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An Interview with Bryant Terry on Race, Class, Food, and Culture – Part 1
Posted by APOC-Philly in Interview on August 21, 2009
Interview by Latoya Peterson who is an editor of Racialicious
Bryant Terry is an eco chef, food justice activist, and author of Vegan Soul Kitchen (VSK): Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine (Da Capo/Perseus March 2009). For the past nine years he has worked to build a more just and sustainable food system and has used cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections among poverty, structural racism, and food insecurity. His interest in cooking, farming, and community health can be traced back to his childhood in Memphis, Tennessee, where his grandparents inspired him to grow, prepare, and appreciate good food.
Read more about Bryant here. I interviewed Bryant earlier this year for a project that never got off the ground. However, this interview was too good not to share.
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So we are here with Bryant Terry who has a new book out called Vegan Soul Kitchen, which is a collection of recipes that look at food and veganism and culture. Can you explain a little about who you are and what you do?
Wow. I do a lot of things. These days, I’ve been saying I’m a creative person who does a number of things that help people be more aware of their environment, particularly their food. I call myself “the eco-chef” and a lot of people ask “well, what’s eco-chef? How did you come up with that term?” And for me, it’s about helping people become more aware of the interconnectedness of all living beings, and how we’re just part of this complex whole with the environment, the animal kingdom, the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom. I just want to help people to see that, so we can be more compassionate and present, and see how every action we take affects the whole.
Let’s talk about your new book. When you started Vegan Soul Kitchen, what was your motive behind writing this book, and what were you trying to accomplish with it?
I’ll start by saying that I have some issues with both of those terms – both “vegan” and “soul,” meaning “soul food” because I think they can be loaded, and it brings up a lot when you use those terms. I always say “vegan” is a great way to encapsulate what I wanted to do with this book and I’m certainly aware of and very sympathetic to all of the issues that are important to people who understand themselves as vegans. While my diet is devoid of meat, I don’t call myself a vegan; I don’t call myself anything. I talk about the way I’m kind of on a continuum of consumption – I’ve been everything from an omnivore to a vegetarian to vegan to a fruitarian, I think I tried a breath-atarianism for a day. Given the fluidity of my journey, I’ve come to understand that a diet is such a personal journey. I don’t think it’s my place to say what anyone’s diet should be, and I don’t think it’s anyone’s place to say what one’s diet should be, it’s really about checking in and being on that journey with one’s self.
I don’t know if you needed to hear all that, but I wanted to share it. (Laughs)
No, that’s great to actually parse out. I know you did that a little [in your previous book] Grub, where you talked about how you didn’t want people to be sneaking around outside of their food boundaries. Can you explain that concept a bit more?
I came to that conclusion because of my own process, having been a vegetarian and then kind of moving into strict veganism and having a moment where I wanted to have some cheese and I wanted to have eggs, and I just felt like I might be hypocritical if I do that, or others might judge me, or the judgment coming from myself. And I felt a similar anxiety from other people who defined their diets in the same way, who felt that they needed to or wanted to shift their dietary pattens. I had a friend who was a strict vegan and she got pregnant, and for whatever reason, she decided that she wanted to start eating fish. And she was so anxiety-ridden about sharing that with friends, with family members, with colleagues, because she felt like it would somehow be such a departure from all the values she had been expressing about who she was. I really want people to feel free to just shift and change and not feel like they’re going to be damned to hell if they do that.
That’s fascinating, especially when you look at the conversations we’re having around food in the public sphere, especially as people are starting to realize that the issue we have around food and consumption and the issues we have concerning the environment are in some way linked. There is a lot of discussion of guilt around people’s food choices, or a lot of moralizing that it’s better to be vegetarian or it’s better to eat more vegetables. You got into that a bit in Grub – [the idea that] there are things that are better for your body, there are things that are worse for your body, but it’s more of a whole conscious eating.
Yeah, before I forget, I wanted to go back to your question about my new book and what motivated me to write it. The impetus to write this book came from me feeling so upset, almost livid, at the way in which African-American cuisine was being – and continues to be, in many ways – vilified, through the media, through public health officials, as kind of the bane of African American health. “African Americans are suffering from the highest rates of obesity and the highest rates of illnesses and it’s because of this soul food!” The big monstrous soul food. After I realized that, it pushed me to investigate the history of African American cuisine more and it hit me one day when I was reading this book, The Welcome Table, by this African American food writer/cookbook author/historian Jessica B. Harris, and she said that “African American cuisine or soul food was simply something black people ate for dinner.”
It wasn’t until the 1960s that it was given this term as a way that black activists, living in the urban north, were reclaiming the cuisine as they were reclaiming a number of cultural things that were important to African Americans – so reclaiming soul music or our roots in Africa. [The idea was] this is our food, this is our cuisine. But unfortunately, the popular media picked up on that, and a lot of white journalists only illuminated the more exotic aspects of the cuisine. So when they wrote about it in these different magazines and newspapers, they talk about pig’s feet and the internal viscera of animals. And all these things that are part of the cuisine, but it kind of reduced it to all these interesting things that “the other” was eating. What it made me realize is that what people think about is just a small part of a very complex and rich diverse cuisine that is very rooted in a lot of things food activists say we should embrace in our eating now. Food is as local as a backyard garden, as seasonal as whatever’s in season, and as fresh as being harvested right before the meal.
And when I think about growing up in Memphis and having grandparents that grew up in rural Mississippi, that brought with them this agrarian knowledge and connection to the land and the environment and all this care for the earth that they had to Memphis, which is an urban center, and having this backyard garden that was kind of like an urban farm, and having these all these fruit trees and nut trees in the backyard that was like a mini orchard, and they way that they were harvesting food for our family, and bartering, and sharing with neighbors…you know, in so many of these practices that people are touting as the way we need to move toward for environmental sustainability, the sustainability of our health, these things are part of our cultural heritage and I just wanted to help people remember. I wanted to help African-Americans remember, help the general public remember that this is as much as part of our legacy as it is anyone else’s.
Whoo, that was a lot!
It was great though, and it really does start speaking to these ideas we have ingrained about food and what our own food legacy is. We’ve been examining [cultural ideas around food] and so many of us are sharing these stories about being from a Latino cultural background or a Polish cultural background, and sitting down at the table with our new food beliefs and having our families not understand why we would want to give these things up. They reject some of our food choices because they are interpreting [our rejection of meat or fatty foods] as a rejection of them. In all your work that you’ve done as an eco-chef, what have you uncovered about food in terms of culture and how we relate to each other?
When you talked about diets changing and adapting, it made me think about the way in which African-Americans, like most Americans, saw the globalization of agriculture, the mechanization of agriculture and the industrialization of food over the past three or four decades as a good thing. It’s cheap, it’s fast, it’s convenient – hey, what’s wrong with this? We’re modern and we want to be with the times. And we wholeheartedly embraced this in many ways – not everyone, but we really embraced it. And it’s not just African-Americans. It’s so many people of different backgrounds. When I have been giving talks lately about this issues, it resonates with people from Appalachia, it resonates with immigrants from Latin America, it’s something that is of concern in so many different cultures and communities that in all cases, we need to figure out how can we re-embrace those old ways. How can we get back to the ways that sustained our parents, and our grandparents?
And I think, most importantly, what we’ve lost is our sense of community and sharing and connecting, because that was so embedded and ingrained in all the other things around our food systems and those are things we have to be re-embracing in these next moments, in this period of economic strife and people tightening belts. If we’re going to get through it, I think we really have to think how can we be in relationship with our neighbors and all of these formal and informal kinship networks to help each other?
Let’s circle back to the question I posed before about how we are discussing food in the mainstream media right now. I know that food has become this huge issue and it’s a really hot topic right now. We’ve had all these people publishing books like Mark Bittman and Michael Pollan and we’re talking about food and how it impacts the Earth. I noticed that there are a lot of ideas around guilt. That people should be guilted into eating a certain way or a different way, and I think that’s where there is a lot of disconnect occurring when you try to get people to realize the issues at stake. How would you reframe the conversation?
Yeah, hmmm…
I know, it’s a tough one.
It’s just complex. I feel like I’d have to ruminate on that a bit before I could really give a distinct answer.
Well, feel free to just think about it as we talk, and if you have any thoughts later, feel free to offer them. Another thing that comes up often in these discussions is the role of the poor – and more specifically, the role of the poor as the cause of their own dietary issues. I notice this a lot on larger health blogs, like the one run by the New York Times. There seems to be this idea that the poor eat horrible food because it’s their culture or they just want to. There doesn’t seem to be any real engagement with the barriers and issues that comes with trying to eat in season, and have a healthy diet full of fruit and vegetables that people seem to take for granted that [economically disadvantaged areas] just have equal access to all of these things. Could you talk a little more about that?
One of the biggest things I uncovered in my work, especially working with young people in New York City through the organization I founded called B-healthy, is that a lot of people living in low income areas and urban areas are living in what are known as food deserts. They have very little access to fresh food – healthy, local, sustainable, all that – and have an overabundance of the worst foods, the fried things, the packaged fast food that has a negative impact on their overall health. Lack of access to healthy food is a huge issue, and it’s only one indicator of material deprivation these people are living with. In these neighborhoods, I visited, it wasn’t as if they just lacked access to healthy food and everything else was great. Usually it would be failing infrastructure, dilapidated schools, high levels of illiteracy, low income. So I think it is one issue that has to be addressed of many among these people living in these historically excluded communities are dealing with.
I certainly applaud the efforts of independent organizations – such as the Food Project in Boston, Added Value in Brooklyn, NY, The People’s Grocery in West Oakland, California. The work they are doing is important around creating healthier food systems and educating people in these communities about health food and agricultural issues. And I realized that this moment that we’re in – where we are looking at increased urbanization in the US and globally – we have to be producing more food in cities, we have to be creating more access to local food systems in urban centers, and we cannot rely on these organizations with the express goal of working around these issues to do it. It’s just too much weight for them to carry. There are so many organizations that exist in these same communities that we just described – faith based institutions, community based institutions – that people trust and go to regularly in these communities that have financial capital and land and people, and we want them to really work and help us increase the access [of] and awareness of healthy food, whether it be through community gardens, urban farms, connecting with local farms to bring more food into urban centers. I almost feel like these institutions have to take the lead. I’ve seen well meaning projects that go into low income communities to do work fall flat on their faces because they don’t really have the trust, or they don’t understand the cultural norms of the community. There is some disconnect that is happening, and I feel like it’s almost imperative for the organizations that people trust to work around these issues, and go beyond health fairs and diagnosing the problem.
We know! We know that people in these communities are suffering from the highest rates of obesity and diet related illness. We know that too many of us are dying too early. So what can we do to actually prevent this? What can we do to address it before it gets to the point where we’re just telling people they have six months to live, or they need to start taking all these pharmaceuticals.
(To be continued next week.)
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Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay: Winter 2008-2009 Animal Liberation Front Report Backs
Posted by APOC-Philly in Anarchist People of Color, General on April 4, 2009
December 20, 2008 – Mexico
TARGET: TELMEX
anonymous report:
“El pasado 18 de Diciembre hemos saboteado de igual manera que antes (con cizallas y herramientas) 20 teléfonos de la compañía destructora del planeta Telmex.
