According to media reports, on August 9th
as many as 10,000 mink were released from cages at two fur farms near
the city of Kozani in northern Greece. Despite the mobilization of local
fur farmers, 3,000 mink have not been recaptured. Animal rights
activists are suspected of involvement.
January 9 , 2009 -- Fur Farm Liberation Communique Released
anonymous communique:
"The night of December 14, our group trespassed on a mink farm
outside Siatista, and liberated more than 1.000 mink.
We claim this action, for all the animals hit by cars, hunger and
thirst, left to cannibalise each other, for the damages they may have
caused to the local ecosystem. But first, the gang of fur-farmers should
claim their own responsibility for the genocide they act out every day,
for the brutal annihilation of hundreds of thousands of souls every
year, for the innocent creatures they flay alive for being unlucky
enough to be born with a beautiful fur, for the miserable conditions of
captivity they force them into. Until then, we claim only the
opportunity and the joy we share with these creatures to live free, some
for a long time, others for short.
In the video
we have published on the internet, the lack of fundamental sanitation
rules is obvious. The animals feces hasn't been cleaned for ages. This
isn't just the imprisoned animals problem being forced to live in a
constantly polluted environment, it also raises a matter of public
health. We call and challenge the state and those responsible to prove
their existance and act upon the legislature, imposing the appropriate
penalties.
Though we are aware that all this happens inside the hell-hole farms
lawfully. Or at least we want to believe the lawful things and only
happen. We call and challenge the 'farmers' to open to the public what's
going on lawfully, inside their 'farms'. Just allow a journalist to go
inside with a camera and have an ordinary report coming out. Show to the
people you lawfully murder innocent creatures with anal electro-shock
machines. Show to the people you murder innocent creatures in gas
chambers. Share with us your exclusiveness in cries of agony. Do that
and we will surrender to the authorities and claim our responsibilities
according to the laws. What do you have to hide?
And to put an end to this fairy tail of fur keeping local communities
alive as the farmers claim... 200 years ago local communities and whole
states based their economy on human slavery. Apparently they had the
same points with the fur farmers. But the world evolved and those that
wouldn't mind that, were forced to mind it. The world keeps evolving and
the fur trade finally meets with global odium. Those not minding that,
will have to be forced to mind it. If you want money for your
communities, bother yourselves with their environmental development.
Right now, your fortunes are made of the blood of innocent souls. 10
years ago you were crying to the mass media --media of mass
domestication-- claiming fur is going downwards, and you don't earn
enough, you are forced to migrate and other bullshit. Now that you
turned yourselves to ass kissers of the Russian riches your problems
seem to be over. Beware, your problems have just started. Think upon
your selections, because we'll be always in your way. When 10.000.000
children die of hunger every year, fur's niche marketing can't even
touch our logic.
With the above reasons and on the occasion of our liberation action,
we call everyone to found together a panhellenic (national) federation
to fully ban the fur enterprises in our country. Contribute to this
league by any means possible. Create cells in your area or act alone.
Act legally or illegally. Organize peaceful demonstrations, spray paint
slogans, destroy furs, break fur shop glass windows, invade fur farms
and liberate animals. The only requirement we ask for, is the principle
of non violence against human or other animals.
PS1: To whom fur farmer it may concern, to claim the EU's money pack
for fur farms: Better plan on a generous insurance to cover your
enterprise and don't you mind the money: you'll need it.
PS2: To mr. Bouzalis, mr Papadopoulos and the rest of Kastoria and
Kozani parliament members, as well as officials of the ministries of
Development and Foreign Affairs. Your concern on fur is totally opposite
to ours. We hope we won't hear again the word 'fur' from your mouths
inside the parliament, and that we won't see any of you in any
fur-farmers event. We will be very disappointed.
Have a happy new year with lots of empty cages.
Corvus revengis"
December 18, 2008 -- Fur Farm Liberation
The ALF has claimed responsibility for the liberation of 1000 mink at
a fur farm in the town of Siatista. (The area of northern Greece,
including the town of Siatista, is a major manufacturing center for the
fur industry in Europe.)
Greek fur farm investigation:
May 4, 2008 -- 250 Rats Liberated from University Lab
The world of 'pollution', that has become a field of study for large
social parts, is for others an everyday field for direct action for its
subversion. Life in capitalism seems to have lost its meaning,
everything seems to be predictable, known and dead before they are even
realised. Without any measure, everything gains substance and value
based only on the profit it produces. The System doesn't hesitate to
exploit everything alive for its own reproduction, to turn everything
living into a cog of its terrifying machinery. It has no hesitations to
pollute the air, the food and the water of its 'subjects' in order to
gain profit. Those that claim to govern us, experiment and exploit
humans as easily as they do to animals.
IN CAPITALISM NOTHING IS ACCIDENTAL, THEY ALL FIT THE SAME PROJECT OF
EXPLOITATION.
Every day that passes, hundreds of animals are butchered inside
laboratories. Their lives are turned to one, brief time, study, on an
indifferent laboratory ratio, in its best, on an intriguing reaction.
Multinational companies (the same ones that drive their employees to
hunger) test their products on them. Pharmacy industries and medical
teams (the same that are responsible for innumerable deaths of patients)
test their studies on them.
Of course, the animals are also used, apart from the evolution of
medical methods, for teaching. As a part of the 'holy' plan of
education, they form part of the educational procedure within the
university. They are not treated as something alive, with an inalienable
right to freedom, but as a component of the courses.
Willing to resist somehow the generalised exploitation of earth and
the animals, a few days ago we liberated around 250 white rats from the
building of the aristotle university that holds the faculties of
Biology, Zoology and Pharmacy. Rats, stacked gasping for breath in dirty
cages, had never felt the breeze, the only color they had seen was
white, and never faced the sunlight...
FREEDOM FOR LIFE
FREEDOM FOR ALL
...untill their civilization turns into ruins
Thessaloniki 2/5/2008"
January 17, 2008 -- Four Rats Rescued from Laboratory
reported by activists in Greece (click
here for video from the action):
"On the 15th of January at TEI University in Thessaloniki, Greece
about 15 people interrupted a planned experiment on a living animal.
Professor and students as well were tying to hide the fact that any
experiments were going on. But pushed by 15 masked people, the professor
unlocked the lab and liberators took from it 4 lab rats. After that he
was punched and spit on by several people. This is just the beginning."
