Animal Liberationist Prisoner Kellie Marshall has been Released from Jail Apr 21 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 City, Iowa. The Circle K Fur Farm was first raided in 1997. 5,000 mink and 100 fox were released in that action. More info here, including how to write to Kellie's co-defendant, still imprisoned.

Bite Back Magazine Publishes 2011 Year-End Report Apr 21 New report from Bite Back covers an entire year of direct action and the ALF. The 12-page publication summarizes an entire year of actions by the Animal Liberation Front and other groups who work outside the law to save animals. The report includes: *Full color photos of animal liberations and sabotage actions (great photo of the torched Rocky Mountain Fireworks and Fur in Idaho + more) *”Ten Best” of 2011 list (including “most destructive” and “best camera work”) *A complete list of every reported ALF action (and actions claimed by other groups) worldwide. Get your copy for only a dollar here.

Settlement Reached Over Long Haul Raid Apr 11 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 agencies have agreed to delete the computer data seized in the raid and pay $100,000 in damages and attorney's fees. The 2008 armed raid by the UCBPD and the FBI was part of an investigation into a series of threatening e-mails sent to animal researchers at UC Berkeley. Read more here.

Kellie Marshall sentenced to (Only) 60 days in attempt to release mink from Iowa fur farm. Apr 04 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 animal from an animal facility and attempted third-degree burglary. This is the second time there was an action at the Circle K Fur Farm. The first occurred in 1997, when 5,000 mink and 100 foxes were released. Kellie is expected to be released in late-April. Her six month sentence may be considered a favorable outcome, after her co-defendant Victor VanOrden received a sentence of 5 years for the same incident. Read more here.

Latest by Anonymous in Support of Animal Liberation Ideology Mar 24 Hello Youtube. We are Anonymous. We are legion. The murder of dogs, cats, foxes, minks & other animals of china in slaughterhouses can no longer be tolerated. These animals are used for food & fur. Half are sold for import in the United States & Europe. This injustice can no longer continue. These animals are exposed with no shelter from driving rains, freezing nights, or the scorching sun. Mother animals, who are driven crazy from rough handling, often kill their babies after delivering litters. Disease and injuries are widespread, & animals suffering from anxiety-induced psychosis chew on their own limbs and throw themselves repeatedly against the cage bars. Before they are skinned, the animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails. They are yanked from their cages, thrown to the ground & bludgeoned. Do not turn your back on this grave injustice & join the fight for freedom for these innocent animals. We are the voice of the voiceless. We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not forget. We do not forgive. Expect us.

Justin Solondz Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Part in 2001 Arson Mar 21 The FBI announced the sentencing of a fugitive this week of an alleged ecoterrorist who was on the run for more than a decade. Justin Solondz, 32, was a member of a group called The Family, which launched a string of attacks on facilities across the northwestern portion of the United States, causing $48 million in damages between 1996 and 2001. They used the names Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front. More here.

Animal Liberationists Free 100 Pheasants from Oregon Farm Mar 16 Animal rights activists have claimed responsibility for breaking into a pheasant-breeding farm in rural Scio late at night this week. In an email distributed to area media outlets including the Statesman Journal, the publication Bite Back magazine at www.directaction.info said it received “an anonymous claim of responsibility” for the incident from the group Animal Liberation Front. Read the communique here.

Press Office Advisor Camille Marino Returns to Florida After Extradition Mar 08 Animal rights activist Camille Marino can return to Florida while she awaits a May 2 hearing on whether the First Amendment protects her blog posts about Wayne State University researcher Donal O'Leary, a judge ruled Wednesday. Marino is accused of repeatedly threatening O'Leary in blog posts and describing how she wants to see him suffer extreme torture in retaliation for research O'Leary conducts on dogs. More here.

New ELF Informant Dave Agranoff Feb 21 Animal rights activist David Agranoff has agreed to cooperate with government as part of a plea agreement related to Earth Liberation Front crimes in Bloomington, Indiana, more than 10 years ago. The prosecution is related to an April 30, 2000 arson in Bloomington, Indiana, that destroyed 14 pieces of logging and construction equipment. Read more.

100K Reward Offered in Burning of Animal Transport Trucks in California Feb 21 Fresno County authorities are offering $100,000 for information leading to an arrest in last month's arson attack at the state's biggest beef processor. The Jan. 8 fire destroyed 14 big-rig tractors and several trailers at Harris Ranch near Coalinga. Harris Ranch estimated the loss in excess of $2 million. Animal rights activists claimed responsibility for the fire through an anonymous email released by the North American Animal Liberation press office. Read more.

