Peter YoungBay Area news special on the Animal Liberation Front from 2000, after the ALF claimed responsibility for a string of arsons at meat industry and vivisection targets.
➧➧➧New for 2022: Download a complete timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, from 1977 to the present: animalliberationfrontline.com
Includes (at the end) an interview with an (alleged) member of the ALF, as well as rare Animal Liberation Front raid footage.
➧➧➧And now available: "The ALF Strikes Again: Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front": amazon.com/dp/1732709696
ALF News Special (2000): Interview w/Animal Liberation Front activist + rare ALF footagePeter Young2021-05-31 | Bay Area news special on the Animal Liberation Front from 2000, after the ALF claimed responsibility for a string of arsons at meat industry and vivisection targets.
➧➧➧New for 2022: Download a complete timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, from 1977 to the present: animalliberationfrontline.com
Includes (at the end) an interview with an (alleged) member of the ALF, as well as rare Animal Liberation Front raid footage.
➧➧➧And now available: "The ALF Strikes Again: Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front": amazon.com/dp/1732709696
#animalliberationfront #animalliberation #animalrights1993 Dumpster Diving Documentary: In the Gutter and Other Good PlacesPeter Young2022-11-04 | Partial recording of the 1993 dumpster diving documentary "In the Gutter and Other Good Places," which profiles three homeless men in Calgary, Alberta, who support themselves dumpster diving.
imdb.com/title/tt0143302Seattle Dumpster Diving Footage 1995: Mercer Islands Royal Family Dumpster Crew strike strip mallPeter Young2022-11-03 | Rare footage of the mythical dumpster diving squad "Royal Family Dumpster Crew," a Seattle Area (Mercer Island) gang who terrorized dumpsters across the Eastside in the early-mid 1990s.
This footage captures a dive at the Overlake Rite-Aid (then "Payless") in 1995.
The Royal Family Dumpster Crew were the most prolific dumspter diving crew in Northwest history, with dozens of police interactions and hundreds of thousands of dollars of products looted from dumpsters during their reign.
#dumpster divingCall To Direct Action: 90s animal rights protest footage / Animal Liberation Front (ALF) documentaryPeter Young2022-04-30 | A 1997 documentary / archival footage collection of various animal rights protests, civil disobedience actions, and Animal Liberation Front footage.
➧➧➧New for 2022: Download a complete timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, from 1977 to the present: animalliberationfrontline.com
➧➧➧And now available: "The ALF Strikes Again: Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front": amazon.com/dp/1732709696
#animalrights #animalliberationfront #directactionFootage: ALF Rescues 11 Chickens From Egg Farm (1998) Animal Liberation Front Raid FootagePeter Young2022-03-30 | Animal Liberation Front (ALF) footage of their rescue of 11 chickens from Broadview Farms in Burlington, Washington.
➧➧➧New for 2022: Download a complete timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, from 1977 to the present: animalliberationfrontline.com
Includes (at the end) an interview with an (alleged) member of the ALF, as well as rare Animal Liberation Front raid footage.
➧➧➧Also now available: "The ALF Strikes Again: Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front": amazon.com/dp/1732709696
Full text of the ALF communique:
"In the early morning hours of Sept 19th, 1998 the Animal Liberation Front liberated 11 chickens from the Broadview Egg Farms in Burlington, WA.
We entered the premises by cutting away a perimeter fence. We then made our way to one of the four massive barns. We used a crowbar and mallet to dismantle the locks and entered the barn.
There we found 11” x 17” cages holding untold 1000’s of chickens, 4 to 5 to a cage. We immediately filled 11 birds into our carriers, where they sat anxiously awaiting their departure. We quickly documented a hellish concentration camp for egg laying chickens. These living, feeling creatures are kept in horrifying, intense confinement in small wire cages. Video footage was taken of the nightmarish condition the imprisoned chickens are forced to endure for their entire lives. We left various messages; “freed by ALF”, “torture will end”, “murder” & “ALF”.
As we left our hearts sank knowing the countless numbers we left behind. We then placed the 11 birds into loving and safe homes to enjoy the freedom they have never known.
The meat, dairy, & egg industries are responsible for suffering and murder on an epic scale. Veganism is the answer to end this holocaust. Unfortunately, education of the public is a slow process, and the animals confined for our greed do not have time.
The Animal Liberation Front rises to their call to end their suffering and save their lives. Animal abuse industries wish to keep the public ignorant to the suffering involved in their products...
THERE IS NOWHERE TO HIDE. ANIMAL MURDERERS BEWARE. THERE IS JUSTICE COMING...
A.L.F."
#animalliberationfront #animalliberation #alfNew book: The A.L.F. Strikes Again : Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation FrontPeter Young2021-10-12 | “The A.L.F. Strikes Again : Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front In North America” is a 700+ page book compiling nearly everything written by the Animal Liberation Front.
