Animal Liberation Front message

[Guest guest]

*Dear colleagues,*

* The attached message was sent today by Mr Keith

Mann, Animal Liberation Front activist and author of the book 'From Dusk til

Dawn'. Mr Mann elaborates the animal rights struggle and highlights the

conflict of interest between animal rights and animal welfare. I hope you

will find his note as captivating as I did.*

* Warm regards,*

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*First of all I want to extend a huge thank you to everyone involved in this

project at every level, for promoting the book, for storing it, for reading

and commenting on it. There are new reviews now posted on the website and

current AR campaign updates and other news which will be added to regularly.

We also want good photos for the Galleries, of demo's, policing etc.

Anything relating to what we do or what they do. And demos! We need demos!

You can forget the photos but not the demos. If you have good images, of

people up on rooftops or cranes and attached by the neck to something that

won't open, or just stood there, great, send them in. Our imagination and

initiative is the key to unlocking the activist in others. Banners are good.

Why do we seldom have a sea of banners on our demos? Don't just be there, do

something!*

 

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*It took just 5 months to distribute the first print run of 2000 books and

we're now well into the second, with distributors in Europe, the US,

Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Glowing reviews are as common as

the rain just now. Got this forwarded today: " OK I am at page 210 in From

Dusk til Dawn, it is amazing, one of best, hardest, sad, exciting, warming,

anger filling, hopeless, fulfilling and liberating things I have ever read

and probably ever will read in my life. Nothing has ever filled me with

every human emotion I thought existed and then some.... pass my biggest

thanks on to Mr Mann. " More! *

 

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*Bookshops are increasingly interested as they see a good thing but more

help is needed badgering them to take it. No other book tells our story and

never did it need telling more than it does right now. We are in talks with

Waterstones and are making inroads. Please if you haven't already made

contact with your local bookshops ask them to stock the book and direct them

to the website or get contact details and we'll do the rest. We have fliers

available for stalls, health food stores or anywhere else that will display

them. We also have a crackin' new vegan cookbook available. This is the

ideal gift for anyone especially as the world starts to wake up to the

impact-on-self of exploiting the animal kingdom. There's other useful stuff

too. Have a look at the website

**www.fromdusktildawn.org.uk*<http://www.fromdusktildawn.org.uk/>

* and keep an eye on the book's progress and news from the movement. The

sequel, if you like. *

 

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*And there's a lot more to come, not least the SPEAK Political campaign

which I'm aligned with. The first phase of this exciting, innovative project

seeks to field candidates in election campaigns against vocal animal abusing

MP's, with a view to not so much gaining political power but taking some

control of those seeking it. This is not just another political party

standing on a lie or calling for improvements in animal torture techniques,

but about each and every one of us using the corrupted system to our

advantage to speak for the animals. This has the potential to be a major

step forward and key to the success of our advancement into the political

arena. We have candidates ready to go as soon as they announce the election

date (maybe two years away) and we're going to take those votes and make

these monsters rethink their stance. We will put leaflets through every door

in every constituency in which we field candidates. That in itself isn't

something we achieve very often! The power base of these people is about to

be shaken by the powerful pro animal lobby of this country. Your vote will

soon, perhaps for the first time, start to have some significance. Please

if you're in the UK sign up now to show your support and see how else you

can help **www.speakpoliticalparty.org*<http://www.speakpoliticalparty.org/>

 

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*The incredibly vicious government reaction to our efforts is a significant

signal that we are making inroads and now is the time to reorganise

ourselves and step up our efforts. From Dusk til Dawn tells the story of the

progress of the Animal Liberation Movement to the present date and it's a

big book with a big story to tell but in the grand scheme of things we've

only been around for a millisecond. What we did so far is in the book; watch

this space for the rest of it! *

 

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*There is a huge drive on by the powers that be in the UK in particular and

elsewhere to silence this movement and to scare us away from objecting to

their violence. This is of course unacceptable but still it is a good thing.

Were we ineffective we would be allowed to get on with it. We are a threat

so we must be attacked. That's how it is and always has been in a society

run by the moneymen. More importantly we are effective because we have stood

up to be counted and stand up we must. They don't attack us because we are

extremists, they attack us because they are extremists. Recently the

authorities/their police have stood back to allow hunt supporters who were

breaking the law to violently attack and hospitalise hunt monitors, they

have smashed their way into elderly protestors homes, asked for jury members

in a trial of peaceful protestors to be allowed to meet at a police station

so they can be minibused to the trial to avoid 'intimidation, for witnesses

to give evidence from behind screens and they're harassing stall holders and

changing laws to further criminalise peaceful protest. Liberty (the

organisation supposedly protecting civil liberties and human rights), seem

uninterested. Meanwhile the RSPCA and Compassion in World Farming,

supposedly the official way forward in animal welfare, continue to encourage

people to slaughter baby animals and birds their way. On the other hand

veganism, a way of living here without having a devastating impact on Larry

the lamb, Babe the pig, Henrietta the hen, all their friends and the fragile

planet we all inhabit, is forging the only way ahead and gaining incredible

momentum. Fur farm raids are at a peak in Europe, two fur shops in Sweden

have this week reportedly closed due to public protest activity and even in

unlikely places there are reports of an awakening. Belarus, for example, and

Mexico, where the dove seen here was released with others from a cage by

animal rights activists early in 2008*

 

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*and Malaysia where as you can see from the following image, taken on a lab

raid, they show a sense of humour in a fraught environment.*

 

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*Here, there and everywhere in spite of the apparent imbalance of power,

gentle folk are fighting and winning many battles and all the arguments. *

 

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*I've been travelling a lot lately and the police inevitably detain me when

I come back to the UK. I've come to see it like I see several hundred tonnes

of metal meeting a runway upon landing, both very bad and somehow a good

thing. First the plane teases me with sure annihilation and then, over that

experience, I get ambushed by police as I get my passport out for the suited

serious ones at Passport Control. Now I also get donated two crispy fifty

pound notes each time it happens! Why? It's in the South African Tour report

on the book website... I leave the UK most of the time, at request to talk,

to show Behind The Mask (a ground breaking social history statement) and of

course smuggle neither weapons, drugs or children back in with me when I

return. I have never in my life been arrested for, questioned about, or

convicted of, any terrorist offence yet I get detained under terrorism laws

upon my return. It doesn't really add up. I've read about and met the kind

of people they call terrorists and I take this as a compliment, but surely

there are genuine terrorists to interrogate or smugglers? Either way I'm

encouraged by their obsession and hope to be invited to talk more. I wrote

to the police to enquire of their obsessive interest in my personal life and

told them I will invite them to travel with me if they have good reason to

feel the need and can persuade me there's a good reason why. I will keep you

informed.*

 

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*For the animals*

 

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*Keith*