‘The time has come for an Ideology and for a movement that is both physically and morally strong enough to do battle against the forces of evil that are destroying the Earth (and all life upon it). One that cannot be bought nor led astray by temptation, a movement free of the vices that sedate …
April 2012 archive
Apr 21
Animal Activist Released from Jail After Attempted Mink Liberation
Kellie Marshall finishes her 60 day sentence for an attempted fur farm raid in Iowa From Animal Liberation Frontline by Peter Young April 21, 2012 Quick note to announce that Kellie Marshall has been released after her (relatively) brief sentence for cutting fences and releasing one mink at the Circle K Fur Farm in Sioux …
Apr 19
Steven Best and Peter Young on Radio Active
Perhaps it’s a blogger cop-out, but I have to do it. Instead of writing something myself I am posting an amazing interview with Steven Best and Peter Young that recently aired on a Salt Lake City radio show, Radio Active on KRCL. It is seriously good. Why else would I have had a 45 minute …
Apr 17
FBI Seeks Activist “Liaisons” — Agent Says “We Don’t Just Work for Those Big Companies”
by Will Potter April 17, 2012 in Surveillance FBI agents visited an animal rights activist in Minnesota saying that they “don’t just work” for Big Ag corporations, and that they are in search of activist “liaisons.” Dallas Rising is the program director for the Animal Rights Coalition , an organization in Minneapolis founded in 1980. …
Apr 15
The Iowa Dirge – by Justin Van Kleeck
I hear so many screams Bestial cries Of terror and pain Cut off choked out throttled shocked into silence. And death. Death in obscurity and shadows Produced on an assembly line Manufactured in factories, Industrialized Commodified Widgets of flesh, blood, feather, bone Clipped beaks Docked tails And pools of blood and feces To bathe in …
Apr 12
Hunters Sabotaged
Communiqué from the Animal Liberation Front Date: April 12, 2012 Institution Targeted: Sport Hunters Received anonymously: Early this morning in the USA, three anti-hunters toppled a hunting blind, three tree-stands, and smashed a trail camera. As we approached the hunting complex, we stayed in the brush and peered into the hunting blind with binoculars to …
Apr 11
Settlement Reached Over Long Haul Raid
Kathleen Richards Apr 11, 2012 East Bay Express The law enforcement agencies that raided the Long Haul in 2008 have come to a settlement agreement in the lawsuit filed against them by the anarchist library and community center, as well as the prisoner support group East Bay Prisoner Support (EBPS). According to the settlement, the …
Apr 11
Breaking the law to liberate the animals
UVU Review By Lindsey Nelson April 11, 2012UVU’s Animals and the Law Conference may have been under secret FBI surveillance, with animal rights activist Peter Young as the primary target.At the conference, held April 5 and 6, attendees were given an evaluation form in order to rate each speaker on various criteria. One of the …
Apr 07
Chickens Liberated
Communiqué from the Animal Liberation Front Date: April 07, 2012 Institution Targeted: Oregon, Washington Farms Received anonymously: Some small actions: January 2012: 6 hens were removed from an intensive egg farm located in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. February 2012: 3 chickens were rescued and re-homed from a broiler farm in Washington state. Escaping the …
Apr 04
Activist Receives 60 Days in Attempted Iowa Mink Farm Raid
Posted by Peter Young Apr 4, 2012Kellie Marshall sentenced to 60 days in attempt to release mink from Iowa fur farm. After her arrest at the Circle K Fur Farm on October 10th, Kellie Marshall finally resolved her case March 13th and received unexpectedly short sentence of 60 days. She pleaded guilty to releasing an …
Apr 03
On Analogies as Advocacy Tools: Some Thoughts on Appropriation – by Because We Must
“We only feel comfortable bringing up lynching and the Holocaust and epidemic gender and sexual violence because they are easy tools to appropriate. It’s easy to be against them, but not so easy to understand the specific conditions that support them, or the implicit attitudes that continue to inform them even in people with the …