among other animals, two female elephants who they tie up day and night. They can not move or lie down!
Pinder, animals are not your slaves. We will follow you to Avignon, then to Nîmes . . . .
The Scandinavian countries ban wild animals in circuses. Cities of France, refuse to host this modern slavery!
ALF"
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Background on Circus Jean Richard Pinder, by ADI
http://www.ad-international.org/animals_in_entertainment/go.php?id=56&ssi=10
"Victory: UK’s largest supplier of circus lion and tiger acts closes and the notorious Dicky Chipperfield flees to France"
But Dicky has not given up, he’s just gone into exile. he has subsequently told the Daily Mirror that he has not been driven out of the country, it’s just that circuses have stopped using animals! In 2003, ADI learned from a French contact that Dicky had joined Circus Jean Richard Pinder as an animal trainer. We were able to obtain some footage of Dicky training and determined to put the circus under surveillance. In December, the circus took up residence in Paris for about seven weeks and an ADI team went out to monitor them.
Our Field Officers found the lions and tigers still living in beastwagons, cages on the backs of lorries. They would occasionally be allowed into a small so-called ‘exercise enclosure’. This was a concrete area with just a scattering of straw. There was nothing to amuse the animals. Getting to see Dicky training was difficult, with much in secret, however we still found him up to his old tricks lashing out at animals if they disobeyed, even catching him on film hitting a tiger hard over the head with a metal bar and then again across the back as it ran in terror, just to make sure it got the message.
The exchange showed the old Dicky Chipperfield, losing his temper and shouting: “Bastard. You f***ing bastard, come here,” followed by (six times in succession!) “I’ll sort you out” and challenging the animal to come forward.
That was behind the scenes that night during performance, Dicky was all smiles, wearing a black tie outfit, performing to the James Bond theme tune. Meanwhile, backstage Circus Pinder workers were filmed jabbing the animals with metal bars and hitting the tunnel bars over their heads, to drive them into the ring. In the background, Dicky Chipperfield can be heard barking out commands.
In January 2004, Circus Pinder Jean Richard started a tour of France, with ADI on the trail. In Tours in central France, an ADI Field Officer gained access to a training session where Dicky was in the ring with a mixed group of lions and tigers, but was asked to leave by suspicious circus workers. Our message to Dicky Chipperfield is: GIVE UP. You’ve made a good living from these animals, now give them a break, and retire.
Further information: http://www.captiveanimals.org/circuses/index.htm (CAPS)
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WHO & WHAT IS THE ALF?
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WTSUGetKFc
Resources: http://www.animalliberationfront.com
March ALF Articles
Global
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/393707.html (13th)
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/393020.html (5th)
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/392640.html (1st)
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/392477.html (Feb)
Norway: Oslo fur shops under attack
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/393917.html (15th)
UK: ALF Spraypaint Slogans Against Oxford Uni
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/392641.html (3rd)
Comments
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Heating up?
18.03.2008 00:28
http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/Fact%20Sheets/auntiearson.pdf
CARS TORCHED AT VIVISECTION SUPPLIER (Italy)
http://www.directaction.info/news_mar03b_08.htm
FIRE AT HOME OF VIVISECTOR (USA)
http://www.directaction.info/news_feb22_08.htm
INCENDIARY DEVICES LEFT AT WAREHOUSE OF FUR RETAILER (Finland)
http://www.directaction.info/news_feb21_08.htm
FIRE AT POULTRY SHOP (Mexico)
http://www.directaction.info/news_feb10b_08.htm
FIRE DESTROYS ANIMAL LAB (Belgium)
http://www.directaction.info/news_feb04_08.htm
Arson around with Auntie ALF
There's a cirkus near here too
18.03.2008 07:24
I'm just asking so as to think through a possible
KopyKat
But not in the UK
18.03.2008 08:37
SHACWATCH.WORDPRESS.COM
according to
18.03.2008 09:38
ooh err
Shacwatch is hillarious
18.03.2008 10:32
Rod
Whats it for?
18.03.2008 12:01
number six
Dumb,dodgy & Dumber!!!Why put this on newsline???provocatuers
18.03.2008 14:18
Theres better ways of stopping these bastards if you know about construction etc+ economics etc. This is well dodgy& gives state an excuse to crackdown.
There are thousands of arson events happening across europe everyday, no one publicises this except idiots or provacetuers!
surely this breaks imc guidelines
take it off, if people want to put this on a covert website & get arrested do, dont get the rest of us arrested, we need to stop torture & exploitation for good.
Things are slowly getting better if you think not go back to the middle ages & witness bestiality,accepted paedophilia-incest rampant then.
I personally do not want to promote indymedia if this stays on, why should we tolerate minority that accept this?& hide behind the rest of us?
james
provocatuers???
18.03.2008 18:40
>> "This is well dodgy& gives state an excuse to crackdown"
No, the state provides it's own excuses if you remember correctly, Twin towers (twice!!), 7/7 and the fucking rest. They'll crack down regardless you ignorant fool, do you think the Jews overstepped the limit in the 1930s and that's why Hitler cracked down? Or do you think that perhaps that the concept of fascism is why the state cracks down? Maybe they are cracking down because you infact are damaging the state to much maybe - who knows. Regardless, there hasn't been a rights movement without a crackdown, so it doesn't make any different what tactics are being used - they'll try their hardest to crack you down. Pin.
>> "Things are slowly getting better if you think not go back to the middle ages"
Yeh....increasing poverty, more wars, ever increasing wealth and environmental destruction, waves of repression, unstricted government control. A LOT better.
>> "There are thousands of arson events happening across europe everyday, no one publicises this except idiots or provacetuers"
Maybe that's because most are seriously endangering life, or do, or are racist attacks or gangs etc, etc, note; there aren't "thousands" of politically orientated arsons every day, there are few, and fewer that are reported and publicised.
>> "surely this breaks imc guidelines"
...no it doesn't, just like G8 riots weren't.
>> "take it off, if people want to put this on a covert website & get arrested do, dont get the rest of us arrested"
Like the journalists from newspapers who report on arsons, and include quotes from the arsonsists; independant, guardian, la times etc, etc.
>> "Theres better ways of stopping these bastards if you know about construction etc+ economics etc"
Don't talk about economics as if this isn't economic sabotage to the extreme. This is the definition of the media's "extremism"....economic sabotage extremism...your arguments are out of place by miles!! True; outreach is extremely effective, but so is this, combined is what gets things done.
P.S - to the person who asked about the animals. They wouldn't be in the trucks, they would have been moved temporarily for the event. Although they might of, or could of been liberated, they probably would have mentioned so.
Like those twisted suffrajets
ignore and remove
23.03.2008 15:46
He/she (SHACWATCH) doesn't deserve the time of day to plug their immature website using IMC.
IMC get on the case, do the right thing and remove postings with the SHACWATCH url included.
Thanks.
natter
Shaquila is overweight and ugly.
23.03.2008 23:41
By the way Shaquila/Shacwatch, you are an ugly fat bastard.
Shacwatch is a coward