No. 103, Jan. 4-10, 2001

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Social justice groups gear up for inaugural demonstrations

By Kathy Gambrell

Washington, DC, Dec. 31— Organizers of inauguration day protests are calling the day President-elect George W. Bush takes his oath of office “J20,” and are hoping to draw hundreds of thousands of demonstrators from around the country to trek to Washington for a mass demonstration.

“There is an enormous amount of spontaneous organizing going on all over,” said Brian Becker, co-director of New York-based International Action Center. Becker said that while large organizations like his are selling tickets for seats on buses headed for Washington, many individuals plan to pack up the car and travel into town with friends.

Becker’s group is one among many mobilizing to demonstrate against what they consider a stolen election in the wake of the contentious election battle between President-elect George W. Bush and the Vice President Al Gore, and the disenfranchisement of minority voters.

Starting January 13th, the Justice Action Movement (JAM), a coalition of social justice organizations, vows to converge on Washington for a week of teach-ins, seminars, civil disobedience training, a bar and coffeehouse crawl, and even lessons on how to walk on stilts, culminating in what they term will be peaceful protests along the parade route on “J20,” or Inauguration Day.

During an organizing meeting last week for the JAM in northwest Washington, about 40 representatives of various groups and coalitions gathered to plan activities and plot strategy for dealing with the police.

Law enforcement officials have said they are keeping a close watch on the groups and plan to bring in officers from Maryland and Virginia to work in tandem with the US Secret Service, US Park Police, US Capital Police and the Metropolitan Police Department to maintain control.

JAM says it plans to disperse among supporters of President-elect George W. Bush on Inauguration Day. There, they expect to voice displeasure over what they consider a stolen election, as well as a laundry list of other social issues including lack of affordable housing, poverty, genetically engineered foods and the pending execution of Philadelphia journalist and convicted murderer Mumia Abu Jamal.

“It will be similar to what was brought out in Seattle,” said Adam Eidinger, an organizer for JAM.

Eidinger said he was upset over DC Executive Assistant Police Chief Terrance W. Gainer’s comment in a Dec. 28 Washington Post article calling potential protesters “hooligans.” In the story, Gainer accused protest groups of using “counterintelligence” after organizers reported they discovered an undercover officer at one of their meetings, at which point he asked “What nefarious things are they up to that they need to keep tabs on police?”

“The police are preparing the media and the public for violence,” Eidinger said, adding that JAM simply wants a “legal, peaceful, nonviolent” protest. Becker sent a message to police officials a little more than a week ago, saying protesters would not be corralled away from Bush supporters and Inauguration attendees.

Eidenger and Becker said what they do fear are mass arrests of protesters before the inauguration and hence they plan not to meet in any one place in large groups before Inauguration Day.

“What they want is a sanitized inauguration,” Eidinger said Friday. Becker said he is unsure how many people plan to attend the march from the New York area, but said ticket sales for seats on buses have been brisk.

Efforts to bring demonstrators to Washington have kicked into high gear across the country. Mobilization Coordinator Saul Kanowitz in IAC’s San Francisco office said his group is planning a demonstration at the local civic center, but that protesters from California and Oregon are also expected to travel to Washington. IAC offices in Athens, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, and a half-dozen other cities across the country are planning bus and car caravans to Washington.

In separate demonstrations planned for the day, the Black Alliance against the Bush Agenda, a coalition which includes the New Black Panther Party and about 40 churches nationwide, has scheduled a march from the Adams Morgan section of Washington to a park in the downtown area. Malik Shabaz, an organizer for the group, said the US Park Service verbally approved a permit for their march. So far, it is the only group that has said police have approved a permit for demonstrations. The US Park Police spokesman was unavailable to confirm the group had a permit for the march.

A newly formed loose-knit group of Palestinian students said they are also planning to join Eidinger’s group to voice their displeasure over the United States’ policies toward Palestine in wake of ongoing violence in the Middle East.

Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition is planning a week of voter registration drives starting January 15, and on Jan. 20 will hold “voter integrity” rallies and prayer vigils on the steps of local federal buildings, as will Rev. Al Sharpton, who is planning a counter-inauguration. And the National Organization for Women in Washington issued a call on their Web site for supporters to demonstrate during the inauguration.

