World Animal Liberation Newswire Archive

Earth Liberation Front Communique: 06.21.09/07.07.09

UK national demonstration against HLS suppliers Highgate Rabbit Farm, as part of a global week of action against vivisection breeders. Meet 12 noon, Saturday 26th September 2009 at Highgate Farm, Highgate lane, Normanby-by-Spital, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, LN8 2HQ.

10th-14th July

DUFFYS CIRCUS SABOTAGED (Ireland)
TIRES FLATTENED ON TRUCKS AT HORSE TRACK (Sweden)
ALF VISIT UC IRVINE VIVISECTOR AT HOME (USA)
KFC SET ON FIRE (Mexico)
"VIVISECTORS ARE KILLERS" PAINTED ON UNIVERSITY BUILDING (Italy)
TELMEX A REGULAR TARGET (Mexico)

Severine Gerard had her 2 year old son violently taken away from her by the French police while she was in France (She is Belgian), because she was bringing him up on a vegan diet. Please read the interview to read what the paediatrician said about veganism and children during the first court hearing. It's unbelievable, it sounds like these people are stuck in the stone age!!

3rd-9th July

FIRE SET AT BULLFIGHTING MUSEUM (Mexico)
MEAT VANS BURNED, PET SHOP CHAIN TARGETED (Italy)
MEAT MARKET GLUED UP (Mexico)
WARNING LETTERS SENT TO SLAUGHTERHOUSE OWNERS (Switzerland)
PET STORE PAINTED (Mexico)
KFC, PET STORE GLUED (Mexico)
MEAT MARKETS, TELMEX PHONES SABOTAGED (Mexico)

$72 million in debt, top 5 shareholders sold all shares, jobs axed, bonuses cut, revenue down, 75% drop in share price, no wonder Brian Cass describes the future of HLS as "uncertain".

27th-28th June: SHAC Latin American Day of Action against HLS customer Bayer in; Buenos Aires (Agentina), Columbia, Limia (Peru) & Santiago (Chile).

There are plans to build a high level virus containment facility and animal testing lab in Camden, alongside St Pancras International, behind the British Library. The lab could be a level 3 facility which means that it could contain deadly pathogens such as anthrax and bird flu. The lab has been criticised by MI5, MPs, councillors, local businesses and residents.  http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BLISS-Lab

25th June - 2nd July

FOXES LIBERATED FROM HUNTING COMPOUND (Germany)
HOME VISIT FOR PFIZER EXECUTIVE (France)
HUNTING TOWER TOPPLED (France)
TRUCK TORCHED AT SLAUGHTERHOUSE (Mexico)
FUR SHOP PAINTED, CIRCUS SIGNS DESTROYED (Sweden)
65 HENS FREED (Czech Republic)
LOCKS GLUED AT CHICKEN RESTAURANTS, FEED SUPPLIER (USA)
12 MINK FREED FROM FUR FARM (Sweden)
SLAUGHTERHOUSE, TELMEX TARGETED (Mexico)
INFAMOUS RESTAURANT TO CLOSE (Sweden)
ONE LESS FUR STORE IN GOTHENBURG (Sweden)

Stopped at Birmingham International airport

During the past three years, the police and the Crown Prosecution Service have launched a new campaign against anti-corporate animal rights campaigns across the country. The crackdown has lead to the imprisonment of activists linked to Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) for a total of 50 years and the jailing of Sean Kirtley, who was linked to the Stop Sequani Animal Torture Campaign (SSAT), for four and a half years. The sentences, the charges and the nature of the prosecutions have all been political. Public opposition to the crackdown has been confounded by a media smokescreen thrown up by the press releases churned out by the National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit (NETCU), portraying activists as ‘extremists’ and disseminating misinformation. Many of those jailed have not committed any conventional crime but have been targeted by new legislation intended to counter the threat posed to the pharmaceutical industry by effective direct action.

McDonalds waste there cash on security while activists get the message out!

SHAC prisoners need your support to get threough the summer.

16th-22nd June

ANIMAL TRANSPORT TRUCK DESTROYED (Italy)
CANARY FREED FROM CAGE (Mexico)
UNGAR FURS LOOKING WORSE THAN USUAL (USA)
GLUED LOCKS AND BROKEN WINDOWS IN ROME (Italy)
"BREAK WITH HLS" PAINTED AT NOVARTIS (Mexico)
MEAT MARKETS, TELMEX PHONES VANDALIZED (Mexico)
SABOTAGE IN MEMORY OF MAURI MORALES (Mexico)

8th-15th June

BOMB THREAT AT WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY (Netherlands)
ELF SABOTAGE DIGGER (Italy)
ARSON ATTACK AGAINST POLICE VEHICLE IN SOLIDARITY WITH INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE IN PERU (Mexico)
DOZENS OF TELMEX PHONES SABOTAGED (Mexico)

In April ELP reported the jailing of a Dutch animal rights activist, Peter Janssen, who has been accused of involvement in a raid on a mink farm. A second person who was arrested at the same time as Peter was later released without charge. However since then ELP has learnt of a third arrest. The third person is Naomi van der Pol and she has been remanded into custody. Naomi has been in prison for a month and a half now without any support, so it is vital we send her lots of messages of support from all around the world.

A little over a year after the 23 house and office searches culmintating in the arrest and 3 ½ month imprisonment of 10 animal rights activists, the repression seems to have no end. Despite the fact that the special commission has already written their final reports on those suspected of being part of a „criminal organization“ according to §278a of the Austrian Penal Code (encompassing about 40 people!), the police conducted three house searches on Wednesday, June 10. But not quite as planned...

Neutering strays does not deal with catastrophic population growth

A new free to download donation based record label "Free Activist Records" has just been launched. Our first release will be a 20 track compilation to raise awareness of Sean Kirtley anarchist AR prisoner.

2nd-6th June

CARS DESTROYED AT HOME OF NOVARTIS EXECUTIVE (Switzerland)
MEAT TRUCKS ATTACKED (Germany)
EFFIGY OF VIVISECTOR HUNG AT RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Uruguay)
WINDOWS SMASHED, PAINTED AT THREE FUR SHOPS (Finland)
ATTACKS ON POULTRY INDUSTRY (Colombia)
INCENDIARY DEVICE DAMAGES PAVING MACHINE (Mexico)