No nos vamos a detener…
FLT México”
English:
“On December 18 we sabotaged 20 phones of the destroyer of the planet, the Telmex company, in the same manner as before (with bolt cutters and other tools).
We will not stop …
FLT México”
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December 22, 2008 – Mexico
PAINT SPILLED ON TELMEX PHONE BOOTHS
anonymous report:
“Sabotaje a Telmex en mexico d.f. 20 /12/08
Se han decorado y expuesto 5 teléfonos de la asquerosa compañía Telmex. Esta vez vertimos pintura roja sobre las cabinas y teléfonos dejándoles inutilizables.
Por la liberación animal.
F.l.A. mexico.”
English
“Sabotage of Telmex in Mexico City (D.F.) December 20, 2008
5 phones of the disgusting Telmex company have been decorated and exposed. This time we spilled red paint on the booths and left the phones unusable.
For animal liberation.
F.L.A. Mexico.”
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December 23, 2008 – Colombia
BULLFIGHT SPONSOR SABOTAGED
reported on Liberación Total:
“En solidaridad con las axiones Antiautoritarias del momento y en muestra de insurrecto compromiso con la liberación de la tierra y todxs lxs animales, la Celula Autónoma y Anárquica del FLT en bogotá no se detiene! Saboteando 9 teléfonos mas de la ETB patrocinadora del sufrimiento de inocentes y el “progreso”, la noche del 10 de diciembre se dió continuidad a la acción y dejando mensajes Anticivilizados y de amenaza se arrancaron sus bocinas e inutilizaron las cabinas.
AXIÖN ANARQUISTA HOY Y PARA SIEMPRE!!!
VIVA LA gRECIA ANÄRQUICA!!!!!!!!!”
English:
“In solidarity with the recent antiauthoritarian actions and to show a strengthening commitment to the liberation of the earth and all animals, the Autonomous Anarchic Cell of the FLT in Bogota does not stop! Sabotaged 9 more phones of ETB, a sponsor of the suffering of innocents, on the night of December 10; leaving anticivilization messages and threats, the handsets were ripped out and the phone booths were rendered unusable.
ANARCHIST ACTION TODAY AND FOREVER!
VIVA ANARCHIC GREECE!!!!!!!!!”
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December 23, 2008 – Mexico
TWO TRUCKS AT SLAUGHTERHOUSE SET AFIRE
received anonymously:
“Lunes 22 de diciembre 2008
Recordando a ronnie lee…
El fuego ha vuelto a iluminar la noche gris en la periferia de la gran ciudad, nuestros ojos brillando frente a su reflejo. Dos hogueras hicieron salir de la monotonía las calles vacías y tristes.
Mientras lxs asesinxs de pollos estaban descansando después de la masacre, nuestras sombras reflejadas por el fuego abolicionista de lxs liberadorxs se volvieron a hacer ver, cuando dos camionetas pertenecientes a uno de los muchos mataderos situados en ciudad Netzahualcóyotl, al oriente de la gran ciudad, fueron incendiados.
En uno se ha roseado gasolina dentro de la cabina, en los asientos y el volante, ya que tuvimos la buena suerte de que una ventana esta abajo, también se roseo una llanta delantera, en el otro se han vertido litros de gasolina con aceite en sus llantas, y en la caja transportadora (ya que dicha caja era de madera),
inmediatamente después se prendió fuego utilizando un par de antorchas que fueron lanzadas, al interior y exterior de los vehículos respectivamente.
En cuestión de minutos nuestras sombras y sonrisas de felicidad se perdieron en la obscuridad.
Los sabotajes continúan, no pararemos, cada vez es mas intenso, fuerte y directo.
Nuestra pasión siempre será nuestra arma.
No esperes mas, solo necesitas convicción y gasolina para la acción.
FRENTE DE LIBERACION ANIMAL…MEXICO.”
English:
“Monday December 22, 2008
Thinking of Ronnie Lee . . .
Fire has returned to illuminate the gray night on the outskirts of the large city, our eyes shining against its reflection. Two fires took the monotony out of the empty and sad streets.
While the chicken murderers were resting after the slaughter, our shadows, reflected by the liberators’ abolitionist fire, became visible; two trucks belonging to one of the many slaughterhouses in the City of Nezahualcóyotl, to the east of the city, were set afire.
In one gasoline appeared rose-colored inside the cabin and on the seats and the steering wheel, because we had the good fortune of a window being down, in the other truck liters of gasoline mixed with oil was poured on its tires, and in the transporting box (made of wood), immediately after that it was set on fire using a pair of flares that were thrown at the interior and exterior of the vehicles.
Within minutes our shadows and smiles of happiness were lost in the darkness.
The sabotages continue, we will not stop, each time it is becoming more intense, strong and direct.
Our passion will always be our weapon.
Wait no more, you only need conviction and gasoline for action.
FRENTE DE LIBERACION ANIMAL…MEXICO.”
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December 25, 2008 – Mexico
TURTLE FREED FROM CAPTIVITY
reported anonymously:
“24 de Diciembre:
Mientras la mayoría de las familias mexicanas preparaban la comida de navidad y se ponían sus trajes caros comprados para solo ser usados en esta fecha efímera y se preparaban para recibir a sus familias y tratarlas hipócritamente, nosotrxs el Frente de Liberación Animal – Comando Verde Negro nos encontrábamos a las orillas de una enorme laguna con una tortuga lista para recuperar su libertad y sus instintos salvajes, negados por el especismo antropocéntrico desde hace muchos años.
Esta tortuga se encontraba en cautiverio viviendo día tras día encarcelada, inerte sin ninguna compañía, hasta que la rescatamos de la vida patética y monótona que estaba llevando.
Cuando vimos la gran laguna la tortuga empezó a patalear como si recordara lo vivido antes de su captura, la dejamos en la orilla y corriendo se sumergió feliz en el agua.
Esto es lo que verdaderamente es la liberación animal, el rescate y la liberación siempre inolvidables.
Después de un lapso de tiempo admirando las aves que volaban en el cielo azul bajo la laguna y los rayos del sol, la tortuga salió del agua, nos vio por última vez y se sumergió, para empezar una vida libre y sin dominación sobre su cuerpo, su comida y demás.
¡Disponte a liberar animales y lo lograras!
¡Por la liberación total!
FLA- CVN (México)”
English:
“December 24:
While the majority of Mexican families were preparing Christmas food and were putting on their expensive costumes purchased only to be used on this brief day and were preparing to receive their families and treat them hypocritically, we the Frente de Liberación Animal – Comando Verde Negro found ourselves on the shores of an enormous lake with a turtle ready to regain her freedom and her wild instincts, denied for many years by anthropocentric speciesism.
This turtle was found in captivity living day after day imprisoned, inert with no companions, until we rescued her from the pathetic and monotonous life that she had been living.
When we saw the large lake, the turtle began kicking her legs as if she remembered life before her capture; we left her on the shore and she quickly, happily submerged herself in the water.
Truly this is what animal liberation is, the always unforgettable rescue and release.
After a period of time underwater admiring the birds that were flying in the blue sky and the rays of the sun, the turtle came out of the water, she saw us for the last time and submerged herself again, to begin a life free and without the domination of her body, her food, and more.
Ready yourself to liberate animals and you will do it!
For total liberation!
FLA- CVN (México)”
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December 27, 2008 – Mexico
POULTRY SHOP CLOSES AFTER ATTACKS
received anonymously:
“La madrugada del pasado 26 de diciembre el F.L.A de México decidió visitar una tienda de explotación avícola que anteriormente en este año se había atacado en diferentes ocasiones. Antes del sabotaje nos habíamos enterado que esta tienda había cerrado, en primera por las deudas que tenían al rentar el negocio y la crisis económica y en segunda por los ataques propinados.
Nosotrxs no somos economistas, pero es evidente que pequeños comercios especistas como este pueden ser cerrados fácilmente en parte por la crisis económica que hoy día sacude a lxs poderosxs y atacando fuerte y en donde menos se lo esperan.
Cuando llegamos al objetivo, el inmueble se veía vacio y seguramente ya no se venderían de nuevo cadáveres de animales torturados, así que decidimos reventar sus ventanas a martillazos y dejar la pinta del triunfo que tuvimos mediante el sabotaje económico activo y consecuente que decía ‘Liberación animal!’
¡Suelta tu imaginación, sal a la calle y golpea a lxs explotadorxs donde más les duela!
FLA- México”
English:
“During the early morning hours of December 26, the F.L.A. of Mexico decided to visit an exploitive poultry shop that earlier this year had been attacked on several occasions. Before the sabotage we had learned that this store had closed, first because of the debts that they had accumulated in renting the business and the economic crisis and secondly because of the attacks.
We are not economists, but it is clear that small speciesist businesses like this one can easily be closed, in part by the economic crisis currently rocking the wealthy, and also by attacking strongly where they least expect it.
When we arrived at the target, the building was empty and now they surely won’t be selling the corpses of tortured animals again, so we decided to break their windows with hammers and to paint messages such as ‘Animal Liberation!’ expressing our triumph through active and consistent economic sabotage.
Let your imagination free, take to the streets and hit the exploiters where it hurts them the most!
FLA- México”
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December 30, 2008 – Mexico
EARTH-DESTROYING MACHINES SABOTAGED
anonymous report:
“30 de Diciembre:
Lxs explotadorxs con sus grandes maquinas lamen la tierra dejando deforestación y destrucción ambiental, sustituyendo la poca naturaleza que queda con pavimentos y monstruosas construcciones, pero la resistencia aun existe, lxs salvajes no hemos dejado de existir y mientras lxs abusadorxs no dejen de querer dominar la tierra y a sus habitantes, nosotrxs el Frente de Liberación de la Tierra seguiremos golpeando fuerte.
Esta vez una maquina de construcción urbana fue saboteada con la mayoría de cables cortados dejándola inutilizable y tapando la calle hasta que la muevan por otros medios.
¡Anarco-verdes por la liberación total!
¡Sabotaje salvaje y radical!
FLT- Mexico”
English:
“December 30:
The exploiters with their big machines lap up the earth leaving deforestation and environmental destruction, replacing the little nature that is left with pavement and monstrous constructions, but the resistance still exists, we have not stopped the wild ones from existing and while the abusers don’t stop wanting to dominate the earth and its inhabitats, we the Frente de Liberación de la Tierra will continue hitting hard.
This time an urban construction machine was sabotaged with most of the cables cut, leaving it unusable and blocking the street until they moved it by other means.
Green anarchists for total liberation!
Wild and radical sabotage!
FLT – Mexico”
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December 31, 2008 – Chile
RODEO CLUB BURNED
reported on Liberación Total:
“En la madrugada del miercoles 24 de diciembre 2008. Santiago de Chile, el Frente de Liberación Animal prende fuego con 3 dispositivos al centro de tortuta y encarcelamiento (valga la redundancia) Club de Rodeo Gil Letelier, logrando asi quemar parte importante de su infraestructura.
Consideramos que todas las formas de lucha son validas, pero reconocemos que nuestro conflicto de intereses con esta sociedad no se resuelve entre margenes de la ley y lo permitido… Es por eso que hemos decidido atacar esta ocasion una de las tantas cadenas de explotación que existen en este miserable circo social-capitalismo.
