Following the sentencing of three volunteer editors from Green Anarchist magazine to three year prison terms, and with further trials in the offing, Index on Censorship has called for progressive groups and individuals to publish on-line some of the 'offending material' at the centre of the case. Using webspace to publicise an attack on free speech which has received alarmingly little media attention will prove that the progressive and free voice cannot be silenced and also graphically illustrate the unworkablity of this cases ruling.
Neither professional journalists organisations, nor the majority of organisations dedicated to free expression and the defence of civil liberties have chosen to take up the case ... YOU CAN. Cut and paste these back issues onto your own webspace and pass the message on.
Extracts from Green Anarchist
number 49:
GANDALF IN COURT
We don't want Justice, we want Revolution!
CONSPIRACY: People who have never met, people who attended the same rally but never spoke, someone who received a 9 second phone call, who bought an ALF T shirt, people who never knew of each others' existence are all linked. It is not what you said in that innocent letter, but the fact that you wrote it at all. The whole concept of conspiracy depends upon guilt by association. Welcome to the police state suckers!
INCITEMENT: GA is not responsible for the fact that people take @ction. Animal abuse itself is the reason ALF actions take place. When we report on road protests, our reports are not the cause, the destruction of the countryside by roadbuilders is. Nothing we say forces people into activity. No-one is compelled to buy Green Anarchist. 'Anarchism is about thinking for yourselves' as it said on the GA blurb.
THIS AFFECTS YOU: It is inevitable that techniques and legal shit used in 'Operation Washington Phase 2' will be used against other radical publications or groups. Eventually, if that carries on, all the radical media channels will be rolled up. If you have any interest in freedom, you'd better start protesting against this now! Today Green Anarchist, tomorrow it could be you...
THE ONLY CURE FOR THE STATE: The whole point of the Gandalf prosecution is to intimidate the movement into inactivity. Protesters who do nothing are no threat to the system. So it is important that we refuse to be frightened. They want to silence alternative news so that the only way you can find things out is through their state-controlled media, if at all. The answer here is to carry on reporting the facts. The truth is no offence! In the end it doesn't matter what happens to GA. There will be other publications, better theories, better analysis. A zine is just a zine but the revolution is for keeps. Keep on kicking, and together we'll smash civilization yet!
Extracts from Green Anarchist
number 38:
Diary of Animal Liberation
AUGUST
Channel Islands: Jersey - Activist climbs on top of Jersey Zoo visitors centre, covers the roof in petrol and sets it alight. £332, 000 damage. A few days later the same activist throws a smokebomb inside the artificial insemination Centre at Howard Davis farm. £6000 damage.
Lewes - Kitten liberated from Fur, Feather 'n' Fins exotic pet store.
New Zealand: Christchurch - ALF spraypaint Cancer Society HQ one week before their Daffodil Day. On Daffodil Day the HQ is hit again. The night before ALF target 8 branches of National Bank. 5 are spraypainted, 3 have locks glued. National Bank sponsors Daffodil Day. National Bank billboard redecorated with anti-vivisection slogans
SEPTEMBER
Australia: Victoria - 12 sick hens rescued from Happy Hens Egg World by Animal Liberation Investigation Unit.
Germany: Koppen - Autonomous Animal Protectors destroy six hunting platforms.
Germany: Bad Soden - Hunting platforms trashed on Earth Night destroyed again!
Germany: Offenback - Autonomous Liberation Front glue and etch several fur and butchers shops.
Hampshire - ALF torch two barns at Hursley and hambleton hunt kennels. The hunt's cheese and wine party is also evacuated after a bomb threat.
Hampshire - Justice Department leave hoax bombs at Hursley and Hambleton kennels and pub.
Hampshire - Justice Department: Anti Cartmell/Dowsett Campaign incendiaries destroy APT owner David Walker's and Wickham Labs manager Paddy Edwards' cars.
Stoneaton: Whitechurch farm - Tom Osbourne of Mendip Farmers Hunt Club hospitalised after being hit with a spiked club and acid sprayed in face. Elsewhere nine Hunt Retribution Squad activists trash the 8th Earl of Yarborough's Merc as he was driving to a hunt meet.
Sweden: Umea - K1,000,000 damage as three meat trucks torched.
OCTOBER
East Sussex - Justice Department post mousetrap-based booby traps to Shamrock Farm employees L Ford and T Welburn. Razor in envelope sent to Shamrock vet Paul West.
Finland: Kuopio - University vivisection lab spraypainted.
Germany: Hamburg - Autonomous Animal Protectors attack hunting organisation offices and vehicle with stinkbombs and slash tyres.
Hampshire - Justice Department post mousetrap-based booby traps to Bucks Head (Hunt pub), hunter/poulterer P Humphreys, hunter D Hunt, Wickham Lab's C Bishop, Simon Day of Torsby Farms, P Phillips Froxfield Farms vivisection breeder, and K Coker hunter.
Extracts from Green Anarchist number 40:
Technocracy is Tyranny: You may look to your lifestyles of convenience and luxury when technology is questioned, but don't forget techno-industrial civilization is only possible because of intense division of labour and pillaging of global resources. Our everyday lives are at the mercy of unaccountable experts and systems beyond our control - if technology is not questioned, they will determine our future instead of us. It's not about replacing one set of experts with another either - tyranny is inherent in the logic of the techno-industrial society. It must be destroyed if Anarchy is to live!
Disclaimer; This zine and all items sold through GA Mail Order are produced for entertainment purposes only. No material in it is intended to incite any action liable to lead to criminal or civil charges. Can't you take a joke?
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