#animalliberationfront — Public Fediverse posts
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Es gibt einen weit verbreiteten Glaubenssatz, nach dem es ok ist, andere in Tötungsstationen zu stecken, solange der Antrieb dafür nicht Hass ist sondern Nutzen. Ach ja, und es muss natürlich "die richtigen" treffen, sprich die Nutztiere, klar.
#pizza #schnitzel #bratwurst #steak #mittagessen #mode #fashion #leder #kosmetik #AnimalLiberation #AnimalRights #AnimalLiberationFront #vegan #bevegan
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CW: Blut
Es gibt einen weit verbreiteten Glaubenssatz, nach dem es ok ist, andere in Tötungsstationen zu stecken, solange der Antrieb dafür nicht Hass ist sondern Nutzen. Ach ja, und es muss natürlich "die richtigen" treffen, sprich die Nutztiere, klar.
#pizza #schnitzel #bratwurst #steak #mittagessen #mode #fashion #leder #kosmetik #AnimalLiberation #AnimalRights #AnimalLiberationFront #vegan #bevegan
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CW: Blut
Es gibt einen weit verbreiteten Glaubenssatz, nach dem es ok ist, andere in Tötungsstationen zu stecken, solange der Antrieb dafür nicht Hass ist sondern Nutzen. Ach ja, und es muss natürlich "die richtigen" treffen, sprich die Nutztiere, klar.
#pizza #schnitzel #bratwurst #steak #mittagessen #mode #fashion #leder #kosmetik #AnimalLiberation #AnimalRights #AnimalLiberationFront #vegan #bevegan
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CW: Blut
Es gibt einen weit verbreiteten Glaubenssatz, nach dem es ok ist, andere in Tötungsstationen zu stecken, solange der Antrieb dafür nicht Hass ist sondern Nutzen. Ach ja, und es muss natürlich "die richtigen" treffen, sprich die Nutztiere, klar.
#pizza #schnitzel #bratwurst #steak #mittagessen #mode #fashion #leder #kosmetik #AnimalLiberation #AnimalRights #AnimalLiberationFront #vegan #bevegan
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Gaskammern sind human
Gaskammern sind human
Gaskammern sind human"Für die Tiere ist jeden Tag Treblinka."
#AnimalLiberation #AnimalLiberationFront #AnimalRights #Schnitzel #vegan #bevegan #essen #fashion #mode #anarchismus #antifaschismus #antifa
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Kleiner Reminder an alle Tierkonsumenten:
Ihr seid nicht das Opfer, wenn euch jemand auf eure Täterrolle aufmerksam macht. Opfer sind die wehrlosen Tiere. Und ich habe mal gelernt, dass die Stimme der Opfer mehr wiegen sollte, als die der Täter.#AnimalLiberation #AnimalLiberationFront #AnimalRights #vegan
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Jeden Tag 2 Millionen Tote. Auf welcher Seite der Geschichte willst du stehen?
Sirens of the lambs
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WDIz7mEJOeA&si=oRE_5ThlAHWeCuc- -
Earth First: **Marius Mason Update**
https://earthfirstjournal.news/2025/10/25/marius-mason-update/
Earlier this year, Marius Mason — an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist, vegan, artist, and trans advocate — was denied his scheduled gender affirming surgery by the Trump administration...
#AnarchistMovement #AnimalLiberationFront #DirectAction #EarthLiberationFront #PrisonerSolidarity -
Earth First: **Marius Mason Update**
https://earthfirstjournal.news/2025/10/25/marius-mason-update/
Earlier this year, Marius Mason — an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist, vegan, artist, and trans advocate — was denied his scheduled gender affirming surgery by the Trump administration...
#AnarchistMovement #AnimalLiberationFront #DirectAction #EarthLiberationFront #PrisonerSolidarity -
Earth First: **Marius Mason Update**
https://earthfirstjournal.news/2025/10/25/marius-mason-update/
Earlier this year, Marius Mason — an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist, vegan, artist, and trans advocate — was denied his scheduled gender affirming surgery by the Trump administration...
#AnarchistMovement #AnimalLiberationFront #DirectAction #EarthLiberationFront #PrisonerSolidarity -
Earth First: **Marius Mason Update**
https://earthfirstjournal.news/2025/10/25/marius-mason-update/
Earlier this year, Marius Mason — an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist, vegan, artist, and trans advocate — was denied his scheduled gender affirming surgery by the Trump administration...