CONTRA TODA JERARQUIA Y SUMISION
FLA”
English:
“In the early morning hours of Wednesday, December 24, 2008, in Santiago, Chile, the Frente de Liberación Animal used 3 devices to set fire to a center of torture and imprisonment (forgive the redundancy), the Gil Letelier Rodeo Club, burning the most important part of the structure.
We believe that all forms of struggle are valid, but we recognize that our conflict with this society cannot be resolved within the margins of the law and what is allowed… that’s why we had decided on this occassion to attack one of the many chains of exploitation that exist in this miserable circus of social-capitalism.
AGAINST ALL HIERARCHY AND SUBMISSION
FLA”
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January 2, 2009 – Mexico
TELMEX PHONE BOOTH SET ON FIRE
anonymous report:
“El pasado 1 de Enero hemos prendido un teléfono de la asquerosa compañía de Telmex, el fuego cubrió la cabina y lo dejo inutilizable.
Este es un mensaje de año nuevo para Telmex: ¡Te vamos a incinerar!
Frente de Liberación de la Tierra de México (FLTM)”
English:
“On January 1st we set fire to a phone booth of the disgusting Telmex company; the fire filled the booth and left it unusable.
This is a new year message to Telmex: We are going to burn you!
Frente de Liberación de la Tierra de México (FLTM)”
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January 4, 2009 – Mexico
FISH FREED FROM AQUARIUM
anonymous communique:
“1 de Enero:
Un año acabo pero nuestros instintos de libertad no, nuestras ganas de destrozar este mundo y verlo en caos por sus propios medios no se han apagado, el año 2008 se a acabado pero la liberación animal por medios radicales sigue su curso.
Esta vez nos hemos metido disimuladamente a un mercado en donde se encontraba una tienda de “mascotas”, hemos cortado una lona que servía como pared en donde se encontraban peceras y poco a poco hemos rescatado a 6 peces reclusxs de sus “bonitas y bien decoradas” prisiones.
Después del rescate, proseguimos a la liberación en una hermosa laguna, en donde el cielo era pintado por el atardecer de un día especial para aquellxs animales presxs, el sol se oculto como lxs peces se difuminaron en el agua y nuestras siluetas desaparecieron como cuando la noche caía lentamente en ese lugar.
¡A lxs animales no les sirven tus lagrimas derramadas frente a sus fotos mutiladxs y asesinadxs, lo que les interesa es que lxs rescates del infierno en el que viven, que te sacudas el miedo y que salgas a la calle a hacer realidad lo que es la Liberacion Animal!
Posdata: Y si lxs abusadorxs pensaban que las acciones solo lxs habían sacudido el año pasado y que estarían tranquilxs ahora, esperen a que nos pongamos de nuevo en acción!
Frente de Liberación Animal – Comando Verde Negro (FLA-CVN)”
English:
“January 1:
One year has ended but our instincts for freedom have not, our desire to destroy this world and to see it in chaos by its own means has not been extinguished; the year 2008 came to an end but animal liberation by radical means continues on its course.
This time we had surreptitiously gone to a market where there was a ‘pet’ shop. We cut the canvas that was serving as a wall. There were fish tanks there and we rescued 6 imprisoned fish from their ‘beautiful and well decorated’ prisons.
After the rescue, we continued the liberation at a beautiful lagoon, where the sky was painted by the setting sun of a special day for those imprisoned animals; the sun set, the fish disappeared in the water and our silhouettes faded as the night slowly fell.
The animals are not served by your tears shed in front of photos of them mutilated and murdered; what does interest them is that you rescue them from the hell in which they live; shake the fear and take to the streets to make animal liberation a reality!
Postscript: If the abusers were thinking that it was only last year that had been rocked by actions and that they would have peace now, well they can wait for what we do next!
Frente de Liberación Animal – Comando Verde Negro (FLA-CVN)”
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January 8, 2009 – Mexico
TELMEX PHONE BOOTHS DAMAGED BY FIRE
anonymous report:
“7 de Enero:
5 telefonos mas de la biocida compañia Telmex han sido incendiados.
Ya nadie nos para.
FLT/ELF- Mexico”
English:
“January 7:
5 phone booths of the biocidal company Telmex have been burned.
Now no one will stop us.
FLT/ELF- Mexico”
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January 10, 2009 – Mexico
SABOTAGE TARGETING TELMEX: BULLFIGHT SPONSOR AND EARTH DESTROYER
received anonymously:
“8 de Enero:
Más de 15 teléfonos de Telmex han sido cubiertos con pintura de spray, saboteando sus botones, su pantalla, la cabina y las bocinas.
Estas acciones son a favor de la liberación animal y de la tierra ya que la compañía Telmex además de patrocinar corridas de toros y demás actos de humillación y tortura animal, es uno de los responsables de la destrucción de la tierra en México.
¡Sus ofensas a la tierra no quedaran impunes!
ELF/FLT”
English:
“January 8:
More than 15 Telmex phones have been covered with spray paint, and their buttons, screens, the phone booths and the handsets sabotaged.
These actions are in support of animal and earth liberation since the Telmex company, in addition to sponsoring bullfights and other acts of animal humiliation and torture, is one of those responsible for the destruction of the earth in Mexico.
Their offenses against the earth will not be left unpunished!
ELF/FLT”
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January 11, 2009 – Mexico
MEAT MARKETS, PET STORES PAINTED
anonymous report:
“El pasado 9 de enero el Frente de Liberación Animal ha atacado con diversas pintas más de 10 negocios relacionados con la explotación animal en el estado de México; carnicerías, pollerías, tiendas de mascotas y demás fueron pintados con símbolos del FLA y consignas como “Carne es asesinato”, “torturadores”, “asesinxs!”, “Malditos especistas! entre otras.
¡Feliz ataques nuevos!
FLA México”
English:
“On January 9 the Animal Liberation Front attacked more than 10 businesses related to animal exploitation in Mexico State with various graffiti; meat markets, poultry markets, pet stores and others were painted with symbols of the FLA and slogans such as ‘Meat is murder’, ‘torturers’, ‘murderers,’ ‘Damn speciesists!’ among others.
A happy new year of attacks!
FLA México”
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January 11, 2009 – Peru
VIDEO RELEASED FROM ZOO LIBERATION
received anonymously:
“COMUNICADO PÚBLICO
Lima, 21 de Noviembre del 2008.
Individualidades por la Liberación Animal.
A la comunidad civil, prensa visual y escrita, grupos ecologistas y colectivos e individualidades que luchan por la abolición de la explotación Animal, Humana y de la Tierra, declaramos lo siguiente:
• Que el día viernes 21 de noviembre del presente año, en horas de la madrugada, efectuamos una acción directa y rescate por la Liberación Animal en el Parque Zoológico de Huachipa, ubicado en la ciudad de lima en el Km. 9.5 de la carretera central, en Perú.
• Que nuestro accionar esta dirigido a romper con la explotación animal, enfocando nuestros esfuerzos en la acción directa de liberarles y reintegrarlos a su hábitat natural.
• Consideramos necesario poder explicar en que consistió nuestra acción debido al bloqueo informativo dispuesto por el Zoológico y los medios de prensa que han enfocado toda su atención en la reunión de la APEC en Lima. Hicimos ingreso al lugar entre la noche del día Jueves y la madrugada del día viernes, cortamos y abrimos mas de una treintena de jaulas para aves, de diferentes especies, logrando liberar mas de 50 aves, entre Tucanes, Búhos, aves Tropicales y un sin fin de especies autóctonas del Perú. Así también trepamos hasta la cima de la mega jaula para pájaros que tiene esta cárcel de animales, saboteando su estructura con el fin de que aves como loros, guacamayos, palomas torcasas, tucanetas y garzas blancas encerradas en esta mega pajarera, pudiesen encontrar salida a esta vida de encierro y volar en libertad. Posteriormente nos dispusimos a la parte mas importante de la acción, llevarnos dos felinos selváticos, ocelotes, en jaulas especialmente adecuadas para ellos y trasladarlos hacia su hábitat natural, estos animales fueron trasladados y luego liberados en su espacio salvaje, las ecorregiones de la selva baja del Perú, con el fin de otorgarles la posibilidad de una vida libre y lejos de las miradas acosadoras de turistas consumidores de la explotación animal.
• Creemos necesario mencionar y denunciar el actuar cómplice de las instituciones del estado, traficantes de animales y Zoológicos y demás responsables, que al requisar animales de manos de los viles traficantes, no encuentran mejor negocio que el encerrar a estos seres libres, en espacios reducidos como en los que se encontraban los animales que liberamos y recatamos de manos de estos explotadores Estos animales se encontraban en pequeñas jaulas, de hasta grupos de ocho aves por jaula, sin la posibilidad de volar o interactuar libremente, ellos se encontraban con claros síntomas de estrés, producido por el hacinamiento, proximidad a sus depredadores naturales y falta de luz solar. Muchos de los animales que liberamos se encontraban en un sector prohibido para los visitantes del zoológico, que no existe ni siquiera en el mapa de dicho parque, encerrados en tiendas de campaña, sin luz solar y sin el espacio suficiente que necesitarían para desenvolverse con naturalidad.
• Denunciamos así también el encierro de roedores, tortugas, aves y otros animales pequeños en contenedores plásticos con el fin de servir de alimento para otras especies, estos se encontraban girando sobre su propio eje, actitud típica en animales con problemas nerviosos producidos por el encierro, ubicados su gran mayoría en estanterías para su posterior utilización, demostrando esto la falsedad y doble discurso de las empresas que trabajan como supuestas instituciones de preservación y conservación de especies, verdaderas empresas de explotación animal, siempre ejercida desde el criterio especista de menosprecio de los intereses de individuos de otras especies.
• Queremos así también denunciar el estado en el que se encontraban los felinos que liberamos, los cuales estaban ubicados en jaulas de no mas de dos metros cuadrados, uno al lado de otro, impidiendo su libre ejercicio de intereses y capacidades, destruyendo su instinto y sometiendo su naturaleza salvaje a los intereses egoístas de empresarios que disfrazan su negocio de explotación, como de conservación y reproducción de especies. Hecho que denunciamos como falso, debido a las condiciones de las que fuimos testigos al ingreso a esta mega cárcel animal, donde los supuestos animales en recuperación, se mantenían encerrados para su posterior exhibición como objetos de entretención.
• Queremos hacer un llamado a todos los colectivos e individualidades que luchan y activan por la Liberación Animal, Humana y de la Tierra, a accionar directamente en pos de conseguir la liberación total, tomando en cuenta los intereses de los apresados bajo las manos explotadoras de dueños de Zoologicos, Toreros, criadores de animales, empresas auspiciadoras del negocio de la explotación animal, industria de las pieles, industria carnica, Circos con animales y un sin fin mas de lugares de explotación y muerte animal, tomando las medidas de seguridad necesarias, para lograr liberaciones seguras tanto para los activistas como para personas no responsables de este encierro, como son los trabajadores asalariados de estas empresas capitalistas, también victimas de la explotación en su caso por clase social.
