19-05-2022
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On Wednesday 11 May, a banner of solidarity with comrade Demeter, who is being persecuted for her anti-migrant action, was put up at the Polytechnic.
HUNTING TO HUNTERS
NO INDIVIDUAL ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
* here is the comrade’s text on the case
https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1618240/ (editor’s note: you can find it translated inside the blog here)
*we also call to the solidarity microphonic organized by the Initiative Against Hunting on Monday 23/5
https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1618667/ (editor’s note: you can find it translated inside the blog here)
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[Monday 23/05- 20:00] Microphonic intervention in solidarity with comrade D. who is persecuted for her anti-hunting action
Hunting is not a hobby
It’s murder.
“The liberation of non-human animals from the shackles of human domination is the cornerstone of anti-capitalism, just as the liberation of all from the shackles of all powers is the core of total liberation.” Dimitra
On May 26, 2022, a case is being heard at the Single-Member Court of Appeal of the Criminal Court of Appeal in Chalkida, for which two people are being prosecuted, one of whom is comrade Dimitra, concerning the incident of a conflict with a hunter in Evia in 2018. After a dispute, the disarming of the hunter and the prevention of his murderous activity became possible. The uniformed garbage proceeded to an arrest under the law that defines any act of liberation from the shackles of power, whatever form it takes, as illegal. After 3.5 years, the comrade is on trial for this anti-hunting intervention, which resulted in the loss of the hunter-killer’s shotgun and mobile phone, on the basis of which the charges of robbery and theft were formed.
In the face of the hunters’ lobbies that are standing with announcements, publications and financial support for the hunter-killer and their ‘like-minded’ comrade demanding the conviction of the anti-hunter action, all we can say is that the comrade is not alone. We will continue to oppose all authoritarian and speceisist logic and actions. Despite the war that society, the state and their laws declare against us, our struggle will not stop until total liberation.
Antispeceisist actions oppose death, exploitation and the authoritarian imposition of species upon species. Authority, aided by the laws it enacts, paves the way for this hunt for profit and pleasure derived from suffering and imposition, and formed by a perverse superiority, competition, habit and tolerance.
Protective laws, prizes, bonus cartridges per head, appropriate seasons and species to be hunted, sometimes as dangerous and for the preservation of fauna and sometimes as surplus, objects of research or recreation and sporting activity. We do not understand any legitimacy and of course we cannot accept legal hunting nor the institutionality of the clubs and associations of the murderer-hobbyist-professional hunter of the capitalist western world. No amount of cooperation between animal welfare and environmental organisations, universities and veterinarians will convince us that the normalisation of the killing of living beings is for their well-being.
Guns, upgraded technology, false scents, radars, hunting towers, and even the use of other animals such as dogs signify an unequal battle. We abhor the logic that perceives non-human animals as prey to be eaten, processed and turned into clothes, skinned flesh, relics and jewelry, trophies in photos that smell of death, to adorn chalets and salons, to be served with a smile and devoured with gluttony, or mere carcasses to be discarded lifeless and useless.
The time has come for us to set traps for the hunters, to photograph our trophies that express no superiority and to stand by our comrades, human and non-human, as part of this world and not as its exploiters and managers.
NO INDIVIDUAL ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE
UNTIL ANARCHY
Initiative against hunting
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On Monday the 1st of February we staged an intervention with spray paint, stencils and flyers at the 2nd Hunting Association of Athens in Kipseli and the 2nd Hunting Association of Kallithea as a gesture of solidarity with D. and Th. that are prosecuted for their anti-hunting action in Evia.
For every, hunter, butcher and fisherman, there will be a knife stuck in their guts.
Nobody left alone at the hands of the state.
Anarchists.
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“Banner hung for solidarity with anti-hunting action
We live in a time when wild animals are almost extinct. Hunters-fishermen have fun by torturing and killing the remaining animals, which are treated in a speciesist manner as trophies of each fascist, murderer, macho hunter.
Today, hunting and fishing do not meet subsistence needs, as they did in earlier times or in other cultures, but have been established as a hobby or means of entertainment and amusement. It is a shameful and immoral action, as the fisherman-hunter exhausts the power given to him by using unequal means (rifle, shotgun, dynamite, nets, traps, scattered projectiles, etc.) in relation to the animals, since it is almost impossible for them to escape and usually ends up killing them. Hunting and fishing are not only a method of amusement for the middle and upper classes, but exist in almost all social stratification. Moreover, these actions of murder are directly linked to the patriarchy and its power pattern. It is no coincidence, of course, that the percentage of femicides committed by male hunters is high.