Title: “The A.L.F. Strikes Again: Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front In North America” Pages: 704 Price: $14.95 (US)
Part One: How It Was Done – The A.L.F. gives step-by-step accounts of some of their most spectacular liberations, including:
The University Of Arizona (1,200 animals rescued, 1989) University of California – Harbor (12 dogs rescued, 1983) College Of Notre Dame (250 mice rescued, 2000) …and a dozen more
Part Two: Interviews – Rare tell-all interviews with the Animal Liberation Front, including activists behind raids such as:
The University of Pennsylvania (labs broken into and vivisection footage removed, 1984) Texas Tech University (Five cats rescued, 1989) University of Alberta (29 cats rescued, 1992) …and ten more.
Part Three: Essays – From anonymous bulletins for the A.L.F. to communicate between cells, to overt calls to action, to prison writings – it’s all here. Among them:
“A.L.F. Bulletin To All Fur Farm Raiders” (message from an A.L.F. cell on optimizing fur farm liberations) “Life Underground” (Anonymous A.L.F. member on the necessity of going underground for animal liberation) “Fire Is A Good Tool” (Activist behind rescue of 46 dogs from a California lab on regrets over not burning the lab down) …and over 15 more.
Part Four: Communiques – Over 150 anonymous statements released after A.L.F. actions, among them:
University Of Oregon (264 animals rescued, 1986) University Of Minnesota (116 animals rescued, 1999) United Feeds (fur farm feed supplier burned down, 1999) …and over 150 more.
Part Five: How To Guides – Literal manuals on carrying out Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F.) actions – large to small, including:
An Animal Liberation Primer (introductory manual to basic sabotage techniques) How To Sink Whalers (how to sink ships that kill animals) The Final Nail (step-by-step guides to raiding fur farms) …and more.
Download a sample: “How It Was Done – Raiding Loma Linda University (+more)”
“At over 700 pages, this is the definitive look inside the Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F.).
The A.L.F. Strikes Again is the largest-ever collection of writing from members of the Animal Liberation Front (the “radical fringe of the animal rights movement”), tying together over 40 years of documents and writings with one goal: A complete collection of everything written by the A.L.F. in North America.
The Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F.) intervenes where mainstream animal rights groups have failed. The A.L.F. breaks into buildings, rescues animals, and destroys property of animal abusers. They work outside the law, and, unless caught, their identities are never known.
With few blindspots, this book compiles nearly everything written by the North American A.L.F. – Settling the score on what the A.L.F. is, what they believe, and exactly how they do what they do.
Forty years into the A.L.F.’s history in North America, despite over 1,000 actions, being the subject of multiple congressional hearings, and surviving the label of “America’s number one domestic terrorist threat”—their history has been largely untold.
In this collection, the A.L.F.’s voice is restored.
#animalliberationfront #animalrights #animalliberationA.L.F. footage: 100+ birds freed from Iowa lab breeder by the Animal Liberation FrontPeter Young2021-05-25 | Rare Animal Liberation Front (ALF) footage of activists freeing over 100 pigeons and geese from vivisection breeder Double T Farms in Glenwood, Iowa in 2001. This footage was ripped from the original VHS tape released to media after the raid.
➧➧➧New for 2022: Download a complete timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, from 1977 to the present: animalliberationfrontline.com
And now available: "The ALF Strikes Again: Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front": amazon.com/dp/1732709696
"In the early morning hours of October 18, 2001, the Animal Liberation Front visited Double T Farms (21655 Barrus Rd., Glenwood, Iowa.), a breeder of birds for vivisection.
We located the pigeon shed, and cut through the wire mesh perimeter. 62 pigeons were found and released. These pigeons were destined for a cruel and senseless death at the hands of vivisectors.
All possible nesting boxes were emptied, and breeder tags were removed from each bird. The shed was also damaged. A second aviary containing ducks and geese was located, and 50 yards of netting cut away, allowing approximately 50 birds held captive within to escape.
A third aviary holding approximately 50 geese was similarly ripped apart, and those geese who did not immediately take flight were picked up and taken outside.
Approximately 162 birds were released.
This is the A.L.F.’s second visit to Double T Farms , and there will be further visits until Ted Golka’s operation is shut down.
Risking our freedom for theirs. A.L.F."
#animalliberation #animalliberationfront #animalrightsALF Raids Iowa Fur Farm: Footage of 2,000 mink liberated by Animal Liberation FrontPeter Young2021-05-22 | Rare footage of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) releasing 2,000 mink from the Scott Nelson mink farm in Ellsworth, Iowa. Ripped from a VHS of the original raid mailed to media & aboveground activists.