Feds: Self-Proclaimed Animal Welfarist in Ohio Takes Out Hit on Fur-Wearer Feb 21 An Ohio woman who compared animal-welfare work to the liberation of World War II concentration camps has been charged with soliciting a hit man to fatally shoot or slit the throat of a random fur-wearer, federal authorities said. Read more, and read the Press Office Editorial here.

Press Office Advisor Camille Marino Arrested; Extradition to Michigan Threatened Feb 14 Two activists with the animal rights group “Negotiation Is Over” (NIO) have been arrested at a protest in Florida. Group founder Camille Marino was arrested on an out of state warrant, and is awaiting extradition to Michigan. Marino has allegedly posted personal information about a Wayne State University vivisector named Donal O'Leary, who uses dogs in heart experiments, on the NIO website, alongside inflammatory commentary and her voicing support for the use of physical force to stop him. Read more here.

Liberated Rabbits (Except One) Returned to Portland, OR Butcher Jan 17 In a strange development, a rabbit rescue is forced to return 17 rabbits liberated from a Portland butchery school. Overnight on January 8th, news broke on the " Portland Meat Collective" website that somewhere between 18 and 23 rabbits had disappeared from the backyard of one of their "instructors" the day before they were to be killed as part of a "how to" self-butchery class. Nearly a week passed without any further news or claim of responsibility. Then, in a tragic development Friday, January 13th, news came that the rabbits had been located and returned to the school to be killed. The only good news to come from this development is that one of the rabbits has not been returned to the school. The person the rabbit was re-homed to is, so far, refusing to return the rabbit. In either a public-relations move, or just something akin to a serial killer taunting and humiliating a kidnapped victim before death, the Portland Meat Collective has named the rabbit "Roger". Read more here.

Animal Liberation Activists Destroy 14 Meat Trucks at Harris Ranch in Coalinga, California Jan 10 In an anonymous communique, unnamed activists describe their methods and strategy in destroying 14 tractor trailers used to transport cows to their death in slaughterhouses. Read the communique in full, see images and video, and more here.

Mink and Fox "Farmer" Palmer Erickson Dead at Age 83 Jan 3. Palmer Erickson lived to see something that was long overdue:  in his final days, anonymous liberators opened cages and released 1,500 mink from his fur farm. Erickson died of esophageal cancer this week, shortly after this action. Since at least the 1950s, Palmer Erickson and his sons have imprisoned and killed thousands of mink and fox every year on their farm in Jewel, Iowa. After 60+ years, Erickson passed away on January 1st.

HLS Supporters Targeted in Two Recent Actions Dec 30. Black faxes were sent to HLS suppliers RAE Corporation and Tri-Dim Filter Corporation. Then the Whittier, CA home of a Blackrock, Inc. executive, who chooses to invest his company's money with AstraZeneca, a customer of HLS, was visited and redecorated, along with his automobile. Read more here.

Fur Breeders Agriculture Co-op in Utah Burns (Again) Dec 19. Fire investigators have dismissed arson and suspect an accidental cause for a two-alarm blaze that heavily damaged the Fur Breeders Agricultural Cooperative complex in Sandy on Monday. The same business, though a different building, had been targeted in a 1997 pipe bombing blamed on the Animal Liberation Front. "We have pretty much ruled this as accidental at this time," Sandy Fire Deputy Chief Bruce Cline said Tuesday. Six members of the Animal Liberation Front were charged for igniting six pipe bombs at the Fur Breeders Co-op, but at a different building, 8720 S. 700 West. At least two were sentenced to federal prison. Read more here.

Activist Jordan Halliday Loses Appeal; More Jail Time for Refusing to Cooperate with Grand Jury Dec 16. The founder of an animal-rights group — ordered to spend 10 months in federal prison for refusing to testify about attacks on mink farms — has lost an appeal in his case. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Friday affirmed the sentence handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Ted Stewart in 2010 to Halliday, who pleaded guilty to contempt of court for refusing to testify about attacking the mink farms. Read the news article here.

