BRIDGES & BILLBOARDS PAINTED, Oct 07
New Labour have lied and eroded our civilliberties. We will not stand for Gordon Brown'sfascism any longer.'Fuck you NETCU' 'Free Greg Avery''SMASH HLS PUPPY KILLERS''YOUR TAXES FUND HLS TORTURE CAMP'were sprayed on bridges and billboardsletting every one who passes these busypoints know about vivisection.Animal Liberation Front
MET POLICE STATUTE PAINTED, Nov 07
ACAB
["All Coppers Are Bastards"]
wassprayed on a statue of Prime Minister Peel -creator of the Metropolitan Police, the first ofits kind. This was done in solidarity with GregAvery, Natasha Avery and Heather Nicholsonand all those raided by those bastards at theMet. No Justice. JUST US!Solidarity from the ALF
104 HENS LIBERATED, Aug 08
During a dark and quiet night, something wasrustling deep in the British countryside..Nestled amongst the tall shadows of animalexploitation, several figures were busybreaking into an intensive battery farm unit.Hens were awaiting in their prisons, crampedfour or five to a cage, mutilated andfeatherless. 104 were saved in a few smallhours and taken to new, loving homes.
This action was carried out in solidarity withDan Amos, a peaceful protestor who is now in jail. Rather ironically, while Dan sits inside hisOn December 23rd, 4 out of 5 activists on trialat Winchester Crown Court were found guilty of'conspiracy to blackmail' Huntingdon LifeSciences (HLS) after a three and a half monthlong trial. The world's media, prompted bypolice press officers, were quick to condemnSHAC, providing examples of harassmentagainst the employees of HLS, their customers,suppliers and investors.Direct action against the company,
not linkedto those convicted
, such as arson attacks, hoaxbombs, letters alleging paedophilia, andthreats were pointed to as evidence of thedefendants' extremism. Police spokesmen andNETCU, the branch of the police set up todismantle the animal liberation movement andother expressions of the public's dissent, hailedthe convictions as a victory. What was notexamined in the media was the worryingdevelopment of the repressive use of the lawwhich lead to the conviction of the four defendants.On Wednesday 21st January the seven activistswere sentenced to a total of fifty years in prisonfor 'conspiring to blackmail'. Heather Nicholsonwas jailed for 11 years, Gregg and NatashaAvery sentenced to nine years each, GavinMedd-Hall an eight-year prison sentence,Daniel Wadham jailed for five years, Dan Amosand Gerrah Selby were both sentenced to four years
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.The trial was the second large animal liberationconspiracy trial this year following theimprisonment of Sean Kirtley, an activistinvolved with the Stop Sequani Animal Torture(SSAT) campaign. Sean was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for updating awebsite with news about a legal, nonviolentcampaign to close down Sequani laboratoriesin Ledbury
[See FS! #1]
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Despite the convictions,both campaigns are continuing undeterred.
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