#AnarchistMovement #AnimalLiberationFront #DirectAction #EarthLiberationFront #PrisonerSolidarity -
Earth First: **Marius Mason Update**
https://earthfirstjournal.news/2025/10/25/marius-mason-update/
Earlier this year, Marius Mason — an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist, vegan, artist, and trans advocate — was denied his scheduled gender affirming surgery by the Trump administration...
#AnarchistMovement #AnimalLiberationFront #DirectAction #EarthLiberationFront #PrisonerSolidarity -
Organic free range murder is still murder #meatismurder #govegan #vegan #veganism #meat #food #fastfood #hamburger #animalsarefriendsnotfood #friendnotfood #vegetarian #organic #freerange #animalrights #activism #animalliberationfront #alf
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Organic free range murder is still murder #meatismurder #govegan #vegan #veganism #meat #food #fastfood #hamburger #animalsarefriendsnotfood #friendnotfood #vegetarian #organic #freerange #animalrights #activism #animalliberationfront #alf
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Organic free range murder is still murder #meatismurder #govegan #vegan #veganism #meat #food #fastfood #hamburger #animalsarefriendsnotfood #friendnotfood #vegetarian #organic #freerange #animalrights #activism #animalliberationfront #alf
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Organic free range murder is still murder #meatismurder #govegan #vegan #veganism #meat #food #fastfood #hamburger #animalsarefriendsnotfood #friendnotfood #vegetarian #organic #freerange #animalrights #activism #animalliberationfront #alf
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An interesting relic from back in the day when "social media" was email lists. The Vegan-L FAQ
Courtesy of the Vegetarian Society of Colorado
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"Twisted art installation features live piglets that will starve to death"
We cannot legally ask the #AnimalLiberationFront (#ALF) for action. Think about that.
#GoVegan to prevent the unseen instances of this cruelty that are happening in stables all over the world, day in day out.
#pig #animal #art #installation #starve #deagth #piglet #vegan #denmark #copenhagen
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Two activists were arrested for allegedly freeing minks from Stahl Fur Farm in Pennsylvania.
https://www.wkok.com/616455-2/
#animalliberation #animalrights #animalliberationfront #directaction
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https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/michael-loadenthal-deconstructing-eco-terrorism
#AnimalLiberationFront, #ALF, #DirectAction, #EarthLiberationFront, #ELF, #GreenAnarchism, #Terrorism @readinglist
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Michael Loadenthal
Deconstructing “eco-terrorism”
rhetoric, framing and statecraft as seen through the Insight approach
... Asymmetric labelling is a powerful and impactful aspect of statecraft. It not only serves to justify and legitimate violence, but it also functions to inform the wider society as to how they are meant to interpret social movements, their political objections, and their revolutionary projections within the political imaginary. The difference between labelling a movement “extremist”, “terrorist”, “revolutionary”, “supremacist”, or “reformist” serves to inform the public, buttress State policy, and effect movement participation through selfpolicing. The animal and earth liberation movements, as represented by the ALF and ELF, are targeted with the violence of State rhetoric as they challenge core tenants of hegemonic control. Through the strategy of direct action (i.e., vandalism and economic sabotage), these movements are able to challenge proscribed methods of political protest in terms of both tactics and strategy. Through these methods, these movements function to challenge the State’s monopoly on violence (and the labelling of violence), as well as subtler ideological stalwarts such as speciesism, anthropocentrism and the commodification of animal and plant life for commerce.
As a result, the State has chosen to not only silence these movements through traditional legislative, judicial and policing methods, they have also used the rhetoric of terrorism to mark these movements for the crime of not abiding by the social contract establishing appropriate protest. Due to the nature of such a framing occurring largely in the venue of rhetoric, discourse and State voice, the Insight approach has great utility in not only diagramming the creation of the conflict narrative, but also for identifying sites of disruption along the linearity of threat construction. The contributions of the Insight approach to this analysis of “eco-terrorism” are key in illustrating the schema of the State’s constructed threat narrative. By viewing the State as a permeable collective of individuals we are reminded that juridical action, like an individual’s socialisation, is informed by previous experiences with violence as well as safety, fear as well as tranquility.
