A CALL FROM THE ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT

Far be it from me to condone such a thing, oh far be it from me.  As a law abiding American I certainly would never, ever, ever provide such coverage to something like you will read below except in the pursuit of knowledge.  I mean, can you even imagine that there are people who get so upset about the way animals are too often treated to actually, like, do something.  Surely, they must know better.  What would Ganhdi think?  This sort of thing is just not called for, not in a civilized, peaceful world...ooops.


This hello comes from Bite Back about some folks who bit back.


RODEO RING BURNED

anonymous communique (translation):

"At about 4:00am we turned our attention toward a symbol of the bourgeois and patriotic lie of animal exploitation in the city of Chillán, setting fire to the rodeo ring in the month when the $hilean state marks 201 years of slavery of the Mapuche people as well as us. It was set on fire, causing severe damage, and pamphlets were left with the following message: 'We resorted to "force"' and direct action as a form of defense of those who are oppressed and who can not defend themselves: the animals, who are enslaved, exploited and murdered day after day, with humans, and others exploited, the main accomplices of the torturing, murdering speciesists who carry out an even more violent system of domination, the same system that keeps us poor, slaves of money-- a State based on inequality and alienating ways of life. This system based on 'authority' is now charged with killing and torturing animals as if they were objects. We will bring social war to this system manifested in the State and Capitalism.

We dedicate this action to our comrade Claudia López, killed the 11th month of 1998, by the repressive forces of the State. We remember her in our daily struggles.

There will be no peace while the animals are slaves, while we are slaves, while the Earth has a master!

For Total Liberation (human, animal and the Earth).
Animal Liberation Front"

Spanish:
"A eso de las 04:00 am se acudió hacia el símbolo de la mentira burguesa y patriótica y de la explotación animal en Chillán, la media luna del rodeo, buscando causar fuego para destruir en el mes donde se cumplen 201 años de esclavitud del Estado $hileno tanto hacia el pueblo Mapuche como hacia nosotrxs. Se le prendió por medio de material inflamable causando daños graves y se dejaron panfletos con el siguiente texto: 'Recurrimos a la "fuerza"' y la acción directa como forma de defensa de aquellos oprimidos que no pueden defenderse: los animales, a quienes practicas como el burgués rodeo, esclavizan, explotan y asesinan día a día, siendo los humanxs como otrxs explotadxs, lxs primerxs cómpices de estas especistas torturas y matanzas efectuadas por un violento sistema de dominación aún mayor, el mismo que nos mantiene pobres, esclavxs del dinero, de un Estado basado en la desigualdad y de sus alienantes modelos de vida. Este mismo sistema basado en la 'autoridad' ahora se está encargando de asesinar y torturar animales como si estos fuesen objetos. A este mismo sistema manifestado en un Estado y Capital, la guerra social le haremos.

Dedicamos está acción a la compañera Claudia López, asesinada el 11 de este mismo mes en 1998, por las fuerzas represivas del Estado; con lucha diaria, la recordamos.

¡No habrá paz mientras los animales sean esclavos, no habrá paz mientras nosotrxs seamos esclavxs, no habrá paz mientras la Tierra tenga dueño!

Por la Liberación Total (humana, animal y de la Tierra).
Frente de Liberación Animal"