Anarchism And Animal Liberation

Building upon anarchist critiques of racism, sexism, ableism and classism, this collection of new essays melds anarchism with animal advocacy in arguing that speciesism is an ideological and social norm rooted in hierarchy and inequality. Rising from the anarchist-influenced Occupy Movement, this book brings together international scholars and activists who challenge us all to look more critically into the causes of speciesism and to take a broader view of peace, social justice and the nature of oppression. Animal advocates have long argued that speciesism will end if the humanity adopts a vegan ethic. This concept is developed into the argument that the vegan ethic has the most promise if it is also anti-capitalist and against all forms of domination.

Using Marxism, anarchism, and social ecology to explore domination, power, and hierarchy, the author criticizes the use and abuse of animals in capitalist society and argues for the abolition of animal involvement in industry and as a human food source.

When in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF’s communiqué on the action went beyond the radical group’s customary brief. Drawing connections between the harms facing the myriad animals who make their home in the trees and the struggles for social justice among ordinary human beings resisting exclusion and marginalization, the dispatch declared, “all oppression is linked, just as we are all linked,” and decried the “patriarchal nightmare” in the form of “techno-industrial global capitalism.” In Total Liberation, David Naguib Pellow takes up this claim and makes sense of the often tense and violent relationships among humans, ecosystems, and nonhuman animal species, expanding our understanding of inequality and activists’ uncompromising efforts to oppose it. Grounded in interviews with more than one hundred activists, on-the-spot fieldwork, and analyses of thousands of pages of documents, websites, journals, and zines, Total Liberation reveals the ways in which radical environmental and animal rights movements challenge inequity through a vision they call “total liberation.” In its encounters with such infamous activists as scott crow, Tre Arrow, Lauren Regan, Rod Coronado, and Gina Lynn, the book offers a close-up, insider’s view of one of the most important—and feared—social movements of our day. At the same time, it shows how and why the U.S. justice system plays to that fear, applying to these movements measures generally reserved for “jihadists”—with disturbing implications for civil liberties and constitutional freedom. How do the adherents of “total liberation” fight oppression and seek justice for humans, nonhumans, and ecosystems alike? And how is this pursuit shaped by the politics of anarchism and anticapitalism? In his answers, Pellow provides crucial in-depth insight into the origins and social significance of the earth and animal liberation movements and their increasingly common and compelling critique of inequality as a threat to life and a dream of a future characterized by social and ecological justice for all.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 122. Chapters: Animal Liberation Front, International Workers Association, Green anarchism, Reclaim the Streets, Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo, Timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, 2005-present, Timeline of Earth Liberation Front actions, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, Barry Horne, Timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, 1976-1999, Timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, 2000-2004, Animal Rights Militia, International Workers' Association, Heather Nicholson, Justice Department, Rod Coronado, International Working People's Association, Roger Yates, Keith Mann, Veganarchism, SPEAK campaign, Craig Rosebraugh, Argentine Regional Workers' Federation, Britches, Southern Animal Rights Coalition, Anarchism and animal rights, Mel Broughton, Green Scare, Jerry Vlasak, Revolutionary Cells - Animal Liberation Brigade, Operation Backfire, Konfederatsiya Revolyutsionnikh Anarkho-Sindikalistov, Undercover Slut, International of Anarchist Federations, Anarchist Black Cross, Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs, Greg Avery, Daniel G. McGowan, John Feldmann, Western Animal Rights Network, Food Not Bombs, Association of Autonomous Astronauts, An American Opera, Robin Webb, Campaign against Highgate Rabbit Farm, Ronnie Lee, Oxford Arson Squad, Free Workers' Union, Animal Liberation Press Office, Shamrock Farm, Bite Back, Laboratory animal suppliers in the United Kingdom, Darren Thurston, Behind the Mask, Unione Sindacale Italiana, Hunt Retribution Squad, Save the Hill Grove Cats, Red and Anarchist Skinheads, Solidarity Federation, Infoshop.org, Biotic Baking Brigade, Anarchist Black Cross Network, David Barbarash, Consort beagles, Dielo Truda, International Libertarian Solidarity, Anarchist St. Imier International, Arkangel, Nicolas Atwood, European Youth For Action, Jura federation, No Compromise, Centre International de...

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: Green anarchism, Timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, 2005-present, Timeline of Earth Liberation Front actions, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, Barry Horne, Timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, 1976-1999, Timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, 2000-2004, Animal Rights Militia, Heather Nicholson, Justice Department, Rod Coronado, Roger Yates, Keith Mann, Veganarchism, SPEAK campaign, Craig Rosebraugh, Britches, Southern Animal Rights Coalition, Anarchism and animal rights, Mel Broughton, Green Scare, Jerry Vlasak, Revolutionary Cells - Animal Liberation Brigade, Operation Backfire, Undercover Slut, Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs, Greg Avery, Daniel G. McGowan, John Feldmann, Western Animal Rights Network, An American Opera, Robin Webb, Campaign against Highgate Rabbit Farm, Ronnie Lee, Oxford Arson Squad, Animal Liberation Press Office, Shamrock Farm, Bite Back, Laboratory animal suppliers in the United Kingdom, Darren Thurston, Behind the Mask, Hunt Retribution Squad, Save the Hill Grove Cats, David Barbarash, Consort beagles, Arkangel, Nicolas Atwood, No Compromise, GANDALF trial. Excerpt: The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is an international, underground leaderless resistance that engages in illegal direct action in pursuit of animal liberation. Activists see themselves as a modern-day Underground Railroad, removing animals from laboratories and farms, destroying facilities, arranging safe houses and veterinary care, and operating sanctuaries where the animals live out the rest of their lives. Active in over 40 countries, ALF cells operate clandestinely, consisting of small groups of friends and sometimes just one person, which makes the movement difficult for the authorities to monitor. Robin Webb of the British Animal Liberation Press Office has said: "That is why the ALF cannot be...