This farm was raided again a week later, and the farm was shut down.
➧➧➧New for 2022: Download a complete timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, from 1977 to the present: animalliberationfrontline.com
➧➧➧And now available: "The ALF Strikes Again: Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front": amazon.com/dp/1732709696
This is the only existing footage of a US fur farm action.
The full communique is as follows:
"The Animal Liberation Front is claiming responsibility for the liberation of 2000 mink from a fur farm in Jewell, IA (Tollman Rd.) in the late hours of October 16th, 2001. Every animal was released.
Fences surrounding the farm were cut away, every cage opened, and 2000 mink ran to freedom. These animals were kept 3 and 4 to a small wire mesh cage. Their rescue came at the final hour, only a month from a violent death in the pelting season.
Captive bred mink are closely related to their wild ancestors, and have been shown to retain survival instincts when released - ensuring these liberated prisoners will live and thrive. The fur industry will move to condemn this action, using misleading half-truths and boldface lies. They point their fingers with blood stained hands.
There is no defensible case for the taking of innocent life. Furthermore, there is no defensible argument against militant intervention to prevent this atrocity. When mink are no longer kept 4 to a small wire cage, when chickens are no longer kept packed in battery cages, when we stop calling dead animals food, when the blood stops spilling - these actions outside the law will no longer be needed. Until then, we will be tearing up fences, breaking down walls, and opening cages to free the animals. Terrorism against non-human animals will be met with liberation.
In this struggle for life against greed, compassion over sadism, our only recourse is to ignore laws and risk our freedom to save lives. Were you in a cage, whose side would you be on?
A.L.F."
➧➧➧New for 2022: Download a complete timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, from 1977 to the present: animalliberationfrontline.com
#animalliberationfront #animalliberation #directactionAnimal Liberation Front (ALF) fugitive segment on Americas Most Wanted: Overtime w/ Peter YoungPeter Young2021-04-14 | "America's Most Wanted: Overtime" interview in segment on ALF/ELF fugitive Josephine Sunshine Overaker, with Peter Young.
➧➧➧New for 2022: Download a complete timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, from 1977 to the present: animalliberationfrontline.com
➧➧➧And now available: "The ALF Strikes Again: Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front": amazon.com/dp/1732709696
Transcript:
"Nancy: I'm Nancy Grace. This is "America's Most Wanted Overtime."
Tonight a female believed to be a homegrown terrorist who put first responders' lives in danger across the country, Josephine Sunshine Overaker, wanted for a string of arsons causing tens of millions of dollars of damage.
Special guest joining us, Peter Young. Hold on to your seat: Convicted ecoterrorist, former fugitive on the run nearly a decade, and you can find him at peteryoung.me or on Amazon at "Liberate" his new book.
Peter, you were, as they say, a politically motivated fugitive, AKA a criminal, much like Overaker. But what is different about the psyche of politically motivated fugitives?
Peter: What's different about criminals like Ms. Overaker or myself are that we're motivated simply by compassion. It's actually the opposite of what motivates most criminals. We are motivated by desire to save animals from horrific situations, such as slaughterhouses and labs, and because the extremity of what happens to these animals on laboratories and factory farms is so extreme, that we are forced to take extreme actions in order to save them.
Nancy: Can I ask you, sir, were you ever concerned about a first responder rushing into a burning structure that you had created and losing their life?
Peter: I never engaged in the act of arson. Let's just be clear about that. All I did was free animals from farms. However, arson, it's against the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) credo to ever put lives at risk. The ALF only sets fire to empty buildings and equipment like trucks. So there's never any risk of lives at risk.
Nancy: Peter, you and I, I assume we'll have to agree to disagree. I support your cause of saving animals, but I do not support arson where firefighters that I have worked with my entire career in public service can rush into a burning building and risk their lives. But hey, that's just me.
Let me ask you about how you were able to avoid capture for seven years.
Peter: I was facing a life sentence for freeing mink and foxes from fur farms, literally 82 years in federal prison.
There's really only two rules of being a successful fugitive. Number one is to have a real ID under a fake name, which I accomplished, and #2, don't call your parents. If you could do those two things, the rest is just simply a matter of not getting arrested. So ultimately I was arrested for a petty offense and I had my fingerprints ran and that's how I was caught.
Nancy: Peter, you said you were caught on a petty offense and fingerprinted. What was the offense?
Peter: Shoplifting.
Nancy: Having been in similar shoes to Overaker, what do you think it will take for her to finally either get caught or surrender?
Peter: You have to understand the people that are surrounding her - and this is speculation -but I can speak to my situation. The people surrounding me, I had a $100,000 price tag on my head from the Fur Commission USA Trade Group. And the people around me knew that, and they still didn't turn me in despite that massive financial incentive. And the reason for that was because I was surrounded by people that shared my belief that animals are not here for us to kill, murder, and that sometimes we have to work outside the law to save those animals.
