Issue Three Out Now!

Welcome to issue three of Liberate!

In this issue we discuss Rob Gilchrist and how he was ousted as a police informant late last year. We also look at animal rights in China, inside slaughterhouses and how you can run a campaign, as well as much more.

Yet again we have added a new section ‘actions speak louder than words’. This new section will report back to readers on all the awesome above ground actions and campaigns being fought on the animals behalf across Aotearoa.

There were also the following articles:

My First Time (at a slaughterhouse)

A Small Glimpse of Animal Rights Issue in China

Animal Liberationists to Anarchists, Guess What?

You’re NexANZCCART Arrestees Court Update

Becoming An Extreme Vegan

Direct Action Starter Guide

How To Look For Infiltrators And Continue Being Active

How To Run A Campaign

Legal Self-Defence – Representing Yourself in Court

October 15th Solidarity – The Struggle (and Court Case!) Continue

Unlawfully In An Enclosed Yard

The Life of Rats in New Zealand

Zero Graze Goat Dairy Farming

Words Also Are Weapons

Also in this issue you will find a DVD called ‘Who Are You Having For Dinner’ attached to the cover. This is a documentary about where meat comes from in Aotearoa and was produced by Animal Liberation Aotearoa. If you are reading online you can watch this film here.

In the spirit of change, we also say goodbye to one of our editors this issue. We are now looking for a new editor. If this sounds like something you would be interested please email us at liberatemagazine@yahoo.com

If you would like to have a copy of Liberate mailed to you every six months you can subscribe for $10 per year; this includes postage. Please send subscription requests to liberatemagazine@yahoo.com or via snail mail to Liberate, PO BOX 7523, Wellesley Street, Auckland.

Alternatively if you would like just a single copy of Liberate these are available from the Liberate Collective for $5 (including postage), from the SAFE Cruelty Free Shop or can be downloaded from here. (It is about 66Mb so it will take a while to download; we will make it smaller for next time).

Please send us your submissions, thoughts, art and/or ideas. We will try not to edit your writing but it may from time to time be necessary if it is too long.

Maximum Length for Submissions:
Features (A3): 1,300 words
Opinions: 500 words

Deadline for next issue: 15th August 2009

Please send all submissions to liberatemagazine@yahoo.com or via snail mail to Liberate, PO BOX 7523, Wellesley Street, Auckland.

Liberate Issue 3 – State Oppression of Animals and Activists (Submissions Wanted)

For the third issue of Liberate, we will be featuring “State oppression of animals and activists”. In this feature we will discuss the role of the state in furthering and maintaining animal abuse through mechanisms such as requiring animal testing of new products, subsidising dairy farmers and allowing industry to write codes of welfare. Further to this we will discuss how the state protect animal abusing companies and industries by targeting activists.

 

It would be great to have peoples’ submissions around this topic, or just anything you want to say or contributions for any of the other sections in the magazine. We want it all.

 

The other sections are:

* Books not Bombs (book, CD and zine reviews and excerpts)

* Activism and the (in)justice system (send us details of your brushes with the law and issues relating to prisoner support)

* Security

* Activist Toolkit (new in issue two – detailing useful tips for effective activism)

* Direct Action Gets and Goods

* Know Your Enemy

* Know Your Friends

 

We have also added new section:

*Actions Speak Louder Than Words which will detail national actions, regional campaigns and interesting actions. Please send us your submissions, thoughts, art and/or ideas.

 

We will try not to edit your writing but it may from time to time be necessary if it is too long.

Maximum Length for Submissions:

Features (A3): 1,300 words

Opinions: 500 words

Deadline for next issue: 1st February 2009

 

All submissions will be anonymous.

 

Please send all submissions to liberatemagazine(at) yahoo.com or via snail mail to Liberate, PO BOX 7523, Wellesley Street, Auckland.

 

If you would like to have a copy of Liberate mailed to you every six months you can subscribe for $10 per year; this includes postage. Please send subscription requests to liberatemagazine (at) yahoo.com or via snail mail to Liberate, PO BOX 7523, Wellesley Street, Auckland. We still have copies of Volume Two available, if you would like a copy of this these are available from the Liberate Collective for $5 for Volume Two (including postage), from the Safe Shop, the Freedom Shop, and Katipo Books. Volume One can be downloaded from

 https://liberatemagazine.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/magazine1.pdf and Volume Two can be downloaded from

https://liberatemagazine.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/magazine-without-bleed-latest.pdf.

 

Love and solidarity

 

The Liberate Editorial Collective

Liberate Issue Two Out Now!

Welcome to issue two of Liberate!

In this issue we discuss veganism and the need to recognise that all forms of oppression are linked; hence the feature title; Vegan is Not Enough. It is not enough to recognise our privilege over animals but ignore that which we have over women, other cultures, queers and the environment. Similarly people active in social justice movements often do not acknowledge the power and privilege they hold over the earth and our animal brothers and sisters.

We have also added a few new sections; these are Know Your Friends, the Activist Toolkit and October 15th Solidarity.

Know Your Friends focuses on the animals, what they are like in the world and how they are abused by humans. Many of us do not actually know that much about those that we are fighting for so this is a chance to get better informed.

The Activist Toolkit will discuss tactics, practical DIY tips and analyse campaigns and their effectiveness.

The October 15th Solidarity section will keep our readers updated on where the case is at for the defendants of the State Terror Raids.

If you would like to have a copy of Liberate mailed to you every six months you can subscribe for $10 per year; this includes postage. Please send subscription requests to liberatemagazine@yahoo.com or via snail mail to Liberate, PO BOX 7523, Wellesley Street, Auckland.