• Queremos así también recalcar que la liberación por medio de la acción directa, es algo de lo que todos podemos ser parte, no necesitamos ni preparación especial, ni ser parte de organización alguna, tan solo un actuar planeado, un par de herramientas y una actitud dispuesta a arriesgarse en pos de la eliminación del especismo y la explotación Animal, Humana y de la Tierra, teniendo siempre claro que raza, sexo, color, nivel de inteligencia, lenguaje, inclinación sexual, o en este caso especie, no son indicativos de superioridad o inferioridad, sino características individuales dignas de ser respetadas en base a sus propios deseos e intereses, avanzando nuestra ética a un desenvolvimiento verdaderamente solidario e igualitario.
Por la Liberación Animal, Humana y de la Tierra.
INDIVIDUALIDADES POR LA LIBERACION ANIMAL.
Hasta que todos seamos Libres…”
English:
“PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE
Lima, November 21, 2008.
Individuals for Animal Liberation.
To the civilian community, visual and written press, environmental groups and collectives and individuals that fight for the abolition of Animal, Human and Earth exploitation, we declare the following:
• On Friday, November 21 of this year, in the early morning hours, we carried out a direct action and rescue for Animal Liberation in the Parque Zoológico Huachipa, located in the city of Lima at Km. 9.5 on the central highway in Peru.
• Our actions were directed at smashing animal exploitation, our efforts focused on the direct action of releasing animals and returning them to their natural habitat.
• We consider it necessary to explain what our action consisted of, due to the blockage of information by the Zoo and the news media that have focused all their attention on the APEC meeting in Lima. We entered between Thursday night and the early hours of Friday morning. We cut and opened more than thirty cages
for birds of different species, managing to free more than 50 birds, including Toucans, Owls and other tropical birds and indigenous species of Peru. We also climbed to the top of the mega cage for birds that has been an animal prison, sabotaging its structure with the hope that birds such as parrots, macaws, pigeons, doves, toucans, and white herons locked up in this mega-aviary could find an exit from this life of imprisonment and fly free. Afterwards we were prepared for the most important part of the action, to carry two jungle cats, ocelots, in cages specially suited to them, and to transfer them to their natural habitat; these animals were transported and later released into wild space, the ecosystem of the low jungle of Peru, in order to give them the possibility of a free life far from the harassing looks of tourists, consumers of animal exploitation.
• We believe it necessary to mention and to denounce animal traffickers and zoos and other responsible parties acting as accomplices of state institutions, acquiring animals from the hands of vile traffickers that find no better business than to imprison these free beings in small spaces like those of the animals we freed. These animals were in small cages, groups of up to eight birds per cage, without the ability to fly or interact freely, they were found with clear symptoms of stress caused by the overcrowding, proximity to their natural predators and lack of sunlight. Many of the animals that we freed were found in an area that was off-limits to visitors of the zoo, that was not even on the map of the park, imprisoned in tents, without sunlight and without sufficient space needed to spread out naturally.
• We denounce as well the imprisonment of rodents, turtles, birds and other small animals in plastic containers with the purpose of serving as food for other species; those we found spinning in circles, typical behavior of animals with nervous disorders caused by confinement, the vast majority waiting for utilization later, demonstrating the falsehood and double talk of the companies that work as alleged institutions of preservation and species conservation, who are truly companies of animal exploitation, always operating with speciesist disregard for the interests of the individuals of other species.
• We also denounce the conditions in which the felines that we released were found; they were located in cages of no more than two square meters, side by side, preventing their free exercise of interests and abilities, destroying their instincts and subjecting their wild nature to the egotistic interests of executives who disguise their business of exploitation as conservation. A claim that we denounce as false, due to the conditions of which we were witnesses to when entering this mega animal prison, where animals supposedly in recuperation were kept locked up for display later as objects of entertainment.
• We want to make a call to all collectives and individuals who struggle and are active for Animal, Human and Earth Liberation to act directly towards achieving total liberation, taking into account the interests of those captured under the exploitative hands of owners of zoos, bullfights, animal breeders, the fur industry, meat industry, circuses with animals and an endless number of places of animal exploitation and death; take the necessary security measures, to ensure safe liberations as much for activists as for people not responsible for this imprisonment, like the wage earners in these capitalist companies, also victims of exploitation.
• We want to emphasize as well that liberation through direct action is something we can all be a part of, we do not need special training nor to be part of any organization, just to act with a couple of tools and an attitude open to taking risks in pursuit of the elimination of speciesism and Animal, Human and Earth exploitation, being always clear that race, sex, color, level of intelligence, language, sexual orientation, or in this case species, are not indicators of superiority or inferiority, but individual characteristics. Individuals are deserving of respect on the basis of their own desires and interests, advancing our ethics to a true unfolding of solidarity and egalitarianism.
For Animal, Human and Earth Liberation.
INDIVIDUALS FOR ANIMAL LIBERATION
Until we are all free…”
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January 12, 2009 – Mexico
THREE DUCKS RESCUED
anonymous communiqué:
“11 de Enero:
La iglesia católica es una de las instituciones mas cobardes y manipuladoras que haya tenido la existencia antropocéntrica humana, pues justifica el especismo asesino que hoy azota todas las especies animales con las escrituras prostituidas de su libro llamado biblia.
En México las creencias de muchas personas se van al fanatismo catolicista, pues desde hace muchos años los curas han destruido casi por completo los instintos de libertad salvajes sustituyéndolos por la monótona moral religiosa y el miedo al “infierno espiritual”, mucha de esta gente fanática es capaz de lo peor con tal de defender sus posturas dogmaticas y sus “santas” iglesias, pero nosotrxs el Frente de Liberación Animal – Comando Verde Negro quisimos afrontar esa amenaza y por la noche de la fecha indicada hemos cortado la reja que protegía una de las tantas iglesias del Estado de México en donde tenían presxs a algunxs animales y hemos logrado rescatar a 3 patos que seguramente serian torturados y asesinados por esxs bastardxs religiosos.
Después de su rescate hemos transportado a los patos a su habitad natural, en donde pueden ya, disfrutar de su libertad sin mas rejas y sin mas malos tratos, en donde pueden nadar y comer lo que necesiten.
¡Arriésgate, atrévete y lograras la liberación animal!
FLA-CVN”
English:
“January 11:
The Catholic church is one of the most cowardly and manipulative institutions that anthropocentric human existence has had, that justifies the murderous speciesism that plagues all animal species today, with the prostituted writings of its book called the Bible.
In Mexico, many people’s beliefs tend toward Catholic fanaticism, for many years the priests have almost completely destroyed the instincts of wild freedom, replacing them with religious moral monotony and the fear of ’spiritual hell,’ many of these fanatic people are capable of the very worst in order to defend their dogmatic positions and their ‘holy’ churches, but we the Frente de Liberación Animal – Comando Verde Negro wanted to confront this threat so in the evening of the date indicated we cut a fence that had protected one of the many churches in Mexico State which had imprisoned some animals and we managed to rescue 3 ducks that surely would have been tortured and killed by these religious bastards.
After their rescue we transported the ducks to their natural habitat, where they can now enjoy their freedom without bars and without poor treatment, where they can swim and eat what they need.
Take a risk, dare yourself, and you will achieve animal liberation!
FLA-CVN”
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January 15, 2009 – Mexico
TELMEX PHONE BOOTHS PAINTED
anonymous report:
“El pasado 12 de Enero 10 cabinas telefonicas de Telmex han sido vandaleadas con pintura en aerosol.
¡Combate directo contra la civilizacion!
Ludditas Contra la Domesticación de la Naturaleza Salvaje (LCDNS)
Mexico”
English:
“On 12 January, 10 Telmex phone booths were vandalized with spray paint.
Direct combat against civilization!
Luddites Against the Domestication of Wild Nature (LCDNS)
Mexico”
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January 17, 2009 – Mexico
ANOTHER 20 TELMEX PHONES VANDALIZED
anonymous report:
“16 de Enero:
20 telefonos de Telmex fueron victimas de vandalismo por el Frente de Liberacion de la Tierra.
¡Atacando la civilizacion hasta su completo colapso!
Mexico”
English:
“January 16:
20 Telmex telephones were victims of vandalism by the Frente de Liberacion de la Tierra.
Attacking civilization until its complete collapse!
Mexico”
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January 23, 2009 – Mexico
URBAN EXPANSION RESISTED
reported anonymously:
“22 de Enero:
Diversas pintas como “Destructores”, “Asesinos” y “F.L.T” fueron encontradas en dos maquinarias de expansión urbana y destructoras de la tierra, asi como tambien se ha prendido fuego a una de estas.
¡No permitiremos mas exterminios!
F.L.T/E.L.F Mexico”
English:
“January 22:
Graffiti such as ‘Destroyers,’ ‘Murderers’ and ‘F.L.T.’ was painted on two machines of urban expansion and destroyers of the land; a fire had also been set in one of these.
We will not allow more extermination!
F.L.T/E.L.F Mexico”
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January 24, 2009 – Mexico
FLAMES, SMOKE DAMAGE MEAT COMPANY
anonymous report:
“La noche del 14 de enero el FLA de México ha prendido fuego a la cortina y a un anuncio de una empresa cárnica en el Estado de México, el fuego se expandió y una nube de humo cubría la pequeña empresa, mientras el objetivo quedaba reducido a cenisas.
¡No vamos a detenernos en estos ataques, la llama por la liberación animal es imparable!
FLA México”
English:
“On the night of January 14 the FLA of Mexico set fire to the shutters and an advertisement at a meat company in Mexico State. The fire spread and a cloud of smoke covered the small business, as the target was reduced to ashes.
We’re not going to stop these attacks. The flame of animal liberation is unstoppable!
FLA México”
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January 24, 2009 – Mexico
KFC HIT WITH PAINT BOMBS
received anonymously:
“La madrugada del 23 de Enero, fue atacado un KFC en el Estado de México, bombillas de pintura fueron arrojadas sobre sus paredes y vidrios, así como también diversas pintas como “Multinacionales asesinas”, “torturadores” y símbolos anarquistas cubrieron el inmueble, también se ha pintado la cartelera de la comida basura cubierta de dolor y sufrimiento animal que vende KFC y se ha destrozado una de sus lámparas.
¡Si generan destrucción, el FLA les responderemos!
México”
English:
“In the early morning hours of January 23, a KFC in the State of Mexico was attacked; paint-filled bulbs were thrown on the walls and windows, graffiti covered the building as well, such as ‘Multinational killers’, ‘torturers’ and anarchist symbols, also the billboard of junk food that hides the animal suffering and pain that KFC sells has been painted and one of the lamps shattered.
If they generate destruction, the FLA will respond!
México”
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January 27, 2009 – Mexico
WALLS OF POULTRY BUSINESS COVERED IN OIL
received anonymously:
“La noche del 25 de Enero, un importante negocio avícola fue atacado por el Frente de Liberación Animal de Puebla, México.
Su logotipo, sus paredes blancas, sus cortinas y sus lonas publicitarias fueron cubiertos caóticamente por aceite de carro, también se escribieron en las paredes: ‘Carne es tortura’, ‘especistas de mierda’, y ‘te vamos a quemar’.
¡El sabotaje es un medio, la destrucción de su orden es nuestro fin!