This case study was meant to push the boundaries of an appropriate subject for treatment via the Insight approach, as an analysis of statecraft functions uniquely to other personal, interpersonal, social and super-structural processes. The Insight approach advances terrorism studies through the application of a traditional peace and conflict lens that aims at understanding and interpreting. Thus, by not limiting Insight to individual-level mediations (e.g., marital dispute, work place negotiations) the methodology of narrative and cognitive analysis is tasked with a much larger subject: the enormity of the State. The preceding case study adopts a conflict resolution tool in the interpretation of both terrorism (e.g., ALF, ELF) and counterterrorism (e.g., AETA, “ag gag”, Green Scare), and in this sense, allows the minuteness of the human experience to be examined in light of the vastness of the socio-political matrix. Far too often, terrorism studies becomes mired within the myopic trap of counterterrorism and the questions become limited to: “How can we prevent, mediate, or react to terrorism while preserving life and property?” Peace and conflict studies aims to achieve a more laudable goal, as the protection of life and property must be accompanied with the presence of justice, representation and dignity, not simply the absence of injustice, authoritarianism and humiliation. This can only be achieved through an understanding of violence beyond simply its prevention. If we are to transform conflicts and violent non-State actors, one needs to interrogate terrorism studies with a peace and conflict agenda, and it is with tools such as Insight, that these types of inter-disciplinary challenges can be advanced.
Contained in the preceding discussion of the Animal Liberation Front and associated, clandestine animal advocates, is the proposition that a multidepartmental, nationwide entity like a State, can be explained in terms of perceived threats and constructed narratives in the same way one could explain an individual’s psychology. Like any individual, the State is constantly constrained by the limits of its horizon, the borders of its common sense, and the embedded nature of its bias. It is constantly allowing “bias [to] creep into one’s outlook ... ideology into one’s thought” (Lonergan 2004, 18). When interpreting acts of political violence by animal liberationists, the State recalls successful social movements of the past and the challenges they offered to its monopoly on violence and its position as the sole legitimator of force. The State recalls the millions of dollars lost on destroyed property and missed revenues, and it remembers its intended role as the protector of property rights. When a window is broken, a slaughterhouse burned, or a factory farm exposed, the State immediately imagines a constructed future where protestors reign; where private property is not sacred, and activists’ force ceases to be labelled as violence. Like a frightened person nervously reaching for mace when faced with a hooded stranger on an unlit street, when the State conjures up this image, it strikes pre-emptively, and in its own self-defence.
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https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/michael-loadenthal-deconstructing-eco-terrorism
#AnimalLiberationFront, #ALF, #DirectAction, #EarthLiberationFront, #ELF, #GreenAnarchism, #Terrorism @readinglist
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Michael Loadenthal
Deconstructing “eco-terrorism”
rhetoric, framing and statecraft as seen through the Insight approach
... Asymmetric labelling is a powerful and impactful aspect of statecraft. It not only serves to justify and legitimate violence, but it also functions to inform the wider society as to how they are meant to interpret social movements, their political objections, and their revolutionary projections within the political imaginary. The difference between labelling a movement “extremist”, “terrorist”, “revolutionary”, “supremacist”, or “reformist” serves to inform the public, buttress State policy, and effect movement participation through selfpolicing. The animal and earth liberation movements, as represented by the ALF and ELF, are targeted with the violence of State rhetoric as they challenge core tenants of hegemonic control. Through the strategy of direct action (i.e., vandalism and economic sabotage), these movements are able to challenge proscribed methods of political protest in terms of both tactics and strategy. Through these methods, these movements function to challenge the State’s monopoly on violence (and the labelling of violence), as well as subtler ideological stalwarts such as speciesism, anthropocentrism and the commodification of animal and plant life for commerce.
As a result, the State has chosen to not only silence these movements through traditional legislative, judicial and policing methods, they have also used the rhetoric of terrorism to mark these movements for the crime of not abiding by the social contract establishing appropriate protest. Due to the nature of such a framing occurring largely in the venue of rhetoric, discourse and State voice, the Insight approach has great utility in not only diagramming the creation of the conflict narrative, but also for identifying sites of disruption along the linearity of threat construction. The contributions of the Insight approach to this analysis of “eco-terrorism” are key in illustrating the schema of the State’s constructed threat narrative. By viewing the State as a permeable collective of individuals we are reminded that juridical action, like an individual’s socialisation, is informed by previous experiences with violence as well as safety, fear as well as tranquility.
