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Press Office Directive: The North American Animal Liberation Press
Office (NAALPO) was founded to communicate the actions, strategies,
and philosophy of the animal liberation movement to the media and the
public. Many of these actions are illegal under a current societal structure
that fails to recognize the rights of non-human animals to live free of
suffering, but validates and promotes the "right" of industries to do
whatever they want to animals for profit or research. Within these
conditions, those in the underground working for animal liberation often
cannot speak out directly. Nevertheless, their actions and message is
urgent and deserve to be heard and understood. Since animal liberation
actions either go unreported in the media or are uncritically vilified as "violent" and as "terrorist" with no attention paid to the suffering that
industries and individuals gratuitously inflict on animals, NAALPO seeks
to clarify the motivation and nature of actions taken in defense of animals.
The Press Office also tries to provide a historical, social, and
philosophical context for an objective understanding of the nature and
motivation of illegal direct actions taken on behalf of captive animals.
Are you or someone you know looking for a provocative, educational
speaker on the issue of animal liberation? Our Press Officers are available
to speak to groups of three to three thousand- just call, write or e-mail and
we’ll do our level-best to meet your needs.
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2007 was the third full year of operations at the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, which has had the good fortune to see acts of
animal liberation continue to increase, and succeeded in increasing the
visibility of that struggle and its victims. With the support of thousands of
activists and benefactors, Press Officers completed more than 70
interviews last year with the mainstream media, provided the animals' side
of the story in dozens of news articles and accounts, delivered inspirational
and informative talks all over the world, and hopefully inspired many more
people to join the struggle against those who abuse, exploit, torture, and
murder non-human animals. There were at least 53 claimed actions by the animal liberation
underground in North America in 2007, almost twice the number from the
year before - and there are undoubtedly many more actions that went
unclaimed. From amongst these acts of liberation and sabotage, we were
able to document and publicize numerous successes on behalf of animals
in 2007, including:
* POM Wonderful juice company pledged to stop all animal testing after
the Animal Rights Militia claimed to have tampered with their product on
east coast store shelves (January 17)
* Animal Liberationist Peter Young was freed from prison, rejoining the
movement to inspire activists to take on animal abusers (February 1)
* Eco-warrior Jeff Leurs had his 23 year prison sentence for burning
SUV tires overturned. (February 15)
* 20 rabbits saw freedom in South Carolina as a result of an ALF
liberation. (February 28)
* UCLA, UCSD and OHSU vivisectors come under increased attack; no
more business-as-usual torturing animals in California and Oregon. (June,
July, August, October, November, December)
* 8 fishing boats were disabled on the US east coast, unable to
participate in tournament designed to kill fish for amusement (August 22)
* A Norwegian whaling ship was sunk in its harbor. (September 16)
* 6000 wild mink were set free from their prison by activists in
Newfoundland. (September 18)
* Wachovia Securities and AXA Group cut their ties to HLS after ALF
attacks. (November 17)
* 102 hens go free from Utah farm when ALF raids their facility.
(November 23)
There were regrettably also some losses for animals during the year -
most notably, the imprisonment of warriors from the Pacific Northwest who
were victims of snitches, snitches like Jacob Ferguson, Stan Meyerhoff,
Jen Kolar, Lacey Philabaum, Suzanne Savoie, Chelsea Gerlach, Darren
Thurston, Kevin Tubbs, Kendall Tankersly, Lauren Weiner, Ryan Lewis
and Zach Jensen. As a result, our movement added new prisoners
Jonathan Paul, Daniel McGowan, Joyanna Zacher, Nathan Block, and Eric
McDavid. These prisoners of the state need and deserve our support. To
learn more, click here.
To all those liberationists and liberationists-to-be, you have our eternal
thanks and never-ending support. To those who cannot or will not join their
ranks, help out by supporting the Press Office instead of wasting your
money sending it to national organizations that pay six-figure salaries and
wallow in expensive office buildings. And to those who exploit, abuse,
torture, and murder our non-human brethren: May you feel the heat in
more ways than one in 2008!
For the animals:
The Press Office
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