We, as anarchist antispeciesists queer subjects, stand against every authoritarian action towards non-human animals, as well as towards human animals and nature, regardless of if this is called fishing, hunting, food-clothing industry, wind power parks, or Attica zoo.
In the current circumstances, according to a state decision and while hunting has been banned due to covid-19, the hunting of wild boar has been extended in order to combat African swine fever in the regions of Rhodope, Evros and Xanthi, with the right to hunt without restriction. The State, as the dominant form of power, is in fact legitimising the killing of animals, using the risk of African swine fever as a pretext. In other words, anything defined by the state as a public health risk must be exterminated, a plan that fits into the broader model of biopolitics – bio-power, as in the case of the state management of covid-19. There is, therefore, a need to include in our analyses non-human animals, which in very few cases have self-determination of their bodies.
We express our solidarity with D. and T., who are being prosecuted for their anti-hunting activities because they prevented a hunter from killing an animal. As part of solidarity actions for the above, a banner was hung in the F.E.P.A.
Anarcho-queer antispeciesist structure Helona”
30-01-2021
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“Banner for D&Th.
A banner of solidarity with the D&Th. persecuted for the anti-hunting action in Evia. The banners were hung in the fertilizer park in Drapetsona and on a bridge on Petrou Ralli road in the area of Renti.”
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In the area of Evia on 26/12/18, D. and Th. confronted a hunter, in order to try to prevent the murder of animals and by extension the exercise of his sadistic hobby. As a result of the confrontation, the hunters hunting rifle was thrown into the forest and D. and Th. got trapped by police vehicles. The charges they are facing after their arrest are the felony of theft (due to the missing hunting rifle) and theft of a phone. Their trial is scheduled for the 28/1/21 at the Court of Felony Appeals in Halkida.
A key role in the pressing of the charges was played by several hunting associations from the whole of Greece, that demanded the condemnation of the actions of D. and Th. The hunting associations in question have been and still are fields of canvassing. This becomes apparent nowadays, in the midst of Covid 19 and government policies concerning the banning or permission of hunting.
Hunting is effectively a hobby with a specific purpose; to act as a proof of the domination of the ‘powerful’ over the ‘weak’. The goal is the satisfaction of violent and dominative complexes and in parallel, a murderous distraction from the sad and miserable everyday life of the ones that practice it. In the modern western world this practice is exercised in order to gain ‘likes’ on social media platforms. Additionally hunting is exercised in order to build a certain profile that encompasses all of the stereotypes that come in conflict and are antithetical to the libertarian ideals that we live and aspire by.
For power to be legalised, it is necessary for it to be dissipated from state mechanisms, to be normalised and reproduced from dominated subjects. To the various forms of exploitation that are produced and reproduced through discrimination (based on class, gender, race etc) hunting is also included. This is because this practice could not be exercised without the impression that humans have the right to exercise power through destroying the natural word in a variety of ways, either in order to satisfy their sadistic tendencies or to gain a financial profit.
We stand in solidarity with D. and Th. Their stance and their choice shall be a catalyst of wider struggles and resistances towards this direction.
Constant struggle for the subversion of the ‘existing’, till the creation of world based on solidarity, equality and freedom.
SOLIDAIRTY WITH D. AND TH.
Anarchist Collective Acte
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]]>“Solidarity with D. and Th. who are being prosecuted for the anti-hunting action in Euboea
With regard to the upcoming trial in the case of the defendents who intervened in the prevention of the murder of non human animals by a hunter in Euboea two years ago see (https://parasita.espivblogs.net/2019/03/11/gia-ton-afoplismo-kynigoy-stin-eyvoia/), we feel the need to voice our unreserved support for these persecuted individuals, and to stress once again that in this dismal world we occupy we have no choice but to fight for the absolute freedom of human and non human animals. We won’t go into the details of the incident as it is documented clearly here (https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1609553/) by the involved individuals, but what interests us more is to point out the act of resistance against the hunter, which is not only just but also necessary.
Globally hunting constitutes a dispicable activity through which countless non human animals are murdered. Even so officially and to a large extent in society it is considered and catagorised as a “sport” and treated as such. The reason is simply because as in all sports in it’s participation the individual draws pleasure from this, an act which for them is legitimately ethical. This legitimacy is based on speciesism, in other words on doctrine that allows us to view animals as inferior entities and as a resource for our use to eat or exploit in the production of wealth, for entertainment or in the context of some “sports” and much more. Based on this doctrine the non human animals have no independent value but are viewed purely as a commodity that is meant solely as usable asset. Having this perspective of animals there is no doubt why many end up murdering them and if hunting is considered a sport it can only be a sport of murderers.