Alternatively if you would like just a single copy of Liberate these are available from the Liberate Collective for $5 (including postage), from the Freedom Shop, the SAFE Cruelty Free Shop and Katipo Books or can be downloaded from here Liberate Volume Two

For your quick reference (and searchability) we have also made the articles available as individual posts; links to these can be found below.

Please send us your submissions, thoughts, art and/or ideas. We will try not to edit your writing but it may from time to time be necessary if it is too long.

Maximum Length for Submissions:
Features (A3): 1,300 words
Opinions: 500 words

Deadline for next issue: 1st February 2009

Please send all submissions to liberatemagazine@yahoo.com or via snail mail to Liberate, PO BOX 7523, Wellesley Street, Auckland.

Betty Rowe – Loss of a Champion

My First Time

What the Fuck is going on in Auckland

Feature: Being Vegan is Not Enough

• The Real story of Milk in Aotearoa
• Indigenous Rights – Animal Rights
• Anarcha Feminism and Animal Liberation
• Dominion
• Race, Racism and Animal Liberation
• Anarchism and Animal Liberation

How to do a Factory Farm Investigation

Filming on a Factory farm

Data Security

Electronic Data Security – Things to Remember

Auckland – Keeping the Courts busy

Farm Tours

ANZCCART 2008

The Do’s and Don’ts of Masking up

Burn Out

Chix and the City

Pigs

October 15^th – The struggle Continues

Liberate Volume 2 – Submissions Wanted

Liberate is a magazine written by and for the animal liberation movement in Aotearoa. It aims to encourage discussion amongst the movement about animal abuse issues, strategies, tactics and goals. In no way does Liberate aim to create a homogenised, centralised approach to animal liberation but rather we wish to acknowledge our diversity of thought, action and collective experience, knowledge and passion.

We acknowledge that industrialised animal abuse is the result of an oppressive global regime that puts power and profit before the preservation of life, whether it be that of an animal, human or mother earth. This system not only encourages and legitimises animal abuse but also racism, sexism, homophobia, colonisation and environmental destruction.

It is for this reason that we have proposed that the feature of our next magazine be focused around animal rights/veganism and its relationship to other forms of oppression, where animal rights fits with these forms of oppression, how activists in these different movements can work together and where animal rights (and the community) may be reinforcing the oppression of other groups/the environment or failing to take the oppression of others into account. For example an analysis of veganism and class, animal rights and anarcha-feminism and indigenous struggles and traditional hunting practices.

It would be great to have peoples’ submissions around this topic, just anything you want to say or contributions for any of the other sections in the magazine. We want it all.

The other sections are:

* Books not Bombs (book, CD and zine reviews and excerpts)
* Activism and the (in)justice system (send us details of your brushes with the law and issues relating to prisoner support)
* Security
* Activist Toolkit (new section detailing useful tips for effective activism)
* Reports for the underground
* Letters to the community (short comments about the magazine, short replies to articles or a response to anything happening within the community)

Please send us your submissions, thoughts, art and/or ideas. We will try not to edit your writing but it may from time to time be necessary if it is too long.

Maximum Length for Submissions:
Features (A3): 1,300 words
Opinions: 500 words
Letters: 100 – 250 words

Deadline for next issue: 1st August

All submissions will be anonymous.

Please send all submissions to liberatemagazine (at) yahoo.com or via snail mail to Liberate, PO BOX 7523, Wellesley Street, Auckland.

If you would like to have a copy of Liberate mailed to you every six months you can subscribe for $8 per year; this includes postage. Please send subscription requests to liberatemagazine (at) yahoo.com or via snail mail to Liberate, PO BOX 7523, Wellesley Street, Auckland.

We still have copies of Volume One available, if you would like a copy of this these are available from the Liberate Collective for $4 (including postage), from the Freedom Shop, Black Star Books and Katipo Books or can be downloaded from liberatemagazine.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/magazine1.pdf.

Love and solidarity

The Liberate Editorial Collective

Liberate Volume 1 (Autumn 2008)

Welcome to the first Issue of Liberate.

If you would like to have a copy of Liberate mailed to you every six months you can subscribe for $8 per year; this includes postage. Please send subscription requests to liberatemagazine@yahoo.com or via snail mail to Liberate, PO BOX 7523, Wellesley Street, Auckland.

Alternatively if you would like just a single copy of Liberate these are available from the Liberate Collective for $4 (including postage), from the Freedom Shop, Black Star Books and Katipo Books or can be downloaded from here Liberate Volume One.

For your quick reference (and searchability) we have also made that articles available as individual posts; links to these can be found below.

Please send us your submissions, thoughts, art and/or ideas. We will try not to edit your writing but it may from time to time be necessary if it is too long.

Maximum Length for Submissions:
Features (A3): 1,300 words
Opinions: 500 words
Letters: 100 – 250 words

Deadline for next issue: 1st August

Please send all submissions to liberatemagazine@yahoo.com or via snail mail to Liberate, PO BOX 7523, Wellesley Street, Auckland.

Suzanne Carey September 10 1973 – February 24 2008

Understanding Newbies: For an Inclusive and Effective Animal Liberation Movement

Talking Tactics

Hit and Run

Live Sheep Exports from New Zealand?

Updates from the Underground

Layer Hen Code Amendments: how these effect your underground investigation

Introducing the Mexican ALF

Loose Lips Sink Ships: a quick look at security culture (or lack of) within our community

Know Your Enemy

Why Support Prisoners?

A Guide to Writing to Prisoners

October 15th Solidarity Update