Category: Press Releases

Update from Imprisoned Chilean Animal Liberationists

[editor’s note: in November 2022, four anarcho-nihilist and animal liberationist individuals were thrown in jail accused of an arson attack at a meat packaging plant ‘Carnes Susaron’, Ten lorries, the administrative offices -including the safe and all their paperwork – and the actual meat factory and refrigeration systems that at the time had seven tones …

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US Fur Farm Survey Continues to Show Many Closures

In September ’24, anonymous activists visited over 20 fur farms in Idaho and Utah to compile footage and data on the dying fur trade, and to determine the operational status of the fur farms in both states. What we uncovered is further evidence of the power of direct action and pressure campaigns. Farms that once …

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Danish Conference for Animal Liberation

WHAT: Two day conference + animal liberation march WHEN: 31st Aug, 1st September WHERE: Ungdommens Demokratihus, Copenhagen, Denmark. Join animal liberation activists for a two day animal liberation conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the end of August. Organisers have put together two (and a bit) full days of mingling and plotting, marching and learning. Expect …

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Another Fur Farmer Dead (USA)

Another dead fur farmer. Audrey Zimbal, age 91, of Sheboygan WI died on July 10, 2024. Audrey and her husband started the Zimbal Minkery in 1954. Audrey loved killing mink. Her and her husband killed millions of mink throughout their lives. Her children continue to murder hundreds of thousands of mink every year. Her daughter …

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MaxMara Goes Fur-Free

Max Mara Fashion Group goes fur free after a two month period of tactical escalation and home demonstrations. Thanks to CAFT USA and all who occupied stores and showed up at the homes of those responsible. The fur industry is dying.

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Historically, June is the beginning of “fur farm raiding season”, when mink born in March mature to a state where they can be liberated into the wild. Since 1995, there have been at least 116 raids on fur farms across the United States.  At least 43 of the raided farms have closed forever. Fur farm …

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Interview: Animal Liberation Prisoner Sindre (Sweden)

Unoffensive Animal got the chance to speak to Sindre, a Swedish animal liberation activist, locked up in prison indefinitely for actions against a mink farmer. (More information on Sindres case, and how to write to him here) Sindre, could you to tell us something about yourself, a brief background? I am 22 years old and …

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Western Star Fur Farm (Astoria, Oregon) Shuttered and For Sale

Carl Salo of Astoria, Oregon died in 2023. Now the fur farm that he owned, Western Star Fur Farm, is empty and for sale. 300 mink were liberated from Western Star in 2011. Astoria was once the largest mink farming town in Oregon. Five mink farms were active in 2010. The Ylipelto Mink Farm in …

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Write to Swedish Detained Animal Liberation Activist Sindre

UPDATE 1st JULY: Sindre has been granted longer leaves from detention and is sometimes sleeping at home now. He is still serving his sentence, which does not have a final date and psych hospital has the last word on when Sindre is done serving a sentence that without the mental hospital would’ve been a four …

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Fur Farm Liberations Begin, What Are You Doing This Summer?

In an anonymous communique received by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, activists state they released every last fox from Schmuecker Fox Farm in Luzerne, Iowa. The communique reads, in full: ⁠ June 20th⁠ All cages were opened, all breeding cards were scattered or destroyed, and perimeter fences were leveled at Schmuecker Fox Farm …

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If Not You, Then Who? If Not Now, Then When?

There’s nothing better than on the ground research. A fur farm that looks like it might be in operation in aerial images (Google Maps) can look very different in person. For example, activists visited the Sargent Fur Farm in Morgan, Utah. The sheds that once held mink were found to now be used for storage …

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Animal Liberation Prisoner Marius Mason Needs Urgent Support

Marius Mason is an activist serving a 22 year sentence after being found guilty of arson at a laboratory and on logging equipment. Marius was approved for gender affirming care in 2022 when he was moved to FCI Danbury, a male prison. He was then transported to FMC Fort Worth where he was supposed to …

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Animal Liberation Prisoner Marius Mason Releases June 11 Statement

Marius Mason is an anarchist animal rights activist who has been in prison since 2009. Marius plead guilty to being involved in an arson at a research lab, and to twelve acts of property damage. Marius release date is January 10 2027. Each year at June 11th, the international day of solidarity of with Marius …

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June is the Beginning of “Fur Farm Raiding Season”

Historically, June is the beginning of “fur farm raiding season”, when mink born in March mature to a state where they can be liberated into the wild. Since 1995, there have been at least 116 raids on fur farms across the United States.  At least 43 of the raided farms have closed forever. Fur farm …

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15 years ago today, the ALF destroyed the headquarters of a primate breeding company in Reno, Nevada.

15 years ago today, the Animal Liberation Front destroyed the headquarters of a primate breeding company in Reno, Nevada. “In the early morning hours of May 18th, four incendiary devices were planted at Scientific Resources International, a supplier of non-humyn primates for use in vivisection labs all over northern Nevada. The concept of animals existing …

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