This case study was meant to push the boundaries of an appropriate subject for treatment via the Insight approach, as an analysis of statecraft functions uniquely to other personal, interpersonal, social and super-structural processes. The Insight approach advances terrorism studies through the application of a traditional peace and conflict lens that aims at understanding and interpreting. Thus, by not limiting Insight to individual-level mediations (e.g., marital dispute, work place negotiations) the methodology of narrative and cognitive analysis is tasked with a much larger subject: the enormity of the State. The preceding case study adopts a conflict resolution tool in the interpretation of both terrorism (e.g., ALF, ELF) and counterterrorism (e.g., AETA, “ag gag”, Green Scare), and in this sense, allows the minuteness of the human experience to be examined in light of the vastness of the socio-political matrix. Far too often, terrorism studies becomes mired within the myopic trap of counterterrorism and the questions become limited to: “How can we prevent, mediate, or react to terrorism while preserving life and property?” Peace and conflict studies aims to achieve a more laudable goal, as the protection of life and property must be accompanied with the presence of justice, representation and dignity, not simply the absence of injustice, authoritarianism and humiliation. This can only be achieved through an understanding of violence beyond simply its prevention. If we are to transform conflicts and violent non-State actors, one needs to interrogate terrorism studies with a peace and conflict agenda, and it is with tools such as Insight, that these types of inter-disciplinary challenges can be advanced.
Contained in the preceding discussion of the Animal Liberation Front and associated, clandestine animal advocates, is the proposition that a multidepartmental, nationwide entity like a State, can be explained in terms of perceived threats and constructed narratives in the same way one could explain an individual’s psychology. Like any individual, the State is constantly constrained by the limits of its horizon, the borders of its common sense, and the embedded nature of its bias. It is constantly allowing “bias [to] creep into one’s outlook ... ideology into one’s thought” (Lonergan 2004, 18). When interpreting acts of political violence by animal liberationists, the State recalls successful social movements of the past and the challenges they offered to its monopoly on violence and its position as the sole legitimator of force. The State recalls the millions of dollars lost on destroyed property and missed revenues, and it remembers its intended role as the protector of property rights. When a window is broken, a slaughterhouse burned, or a factory farm exposed, the State immediately imagines a constructed future where protestors reign; where private property is not sacred, and activists’ force ceases to be labelled as violence. Like a frightened person nervously reaching for mace when faced with a hooded stranger on an unlit street, when the State conjures up this image, it strikes pre-emptively, and in its own self-defence.
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https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/michael-loadenthal-deconstructing-eco-terrorism
#AnimalLiberationFront, #ALF, #DirectAction, #EarthLiberationFront, #ELF, #GreenAnarchism, #Terrorism @readinglist
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Michael Loadenthal
Deconstructing “eco-terrorism”
rhetoric, framing and statecraft as seen through the Insight approach
... Asymmetric labelling is a powerful and impactful aspect of statecraft. It not only serves to justify and legitimate violence, but it also functions to inform the wider society as to how they are meant to interpret social movements, their political objections, and their revolutionary projections within the political imaginary. The difference between labelling a movement “extremist”, “terrorist”, “revolutionary”, “supremacist”, or “reformist” serves to inform the public, buttress State policy, and effect movement participation through selfpolicing. The animal and earth liberation movements, as represented by the ALF and ELF, are targeted with the violence of State rhetoric as they challenge core tenants of hegemonic control. Through the strategy of direct action (i.e., vandalism and economic sabotage), these movements are able to challenge proscribed methods of political protest in terms of both tactics and strategy. Through these methods, these movements function to challenge the State’s monopoly on violence (and the labelling of violence), as well as subtler ideological stalwarts such as speciesism, anthropocentrism and the commodification of animal and plant life for commerce.
