Category: HIT Report

9th April, Europe?

Via: @269.liberation_animale

“A TRIBUTE TO VIOLETTE” (OPERATION CUORE LIBERI ACT II): TWO PIGS LIBERATED FROM A SLAUGHTERHOUSE ON THE 9TH OF APRIL 2024 ! 

it calls us, it gives us a duty, it makes us rise. It brings us, relentlessly, in front of the same doors.

Violette was liberated last November, during the first “CUORE LIBERI” operation.
She was already weak when she arrived at the place that welcomed her. She got taken away shortly after by a pulmonary infection.

“The slaughterhouse” isn’t just a place. It’s also the factory ground for an exploitation that digs down to the bone.

A poison attacking animals and infiltrating their body. It sneaks in and grabs back those who it could not tear appart and dooms the ones who made it out. Slowly devouring them from the inside.

But we promised Violette that her name wouldn’t get to fade away.

Direct action as a way to fix those lives, slashed by slaughterhouses. As a way to never forget.

Scars only heal once you took revenge, at last.

Actions only stick when they are aimed at the power. So we put together another story, written with those at the bottom of the ladder.
All those worthless and invisible bodies, dying at rates so high we can’t even count them.

Violette’s lifeless body says it all, crudely.
And here we are, once again, meeting up to punch back.

We went in a forest, to slide into our second skin.
To turn our flashlights back on, providing us with this soft red light that makes our faces glow at night.

This time, we took revenge in a slaughterhouse.

The back door finally broke apart, as a gun going off in the dark, and we screamed. Maybe a little too much, but it made us happy.

A slaughterhouse isn’t just four walls and a roof, it’s someone. A border patrol guard standing in our way with it’s smell, straight out of a graveyard, and it’s captive bolt gun. It’s watching for the world to stay splitted between night and day, the ones who live and the ones who died, suburbs and towns, animals and us, victims and abusers, the exploited and the ones who profit.

The animal question stands here, between red, white and black.
Pigs dont have words coming out of their mouth. Instead, they look at you. They talk with their face, and we get it all.

It’s our burden because it makes us responsible.
When we get in, tired eyes and broken bodies immediately stand out.

Them and those cracks in the concrete flour, as a breach between what animals are forced to be and what’s forbidden to them.

A place to eradicate.

And that one pig, in the left corner of the first box, understood it.

That there’s nothing to understand no more.
That there’s no outside.
That his world stops, at the end of this corridor, tomorrow, at dusk.

So he’s drowning his eyes in the holes in the ground
As if this ground would suddenly break open.
Ending it all, now.

An animal who’s taking refuge in solitude, self mutilation or depression, is everything but a victim who consents and accepts the injustice done to them.

For those postures are still ways to resist, to try and bear the unimaginable. And for there is, in each attempt at resignation something that shows you as the actual looser of the fight.

We decide to carry this pig, because you cannot allow yourself to take the time to choose, or the memory of those left behind comes to chew at your head forever after.
As it’s time to get the hell out of there, we notice, in another dimly lit corner, another pig, smaller than the others. He’s isolated and has a tumor as big as a football. How could we leave without him ?

We carry him out too and decide that we’ll just figure things out later.

We each went our ways in the early morning, knowing that we’ll see each other again, soon.

After our last slaughterhouse blockade, local newspapers wrote this about us : “we dont know who they are, or when they’ll strike next”.

Ain’t gonna lie, we actually like this.

After this 27th liberation, we keep in our minds yet another unforgettable heritage.
At the end of the day it’s there, in those very moments, that life and death look at each other without hatred.
And between us remains light. The same light that emerges when a cage pops open.

To my comrades who keep hitting the road each week to write this story with me, alongside animals <3”

2nd of April, Bavaria

Received anonymously via email: 


“We came in the dark so these innocent animals would see the light the next morning. They did.

We have already been in the exact same egg farm 4 times before and liberated 36 hens from this place in total in 2023. We never claimed these actions until now because we hope the more actions are reported, the more people will be inspired to take action on behalf of the animals

This time on April the second 2024 we liberated 11 hens. from this filthy, horrible place.

They are crowded by the thousands in a concrete building wiht no windows.

No fresh air, no sundlight, no grass, so space just noise, bad smell, fecies, pain and death.

These poor animals are bred to lay an unnatural amount of eggs. They are only seen as egg laying machines and are sent to slaughterhouse as soon as the egg laying declines and the farmer makes less profit with them.

So if you are reading this we ask you to take action. Do some research , locate the farms in you area and go out at night and take as many animals as you caan carry. Make sure to find good homes where they can live in freedom and peace.

The 11 hens we liberated were brought to a secure , caring home where they have a lot of space to run around, they can now spent their days outside on grass, breathing fresh air and bathing in the sun. We want to use this moment now to express our gratitude to all those who offer a home for liberated animals. Thank you so much. We appreaciate everyone who takes action for these who have no chance but us. lets destroy the infrastructure of this slavery. While liberations, make sure the animals are safe and then destroy as much as possible.

We took dozens of eggs from the farm and fed them to the liberated animals. The eggs belong to them not to humans. If you cant carry loads of eggs just break them in the farm. This means financial loss for the farmer.

Expect to hear from us.

ALF”

10th April, Victoria, Australia

received anonymously via email:

“Earlier this year Jacinta Allen’s office was paid a visit by the A.L.F for her decision to go against her own governments recommendation to ban duck shooting. This is likely due to her personal ties with hunters, and the fair share of hunter population in her electorate. The A.L.F vowed to show up on the wetlands to disrupt and sabotage hunting activity. Here we are.