F.L.A de Puebla, México”
English:
“On the night of January 25, a major poultry business was attacked by the Frente de Liberación Animal de Puebla, México.
Its logo, white walls, shutters and its canvas advertising signs were covered with automobile oil; also written on the walls: ‘Meat is torture,’ ’shitty speciesists’, and ‘we are going to burn you.’
Sabotage is a method, the destruction of their order is our end!
F.L.A Puebla, México”
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January 31, 2009 – Mexico
EARTH-DESTROYING MACHINE TORCHED
received anonymously:
“Una importante reserva ecológica ubicada en el Distrito Federal está siendo destruida por aquellas personas que consideran la tierra como su propiedad, la flora y desenas de arboles fueron arrancados desde la raíz para la expansión de la Civilización, por lo que lxs elfxs no nos quisimos quedar inertes.
La noche del 29 de Enero hemos destruido el vidrio de una de sus maquinas y hemos rociado bastante gasolina para que la maquina destructora de la tierra quedara totalmente inservible.
Los daños que se calculan son de unos miles de pesos para aquellxs bastardxs dominadorxs de la tierra.
¡La respuesta será así, dura y al punto si siguen con la masacre!
FLT/ELF México”
English:
“An important ecological reserve located in Mexico City (D.F.) is being destroyed by people who consider the land their property; plants and many trees have been ripped up from the roots for the expansion of Civilization; because of this the ELF could not remain still.
On the night of January 29 we destroyed the window of one of their machines and we sprayed enough gasoline to leave the machine that destroys the earth completely unusable.
Damages are estimated to be several thousand pesos for those bastard dominators of the earth.
The response will be like this, hard and to the point, if they continue the massacre!
FLT/ELF México”
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February 3, 2009 – Mexico
NEGLECTED PUPPIES RESCUED
reported anonymously:
“29 de Enero:
La liberación animal sigue su curso, esta vez el Frente de Liberación Animal – Comando Verde Negro, sin importar que el dueño del terreno nos atrapara en plena acción, hemos llegado a un cuarto en donde tenía recluidas a dos perras cachorras, el pequeño cuarto estaba en mal estado y lxs animales estaban muy hambrientxs, un gran candado acompañado de una gran cadena cerraba la puerta donde las perras ladraban, analizamos todas las posibles entradas para rescatar a estxs animales, doblamos la puerta de lamina por debajo y logramos rescatarlas.
Las perras ahora viven felices en sus nuevas casas, en donde las respetaran sin un trato antropocentrista y demás abusos
¡El FLA-CVN no se detendrá por los candados, mientras mas seguridad pongas en tus propiedades, no importa penetraremos tus paredes!
FLA-CVN México”
English:
“January 29:
Animal liberation continues on its course; this time the Frente de Liberación Animal–Comando Verde Negro– it made no difference that the owner of the property could catch us in the act– arrived at a room which had confined two puppies. The small room was in a bad state and the animals were very hungry, a large padlock with a big chain kept the door closed, behind which the dogs barked. We analyzed all possible entries to rescue these animals; we folded the laminate door down and got through to rescue them.
The dogs are now living happily in their new homes, where they will be respected without anthropocentrist treatment and other abuses.
The FLA-CVN will not be stopped by locks; though you put more security on your property, it makes no difference we will penetrate your walls!
FLA-CVN México”
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February 5, 2009 – Mexico
FULL COMMUNIQUE FROM ELF ACTION AT UNIVERSITY
anonymous communique:
“Comunicado completo de la acción del 29 de enero:
La madrugada del 29 de enero, el sumiso cuerpo de bomberos del Distrito Federal, sofocó un incendio dentro de las instalaciones del Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades plantel Sur (CCH Sur) perteneciente a la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). En donde una maquina destructora de la tierra quedo inutilizada para siempre, y parte de la dirección del plantel quedo calcinada.
Este ataque lo reivindica el Frente de Liberación de la Tierra (ELF), pues por medio de un contacto, nos enteramos que estaban destruyendo gran parte de la reserva ecológica en donde está construido dicho centro “educativo”, en el que talaron varios árboles y diversas plantas considerando que les estorbaban para poder expandir sus instalaciones, y su dominio sobre la naturaleza, quedando claro que el progreso y la educación que pregonan en sus aulas esta siempre basada en la dominación y el antropocentrismo. En este acto por parte de la UNAM, queda más que claro que no conforme con dominar y moldear las mentes de lxs estudiantes, también pretenden expandir el mismo control sobre la tierra y lxs animales que habitan en ella. Es por eso que no conforme con haber incendiado la maquina destructora, decidimos prenderle fuego a la dirección del plantel, ya que indiscutiblemente forma parte del ecocidio que implementa la educación, que solo quiere producir personas sumisas ante la autoridad y el poder, donde crean seres incapaces de pensar y actuar por si mismxs y solo están educadxs para producir y consumir.
Los medios masivos de incomunicación, ocultaron que también la maquina había sido incendiada, ya que solo dio a conocer que se había quemado parte de las oficinas de servicios administrativos, y que esto había sido provocado por un grupo de choque (porros), una cosa que queremos dejar bien claro, que el ELF/FLT, no esta compuesto por ese tipo de personas, que mandadxs por sus jefes hacen cosas absurdas y sin sentido; sino mas bien nuestras razones son claras, pues luchamos por la liberación total (animal, de la tierra y humana), y si algo nos estorba, lo enfrentaremos hasta su completa destrucción y abolición.
Sabemos que el daño estimado de esta acción fue de miles de pesos, pero aun no estamos conformes con eso, y seguiremos dando guerra a todo lo que nos oprime y no nos deja ser felices a nosotrxs, a lxs animales y a la tierra.
Este solo fue un pequeño mensaje, para aquellas personas que se lucran a costa de la destrucción y dominación del ecosistema.
ELF/FLT México”
English:
“Complete communique of the action of January 29:
In the early morning of January 29, the submissive firefighters in Mexico City (D.F.) quelled a fire within the premises of the College of Sciences and Humanities south campus (CCH Sur) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). There a machine which destroys the Earth was left forever unusable, and the administration offices of the campus were burned.
The Frente de Liberación de la Tierra (ELF) claimed this attack through a contact; we were informed that the university had been destroying a large part of the ecological reserve where a so-called ‘education’ center is being built, several varieties of trees and diverse plants were cut down, considered to be in the way of their ability to expand their facilities, and their mastery over nature; the progress and education that they extol in their classrooms is always based on domination and anthropocentrism. In this act by the UNAM, it is more than clear that not only do they wish to dominate and mold the minds of students, they also seek to expand the same control over the land and the animals that inhabit her. That’s why the destructive machine was burned, and why we also decided to set a fire on campus, now an indisputable part of the ecocide that education implements, which only wants to produce people who are submissive to authority and power; they create beings who are unable to think and act for themselves and are only educated to produce and consume.
The mass media of miscommunication, which hid the machine which had been burned, only now announced that part of the administrative offices had been burned, and that this had been caused by Porro (shock groups) [groups organized to discredit student movements]; we want to make clear that the ELF/FLT is not composed of such people, who are sent by their bosses to do absurd and meaningless things; our reasons are clear, as we struggle for total liberation (animal, land and human), and if anything blocks us we will face it until its complete destruction and elimination.
We know that the estimated damage of this action was thousands of pesos, but still we are not satisfied with that, and we will continue making war on all that oppresses us and will not allow us all to be happy– us, animals and the land.
This was just a little message, for those who profit at the expense of the destruction and domination of the ecosystem.
ELF/FLT México”
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February 5, 2009 – Mexico
SHOPS GRAFFITIED
anonymous report:
“se hicieron varias pintas a tiendas de varios hermanitos con titulo no a la explotacion de animales tambien se hicieron pintas en una taqueria de espesistas asesinos y afortunadamente seguimos aqui ayudando y quitando lo q se nos ponga en frente para una liberacion total ‘liberacion animal ahora’
A.L.F – C.V.N. MEXICO”
English:
“graffiti was painted at several shops; ‘no animal exploitation’ and other slogans painted on a taqueria of murdering speciesists. for total liberation ‘animal liberation now’
A.L.F – C.V.N. MEXICO”
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February 6, 2009 – Uruguay
BAYER (HLS CUSTOMER) PAINTED IN SOLIDARITY WITH IMPRISONED ACTIVISTS
anonymous report:
“El pasado 26 de enero, en el marco del día internacional en contra de Bayer, por la campaña SHAC, nos acercamos hasta el edificio de esta empresa farmacéutica y manchamos las paredes de su fachada con bastante pintura roja, también grafiteamos en una de sus paredes frases demostrando nuestro rechazo a HLS y lanzamos volantes explicando de qué se trata la vivisección y porqué la repudiamos, este texto también mencionaba la campaña SHAC y sus acciones.
No más vivisección ni ninguna forma de explotación!!!
Libertad a los siete presos de SHAC y a todos los pesos del mundo!!!
Montevideo, Uruguay”
English:
“On January 26, to mark the international day of action against Bayer, for the SHAC campaign, we came to the building of this pharmaceutical company and we stained the facade with plenty of red paint, we also graffitied phrases on one of its walls demonstrating our rejection of HLS and we threw leaflets explaining what vivisection is all about and why we repudiate it, this text also mentioned the SHAC campaign and their actions.
No more vivisection or any other form of exploitation!!!
Freedom for the seven SHAC prisoners and for all the prisoners of the world!!!
Montevideo, Uruguay”
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February 6, 2009 – Mexico
SPECTATORS, POLICE ATTACKED DURING BULLFIGHTING CELEBRATION
anonymous communique:
“Sujetxs autonomxs por la abolición del tauricidio, reivindican los actos de sabotaje y vandalismo durante la marcha del 1 de febrero en la “monumental” plaza de toros México:
- Se pinto una camioneta de la policía con la palabra Torturadores!, la cual tenía un reten en las inmediaciones de dicha plaza inquisitoria.
- Se arrojaron bombas de acido muriático dentro de esta, la cual hizo temblar a las personas cómplices de las corridas de toros
- Se lanzaron bombillas de pintura roja y aceite contra sus paredes
- Se tiro fruta podrida hacia personas que se preparaban para divertirse acosta de la muerte humillante de un animal
- Y por último se baño con orines a un par de reporteros de los medios masivos de desinformación.
¡Tiremos los muros de las plazas de toros!”
English:
“Autonomous individuals for the abolition of tauricide claimed acts of sabotage and vandalism during the February 1st march at the ‘monumental’ Plaza de Toros México:
- The painting of a police van with the words Torturers!, at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the inquisitorial plaza.
- Muriatic acid bombs were thrown inside it, which shocked the accomplices of bullfighting.
- Bulbs of red paint and oil were thrown on the walls.
- Rotten fruit was thrown at people who were prepared to enjoy themselves at the cost of the humiliating death of an animal.
- And finally a couple of reporters from the mainstream media of misinformation were bathed in urine.
We hit the walls of the plazas de toros!”
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February 7, 2009 – Mexico
RIOT AT BULLRING
anonymous communique:
“Durante la manifestación del 5 de febrero (la fecha en la que lxs taurinxs celebran el aniversario de la plaza de toros más grande de México) diferentes grupos de acción directa demostramos que el movimiento radical por la liberación total va creciendo día con día.