As a result, the State has chosen to not only silence these movements through traditional legislative, judicial and policing methods, they have also used the rhetoric of terrorism to mark these movements for the crime of not abiding by the social contract establishing appropriate protest. Due to the nature of such a framing occurring largely in the venue of rhetoric, discourse and State voice, the Insight approach has great utility in not only diagramming the creation of the conflict narrative, but also for identifying sites of disruption along the linearity of threat construction. The contributions of the Insight approach to this analysis of “eco-terrorism” are key in illustrating the schema of the State’s constructed threat narrative. By viewing the State as a permeable collective of individuals we are reminded that juridical action, like an individual’s socialisation, is informed by previous experiences with violence as well as safety, fear as well as tranquility.
This case study was meant to push the boundaries of an appropriate subject for treatment via the Insight approach, as an analysis of statecraft functions uniquely to other personal, interpersonal, social and super-structural processes. The Insight approach advances terrorism studies through the application of a traditional peace and conflict lens that aims at understanding and interpreting. Thus, by not limiting Insight to individual-level mediations (e.g., marital dispute, work place negotiations) the methodology of narrative and cognitive analysis is tasked with a much larger subject: the enormity of the State. The preceding case study adopts a conflict resolution tool in the interpretation of both terrorism (e.g., ALF, ELF) and counterterrorism (e.g., AETA, “ag gag”, Green Scare), and in this sense, allows the minuteness of the human experience to be examined in light of the vastness of the socio-political matrix. Far too often, terrorism studies becomes mired within the myopic trap of counterterrorism and the questions become limited to: “How can we prevent, mediate, or react to terrorism while preserving life and property?” Peace and conflict studies aims to achieve a more laudable goal, as the protection of life and property must be accompanied with the presence of justice, representation and dignity, not simply the absence of injustice, authoritarianism and humiliation. This can only be achieved through an understanding of violence beyond simply its prevention. If we are to transform conflicts and violent non-State actors, one needs to interrogate terrorism studies with a peace and conflict agenda, and it is with tools such as Insight, that these types of inter-disciplinary challenges can be advanced.
Contained in the preceding discussion of the Animal Liberation Front and associated, clandestine animal advocates, is the proposition that a multidepartmental, nationwide entity like a State, can be explained in terms of perceived threats and constructed narratives in the same way one could explain an individual’s psychology. Like any individual, the State is constantly constrained by the limits of its horizon, the borders of its common sense, and the embedded nature of its bias. It is constantly allowing “bias [to] creep into one’s outlook ... ideology into one’s thought” (Lonergan 2004, 18). When interpreting acts of political violence by animal liberationists, the State recalls successful social movements of the past and the challenges they offered to its monopoly on violence and its position as the sole legitimator of force. The State recalls the millions of dollars lost on destroyed property and missed revenues, and it remembers its intended role as the protector of property rights. When a window is broken, a slaughterhouse burned, or a factory farm exposed, the State immediately imagines a constructed future where protestors reign; where private property is not sacred, and activists’ force ceases to be labelled as violence. Like a frightened person nervously reaching for mace when faced with a hooded stranger on an unlit street, when the State conjures up this image, it strikes pre-emptively, and in its own self-defence.
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https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/michael-loadenthal-deconstructing-eco-terrorism
#AnimalLiberationFront, #ALF, #DirectAction, #EarthLiberationFront, #ELF, #GreenAnarchism, #Terrorism @readinglist
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Michael Loadenthal
Deconstructing “eco-terrorism”
rhetoric, framing and statecraft as seen through the Insight approach
... Asymmetric labelling is a powerful and impactful aspect of statecraft. It not only serves to justify and legitimate violence, but it also functions to inform the wider society as to how they are meant to interpret social movements, their political objections, and their revolutionary projections within the political imaginary. The difference between labelling a movement “extremist”, “terrorist”, “revolutionary”, “supremacist”, or “reformist” serves to inform the public, buttress State policy, and effect movement participation through selfpolicing. The animal and earth liberation movements, as represented by the ALF and ELF, are targeted with the violence of State rhetoric as they challenge core tenants of hegemonic control. Through the strategy of direct action (i.e., vandalism and economic sabotage), these movements are able to challenge proscribed methods of political protest in terms of both tactics and strategy. Through these methods, these movements function to challenge the State’s monopoly on violence (and the labelling of violence), as well as subtler ideological stalwarts such as speciesism, anthropocentrism and the commodification of animal and plant life for commerce.
