[frontline-news] September/October 2003 Direct Action Update

Mon Nov 17 21:47:32 PST 2003

Frontline Information Service   -  September/October 2003 Direct Action Update
-  11/17/03
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There have been a number of actions in the months of by the ALF, ELF and others
that have not made it to this list yet. Reported actions for September/October
2003 have been compiled below with information made available by press offices
and the media. A reminder that the ELF Press Office is in need of funds and can
be supported through cheques or international money orders (money orders
preferred) made out to the ELF Press Office and mailed to: Press Office, P.O.
Box 21554 - 1424 Commercial Dr., Vancouver, BC, V5L 5G2, Canada.

September 06, 2003 - Santa Fe, New Mexico
Earth Liberation Front Action

ELF takes action against SUV dealer in New Mexico - spraypainting SUVS with
messages naming the seven deadly sins.

1/3 of the dealership's stock was marked, leaving thousands of dollars in
damages. The SUVs at a Land Rover dealership were painted with words like
"Avarice" and "Gluttony" Thursday night or early Friday morning, Santa Fe
police said. The initials "ELF" where among the messages, indicating a claim of
responsibility by the ELF.

(Information fron ELF Press Office)

September 19, 2003 - San Diego, California
Earth Liberation Front Action

A fiery Earth Liberation Front action against urban sprawl in the early morning
hours of September 19, 2003 did at
least $1 million in damages in the upscale Carmel Valley neighvourhood of San
Diego, California. A banner found at
the site of one of the fires read "Development destruction. Stop raping nature.
The ELFs are angry," indicating a
claim of responsibility by ELF activists.  The fires took out four houses under
construction in two areas of the
neighbourhood. This was the fifth action in 2003 against urban sprawl known to
have been the work of the Earth
Liberation Front.

(Information from the ELF Press Office)

September 23, 2003 - Mecosta County Michigan
Earth Liberation Front Action

The Earth Liberation Front Press Office received a communique from the Earth
Liberation Front claiming incendiaries
left at a pumping station supplying a water bottling plant owned by Nestle
Waters North America (formerly known as
the Perrier Group of America) in Mecosta County, Michigan. According to news
reports, these incendiaries failed to
ignite and were removed from the station without incident.

Although the incendiaries failed to ignite, the ELF has sent a message that the
commodification of water is an attack
on a fundamental right of all beings and must be stopped.

The communique  follows:

<begin>
When all legal avenues of dissent have been undertaken to no avail, only one
option remains.  Illegal Direct Action.
The people of Michigan have stated very clearly that we do not want a Perrier
Bottling Plant.  We've had enough of
empty political rhetoric about freedom and justice, enough of sitting back
while our most basic rights are handed
over to corporations.  Clean water is one of the most fundamental necessities,
and no one can be allowed to privatize
it, commodify it, and try and sell it back to us.

We will no longer stand idly be while corporations profit at the expense of all
others. To this end, we have taken
action against one of the pumping stations that Perrier uses to steal water.

On the night of Sunday, the 21st of September, the ELF penetrated the perimeter
fence of an area of land used for
canned hunts.  This particular location, a short distance from Rodney, MI, near
13 Mile Rd and M20 is home to the
pumping stations that supply the Perrier Bottling Plant in Mecosta County. 
Access to one of the pumping stations was
gained and timed incendiary devices were placed.  We will not allow the
commodification of life to continue.  Action
must, and will, be taken, for it is our only chance.

Water for life, not for profit!

Welcome to Michigan.
ELF
<end>

(Information from the ELF Press Office)

September 25, 2003
Animal Liberation Front Action

An Animal Liberation Front Action at the Louisiana State University Inhalation
Toxicology Research Facility did a
total of $300,000 in damages.Equipment used in experiments was destroyed and
red paint was splashed on the floors and
walls in a direct action against animal testing and vivisection experiments
being carried out by university
laboratories.

The communique  follows:

<begin>
"On the morning of September 24 members of the Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F.)
destroyed the Lousiana State     
University Inhalation Toxicology Research Facility. Headed by vivsectionist
Arthur Penn,these gas chambers of
suffering subject animals to daily doses of cigarette smoke and industrail
pollutants causing pain, suffering, and  
death. It should be clear that animals do not deserve to be tortured and die in
this pointless "research".

3 whole-body gas chambers, a cigarette- smoking machine, and other equipment
used in the experiments were all
destroyed. red paint was spashed everywhere, and computers were destroyed.
Vivisection is cruel and unnecessary. the
Animal Liberation Front will continue to target animal killers until the day
empathy and compassion replace cruelty
and exploitation. Dr.Penn your time is up!"
<end>

October 03, 2003
Animal Liberation Front Action

The Santa Monica home of the head of Animal Services for Los Angeles was
vandalized by members of the Animal Liberation Front October 3, 2003. Jerry
Greenwalt's property was splattered with red paint shortly before sunrise. The
activists who struck in the early morning hours also splashed red paint on his
car and scrawled the initials ALF (Animal Liberation Front) on the property.