Los disturbios empezaron cuando la policía intento detener a uno de lxs activistas, después de zafarlo del cerco policial, las paredes de la plaza de toros se manchaba de pintura roja, negra, verde y de diversos colores lanzada desde botellas de vidrio; los parabrisas de los autos de lxs taurinxs eran destrozados por piedras y palos; una pinta de ¡Especistas de mierda! cubrió una de sus grandes paredes; los muros de la plaza se sacudían con el gran estruendo de una bomba casera; se arrojaba excremento a una parrillada que se llevaba a cabo por lxs simpatizantes de la tortura animal; se agredía físicamente a unx de estxs bastardxs antrocentristas; hubo un pequeño enfrentamiento entre lxs activistas y el cuerpo represivo policial; mas adelante en el museo de la tauromaquia se atacaron sus “bonitos” adornos, se arrojo fruta podrida maloliente hacia dentro del recinto y se apedreo a unxs de estxs imbéciles dominadorxs de la tierra y sus habitantes.
Al concluir la manifestación el saldo de detenidos fue de 13 activistas privados de su libertad, por lo cual desde este comunicado expresamos nuestra más completa solidaridad y apoyo.
¡Libertad a las personas detenidas por la liberación animal!
¡Fuego a la policía, a las plazas de toros y a las cárceles, junto a sus carcelerxs!”
English:
“During the demonstration on February 5 (the date on which the bullfighters celebrate the anniversary of the largest bullring in Mexico) various direct action groups demonstrated that the radical movement for total liberation is growing day by day.
The riots began when police attempted to arrest one of the activists; after getting away from the police ring, the walls of the arena were stained with red, black, green and other colors of paint thrown in glass bottles; the windshields of bullfighter’s cars were smashed by stones and sticks; ‘Shitty speciesists!’ was painted on one of the arena’s great walls; the walls of the square shook with the roar of a large homemade bomb, excrement was hurled at a barbecue that was being held by animal torture sympathizers; one of those anthrocentric bastards was physically attacked; there was a small clash between activists and the repressive police force; much later in the bullfighting museum their ‘beautiful’ decorations were attacked, smelly rotten fruit was thrown into the building and stones were thrown at one of the imbeciles dominating the earth and its inhabitants.
At the conclusion of the demonstration, 13 activists had been arrested and deprived of their liberty, so it is because of this that in this communique we express our full solidarity and support.
Freedom to people arrested for animal liberation!
Fire to the police, the bullrings and the prisons, along with their jailers!”
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February 8, 2009 – Mexico
TELMEX PHONES DAMAGED BY FIRE
anonymous report:
“El Frente de Liberación de la Tierra le ha prendido fuego a 5 teléfonos de Telmex.
¡Que el sabotaje continúe!
México oculto”
English:
“The Frente de Liberación de la Tierra has set fire to 5 Telmex phones.
Let the sabotage continue!
Hidden Mexico”
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February 9, 2009 – Mexico
GASOLINE SPILLED INSIDE CHICKEN SLAUGHTERHOUSE
anonymous communique:
“Un rastro (matadero) de pollos en el Distrito Federal quedo dañado por el fuego, cuando se derramo gasolina dentro de él durante una noche de febrero.
Lxs torturadorxs no esperaban llegar a sus puestos de “trabajo” y encontrar una considerable proporción de daños propiciados por abolicionistas veganxs del Frente de Liberación Animal.
El sabotaje funciono muy bien, pues parte de su mercancía y de su tiempo fue devorado por el fuego, los camiones transportadores de cadáveres quedaron parados. La policía intervino en el caso y seguramente estén investigando, pero nuestro instinto y las ganas de libertad es mas fuerte que su represión.
A.L.F México”
English:
“A chicken slaughterhouse in Mexico City (D.F.) was damaged by fire; we spilled gasoline inside it one night in February.
The torturers were not expecting to arrive at their places of ‘work’ and find such a considerable amount of damage caused by vegan abolitionists from the Frente de Liberación Animal.
The sabotage worked well, as part of their merchandise and their time was devoured by the fire, the trucks that transport the carcasses were shut down. The police intervened in the case and surely will be investigating, but our instinct and the desire for freedom are stronger than its repression.
A.L.F México”
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February 11, 2009 – Mexico
TELMEX SABOTAGE CONTINUES
received anonymously:
“Preparadxs con pegamentos, tarjetas cortadas y clips, salimos la noche del 9 de febrero a sabotear una vez los teléfonos de Telmex.
¡Continuaremos con estos actos hasta la abolición de la dominación sobre la tierra!
Ludditas Contra la Domesticación de la Naturaleza Salvaje”
English:
“Prepared with glue and cutting instruments, we went out on the night of February 9 to sabotage, once again, Telmex phones.
We will continue with these actions until the abolition of domination over the earth!
Luddites Against the Domestication of Wild Nature”
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February 14, 2009 – Mexico
FLAMING BARRICADE BLOCKS HIGHWAY
anonymous report:
“Hemos obstruido una autopista importante en el estado de mexico con una barricada hecha por lxs Ludditas Contra la Domesticación de la Naturaleza Salvaje. El fuego ilumino la oscura noche de paz y tranquilidad para aquellas personas que transportan en grandes camiones sus “materias primas” extraídas directamente de la explotación de la tierra. El caos de nueva cuenta se hizo presente delante los ojos de los deambulantes y la policía que llego al lugar después de que se apagara la fiesta incendiaria.
Romperemos su preciado orden social con nuestros salvajes, insurrectos y radicales métodos de lucha.”
English:
“We have blocked a major highway in Mexico State with a barricade made by the Luddites Against Domestication of Wild Nature. The fire lit up the dark night of peace and tranquility for those people who carry in large trucks ‘raw materials’ extracted directly from the earth. The chaos was again before the eyes of the police who arrived on the scene to put out the incendiary fiesta.
We break their precious social order with our wild, insurgent and radical methods of struggle.”
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February 14, 2009 – Mexico
MESSAGE LEFT FOR OWNER OF LEATHER COMPANY
received anonymously:
“La noche del pasado jueves 12 del presente mes, febrero, visitamos
nuevamente la asesina croporacion de pieles “mendele” en mexico
d.f.
esta vez pintamos algunas consignas como: pieles=muerte, y un
mesaje para uno de los empresarios: “Aaron estas en la mira del
f.l.a.”, tambien sellamos el candado de la puerta principal.
Si mendele no para de asesinar animales, el f.l.a. lo parara, a
nuestra manera, la unica, la necesaria para conseguir la liberacion
animal.
Frente de liberacion animal…mexico.”
English:
“On Thursday night, the 12th of this month, we once again visited the murderous ‘Mendele’ leather corporation in Mexico City (D.F.).
This time we painted slogans such as: skin = death, and a message for one of the owners: ‘Aaron, you are in the sights of these f.l.a.’; we also sealed the lock on the front door.
If Mendele does not stop murdering animals, the f.l.a. will stop them our way, the only, necessary way to ensure animal liberation.
Frente de liberacion animal…mexico.”
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February 19, 2009 – Mexico
TELMEX PHONES GLUED SHUT
anonymous report:
“10 teléfonos de Telmex han sido saboteados con pedazos de hierro introducidos por el orificio de la tarjeta con súper pegamento.
¡Que el sabotaje no pare!
FLT/ELF Mexico”
English:
“10 Telmex phones have been sabotaged by putting pieces of iron with superglue into the calling card hole.
The sabotage will not stop!
FLT/ELF Mexico”
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February 20, 2009 – Mexico
FREEDOM FOR TWO HENS
anonymous report:
“En la madrugada del 17 de febrero, activistas del FLA-CVN salian a dar un paseo nocturno en contra de lxs especistas, cuando cuerpos represivos de la asquerosa “seguridad” del Edo. de Mex. nos detubieron, quitandonos las herramientas para llevar a cabo nuestra acción;pensaban que eso nos impediria llegar a nuestro objetivo, pues que equivocadxs estaban! Ya que saliendo de la asquerosa comisaría, fuimos con mas rabia y mas ancias de libertad para dos gallinas que se encontraban encarceladas, privadas de su libertad y dominadas en una iglesia. El rescate nos fue un poco dificil sin herramientas que nos ayudasen, pero era mas nuestra conviccion y coraje, que el pequeño impedimento. Asi que rompimos una reja que separaba a las aves de su libertad y nos fuimos junto con ellas bajo la luz de una luna hermosa.
Ahora ese par de gallinas gozan de plena libertad sin tener que soportar más la dominacion de la iglesia o cualquier otro ser humanx.
Este es un mensaje para todxs aquellxs que quieran reprimir el deseo de libertad, y si nos ponen muros los saltaremos, si nos agarran nos solatermos, y si impiden nuestro camino lxs derribaremos!
Ni las camaras de seguridad, ni la policia, ni lxs especistas nos podran parar! Esto aun no acaba, el fuego sigue expandiendose cada vez mas…Fuego a todo lo que nos reprime!!!!
Frente de Liberación Animal- Comando Verde Negro”
English:
“In the early morning hours of February 17, FLA-CVN activists went out for a nighttime stroll against speciesists. When the repressive Mexico State ’security’ discovered us, we got rid of the tools to carry out our action. They thought that this would prevent us from reaching our objective, but they were wrong!
When we were leaving the filthy station, we went with more rage and more of a yearning for freedom for two hens who had been discovered imprisoned, dominated and deprived of their liberty in a church. The rescue was a little difficult without the tools that would have helped us, but we had enough conviction and courage to overcome the small impediment. We broke a fence that separated the birds from their freedom and we left along with them under the light of a beautiful moon.
Now this pair of hens enjoy complete freedom without having to endure the domination of the church or any other human being.
This is a message for all those who want to suppress the desire for freedom; if they put walls in our way we will jump them, if they catch us we will get away, and if they block our path we will knock them down!
Neither the security cameras, nor the police, nor the speciesists can stop us! This is not over yet, the fire continues to expand each time there is more… fire to all that oppresses us!!!!
Frente de Liberación Animal- Comando Verde Negro”
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February 23, 2009 – Mexico
ELF TORCH EARTH-DESTROYING MACHINES
received anonymously:
“La expansión urbanística es uno de los mayores problemas ecológicos, pues con las carreteras construidas sobre tierra fértil se vienen un montón de consecuencias como son la contaminación, el calentamiento del suelo por el calor excesivo, la tala masiva de arboles, etc. La expansión de la Civilización y su tecnología innecesaria deja al mundo a en manos de lxs poderosxs que controlan los aparatos represivos del estado listxs para acabar con cualquier tipo de resistencia que se les ponga en frente para frenar su racha de destrucción.
Es por eso que por la noche del 22 de febrero lxs elfxs decidimos salir por las noches del estado de México y prenderle fuego a una maquina destructora de la tierra y un camión propiedad de lxs dominadorxs.
Lo decimos una vez mas, no habrá piedad mientras logremos la abolicion de todo lo que nos oprime.