I would have to imagine that financial motivation is not going to be what it's going to take to get people that are surrounding an animal rights fugitive to turn her in.
Nancy: You just heard Peter Young. He supports her to the hilt.
Peter Young, so devoted to animal rights. Peter, I'm just as devoted to victims' rights and I have worked with so many fire people that risk their lives going into burning warehouses, maybe they were empty, but those firefighters go in and risk everything. That's my concern tonight.
Peter. I want to thank you for being with us, Peter, convicted ecoterrorist, former fugitive for nearly a decade, author of "Liberate" on Amazon. You can find him at peteryoung.me. Peter, thank you for being with us."
➧➧➧New for 2022: Download a complete timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, from 1977 to the present: animalliberationfrontline.com
#animalrights #animalliberationfront #americasmostwantedDestruction of Animal Liberation Front (ALF) target: University of Iowa Seashore Hall demolitionPeter Young2020-11-24 | The building housing vivisector's offices succumbs to wrecking balls.
The vivisection labs next door remain standing.Sound Advice Crew 1994 demo: Mercer Island High School Hip HopPeter Young2020-05-01 | I went to high school with these guys (Justin Time & Simon B). Literally the whitest hip hop demo ever recorded.
Before Soundcloud, before irony, before anything worth listening to: There was Sound Advice Crew.
Points for the Abbie Hoffman reference.
#mercerislandBloodlet Live @ Velvet Elvis, Seattle 7-8-1995 (audio only) + two live Trial songsPeter Young2020-05-01 | Recorded on a Radio Shack cassette recorder. Also on this show: 108 and Coalesce.
Don't ask me how or why, but the last five minutes captures a couple live, early Trial songs. Either they played this show, or the Bloodlet set got dubbed over a recording of another Trial show.
Image is from this actual show. Print can be purchased from the photographer here: carriewhitneyphotography.com/p963005721108 @ Velvet Elvis, Seattle 7-8-1995 (audio only)Peter Young2020-05-01 | Recorded live on a Radio Shack cassette recorder.
Show was with Bloodlet and Coalesce.Unbroken - Live @ Velvet Elvis, Seattle, August 9th 1995 (audio only)Peter Young2020-04-30 | Recorded on my Radio Shack cassette player, which documented many Seattle Hardcore shows from 1994 to 1997.
Worth noting: Unbroken mentioned in an interview they played one show in San Diego after the end of this tour before breaking up. Seattle was supposed to be (?) the last show of the tour, which would make this their second-to-last show. Unconfirmed.
#hardcore #unbroken #straightedge #nwhcEvasion Author Radio Interview, 2002 (Mack Evasion/Crimethinc )Peter Young2020-04-30 | Rumored to be the only audio recording of Mack Evasion before his disappearance.
Sort of like the Patterson Bigfoot film, except Bigfoot is actually cool.
He's probably stocking shelves at Whole Foods with Brian D as we speak.
#crimethincEarth Crisis - Live @ Redmond Firehouse, September 12 1995 (w/cheese-throwing incident, audio only)Peter Young2020-04-30 | Recorded on a Radio Shack cassette player I probably found in a dumpster somewhere. This show was with Shelter.
This show features (at 2:35) the infamous (to me) incident of scene kids throwing cheese at the band. To which Karl responds:
"Show me your face motherfucker.
My face is on every record. People know what I believe in.
I don't hide in the back...
DIE BITCH. FUCK YOU."
#earthcrisisIsolated: 2004 Earth Crisis side-project xvx sxe veganPeter Young2020-04-30 | Scott Crouse / Dennis Merrick / Earth Crisis side project.
Five tracks:1. The Awakening2. In Time3. PPD4. Deny5. The Cowards Way
Scott and Dennis play all instruments. It rules.
#earthcrisisGatecrashing SCAD fashion show (& getting 3rd row center seat)Peter Young2018-05-19 | Using a crude-but-effective infiltration technique, I crashed the exclusive runway show for SCAD's Fashion Weekend. 3rd row center, behind a bunch of probably-famous-or-at-least-really-rich people.My boring Art Basel date is annoyed I want to crash partiesPeter Young2017-07-15 | How one very unimpressed woman in South Beach responds to the question: "Hey _____: Why don't you like sneaking into parties?"
If you're not down with infiltration, you're not vegan. Hating me is not vegan either.Whole Foods cashier asks Peter Young: How would you steal a stuffed lion & a bagel?Peter Young2017-07-15 | A Whole Foods cashier challenges Peter Young to answer the pressing question: "If you were going to sneak a giant stuffed lion and/or a bagel past me, how would you do it?"