Animal rights activists have targeted Greenwalt and his department in the past
for its policy of euthanizing animals. The ALF recently distributed flyers
denouncing Greenwalt and his department in the Sunset Park neighborhood where
Greenwalt lives with his family.

(Information from http://directaction.info)

October 08, 2003
Earth Liberation Front Action

Construction equipment belonging to the US Forest Service in the Jemez
Mountains (New Mexico) had electrical wires   
cut, tires cut and windows broken. Officials say both vehicles had the initials
"ELF" scratched onto them. 

(Information from the Earth Liberation Front Press Office)

October 14, 2003
Actions Claimed by "The Frogs" for Summer/Fall 2003

June 9; McAllen, TX: 3 locks glued on backhoe digging a canal.
June 16; McAllen, TX: Dirt poured in fuel and air intake of 1 piece of
equipment.
June 17; Edinburg, TX: At construction site of subdivision, survey stakes
pulled, FOR SALE signs removed, roofing
nails scattered on street.
June 30; Edinburg, TX: Roofing nails scatters on street at subdivision
construction site.
July, McAllen, TX: 1 tree spiked.
July 12; Edinburg, TX: Rubber snake studded with nails left on the side of a
country road, waiting for a cruel motorist.
July 18; McAllen, TX: Electric meter on a bank billboard smashed.
July 19; McAllen, TX: Dirt and grass put in air intake of 2 pieces of
equipment.
July 20; Edinburg, TX: Sand poured in diesel/oil of truck and six pieces of
equipment.
July 26; Mercedes, TX: At an experimental GM cotton crop, all 40-50 signs
labelling different varieties were removed,
making differentiation difficult to impossible.
July 27; Mission, TX: Dirt poured in diesel/oil of 4 pieces of equipment.
August 1; McAllen, TX: 3 pieces of equipment working on a canal had dirt poured
in their fuel tanks.
August 1; Edinburg, TX: 1 truck, 3 pieces of equipment had dirt poured in their
deisel and 1 piece had dirt put in
its air intake.
September 19; Edinburg, TX: 1 piece of equipment has dirt put in diesel.
September 28; McAllen, TX: Sand poured in diesel of 1 piece of equipment.
-THE FROGS"

(Information from the ALF Press Office)    

October 24th, 2003
Anonymous Action

Sabotage at the site of a Walmart under construction in Martinsville, Indiana
includes the pulling of survey stakes, graffiti, and sabotage to several pieces
of heavy machinery.  

Communique follows:
<begin>
10/24/2003 Martinsville, IN we visited a construction site for a new Wal-Mart
store. We pulled up dozens of survey stakes, spraypainted building walls and
machines. Sabotage was done to over a dozen pieces of heavy machinery and
vehicles by putting sand in the fuel tanks, slashing tires, and cutting engine
hoses and tubes. Before leaving we broke out 20-30 construction machine
windows.

We are overwhelmed by the amount of shit society offers us. We look around us
and see our lives displayed in neon lighting. In one city block there is a
McDonalds, a Chevron, a couple of banks, and a Taco Bell. Two massive car
dealerships glow in the short distance, the new SUV's proudly displayed in the
front. We can even see the old Wal-Mart which apparently wasn't large enough or
new enough to satiate a growing population of consumers. Everything must be
new, and it must be big. Even the highway
passing through town isn't big enough. And there is nothing unique about this
specific location. This is life in North America. This is becoming everywhere.

But what life is to be found in this?

Some will have us believe that this is what should be desirable to us. Things
are just large enough to keep us looking and shopping. Things are just fast
enough that we never even have to leave our cars for most of our transactions,
as we speed off to work. Everything is convenient and people are satisfied, and
for those who might be discontent with this reality, there is plenty of
televison to watch.

Most people are content with this, but we are not. We know that life does not
have to be one monotonous routine played out over and over again. We know that
the places we live can offer us much more than Wal-Marts and McDonalds and
Chevrons.  We know, because at times we have experienced a break with this
reality, and know that other possibilities exist.

and how can things change really?

For us, sabotage may not be a means to change any world but our own, as an
expression of our feelings toward this society.  We strike for ourselves, out
of our own frustrations, and rage and despair...as a means of therapy and
adventure.  Because to not act, or to resign oneself to such an impoverished
life of working and consuming is not good enough for us.  We are not content
and we intend to express this.

This society offers us shit...How can we repay them?
<end>
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