Railroad Sabotage in Solidarity with Animal Liberation Prisoner Walter Bond Dec 01. Posted by Anarchist News On the night of November 28th, 2011, we sabotaged a rail line in Southern Oregon as part of a coordinated effort to disrupt the flow of commerce on the West Coast. We got tired of watching trains pass through our towns loaded with lumber, ore, cheap commodities, and other resources pillaged from the earth without consequence. We didn't do this out of a desire to create a more green, sustainable or humane civilization–we want nothing less than to see the total failure of this sick and rotten society. We did this in solidarity with currently imprisoned members of the Long-Live Luciano Tortuga Cell/Indonesian FAI, to whom we send our most passionate revolutionary greetings. We would also like to send our love to ALF prisoner of war, Walter Bond. Towards an end to this nightmare world. Read entire communique here.

Neiman Marcus Store Vandalized During Occupy Dallas Protest; Two Arrested Nov 27. Two men have been arrested on charges of criminal mischief for allegedly throwing fake blood on the window of a Dallas Neiman Marcus store, causing an estimated $3,000 in damage. Mathew Kirk Markovitch, 22, and Zechariah Thomas Vasquez, 19, the two men arrested, are believed to have been affiliated with Occupy Dallas, but reportedly left before Dallas Police broke up the encampment, and have possibly joined another Occupy group. Read more.

Animal Rights Militia Liberates Animals from Vermont Farm for Second Year in a Row Nov 22. In a communique received today by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, activists with the Animal Rights Militia claim to have liberated animals from a Vermont farm for the second year in a row. Every year, nearly 300 million turkeys are killed in the U.S., spending their entire lives crammed in large sheds with little room to move. Artificially inseminated and selectively bred to gain enormous amounts of weight, they suffer heart attacks, broken limbs, lameness, and death from their genetically-induced accelerated growth rate. Conditions are so severe that about 9% of turkeys raised for food (or over 26 million) don't even survive long enough to make it to the slaughterhouse. Press release, communique and photo here!

Activists Step Forward With Claim for September Mink Liberation in Astoria, Oregon Nov 18. In a communique received recently by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, activists have taken credit for the mink farm break-in, mink release and destruction of breeding records at an Oregon fur farm in late September. Only two months before they were slated to be killed by fur farmers, 300 mink were liberated September 24 from the fur farm located on Savola Road near Astoria. Press Release.

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West Hollywood, CA Bans All Sale of Fur Sep 26. This proudly liberal city has been out front on gay rights, protection of animals and limits on handguns, and even declared an upcoming "Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day." But its latest move has the fur flying in a catfight between animal-rights activists and fashionistas. A unanimous City Council vote last week to ban the sale of fur apparel has outraged the fashion industry, one of the primary businesses this tiny city, wedged between Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, has worked hard to attract.

 

