[frontline-news] ELF PRESS OFFICE RETRACTS STATEMENT CONCERNING WALMART ACTION IN INDIANA

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Frontline Information Service   -  ELF PRESS OFFICE RETRACTS STATEMENT
CONCERNING WALMART ACTION IN INDIANA - 10/31/2003
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For Immediate Release

The ELF Press Office would like to issue a retraction of a statement we made in
error concerning the Walmart action in Martinsville, Indiana. The sabotage
action at the Walmart was not, in fact claimed by the Earth Liberation Front.
The action was taken by another group of direct actionists not associated with
the ELF, but because the Press Office received the communique anonymously, we
made a false assumption that it was intended to be signed ELF. 

We have been corrected on this error by another anonymous email, and we offer
our apologies to those who carried out the action. We certainly did not mean to
mislead anyone as to the intentions of those who carried out the action. The
ELF Press Office will continue to publicize the actions of the ELF and other
underground direct action groups and we hope that those groups will continue to
entrust us with their communiques and messages.

We will be removing the information from the earthliberationfront.com website
concerning this action and ask that this message be forwarded on to ensure that
it is made clear that the action at Martinsville was not the work of the Earth
Liberation Front, but another unnamed group who is also operating in the United
States. 

The original communique for the action follows:

<begin communique>
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 McDonald's, 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 intened to express this.

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

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ELF Press Office
elfpress at resist.ca
www.earthliberationfront.com

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