As a result, the State has chosen to not only silence these movements through traditional legislative, judicial and policing methods, they have also used the rhetoric of terrorism to mark these movements for the crime of not abiding by the social contract establishing appropriate protest. Due to the nature of such a framing occurring largely in the venue of rhetoric, discourse and State voice, the Insight approach has great utility in not only diagramming the creation of the conflict narrative, but also for identifying sites of disruption along the linearity of threat construction. The contributions of the Insight approach to this analysis of “eco-terrorism” are key in illustrating the schema of the State’s constructed threat narrative. By viewing the State as a permeable collective of individuals we are reminded that juridical action, like an individual’s socialisation, is informed by previous experiences with violence as well as safety, fear as well as tranquility.
This case study was meant to push the boundaries of an appropriate subject for treatment via the Insight approach, as an analysis of statecraft functions uniquely to other personal, interpersonal, social and super-structural processes. The Insight approach advances terrorism studies through the application of a traditional peace and conflict lens that aims at understanding and interpreting. Thus, by not limiting Insight to individual-level mediations (e.g., marital dispute, work place negotiations) the methodology of narrative and cognitive analysis is tasked with a much larger subject: the enormity of the State. The preceding case study adopts a conflict resolution tool in the interpretation of both terrorism (e.g., ALF, ELF) and counterterrorism (e.g., AETA, “ag gag”, Green Scare), and in this sense, allows the minuteness of the human experience to be examined in light of the vastness of the socio-political matrix. Far too often, terrorism studies becomes mired within the myopic trap of counterterrorism and the questions become limited to: “How can we prevent, mediate, or react to terrorism while preserving life and property?” Peace and conflict studies aims to achieve a more laudable goal, as the protection of life and property must be accompanied with the presence of justice, representation and dignity, not simply the absence of injustice, authoritarianism and humiliation. This can only be achieved through an understanding of violence beyond simply its prevention. If we are to transform conflicts and violent non-State actors, one needs to interrogate terrorism studies with a peace and conflict agenda, and it is with tools such as Insight, that these types of inter-disciplinary challenges can be advanced.
Contained in the preceding discussion of the Animal Liberation Front and associated, clandestine animal advocates, is the proposition that a multidepartmental, nationwide entity like a State, can be explained in terms of perceived threats and constructed narratives in the same way one could explain an individual’s psychology. Like any individual, the State is constantly constrained by the limits of its horizon, the borders of its common sense, and the embedded nature of its bias. It is constantly allowing “bias [to] creep into one’s outlook ... ideology into one’s thought” (Lonergan 2004, 18). When interpreting acts of political violence by animal liberationists, the State recalls successful social movements of the past and the challenges they offered to its monopoly on violence and its position as the sole legitimator of force. The State recalls the millions of dollars lost on destroyed property and missed revenues, and it remembers its intended role as the protector of property rights. When a window is broken, a slaughterhouse burned, or a factory farm exposed, the State immediately imagines a constructed future where protestors reign; where private property is not sacred, and activists’ force ceases to be labelled as violence. Like a frightened person nervously reaching for mace when faced with a hooded stranger on an unlit street, when the State conjures up this image, it strikes pre-emptively, and in its own self-defence.
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https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/michael-loadenthal-deconstructing-eco-terrorism
#AnimalLiberationFront, #ALF, #DirectAction, #EarthLiberationFront, #ELF, #GreenAnarchism, #Terrorism @readinglist
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Michael Loadenthal
Deconstructing “eco-terrorism”
rhetoric, framing and statecraft as seen through the Insight approach
... Asymmetric labelling is a powerful and impactful aspect of statecraft. It not only serves to justify and legitimate violence, but it also functions to inform the wider society as to how they are meant to interpret social movements, their political objections, and their revolutionary projections within the political imaginary. The difference between labelling a movement “extremist”, “terrorist”, “revolutionary”, “supremacist”, or “reformist” serves to inform the public, buttress State policy, and effect movement participation through selfpolicing. The animal and earth liberation movements, as represented by the ALF and ELF, are targeted with the violence of State rhetoric as they challenge core tenants of hegemonic control. Through the strategy of direct action (i.e., vandalism and economic sabotage), these movements are able to challenge proscribed methods of political protest in terms of both tactics and strategy. Through these methods, these movements function to challenge the State’s monopoly on violence (and the labelling of violence), as well as subtler ideological stalwarts such as speciesism, anthropocentrism and the commodification of animal and plant life for commerce.