In the early morning of open day (10th April), the A.L.F paid a visit to Lake Colac and disrupted the sleep of hunters camped out on the lake by playing loud metal music and screaming out the windows. Song of choice for this fine morning was Deadbringer by Aborted.

Meanwhile down in Geelong near Lake Connewarre, on the morning of opening, a hunter broke shooting laws by opening fire at a swamp hen out of frustration. He opened fire at a pair of ducks flying overhead and when his shot missed, proceeded to shoot an illegal to shoot bird, a swamp hen. Further rules broken on the wetlands included a shooter carrying his gun unbroken, two wounded ducks not even attempted to be retrieved by the shooter who shot them and the flying of a drone. All illegal activities and the Game Management Authority were nowhere to be seen.

The duck shooting season will be active up until June 5th, we will be there day and night, ensuring hunters have as little joy as possible and we will bring you updates as they come. We vow to fight for the innocent ducks that have been slaughtered over the years and the ducks that are yet to be murdered.

Hunters will be hunted this duck shooting season.

We acknowledge the First Nations people whose land this action took place on. We stand in solidarity with their fight for freedom and liberation from the oppressive forces of colonialism.”

25th March, Tarragona, Catalonia.

Via Animal Liberation Press Office.

“2 chickens saved from small farm .
Now un sanctuary.”

14th March, Henry County USA

Via Scenes From the Atlanta Forest.

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“On the early morning of March 14th, we torched eight pieces of heavy construction machinery belonging to the Brent Scarbrough company (the contractor that is presently clearcutting the Weelaunee forest) at a site on Jonesboro Road in Henry County, Georgia. We hope everyone on their morning commute enjoyed the show. Despite the blaze being visible from a major road, what appears to be one of the most quantitatively effective attacks on the company’s equipment so far remains unreported in the media at the time of submission. This follows a previously observed pattern in which the news focuses only on reporting attacks that occur inside the perimeter. However, it appears that some of Brent Scarbrough’s largest sites, with the greatest amount of equipment, can be found by venturing further outside the city. It’s easy to find clues that construction sites are nearby, like Flock cameras, orange cones, and “road work” signs. When passing by a site, look for the arms of excavators bearing large and recognizable “Brent.us” logos. We’re getting closer every day. Let’s bankrupt them!”

4th April, Victoria, Australia

Received anonymously via email:

“Here we are again, another so-called free range egg farm entered by the A.L.F, taking with us 73 pullets. These little babies will no longer serve humans for profit. Instead, they will find the gentle side to human hands, surrounded by compassion and love.

Until every cage is empty, keep liberating.

The A.L.F acknowledges the First Nations people of the land this action took place, the damage colonisation does to the land, and the continued fight for liberation of First Nations people. We stand with Palestine in their fight against the Zionist state of Israel. From the river to the sea.

None are free until all are free.”

1st April, Gleiszellen Germany.

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According to local media, unknown people cut a hole in the fence holding deer in a game farm. Twenty deer broke free, most of them fallow deer but also some roe deer. The farmer, who raises the deer to shoot them, says that the damages amounted to 400 EUR. The police confirmed they had no suspects.

20th March, Atlanta USA.

via Scenes from the Atlanta Forest.

“Last month, a small team temporarily released a mounted patrol horse from the Atlanta Police Foundation/Atlanta Police Department stable. It was quick and easy to complete using simple ingredients: carrots, apples, food, and wire fence cutters. During this action and subsequent coverage, we learned that APD falsely claimed 24-hour surveillance and patrols around its facilities. Furthermore, APD insists on linking every anti-police action to their ill-conceived cop city project, instead of recognizing that some of us just want to see them shamed because they are an army of occupying clowns. We encourage readers in Atlanta and elsewhere to identify where police resources are concentrated in their own communities and to combat them in similar experimental ways after observation of surveillance flaws. Also, we recommend that you look into the history of Atlanta Mounted Patrol and other animals used as police weapons.”

25th March, Germany.

Via Indymedia.

[On the night of 25-26 March, a building went up in flames in the east of Halle-sur-Saale, a town about twenty kilometres from Leipzig in the region of Saxony-Anhalt. Only this grey suburban building was no ordinary building: it housed a martial arts gym called “Gladiator Fight Academy”, which the local neo-Nazis were about to open next April. All the equipment in the hall went up in flames, with damage estimated by the police at 250,000 euros. Below is the translation from the Indymedia report].

“In Halle, attempts are repeatedly being made to establish or strengthen a right-wing extremist scene. This is also the case with the planned opening of the “Gladiator Fight Academy” martial arts centre.

But Halle is once again showing its best side and leaving no room for the structural training of militant fascists.

On Tuesday morning (26.03.24), the warehouse where the fascists wanted to make themselves comfortable went up in flames. Initial estimates put the damage at a quarter of a million euros.

Thank you Halle.”

28th March, Victoria, Australia



Received anonymously via email:

“In the dead of the night, the A.L.F entered a so-called free range egg farm and liberated 28 lives. These beautiful girls will now spend the rest of their lives in loving homes, no longer commodified to feed the machine.

Until every cage, big and small is empty.

We would like to acknowledge that these hens were liberated from a business operating on stolen land. We acknowledge the First Nations people of so-called Australia and acknowledge the impact colonisation has had and continues to have on land and water. We stand and take action in solidarity with First Nations people in their fight for liberation. We stand and take action in solidarity with Palestine, Sudan, the Congo and all other places facing oppression and genocide. Solidarity always.”