Police army braces for inaugural security

Thousands of law enforcement officers from across the region are preparing intensive security for Inauguration Day, and their leaders say they will be prepared in case any of the expected droves of protesters turn disruptive. The closest presidential race in history has produced deep tensions, and the US Secret Service says its agents will work with an army of local and federal law enforcement officers to ensure that the swearing-in of the next president, the parade and other inaugural events are not tainted by them.

This is one of the most significant events from a security aspect because of the attention it will get, not only domestically but around the world,” said Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin. Secret Service agents have been checking manholes and staking out rooftops for their sharpshooters. US Park Police are readying their helicopters and horses, and US Capitol Police have begun keeping people away from the Capitol’s west steps, which are being set up for the swearing-in. The FBI has put members of its swift-response hostage rescue team on alert, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is readying bomb-sniffing dogs.

By Jan. 20, about 1,500 DC police officers will have taken a refresher course on crowd control. Information gathering is also in full swing: DC police have been quietly attending organizational meetings of groups they worry might try to disrupt things. DC Executive Assistant Police Chief Gainer said plainclothes officers have gone to the meetings without identifying themselves, but he would not discuss the operation further.

DC police, along with other local law enforcement agencies, will perform a host of functions, including manning 10 checkpoints to screen anyone entering the parade area, Gainer said. One officer will be stationed every 10 feet along the 16-block parade route, Gainer said. All mailboxes, trash cans, newspaper boxes and light posts along the route will be removed, said Peter G. LaPorte, director of the DC Emergency Management Agency. About 1,400 officers from surrounding jurisdictions will be deputized to join a large portion of the 3,600-member District force, said DC Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey. Officers also will monitor traffic into the District, and 163 members of the DC National Guard will ride with police in squad cars, Gainer said.

Uniformed officers with the Secret Service will be out in full force, and many of the service’s agents will be scattered around — either on rooftops with binoculars or among the crowd. The Secret Service, the lead agency for operations and security planning for the inauguration, will have most of its force activated, although spokesmen will not say how many of the 2,800 agents or 1,100 uniformed officers will be part of the day’s effort. Several agencies will provide heads of state with protection and keep them moving from place to place.

Counter-sniper teams — trained to spot would-be assassins and shoot them if necessary — will be on selected rooftops, and a host of other specialized teams will monitor the area, the Secret Service’s Mackin said. Capitol Police created a task force about four months ago to plan for the event, including security screening for guests at the swearing-in, said spokesman Dan Nichols. The full 1,200-member force will be on duty, he said.

Sources: United Press International, Washington Post

Eleven reasons to protest at Bush’s inauguration on Jan. 20

1.) Bush will become President only due to massive racist disenfranchisement and voting fraud. Not only in Florida, but across the country, African American votes were disproportionately thrown out. Afraid to be accused of rocking the boat, the pro-system Democratic Party leadership refused to raise the issue of racism during the recount process.

2.) Gov. Death is moving to Washington. As governor of Texas, Bush presided over more executions — 152 — than took place in the other 49 states combined during that time. The death penalty is racist and anti-poor — it must be abolished. On Jan. 20, we will call for freedom for death row activist, author and prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, Native American leader Leonard Peltier, and all political prisoners.

3.) We must mobilize now to defend women’s right to choose. The new Bush administration is anti-women and anti-choice. Women’s right to abortion and birth control, was won in the streets and it must be defended in the streets.

4.) We need funding for universal healthcare, free education, affordable housing, heat and light, childcare and union jobs; not for the Pentagon. In the richest economy that has ever existed, the basic needs of the entire population could easily be met. Instead of going to meet human needs, however, hundreds of billions of dollars annually are spent on destructive and wasteful militarism.

5.) The genocidal sanctions on Iraq must be ended. New Secretary of State Colin Powell, in his first speech, talked of “re-energizing the sanctions on Iraq.” The sanctions/blockade has already taken more than 1.5 million Iraqi lives, half of them children under the age of five.

6.) Stop US intervention in Colombia and all of Latin America. The incoming Bush national security team wants to escalate US intervention in Colombia beyond even Clinton’s Plan Colombia. And it’s not just Colombia — there is also the threat of wider intervention in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico, and Argentina, where people are rising up against the domination of the IMF, World Bank and US corporations. We must act now to stop a new Vietnam War in Latin America.