As a result, the State has chosen to not only silence these movements through traditional legislative, judicial and policing methods, they have also used the rhetoric of terrorism to mark these movements for the crime of not abiding by the social contract establishing appropriate protest. Due to the nature of such a framing occurring largely in the venue of rhetoric, discourse and State voice, the Insight approach has great utility in not only diagramming the creation of the conflict narrative, but also for identifying sites of disruption along the linearity of threat construction. The contributions of the Insight approach to this analysis of “eco-terrorism” are key in illustrating the schema of the State’s constructed threat narrative. By viewing the State as a permeable collective of individuals we are reminded that juridical action, like an individual’s socialisation, is informed by previous experiences with violence as well as safety, fear as well as tranquility.
This case study was meant to push the boundaries of an appropriate subject for treatment via the Insight approach, as an analysis of statecraft functions uniquely to other personal, interpersonal, social and super-structural processes. The Insight approach advances terrorism studies through the application of a traditional peace and conflict lens that aims at understanding and interpreting. Thus, by not limiting Insight to individual-level mediations (e.g., marital dispute, work place negotiations) the methodology of narrative and cognitive analysis is tasked with a much larger subject: the enormity of the State. The preceding case study adopts a conflict resolution tool in the interpretation of both terrorism (e.g., ALF, ELF) and counterterrorism (e.g., AETA, “ag gag”, Green Scare), and in this sense, allows the minuteness of the human experience to be examined in light of the vastness of the socio-political matrix. Far too often, terrorism studies becomes mired within the myopic trap of counterterrorism and the questions become limited to: “How can we prevent, mediate, or react to terrorism while preserving life and property?” Peace and conflict studies aims to achieve a more laudable goal, as the protection of life and property must be accompanied with the presence of justice, representation and dignity, not simply the absence of injustice, authoritarianism and humiliation. This can only be achieved through an understanding of violence beyond simply its prevention. If we are to transform conflicts and violent non-State actors, one needs to interrogate terrorism studies with a peace and conflict agenda, and it is with tools such as Insight, that these types of inter-disciplinary challenges can be advanced.
Contained in the preceding discussion of the Animal Liberation Front and associated, clandestine animal advocates, is the proposition that a multidepartmental, nationwide entity like a State, can be explained in terms of perceived threats and constructed narratives in the same way one could explain an individual’s psychology. Like any individual, the State is constantly constrained by the limits of its horizon, the borders of its common sense, and the embedded nature of its bias. It is constantly allowing “bias [to] creep into one’s outlook ... ideology into one’s thought” (Lonergan 2004, 18). When interpreting acts of political violence by animal liberationists, the State recalls successful social movements of the past and the challenges they offered to its monopoly on violence and its position as the sole legitimator of force. The State recalls the millions of dollars lost on destroyed property and missed revenues, and it remembers its intended role as the protector of property rights. When a window is broken, a slaughterhouse burned, or a factory farm exposed, the State immediately imagines a constructed future where protestors reign; where private property is not sacred, and activists’ force ceases to be labelled as violence. Like a frightened person nervously reaching for mace when faced with a hooded stranger on an unlit street, when the State conjures up this image, it strikes pre-emptively, and in its own self-defence.
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In a surprise to no one paying attention, American law enforcement views left-wing politics as terrorism and sometimes overlooks far-right movements: https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/fbi-labels-anti-fascists-and-anti-racists-as-violent-extremists/
#unicornriot #leftwing #antifa #domesticterrorism #blm #blacklivesmatter #animalrights #alf #elf #earthliberationfront #animalliberationfront #anarchism #anticapitalism #fbi #dhs #federalbureauofinvestigation #departmentofhomelandsecurity #arturodominguez #police #policing
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22 anni fa moriva Barry Horne
Barry Horne (17 Marzo 1952 – 5 Novembre 2001).
Attivista vegano, animalista, anarchico e militante dell’A.L.F. (Animal Liberation Front).
Morto 22 anni fa a causa delle complicazioni causate uno sciopero della fame, nel tentativo di obbligare il governo britannico ad avviare un’indagine pubblica sulla sperimentazione animale.
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Animal Liberation Front pioneer Ronnie Lee recalls the early days of activism and talks to DIY Conspiracy about the influence of punk and the importance of autonomous action for the animal liberation movement.