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The Iowa Dirge 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 More here. On Analogies as Advocacy Tools: Some Thoughts on Appropriation A topic I've seen come up frequently on Tumblr and other social media sites lately is about privilege and veganism, which actually encompasses a broad spectrum of issues. Some of these are more clear-cut than others. While I think it's valid and useful to talk about economic privilege and the relative accessibility of vegan foods, I will not be focusing on that here. I think there is another very pressing issue that gets less visibility that should be constantly on our minds: appropriation of human oppression to describe exploitation of nonhumans. More here. The Crusade for Animal and Earth Liberation, by Abdul Haqq (aka Walter Bond) Since my recent conversion to Islam I have been asked with a fair  amount of frequency how I deal with the negative attitude that much of  the Muslim world has against Animals. First let me say that while I am indeed a Muslim I am not on any religious crusade, the only 'crusade'  I am on, ever have been on, and will remain on is the crusade for  Animal and Earth Liberation....Read more here. Poem for the ALF Twas the night in the fur farm...Read here. Daniel McGowan Goes to the Oscars! Well, not really, but, the film made about Daniel's case, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front , was nominated for Best Documentary Feature this year! Although Daniel will not be able to see the film until his release, he is excited to know the film will be seen by so many more people now. Go here: http://oscar.go.com/nominees/documentary-feature/if-a-tree-falls-a-story-of-the-earth-liberation-front to see its official page. Watch 84th Academy Awards on ABC on Sunday, February 26th at 7pm EST/4pm PST to see if it picks up an Oscar! Here's hoping! Also, check this page to see where/how you can see the film: http://www.ifatreefallsfilm.com/screenings.html More screenings are always being added. Latest Interview with Walter Bond, for the Columbian Magazine Cartel Urbano I think there will come a time when humanity either stops using Animals' dead bodies for food, research, clothing and all other reasons or humanity will reap the consequences of environmental destruction due in large part to Animal agriculture and industrialized civilization.  In either event, it's a certainty that Animals and the Earth will once again live free from human tyranny and exploitation.  So the only real question is will our species ever wise up and become part of the ecosystem instead of a cancer to it?  Currently it does not look like we will.  We are nowhere near treating ourselves with respect...Read the full essay here. Music and the Animal Liberation Movement, by Josh Eldridge. I'm from a small town. The place I grew up had less than 1,000 people living in it and it was very uncommon to have a meal – any meal – that didn't have meat in it. There was no vegetarians or vegans but there was music and that's what I clung to. Music opened me up to a whole new world – one that none of my friends from school ever found. Music was an escape from being stuck in a soulless, non-descript town and it taught me about things that I would have never learned anywhere else. The rest of the essay is here. The Importance of Straightedge - Vegan Hardline by Walter Bond. I want to live in a world where the Earth and Animals get to live and flourish. I want to live in a world without racism. I want to live in a world where our mothers and sisters are not preyed upon in the streets or in their homes. I want to live in a world that has respect for all innocent life, and I want to live in a world without the self-destruction and diminished capacity of inebriation. To that end I am Straightedge. The rest of the essay is here. Animal Liberation Prisoner Walter Bond's Mother Pens Beautiful Essay Walter Bond was born a warrior; he did not choose it because he found a worthy or righteous cause. A warrior is born with a fire inside and a need to right wrongs. He is born with a compassion and caring rooted so deeply that it is difficult to walk away from any sort of cruelty, whether it involves the people, the Animal Nations, the oceans and seas or the whole of Mother Earth and Father Sky. The rest of the essay is here. Press Officer Nicoal Sheen Featured in The Inlander NAALPO Press Officer Nicoal Sheen comments on mink liberation at Miller's Mink Ranch in Gifford, Washington. Read post here. Press Officer Will Hazlitt Interviewed on Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act At around the 9-minute mark in this French news report online, NAALPO Press Officer Will Hazlitt speaks on AETA and its effects on activists. 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, as we take most of life with us, and degrade every ecosystem before we go. Read more here 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, both philosophically and in reality, so to say, they are left with caterwauling appeals to emotion. More here by Press Officer Will Hazlitt New Essay by NAALPO Advisor Steve Best, PhD.: Animal liberation requires that people transcend the complacent boundaries of humanism - however "radical" and "progressive" - to effect a qualitative leap in ethical consideration, one that moves the moral bar from reason and language to sentience and subjectivity . Humans must not only change their views toward one another, a massive undertaking in itself, they must  also recognize that the species boundaries separating human from nonhuman animals are as arbitrary as those of race and sex. Animal liberation is possible only as total liberation that is advanced as part and parcel of a radical social movement and realizes moral learning processes in the institutional networks of a truly democratic post-capitalist society. Entire essay here. Exclusive NAALPO Interview with A.L.F. P.O.W. Walter Bond Preparing for an action, on the technical end of things, was very easy. We tend to think of covert or illegal activity in the Animal Liberation movement as complicated. I personally found that to not be the case. Most of the supplies I used in the commission of the arson at the Sheepskin Factory I found in alleys and trash cans. All too often during A.L.F/E.L.F actions, incendiary devices haven't gone off. I learned from that and did not create a device to do the work for me. This also, I feel, further minimized any possible harm to life. Read the rest of essay here. Animal Liberation Prisoner Walter Bond Denounces the "Green Scare" 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. Read the rest of the essay here. Camille Marino: Ethical Veganism Does Not 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 for revolutionary change. NIO's belief is that "Total liberation -- human animals, nonhuman animals, and the earth -- will not happen by politely asking abusers to be decent." Camille and many of her above-ground activist allies recently made a decisive break from vegans who are content to alleviate their own guilt through personal veganism and baking vegan goodies. NIO has also gained notoriety by advocating violence against those who are so entrenched, though Camille has remained non-violent in her approach. Read the interview here. Animal Liberation Press Office Interview with RISE and Press Officer Nicoal Sheen Direct action is most effective for animals – period. Direct action includes but is not limited to: liberation of animals from confinement and places of exploitation, economic sabotage which breaks down industries monetarily (the very material item that drives the atrocities happening to animals) and intimidation tactics – such as bomb hoaxes – to threaten animal exploiters and ultimately, stop them from continuing the torture and murder of sentient beings. Read the RISE Interview here.

"We have to organize and become involved in well coordinated action which will involve any means necessary to bring about complete elimination of the conditions that exist ...... It takes action to get action." - Malcolm X