F.L.T/E.L.F”
English:
“Urban expansion is one of the biggest ecological problems, with roads being built over fertile land comes loads of consequences such as pollution, warming of the ground with excessive heat, massive felling of trees, etc. The expansion of civilization and its unnecessary technology leaves the world in the hands of the powerful who control the repressive state apparatus ready to stop any kind of resistance that is put in front of them to halt their run of destruction.
It is for this reason that on the night of February 22 we of the ELF decided to go out at night in Mexico State and set fire to a machine that destroys the earth and a truck owned by the dominators.
We say it once again, there will be no mercy until the abolition of all that oppresses us.
F.L.T/E.L.F”
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February 28, 2009 – Mexico
TELMEX PHONES PAINTED
anonymous report:
“8 teléfonos mas de la compañía Telmex destructora de la tierra y patrocinadora de las corridas de toros, fueron saboteados con pintura en aerosol por Lxs Ludditas Contra la Domesticación de la Naturaleza Salvaje.
¡No nos vamos a detener!
México”
English:
“8 more telephones from the Telmex company, destroyer of the land and sponsor of bullfights, were sabotaged with spray paint by the Luddites Against Domestication of Wild Nature.
We will not stop!
México”
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March 3, 2009 – Mexico
GRAFFITI PROTEST AGAINST SLAUGHTER OF DOGS
received anonymously:
“Diferentes pintas en el municipio de Jaltenco en el Estado de México amanecieron la mañana del 28 de febrero, como respuesta a la masacre contra perros y gatos perpetuada por la policía de dicho municipio (ver más información en: ¡La pasividad no sirve ante estos hechos, lxs animales piden la acción directa para vengarlos y liberarlos!
¡El gobierno está de lado de lxs especistas démosles fuego!
Frente de Liberación Animal – México Anti-especista FLA-MA”
English:
“In the municipality of Jaltenco in Mexico State, graffiti appeared at dawn on the morning of February 28, as a response to the slaughter of dogs and cats perpetuated by the police of that municipality (see more information at: http://www.asesinatodeperrosygatosenjaltenco.blogspot.com/).
Passivity is not helpful in the face of these deeds, the animals demand direct action to avenge and free them!
The government is on the side of the speciesists, lets give them fire!
Frente de Liberación Animal – México Anti-Speciesist FLA-MA”
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March 6, 2009 – Mexico
POLICE STATION BURNED IN PROTEST OF SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS IN JALTENCO
received anonymously:
“El Frente de Liberación Animal – México Anti-especista se responsabiliza del incendio intencionado dentro del Ministerio Publico de la policía judicial en el municipio de Jaltenco en el Estado de México, esto lo hicimos como respuesta a la masacre de perros y gatos perpetuada por policías de dicho municipio en pasado 23 de Febrero. Las asquerosas autoridades taparon la verdad y dijeron que el fuego había sido causado por un calentador y que solo se había quemado papel. Ellxs y más que nadie saben que se destruyo material importante y las pérdidas fueron de miles de pesos.
La guerra seguirá, lxs bastardxs policías torturadorxs recibirán una respuesta radical contra el crimen del 23.
¡Jaltenco va a arder!
F.L.A.M.A”
English:
“The Frente de Liberación Animal – Anti-speciesist México is responsible for the arson inside the Public Ministry of the judicial police in the municipality of Jaltenco in Mexico State. We did this as a response to the slaughter of dogs and cats perpetuated by police in that municipality on February 23. The filthy authorities hid the truth and said that the fire had been caused by a heater and that it had only burned some paper. They know more than anyone that important material was destroyed and that the losses were thousands of pesos.
The war will continue, the torturing police bastards will receive a radical response to the crime of the 23rd.
Jaltenco will burn!
F.L.A.M.A”
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACzj2zOEWiA
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March 7, 2009 – Mexico
“THE FIRE WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT”
received anonymously:
“La noche del 6 de Marzo el Frente de Liberación Animal-México Anti-especista regreso por segunda vez al Ministerio Publico de la policía Judicial y realizo una pinta reivindicatoria que decía: ‘¡El Fuego no fue accidente!’ y ‘F.L.A.M.A’. Después, unos metros más adelante en un centro de salud perteneciente al torturador gobierno del Estado de México, mientras policías estaban distraídos, hemos pintado en una de sus paredes blancas: ‘¡Fuego a la policía por la masacre del 23 contra animales indefensos!’
¡Regresaremos a Jaltenco a continuar la guerra!
F.L.A.M.A”
English:
“On the evening of March 6 the Animal Liberation Front-México Anti-speciesist returned for the second time to the Public Ministry of the Judicial Police and painted in protest: ‘The fire was not an accident!’ and ‘F.L.A.M.A..’ Then, a few meters ahead in a health center belonging to the torturing government of Mexico State, while police were distracted, we painted on one of its white walls, ‘Fire to the police for the massacre of defenseless animals on the 23rd!’
We return to Jaltenco to continue the war!
F.L.A.M.A”
*On February 23 in Jaltenco (Mexico State), a masked group of people broke into the property of a man who had provided temporary shelter to street dogs and cats and brutally killed many dogs and cats with machetes and pipes. The local police did nothing to stop the killing and instead prevented people from helping.
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March 11, 2009 – Mexico
TELMEX PHONES SABOTAGED
anonymous report:
“9 de Marzo.
5 teléfonos de Telmex mas saboteados por Lxs Ludditas Contra la Domesticación de la Naturaleza Salvaje.
México Salvaje”
English:
“March 9.
5 more Telmex phones were sabotaged by the Luddites Against Domestication of Wild Nature.
Wild México”
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March 11, 2009 – Mexico
GRAFFITI AGAINST DOMESTICATION
reported anonymously:
“Pintas alusivas contra la domesticación y a favor de la liberación animal, humana y de la tierra fueron puestas en muchas paredes del Estado de México, esto como difusión de las ideas anti-antropocentristas.
Ludditas Contra la Domesticación de la Naturaleza Salvaje”
English:
“Graffiti in opposition to domestication and in favor of animal, human and earth liberation was painted on many walls in Mexico State, as a way of spreading anti-anthropocentrist ideas.
Luddites Against the Domestication of Wild Nature”
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March 11, 2009 – Mexico
SHOPS GRAFFITIED
anonymous report:
“Varios comercios de explotacion animal fueron atacados con varias pintas en el Estado de Mexico.
F.L.A”
English:
“Several shops that exploit animals were attacked with graffiti in Mexico State.
F.L.A.”
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March 13, 2009 – Mexico
HOAX BOMB LEFT AT JALTENCO POLICE STATION
received anonymously:
“El pasado 10 de Marzo, la policía estatal y municipal de Jaltenco en el Estado de México, encontraron a las afueras de una comisaria Estatal una bomba con cinta metálica, cables, pilas y un reloj, por lo que al ver esto cercaron la zona creyendo que la bomba explotaría en cualquier instante; al final la bomba se encontró que era falsa y que iba a acompañada de un mensaje:
‘Incendiamos el M.P de la Judicial, pronto el fuego será para ustedes’
‘Venganza a los animales asesinados el 23′
‘F.L.A.M.A’
Los culpables de la matanza animal del 23 de febrero reciben su castigo, con intimidación, amenazas, paranoia y fuego.”
English:
“On March 10, the state and Jaltenco municipal police in Mexico State found on the outskirts of a state police station a bomb with a metal band, cables, batteries and a clock; in order to look at it they fenced off the area believing that the bomb would explode at any moment; in the end they found that it was a false alarm, and that it was accompanied by a message:
‘We will burn down the Judicial MP, soon the fire will be for you’
‘Vengeance for the animals murdered on the 23rd’
‘F.L.A.M.A’
The perpetrators of the animal massacre of February 23 are receiving their punishment, with intimidation, threats, paranoia, and fire.”
*On February 23 in Jaltenco (Mexico State), a masked group of people broke into the property of a man who had provided temporary shelter to street dogs and cats and brutally killed many dogs and cats with machetes and pipes. The local police did nothing to stop the killing and instead prevented people from helping.
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March 14, 2009 – Mexico
19 SECONDS OF SOCIAL WAR
anonymous communique:
“El capitalismo principal causante de la destrucción de la flora y
la fauna en este planeta, opresor y asesino de la vida salvaje,
explotador de personas, animales y naturaleza para el beneficio de
los poderosxs y las corporaciones , en México tiene la guerra
declarada.
Tantas hectáreas de bosques y selvas talados con el único propósito
de construir centros de comercio y turismo, sobre los cadáveres de
los arboles y los animales se construyen centros comerciales,
bancos, campos de golf, campos de casería, hoteles, todo reservado
para una minoría de asquerosxs capitalistas que se enriquecen a
base de la explotación.
A la gente se le engaña, diciendo que este ‘progreso’ traerá mas
fuente de trabajo, algunos ceden, otrxs mas resisten y al final
algunos son asesinadxs junto con el lugar donde nacieron, donde
crecieron, donde viven con respeto para la naturaleza.
Esto no puede continuar asi!!!
Lxs poderosxs tienen que sentir toda nuestra furia en sus
propiedades, en sus corporaciones, en sus autos, e incluso en sus
mismas casas, necesitamos atormentarles, recordarles la mierda que
hacen dia con dia a este hermoso planeta donde vivimos, recordarles
que mientras ellxs están durmiendo tranquilxs hay muchas personas
que están sufriendo y sobreviviendo de las miserias de este
sistema.
Por estas razones y mas reivindicamos los siguientes sabotajes:
Martes 10 de marzo del presente 2009:
- -Un inofensivo petardo de acido fue detonado en una zona acomodada
en la ciudad de México.
- -8 cristales de un K.F.C. fueron destrozados.
- -Los cristales y una cámara de seguridad de un banco fueron
destrozados.
El video que sigue se llama: ‘19 segundos de guerra social’ y en
el tratamos de demostrar que vasta con unos pocos segundos de
nuestras vidas para romper con esta realidad de opresión y
explotación, que vasta con unos pocos segundos de nuestra vida para
sentir la adrenalina de la abolición, que vasta unos pocos momentos
para llevar a cavo una lucha directa contra el estado y el capital.
La guerra social no es una broma, ni una moda, sino una realidad
en constante desarrollo y crecimiento.
La guerra social es inevitable.
Célula eco-anarquista por el ataque directo.
México d.f.
este es el link del video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg6WXEEiB4c
o buscar en you tube como. 19 segundos de guerra social.”
English:
“Capitalism is the principal cause of the destruction of plant and animal life on this planet, the oppressor and murderer of wild life, exploiter of people, animals and the environment for the benefit of the powerful and the corporations; in Mexico war is declared.
So many hectares of forests and jungles are cleared for the sole purpose of building centers for shopping and tourism, over the dead bodies of the trees and animals they build shopping malls, banks, golf courses, hunting lodges, hotels, all reserved for a small group of filthy capitalists so that they can enrich the base of exploitation.
They deceive the people, saying that this ‘progress’ will bring more employment; some give in, others resist but in the end are murderers in the place where they were born, where they grew up, where they live.
It can not continue like this!
The powerful have to feel our fury at their properties, in their corporations, in their cars, and even in their own houses; we need to torment them, to remind them of the shit that they do day by day to this beautiful planet where we live, to remind them that while they are sleeping peacefully there are many people who are suffering and surviving the hardships of this system.
