They would be already sidelined under casualties of war.


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Animal liberation – A movement evolving - a critical look at hierarchy
A critical look at hierarchy within the animal liberation movement and
other social justice movements and how a different approach to
campaigning might be needed.
Contributed by: Anonymous
Sunday, August 24 2008 @ 04:39 PM CDT
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=200808241639528

It has been many decades since the formation of the animal liberation
front as a group of individuals willing to take action to save the
lives of animals using tactics which were seen as radical and direct
action which crossed legal boundaries on many occasions. The ALF in
its infancy was seen as a group of super heroes willing to risk
freedom by the public and their brash actions were revered by those
who saw images of animals being rescued from the horrors of the
vivisection laboratory.

Some argue the animal liberation movement has lost public support
after being marginalized as terrorists by the police lobby groups and
state controlled media, however support received during street level
activism e.g. information stalls and animal rights outreach seems to
be as strong as ever.

It might sound cliché to say "make no mistake, we are at war" but this
sadly is a fact. With the creation of the Serious Organised Crime and
Police Act (SOCPA) and the creation of the National Extremist Tactical
Co-Ordination Unit (NETCU) evidence gatherers now interfere with
peaceful demonstrations and targeting so-called leaders and campaign
organisers of high profile campaigns such as SHAC (The campaign to
close Huntingdon Life Sciences) and SPEAK (Against the Oxford
University primate lab).

That said, the use of illegal direct action has continued across the
UK and animals are being liberated all the time from farms, breeders,
pet shops and various other exploitative [Please excuse my language... I'm an idiot] holes. The clandestine
non-hierarchical nature of the animal liberation front has always been
the key to its successes this is also the case with the Earth
Liberation Front who use the "no leader's" small cell approach where a
group of friends will decide to take action in defence of animals or
the planet earth and seem to almost always avoid capture by police or
security.

So we have two sides to our movement, the above ground, and those who
take part in clandestine actions to liberate animals and sabotage
industry. The police however have, in recent years taken the easy
option and started to target legitimate campaigners and have
imprisoned and remanded many high profile campaigners such as Greg
Avery of SHAC, Mel Broughton of SPEAK and most recently Sean Kirtley
of the Sequani campaign.

The police have taken the easy road and used "conspiracy" charges to
lock away campaigns for noisy demonstrations and supposed
intimidation. Conspiracy is a weapon of mass destruction for any
social justice movement as the supposed culprits don't have to have
actually broken the law themselves, they need to only have conspired
with others or as the law states "persons or persons unknown".

How terrifying for those who have kept within the boundaries of the
law thinking themselves safe from police tyranny. The Sequani trial
recently saw a media blackout to prevent any media coverage of the
case against six campaigners from the Sequani campaign against the
labs in Ledbury, Herefordshire. The reason being that the trial was a
farce, with supposed witnesses caught out in lies, admissible evidence
given in court and the small fact that the judge who sentenced Kirtley
was himself a blood sports enthusiast.

As a movement we will need to keep up the good fight and open
campaigning in the public eye is a must but we might be able to take
something from the success of the ALF and ELF that is the
non-hierarchical structure.

The Carnival Against Vivisection at the Sequani Labs in Ledbury on the
6th September will see the first mass action against a lab in years
which has no organisers and should serve as a template for future
actions and protest. In a time when organisers of lawful
demonstrations are criminalised we must do away with leadership. If
police wish to monitor us and take our photos we must cover our faces.
If they make legal avenues of protest impossible we have no option but
to take illegal direct action.

The police have only themselves to blame, we can disappear as an open
public protest movement but when the sun goes down, those who exploit
humans, animals and this planet are not and never will be safe from
those righteous people who are being born every day.

Resist!



A lot of folks that want to be left alone in trapping ,hunting and domestic animal fields had better realize the hatred that the ARA house against you is malignant and hate filled against you.