To All My Friends, First, I just want to say thank you for all the support. Even a simple post card that says “Thinking of you” can brighten an inmates day. I look forward to making many more friends and also having much correspondence with all of you. I would love to promise a response …
May 20
Hens Liberated
Communiqué from the Animal Liberation Front Date: May 20, 2012 Institution Targeted: Oregon Egg Farm Received anonymously: During the second week of May 2012, two activists entered an egg farm located in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. 4 hens were removed from the premises and placed in good homes where they will live out the …
May 14
“Homeland Security” Ramps Up Repression Against Activists
14 May, 2012 Houston Texas If anyone still harbors any doubt about America not being a free country, read the following. An animal liberation activist returning to the US from time off in Mexico had his mobile phone seized by immigration agents after refusing to divulge the lock code to permit access to the phone’s …
May 11
FBI agents serve activist with a subpoena to appear at a grand jury investigating 2008 arson in Santa Cruz, CA
One person in California has been subpoenaed to a grand jury by FBI agents. From the subpoena, it appears the grand jury is investigating a fire set at the home of a UC-Santa Cruz animal researcher in 2008. There was no claim of responsibility for the fire, and there is no evidence activists were responsible. …
May 10
Fifth Midwest barn fire in one month destroys rodeo equipment and training arena
A massive fire destroyed a barn used by a rodeo in southern Illinois last night. The fire consumed the entire building and its contents, which included “expensive” equipment used for an annual rodeo. The was no word from investigators about a possible cause. The destroyed facility east of St Louis used by “Optimist Rodeo”. The …
May 10
Victor VanOrden released after serving only three months of his five year sentence
Victor has been granted parole and was released May 10th. In February he received an exorbitant sentence of five years for the “crime” of cutting a fence and opening a single cage at the Circle K Fur Farm in Sioux City, Iowa. This week, the judge granted Victor parole, reducing his sentence by over 90%. …
Apr 30
Servants of the Truth – by Abdul Haqq (formerly Walter Bond)
‘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 …
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 …