For these reasons and more we claim the following sabotages:
Tuesday, March 10, 2009:
- A harmless acid bomb was detonated in a well-to-do area in Mexico City.
- 8 windows at a K.F.C. were smashed.
- The windows and a security camera of a bank were smashed.
The video is called: ‘19 seconds of social war’ and in it we try to show how much can be done in a few seconds of our lives to break with the reality of oppression and exploitation, for a few short seconds, to feel the adrenaline of abolition, for a few moments carrying out the fight against the state and capital.
Social war is not a joke or a fad, but a reality in constant development and growth.
Social war is inevitable.
Eco-anarchist cell for direct attack.
México d.f.”
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March 15, 2009 – Mexico
EXPLOITIVE SHOPS GLUED
received anonymously:
“El 14 de Marzo varios comercios de explotación animal han sido sellados asi como también varios teléfonos de la biocidia compañía Telmex han sufrido desperfectos por Lxs Ludditas Contra la Domesticacion de la Naturaleza Salvaje.
México”
English:
“On March 14 several businesses that engage in animal exploitation were glued and several telephones of the biocidal Telmex company also suffered damage by the Luddites Against the Domestication of Wild Nature.
México”
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March 18, 2009 – Chile
BUTCHERS SABOTAGED
anonymous communique:
“En la 1º noche del fin de semana recién pasado, en la asquerosa ciudad de
santiago, nos encontramos con 2 grandes carnicerías ante lo cual quisimos
dar nuestro aporte y dificultar el trabajo de lxs asesinxs, decidimos
hacer algo fácil y que nos tomaría poco tiempo.
Tomando algún material con el cual pudiéramos tapar las cerraduras de los
candados nos acercamos a nuestro objetivo, la primera carnicería tenia 4
candados en la puerta principal que permite abrir todas las cortinas
metálicas desde adentro (las que eran como 3 cortinas), después de tapar
bien las cerraduras adornamos las paredes del local escribiendo “carne es
muerte” y “asesinos”. La segunda carnicería era más grande, esta tenia una
puerta principal (con una cerradura y 2 candados) por donde ingresan lxs
asesinxs y 5 cortinas metálicas (con 7 candados en total), después de
tapar todos los candados y la cerradura pintamos en la puerta del local
“asesinos” y “FLA”.
En la 2º noche del fin de semana y con un poco de pegamento extrafuerte en
nuestros bolsillos nos dirigimos a otra carnicería, esta contaba con dos
cortinas metálicas y un total de 8 candados los cuales tapamos con pedazos
de metal y pegamento extrafuerte, también rayamos las murallas con
“asesinos” y una “(A)”. Al día siguiente la carnicería no abrió sus
cortinas…
Tapar candados, romper vidrios, dejar algún mensaje, etc. es algo muy
sencillo, pero no por ello menos importante… nosotrxs sabemos que
acciones como estas se realizan y no es la primera ves que nosotrxs lo
hacemos, pero si es la primera ves que lo reivindicamos a través de un
comunicado, porque nos dimos cuenta de que estábamos cometiendo un error
al no hacerlo.
Lo importante de reivindicar la acción…
No creemos en la jerarquización de la acciones, como creer que la acción
que produce más daño es la más importante o que liberar un animal no es
nada en comparación a la liberación de miles de animales. Lo importante es
romper el miedo y atreverse realizar sabotajes contra lxs opresorexs,
porque ellxs no dejaran de explotar con el poder del “convencimiento” y
de forma pacifica como lo creen algunxs.
Basta con una pequeña revisión a lo que esta sucediendo con nuestrxs
compañerxs en méxico, donde en un comienzo se podían leer comunicados
desde pintadas y ruptura de vidrios hasta la quema de maquinaria, ataques
a la policía y liberación de animales. Esto por la motivación de más
personas al ir viendo que la acción directa es un metodo practico y eficaz
en la lucha contra la explotación.
Solo nos queda decir que no valen las palabras si no van acompañadas con
la practica y que es necesaria la propaganda por el hecho. Y que nuestra
lucha contra el poder solo acabará con su destrucción.
Les enviamos un saludo fraterno a todxs quienes luchan contra la
explotación, sea esta de cualquier tipo sin excluir ni dar más relevancia
a ninguna.
por la destrucción de lo que nos oprime, guerra contra la explotación!
antiautoritarixs por la liberación”
English:
“On the first night of the weekend that just past, in the filthy city of
Santiago, we encountered 2 large butchers to which we wanted to
give our contribution and make the work of these murderers more difficult;
we decided to do something easy and which would take us very little time.
Taking whatever materials with which we could plug the locks on the
padlocks, we approached our target. The first butcher had 4
padlocks on the front door which were used to open all the metal shutters
from the inside (that were like 3 shutters); after plugging the locks well
we adorned the walls of the premises writing ‘meat is death’
and ‘murderers’. The second butcher was larger, this had a
front door (with a lock and 2 padlocks) where the murderers
enter and 5 metal shutters (7 padlocks in total); after plugging
all the padlocks and the door lock we painted on the door of the building
‘murderers’ and ‘FLA’.
On the 2nd night of the weekend and with a little superglue in
our pockets, we went to another butcher; this one had two
metal shutters and a total of 8 padlocks which we plugged with pieces
of metal and superglue; we also graffitied on the walls
‘murderers’ and ‘(A)’. The following day the meat market did not open their
shutters …
Plugging locks, breaking windows, leaving a message, etc. is very
simple, but that does not make it less important… we know that
actions like these are carried out and it is not the first time that we have done it,
but this is the first time that we claimed it through a communique,
because we realized we were making a mistake in not doing so.
It is important to claim an action …
We do not believe in a hierarchy of actions, like believing that the action
that produces the most damage is the most important or that releasing an animal is nothing in comparison to the liberation of thousands of animals. What is important is to smash the fear and to dare to carry out sabotage against the oppressors, because they will not stop exploiting through the power of ‘convincing’ and the form of pacifism that some believe in.
A small review of what is happening with our friends in Mexico is enough, where in the beginning communiques were read describing graffiti and breaking windows and now the burning of machinery, attacks against the police and the liberation of animals. More people will see that direct action is a practical and effective method in the fight against exploitation.
Words are worth little if they are not coupled with action.
Propaganda by deed is necessary. Our fight against power will only end
with its destruction.
We send a friendly greeting to all those who fight against exploitation,
whatever type without exclusion and without giving more significance to anyone.
For the destruction of what oppresses us, war against exploitation!
antiauthoritarians for liberation”
________________________________________________
March 22, 2009 – Chile
NIGHT OF SABOTAGE
anonymous communique:
“Durante la noche del sábado 21, subimos a nuestras bicicletas y nos
dirigimos a sabotear el trabajo de explotadores/as. En nuestros bolsos
llevábamos trozos de metal (previamente cortados) para poner en las
cerraduras y candados, pegamento extrafuerte y 2 latas de spray.
Una sucursal bancaria fue nuestro primer objetivo, con mucho pegamento y
metal sellamos la ranura donde se inserta la tarjeta para abrir la puerta
de acceso al cajero automático. En la puerta del banco rayamos “cerrado” y
una “(A)”.
Después nos dirigimos hacia un restaurante de comida rápida donde sellamos
los 2 candados y en la entrada del local rayamos “carne = muerte”.
El tercer objetivo fue una gran carnicería ubicada en una esquina muy
transitada, donde sellamos los 6 candados y unx de nosotrxs intento pasar
la reja para dejar un mensaje en la gran muralla blanca, pero debimos huir
puesto que se acercaba una patrulla policial.
Después de alejarnos del lugar sin causar sospecha rayamos todas las
murallas que encontrábamos con mensajes como “presxs politicxs a la
calle”, “29 de marzo a protestar!”, “enciende la mecha (A)”, también
rayamos sobre un mural del partido comunista donde tachamos su asquerosa
hoz y martillo, además escribimos “politicos a la hoguera”.
Por último nos dirigimos a otra carnicería donde sellamos los 4 candados
de las 2 puertas y rayamos “asesinos”.
Los sabotajes contra el capital y lxs asesinxs continuaran, no nos
conformamos con solo hablar, la acción directa es un método de ataque
contra quienes mercantilizan nuestras vidas y las de nuestrxs hermanxs
animales.
Creemos en el “aquí y ahora”, no esperaremos un momento idealizado para
actuar, atacaremos con todo lo que tengamos en nuestras manos.
Desde el anonimato de las acciones les enviamos un fuerte abrazo
insurrecto a quienes se atreven a romper con esta realidad, sacando
publicaciones, expropiando, lanzando piedras, prendiendo barricadas,
rompiendo vitrinas, incendiando y poniendo bombas.
Y para quienes buscan la pacibidad, la victimización y el movimiento de
“masas”, y que además han intentado de todas las formas pisotear las
acciones subversivas, sepan que son nuestrxs enemigxs y como ellxs seran
tratadxs!
destruyamos la autoridad, sus defensores/as y sus falsxs criticxs!
por la insurrección cotidiana!
Antiaturoritarixs por la Liberación.”
English:
During the night of Saturday 21, we climbed on our bikes and headed out
to sabotage the work of exploiters. In our bags we carried pieces of (previously
cut) metal to put in locks and padlocks, superglue and 2 spray paint cans.
A bank branch was our first target, with much superglue and metal we sealed the slot where the card is inserted to open the door to the ATM room. On the door of the bank we painted ‘closed’ and ‘(A)’.
Then we went to a fast food restaurant where we sealed 2 padlocks, and at
the entrance painted ‘meat = death.’
The third goal was a large butcher shop located on a very busy corner,
where we sealed the 6 padlocks and one of us tried to pass the gate to leave a
message on the big white wall, but had to flee when a police patrol got close.
After exiting the site without causing suspicion we painted all the walls
that we found with messages such as ‘political prisoners to the street’,
‘March 29 in protest!’, ‘Light the fuse (A)’, and we also painted over a mural
of the communist party where we crossed out their disgusting hammer and sickle; we also wrote ‘politicians to the stake’.
Finally we went to another butcher shop where we sealed the 4 padlocks on the 2 doors and we painted ‘murderers’.
Sabotage against capital and the murderers will continue, we will not settle
for just talk, direct action is a method of attack against those who have commodified our lives and those of our animal brethren.
We believe in the ‘here and now,’ we will not wait for an idealized moment to
act, we will attack with everything we have in our hands.
From behind the anonymity of the actions we are sending a big rebel hug to those who dare to break with this reality, using publications, expropriating,
throwing stones, setting barricades on fire, smashing shop windows, burning and making bombs.
And for those who seek pacificism, victimization and movement of the
‘masses’ and have tried all forms of trampling over the subversive actions,
they know they are our enemies and how they will be treated!
destroy authority, its supporters and false critics!
for the daily insurgency!
Antiauthoritarians for Liberation.”
Disclaimer: Autonomous/Anti-Authoritarian/Anarchist People of Color of Philadelphia (APOC Philly) collective is not affiliated or associated with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) or any other group or organization and does not conduct or incite any illegal or unethical activity. The above information is not meant to incite or request any illegal actions or illegal activities of any kind. If you have any questions about the legality of any act, we encourage everyone to check your local laws and ordinances before proceeding to do anything.
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