7.) The incoming Bush administration is filled with viciously homophobic bigots who want to turn back the clock on gains won by lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgendered people. Bush is allied with the bigoted religious and non-religious extreme right who want to deny equal rights to lesbians and gay men, and force them back into the closet.

8.) The Forty Years War against Cuba must end. Bush, like the nine presidents before him, wants to turn Cuba back into a colony of the US as it was before the 1959 revolution. It is time to end the blockade and aggression against a small neighboring country and let Cuba live in peace.

9.) The Bush administration wants to speed up environmental destruction for the sake of corporate profits. Under Gov. Bush, Texas ranked 50th among states in air quality and 1st in toxic polluters, toxic releases, carcinogens in the air and 13 other polluting categories. Bush put polluting industry representatives in charge of the state’s Natural Resources Conservation Council (Texas’ version of the EPA).

10.) Support an independent homeland for the Palestinian people. The US has given Israel hundreds of billions of dollars in aid over the past 50 years, aid used to repress the Palestinians. There will be no peace in the Middle East until there is justice for the Palestinian people.

11.) End US colonialism in Puerto Rico — US Navy out of Vieques! Now is the time to support the Puerto Rican people in their struggle to get the Pentagon out.

Source: International Action Center: iacenter@iacenter.org

Now it’s unofficial: Gore did win Florida

By Ed Vulliamy

New York, New York, Dec. 24— As George W. Bush handed further key government posts to hardline Republican right-wingers, an unofficial recount of votes in Florida appeared to confirm that Bush lost the US presidential election. Despite the decision by the US Supreme Court to halt the Florida recount in the contested counties, American media organizations, including Knight Ridder - owner of the Miami Herald - have commissioned their own counts, gaining access to the ballots under Freedom of Information legislation. The result so far, with the recounting of so-called ‘undervotes’ in only one county completed by Friday night, indicates that Al Gore is ahead by 140 votes.

Florida’s 25 electoral college votes won Bush the presidency by two seats last Monday after the Supreme Court refused to allow the counting of 45,000 discarded votes. But as the media recount was suspended for Christmas, the votes so far tallied in Lake and Broward counties have Gore ahead in the race for the pivotal state, and hence the White House.

Gore’s lead is expected to soar when counting resumes in the New Year and Miami votes are counted. In a separate exercise, the Miami Herald commissioned a team of political analysts and pollsters to make a statistical calculation based on projections of votes by county, concluding that Gore won the state by 23,000.

The media initiative is likely to bedevil Bush in the weeks to come, thickening the pall of illegitimacy that will hang over his inauguration on January 20.

It has already led to a face-off between almost all the news media organizations in the state and Bush’s presidential team. In the most extreme example of the Bush camp’s desperation to avoid a recount, the new director of the Environment Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, has proposed that the Florida ballots be sealed for 10 years.

Bush’s spokesman Tucker Eskew dismissed the recount as “mischief-making” and “inflaming public passions” while his brother, Florida governor Jeb Bush, accused the papers of “trying to rewrite history.”

Meanwhile, Bush made his boldest ideological statement yet with the appointment of John Ashcroft as Attorney General.

The appointment is especially significant, because as head of the Justice Department Ashcroft would be the man to bring any felony charges against President Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky affair. During the scandal, Ashcroft was among the loudest and shrillest voices for impeachment.

There have been many calls to President-elect Bush to pardon his predecessor as a sign of peace, but he has made a point of rejecting them.

Ashcroft lost his Missouri Senate seat to the widow of the state’s popular Democrat governor, Mel Carnahan. From the family of a Pentacostal minister, he is an outspoken social conservative and an ally of the extremist Pat Robertson.

Ashcroft represents a host of militant committees and activist groups, of which the Christian Coalition is most prominent. He is an opponent not only of abortion but even - as he said in one speech - of dancing.

Source: The Guardian Observer (UK)

Nazi skinhead leader convicted in activists’ murders

By Shawn Gaynor

Las Vegas, Jan. 2— John Edward Butler, leader of the Las Vegas Independent Nazi Skin Heads, was convicted of murder in the first degree for the 1998 killing of Lin Newborn and Daniel Shersty, both anti-racist skinheads.