Read here:
https://diyconspiracy.net/ronnie-lee-interview/#Vegan #AnimalLiberation #AnimalLiberationFront #VeganAntifa #TotalLiberation #Punk #AnarchoPunk
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Interesting podcast by the #BBC on the #EarthLiberationFront and on radicalisation. Am listening to the third episode now.
#ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalCrisis #environment #AnimalLiberationFront
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0cx6tw7 -
DIFUNDIR: Tokata Antiespecista en solidaridad con compas por la liberación animal, domingo 13 noviembre, 14:00 horas - Agustinas 2384, Santiago centro.
Bandio Cuatrosiete
Aborrezco Todo
Flor del Kaos
Banda Bonnot
Rechazar
IncinerarPunto de acopio: Alimentos y productos veganos para presxs antiespecistas
Feria de oficios, editoriales antiautoritarias, comida vegana, proyección y conversatorio
Ingreso por aporte de $2.000
Espacio libre de alcohol, drogas y actitudes nefastasActividad solidaria con un compa antiespecista en proceso judicial
#LiberacionAnimal #Antiespecismo #Veganismo #Anarquismo #Anarcoveganismo #Vegan #GoVegan #Veganism #Abolicionismo #Abolicionista #Antiespecista #Antifa #AccionDirecta #DirectAction #AnimalLiberation #AnimalLiberationFront #BloqueNegro #LiberacionTotal #TotalLiberation #BlackBloc #Anarchy
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DIFUNDIR: Tokata Antiespecista en solidaridad con compas por la liberación animal, domingo 13 noviembre, 14:00 horas - Agustinas 2384, Santiago centro.
Bandio Cuatrosiete
Aborrezco Todo
Flor del Kaos
Banda Bonnot
Rechazar
IncinerarPunto de acopio: Alimentos y productos veganos para presxs antiespecistas
Feria de oficios, editoriales antiautoritarias, comida vegana, proyección y conversatorio
Ingreso por aporte de $2.000
Espacio libre de alcohol, drogas y actitudes nefastasActividad solidaria con un compa antiespecista en proceso judicial
#LiberacionAnimal #Antiespecismo #Veganismo #Anarquismo #Anarcoveganismo #Vegan #GoVegan #Veganism #Abolicionismo #Abolicionista #Antiespecista #Antifa #AccionDirecta #DirectAction #AnimalLiberation #AnimalLiberationFront #BloqueNegro #LiberacionTotal #TotalLiberation #BlackBloc #Anarchy
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DIFUNDIR: Tokata Antiespecista en solidaridad con compas por la liberación animal, domingo 13 noviembre, 14:00 horas - Agustinas 2384, Santiago centro.
Bandio Cuatrosiete
Aborrezco Todo
Flor del Kaos
Banda Bonnot
Rechazar
IncinerarPunto de acopio: Alimentos y productos veganos para presxs antiespecistas
Feria de oficios, editoriales antiautoritarias, comida vegana, proyección y conversatorio
Ingreso por aporte de $2.000
Espacio libre de alcohol, drogas y actitudes nefastasActividad solidaria con un compa antiespecista en proceso judicial
#LiberacionAnimal #Antiespecismo #Veganismo #Anarquismo #Anarcoveganismo #Vegan #GoVegan #Veganism #Abolicionismo #Abolicionista #Antiespecista #Antifa #AccionDirecta #DirectAction #AnimalLiberation #AnimalLiberationFront #BloqueNegro #LiberacionTotal #TotalLiberation #BlackBloc #Anarchy
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Environmental activist Joseph Dibee will avoid additional prison time for late-90s arsons carried out under the banner of the #EarthLiberationFront and #AnimalLiberationFront. His story is pretty amazing! 1/10
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Two hunting towers destroyed in Germany - it's no sport, it's murder
https://unoffensiveanimal.is/2020/12/15/hunting-towers-destroyed-4
#AHAB #DirectAction #StopHunting #HuntSaboteurs #AnimalLiberationFront #ALF
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Sabotage of Aydin Hunter Association by Animal Liberation Front (Turkey) https://325.nostate.net/2019/09/15/sabotage-of-aydin-hunter-association-by-animal-liberation-front-turkey/