On October 13, 2011 Walter Bond was sentenced to 87 months in prison for the ALF arsons in Utah. This new sentencing will run consecutive with his time in Colorado. This gives Walter a total of 12 years for his actions as the ALF Lone Wolf. Final Statement to the Court in Utah I’m here today …
Category: Essays
Oct 01
“Really, A Mouse or Your Child? Really?” Johnnie Walker Wisdom, Only Less Inebriating
What is most galling about those vociferously opposed to animal liberation and animal rights, particularly those who are in favor of continued use of non-human animals in medical research and vivisection, is their seeming inability to marshal any substantive facts in defense of their position. Leaving aside the fact that their position is basically indefensible, …
Oct 01
Plant Seeds or Plant Bombs? by NAALPO Advisor Steve Best, PhD
Plant Seeds or Plant Bombs? by NAALPO Advisor Steve Best, PhD And so, I suggest, instead of planting seeds, we need to plant bombs. We have to ignite and trigger explosive forces of anger, discontent, awareness, resistance and transformation, or we are going down the same road of extinction every human (Homo) ancestor went down, …
Aug 10
Camille Marino: Ethical Veganism Doesn’t Help Animals
Published on the blog Let Them Eat Meat Camille Marino is the founder and Senior Editor of Negotiation is Over and is on the Advisors and Speakers Panel of the North American Animal Liberation Press Office. NIO strives to be an instrument of defiance, disruption, disobedience, subversion, creative and aggressive grassroots action, and a catalyst …
Aug 04
Our Task by Steve Best, PhD.
The “animal rights movement,” such as it is, poses a fundamental evolutionary challenge to human beings in the midst of severe social and ecological crises. Can we recognize that the animal question is central to the human question? Can we grasp how the exploitation of nonhuman animals is implicated in every aspect of mental, social, …
Jun 30
Green is the New Rage – By Walter Bond
Please do not consider me a “Green Scare” defendant and please do not become scared to be “Green.” Better yet, please do not be scared to be militant, or outspoken, or an activist for the legal aboveground or clandestine underground. Still better, don’t give in to state-sanctioned fear. Once you do, you’re being reactive and …
Jun 01
Animal Liberation Press Office Interview with RISE and Press Officer Nicoal Sheen
Published from RISE I’ve always been interested in activism. Being sympathetic towards animals and the animal rights movement, I’m always really interested to find out more about these things, and spend a lot of time researching issues, talking to people, reading about debates and people’s different opinions and points of view, and finding out about …
May 12
Supreme Vegan Power – By Walter Bond
Consumerism truly has affected our ethics and the ways in which we behave. Even many that think themselves progressive, liberal or fire-breathing anarchists. We are taught by advertisers to think in terms of profitability instead of principle. For instance, when it comes to Veganism many people I have met like to debate its validity of …
Jan 20
Vegan Wolf Tribe By Walter Bond, Press Officer
Read more of Walter Bond’s writings at: supportwalter.org Well, my sentencing is right around the corner and the last 12 months of my life have been interesting ad tumultuous to say the least. A good friend once told me “People that live best and are the most well received are those that represent themselves exactly …
Jan 14
How Rebecca Rubin Became a “Most Wanted” Woman The Accidental Terrorist
By PETRA BARTOSIEWICZ CounterPunch “…people’s movements of resistance against deprivation, against unemployment, against the loss of natural resources, all of that is termed ‘terrorism.’” – Edward Said The only known photograph of Rebecca Rubin is a headshot that looks like it was taken for her driver’s license. She’s wearing a plain gray sweatshirt, her long …
Jan 10
AETA and the Assault on Academic Freedom By David Naguib Pellow
Radical Earth and animal liberation movements have gained considerable visibility in recent years for causing significant property and economic damage to laboratories, slaughterhouses, power lines, ski resorts, fur farms, timber operations and industrial agricultural and farming facilities through arson, sabotage (ecotage), animal liberation and vandalism. More importantly, activists have questioned what they view as the …
Dec 30
X To Whom It May Concern X by Walter Bond
Writing from Golden, CO Jail I was raised in a household of drug and alcohol abuse. My biological father, Mark Zuehlke, was a Vietnam vet that came back from the war and got heavy into cocaine, amphetamines and outlaw biker gangs. My mother Minerva Marie Montanzo Domench was raised in Ford Apache, Bronx and born …
Dec 10
I Am the ALF “Lone Wolf” by Walter Bond
From Golden, Colorado jail[Note: Walter Bond in now available for media interviews- contact the warden at the Golden Colorado jail at (303) 271-5444 or aburns@jeffco.us ] On April 30, 2010 at 3:30 am I burned the Sheepskin Factory in Denver, Colorado to the ground. I did so strictly following Animal Liberation Front (ALF) guidelines to …
Dec 02
Animal Liberation, Human Liberation and the Future of the Left By Steven Best
IT SEEMS LOST on most of the global anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist Left that there is a new liberation movement on the planet -animal liberation- that is of immense ethical and political significance. But because animal liberation challenges the anthropocentric, speciesist, and humanist dogmas that are so deeply entrenched in socialist and anarchist thinking and traditions, …
Nov 20
On Grand Jury Resistance by Press Officer Nicoal Sheen
With the recent arrest, grand jury indictment and imprisonment of Jordan Halliday in Utah, as well as Carrie Feldman and Scott DeMuth in Minnesota, our right to silence has become the best defense in shutting down any effort to divide and conquer. Continued resistance on principle and in praxis is vital for community survival against …