Shersty and Newborn were shot to death in a remote desert location outside of Las Vegas, at Powerline Road and Centennial Parkway, where they had been lured under pretense of a date by Butler’s girl friend, Melissa Hack, and another unidentified woman on the night of July 4, 1998.

The jury took three days to deliberate the charges against Butler before finding him guilty. They will return Wednesday for the sentencing hearing in a case where the prosecution is seeking the death penalty.

Shersty, a 21-year-old Nellis Air Force Base airman and Newborn, 28, who was working at Tribal Body Piercing, weere both active against the Las Vegas white supremacist movement.

Prosecutors presented compelling evidence against Butler, including witnesses that placed Butler at the murder scene and others who claimed Butler confessed about the murder to them.

Forensic evidence showed that at least two shooters were involved in the murder. Ross Hack, brother of Melissa Hack and member of the Hammer Skins, is the second suspect in the case.

Shersty died directly in front of his car from shotgun and handgun wounds. Newborn’s body was found about 400 feet away, with wounds from a shotgun and a handgun of a different caliber than the gun used to shoot Shersty. Video tape from a convenience store where they stopped to buy beer show Shersty, Newborn, and Hack at around midnight on July 4.

An eye witness also identified Melissa Hack with Newborn around midnight.

Another key prosecution witness testified he saw Butler, Hack and Joseph Justin at the murder scene at 8am the next morning.

Joseph Justin, the key witness for the prosecution, confessed to police that he helped Butler and Hack retrieve evidence from the crime scene the morning after the murder that included shotgun shells and a beer bottle with Hack’s fingerprints on it.

Justin said he became involved in cleaning the crime scene at the request of Butler. He was not a member of the Independent Nazi Skins and said that his involvement in covering up the crime was an initiation test.

“This would prove to him (Butler) that he had trust to put me in his crew,” said Justin.

According to Justin, Butler claimed he shot Shersty with the shotgun while Ross Hack wounded Newborn as he fled into the desert.

“That’s when he (Butler) chased him into the desert and finished him off,” said Justin.

Justin’s testimony was corroborated by a cell mate of Butler’s, Richard Fishburn. According to Fishburn, Butler had bragged about how he “offed” two anti-racist activists. Fishburn testified that Butler confessed to the murders the first time they met and filled in the story over the following weeks.

Fishburn said Butler told him he was worried that police had been able to match his .32-caliber handgun to the murders. When Fishburn told Butler how stupid he was for having kept the gun, Fishburn said Butler told him, “It was his favorite gun. He wrote poems about this gun.”

The caliber of the murder weapon was not released by authorities before the trail.

When Butler was arrested on July 14 after attempting to flee police, a handgun used in the murder was found in his path of escape.

Defense lawyers tried to construct an alibi for Butler, but defense witnesses contradicted each other on Butler’s whereabouts at the time of the murder.

Butler’s prior criminal history is stocked with convictions such as exhibiting a deadly weapon, rioting, carrying a concealed weapon, petite larceny and trespass. Also, he has a prior felony conviction for burglary.

Melissa Hack did not testify in the case, invoking her Fifth Amendment rights.

Prosecutors from the Las Vegas district attorney’s office were slow to prosecute the case despite holding the key evidence necessary to try the case only a week after the murders. It was not until after a 500 person Anti-Racist Action protest in the fall of 1998 in John Butler’s neighborhood, and a similar protest in 1999, where activists marched down the Vegas strip distributing information on the case to tourists and demanding the case be prosecuted, that the district attorney acted.

Allegedly, Butler had received money in the past from the Las Vegas police department as a police informant.

Ross Hack, who fled to Europe when he was identified as a suspect two years ago, has never been charged for his involvement in the murder. According to the defense attorney, Ross Hack has been on a “two-year vacation in Europe,” courtesy of his rich father.

Prosecutors say they have no plans to pursue charges against Ross Hack. Melissa Hack also remains uncharged in the case.

Lionel Newborn said his son had told him that he was involved in various organizations that opposed racism.

After the slayings, the father learned with some pride that his son played a leading role in this effort.

"I had no idea that he was involved to the extent that he was,” Lionel Newborn said. “I probably wouldn’t have been able to sleep at night.”

Activists celebrate New Year’s at Trident Submarine Base

By Clare Hanrahan

Kings Bay, Georgia, Dec. 31-- At midnight, thirty people stood in a tight circle in the sub-freezing temperature just outside the gates of the east coast homeport of the Trident nuclear submarine. Activists from the southeastern US have come to Kings Bay for this alternative new year’s eve gathering for nearly a decade, both to nurture community and to continue the history of resistance to this first-strike weapons system.

St. Augustine activist Peg McIntyre was the eldest in the interfaith circle. This 90-year old matriarch of the resistance movement in the south is a familiar presence from Cape Canaveral, Fl., to Ft. Benning, to Kings Bay, Ga. and other places where people gather to cry out against militarism and its weapons of mass and indiscriminate destruction.

“I made some of my best friendships in jail,” she said with a twinkle before we set out on the three mile candle-lit walk to the gate.

The cyclone fence enclosed compound located near the Crooked River state park in Camden County, Ga., has recently added a massive replica of a nuclear submarine at the main entrance gate with the prow of its deadly hulk emerging from the red clay soil. As we passed by we attached photos of children to the fence in keeping with the theme of the gathering, “Militarism is Stealing our Children’s Future.”

In previous years, protests at the gates have drawn many hundreds of activists, including some who have crossed over the boundary line and onto the 16,000 acre navy base facing arrest by military officials. This year there was no confrontation, just a quiet, prayerful presence beneath a stand of live oaks draped in Spanish moss.

What has made this annual gathering so special and has sustained the movement for so long is the care given to building community, said Martina Linnehan of Jacksonville, Florida.

“We used to be agenda driven,” said Linnehan. “We had a long list of tasks to accomplish in the next year, strategies to plan. We always had work to do.”

The first item on the program this year was a time for introductions and reflections. People shared stories from their work with groups such as Pax Christi Florida, Veterans for Peace, the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice, the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, the War Resisters League, the Florida Greens, and the Vine and Fig Tree, an intentional community in Alabama whose recent efforts are focused on the abolition of the death penalty.

There are over 9,000 workers at the Kings Bay naval base. Lockheed Martin Space Systems has 243 employees, members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Lockheed builds the first stage of the Trident missile in Sunnyvale, Ca., explained war tax resister Robert Randall of Brunswick, Ga.

The Kings Bay employees put the stages together and get the missile ready for deployment. There are ten nuclear submarines in the east coast Trident II fleet. Each can carry 24 multiple warhead D-5 missiles.

“The original opposition to the base was in the 1970’s and came from environmentalists based in Fernandina Beach who opposed the environmental impact,” said Randall, who has joined the resistance gatherings at Kings Bay for many years.

Ironically, the base gets awards all the time for being environmentally friendly and sensitive.

“The Navy makes sure its people are actively involved in every aspect of the community,” Randall said. “Every school has a Trident submarine crew as one of its partners in education.”

Gainesville, Florida resident Bruce Gagnon, of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space comes each year to the gathering at Kings Bay. He talked about the connections between Trident submarines and his work.

“All warfare is coordinated through space now,” said Gagnon. “If you control space you have the ability to direct war. The issues of the Trident submarine and weapons in space fit together absolutely. It is not a separate issue.

“The Trident is coordinated by the global positioning satellite whose job is to look at the ground and pick targets,” said Gagnon. “The GPS directs Trident to its target. Its what they call full-spectrum dominance. It allows the control of the entire range of military operations.”

In a strategy session during the weekend gathering, Robert Randall suggested a shift of focus toward the “new reality” of space weapons.

“Trident is an old, passé issue,” said Randall. “The cutting edge is the work against military expansion out into space, literally the American colonization of everything.

“Even if they do the conversions on the Trident they have a limited lifetime,” said Randall. “But what will take their place will be much worse if we don’t work against it now.”

The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, the War Resisters League, and the North Alabama chapter of Vets for Peace will sponsor the National Space Organizing Conference & Protest on March 16-18 in Huntsville, Alabama. For more information: 353-337-9274 or globalnet@mindspring.com

Puerto Rican Governor-Elect to challenge Bush over Vieques

By Eileen McNamara

San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dec. 27— George W. Bush will face battles in Puerto Rico, where the new governor intends to step up a push for the end of Navy training on Vieques, a dispute that has fueled nationalism in the Caribbean territory.

Governor-elect Sila Maria Calderon has vowed to fight the incoming Bush administration in her efforts to immediately evict the US Navy from its prized bombing range on Vieques, a small inhabited island off Puerto Rico.

Her plans would go against an agreement between the White House and Puerto Rican government that would delay any withdrawal by the Navy to 2003. Navy Secretary Richard Danzig warned her this week that if she does not follow the agreement, the US federal government will not be obliged to keep its side of the bargain, including returning some 8,000 acres of Navy land on Vieques.

Bush has said he would honor the Vieques agreement.

“When one believes in something and in a principle — in this case the people of Vieques’ democratic rights and rights to security of life and health — we cannot act with fear,” Calderon said Dec. 14.

She spoke after the Navy announced it’s plans for an official referendum on Nov. 6, 2001 that would give the more than 9,000 residents of Vieques the choice of voting for the Navy to leave by May 2003 or allowing it to stay and resume live bombing.

Calderon plans a local referendum that would allow Vieques islanders to vote to eject the Navy immediately, and she plans to withdraw local police guarding the range against protesters as required in the agreement.

Years of resentment over the Navy bombings exploded in anger after an April 1999 bombing accident killed a civilian Puerto Rican guard on the range. Protesters invaded the range and thwarted exercises for a year until US marshals ejected them in May.

After that, the Navy resumed exercises, using only non-explosive bombs, and reduced the number of training exercises, as had been agreed.

Calderon’s opposition could provide the impetus for renewed demonstrations and might allow protesters to regain access to an unguarded range and block exercises.

Her election is seen as a rejection of an eight-year drive toward US statehood by Gov. Pedro Rossello’s New Progressive Party. Calderon supports the current commonwealth status but wants more autonomy, including more control of some $13 billion that the federal government gives Puerto Rico each year.

The 4 million residents of the Spanish-speaking island are US citizens who can serve in the armed forces, but they do not pay federal taxes and cannot vote for president.

Source: Washington Post

ELF torches 4 homes on Long Island

Mount Sinai-Long Island, NewYork, Dec. 31— The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) has officially claimed responsibility for burning down four new luxury homes at Island Estates in Mount Sinai, Long Island on December 29, 2000. Damages estimates have soared to $2 million.

A communique sent by the ELF stated, “This hopefully provided a firm message that we will not tolerate the destruction of our island.”

The ELF is an international underground organization that uses direct action in the form of economic sabotage to stop the systematic exploitation and destruction of the natural environment. This is the tenth major ELF action to occur on Long Island in recent months.

The communique continued, “Recently, hundreds of houses have been built over much of Mount Sinai’s picturesque landscape and developers now plan to build a further 189 luxury houses over the farms and forests adjacent to Island Estates.”

Since 1997 in the United States alone, the ELF have caused well over $36 million in damages to entities profiting off the destruction of the natural environment.

This latest communique issued by the ELF includes a question and answer “ELF FAQ” section which provides more insight into the ideology of the organization.

The communique finished by stating, “The earth isn’t dying, it’s being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses. What are YOU doing for the earth tonight? No Compromise In Defense of Our Earth! Stop Urban Sprawl OR We Will.”

Source: Animal Liberation Frontline Information Service: www.animal-liberation.net

Tres Chic Furriers attacked by ALF

Hewlett-Long Island, New York, Dec. 29— During the early morning hours of December 29th members of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) descended upon Hewlett furrier Tres Chic Furs, located on Broadway causing massive property damage.

The activists smashed all windows of the store front, spray painted anti-fur slogans and destroyed over 10 coats with red paint.

“As fur sales appear to be rising this winter, it is our duty to minimize the profit of the death trade by way of direct action. In the New Year we seekers of justice and our sisters and brothers around the world must make a resolution; to resist injustice and oppression by attacking its roots and not just its symptoms.”, states the ALF in it’s anonymous communique to the above ground Animal Defense League (ADL).

The Animal Defense League (ADL) are outspoken supporters of the nonviolent actions of the ALF. In their statement to the ADL, the ALF states, “Be our actions legally sanctioned or not, we will not accept murder of humans and non-human animals, of our environment or our culture for the profit and vanity of the elite. ‘By any means necessary’ - Malcolm X.”

Source: Animal Liberation Frontline Information Service: http://www.animal-liberation.net

 

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