Setting aside the lawful and social construct of hunting as a sport, another justification expressed is that it is done as a means for hunters to feed themselves. They support that hunting constitutes a more “natural” way of obtaining food comparing to buying dead flesh from super markets and meat markets. However, except for the fact that for most of them their diet is not entirely based on hunting, they seem to forget that their hyper-modern weapons which most of them use are coming from a well-established international trade market, which of course is based upon an equally huge production system for all the necessary for their construction metals. Similar conditions are true also for the additional equipment that plenty of them use in hunting, such as the special cameras that detect animals’ movements even at night, as well as the devices which imitate animals’ voices in order to attract them. In any case, it is widely known that human’s nutritional needs can be completely covered by non-animal products, so either with shotguns or with bows and narrows, real dilemma does not exist. What exists, though, is nothing more than an effort to a brutal practice exercised on animals for the pleasure of worthless bipods with a use of totally feeble and hypocritical excuses.
At the same time hunting is used for commercial purposes as in the sale of non human animals to third parties as well as to organizations of oppression such as circuses, zoos and pet shops where they are sold alive after being captured and taken from their natural habitat during hunting. Similarly, hunter believing that they are superior from the non-human animals and that they belong to them, they behave as their owners and after they kidnap them they use them as commodities for economical profit. Their actions moreover constitute the first stage in a life-chain for the animals which is completely stripped of their freedom and consists solely of captivity, brutality and torture.
The belief of the hunters that non human animals are inferior to them, that they are not living subjects and thus, they have no inherent value reminds us bygone times when slaves were considered a inferior human and were equated to other non-human animals and treated much like them, that is, with their bosses marked them, castrated them and kept them chained. What we must not overlook, though, is the fact that this degrading use of slaves mimicked the already established practice exercised by humans on animals, which were the first to be treated like that, exactly because they were regarded as an “inferior form of life” made for every kind of exploitation.
Modern civilization putting human being and its needs in the center of everything, brings as in a situation to face an inconvenient truth, that this civilization is constructed based on the slaughter of non human animals. The realization that its foundation is mostly based on this brutality enforced on these creatures, but also on the nature that generally surround us, leaves us no choice but to oppose this culture and it’s values. Today especially the exploitation of non-human animals has reached extreme levels and the examples are endless, hunting and fishing for example -which themselves support a huge production of the relevant equipment- and of course the meat, dairy, egg, fur and fish industries as well as the circuses, zoos, wildlife trade, animal testing for cosmetics, pharmacy, detergents, poisons and many more.
All forms of exploitation of non human animals are totally disgusting to us and we will never stop fighting until they stop. We therefore stand in solidarity with any act that prevents hunters , fishermen and other animal murderers and torturers of carrying out their plans, and we will put forward the total liberation fights for a world that will understand and be sensitive to everyone’s needs, be they human or non-human animals.
We support the call of the open antispeceisist assembly which has been scheduled for Wednesday 27.1.2021 at FEPA and will be focused on organizing actions for solidarity to the antispeceisists D. and Th.
IT’S TIME TO HUNT THE HUNTERS
SOLIDARITY WITH D. and Th.
NO ONE ALONE AT THE STATE’S HANDS
PARASITA – Anarchical Collective for the Total Liberation
25-01-2021
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” Microphone intervention at ‘Areos pedion’ [Antispeciesist assembly]
In the context of solidarity actions towards D. and Th. who are being persecuted for their anti-hunting action and in view of the trial scheduled for 28/1, we held a microphone intervention at the Areos pedion.
We hung banners, distributed texts and threw flyers for total liberation and against hunting. The microphone was accompanied by comrades and there was no disturbance from cops except for two motorbikes that passed by the spot.
After the end of the microphone intervention, a spontaneous small scale demonstration with banners and slogans took place inside the park, which ended in Protomagias Square. The banner was hung at FEPA on Ulof Palme.
At this link you can find the text which was distributed during the intervention : https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1609742/
SOLIDARITY WITH D. AND TH. PERSECUTED FOR THEIR ANTI-HUNTING ACTION
HUNTING IS NOT A HOBBY, IT IS A MURDER, STRUGGLE FOR LIFE AND FREEDOM
HUNT THE HUNTERS
UNTIL THE TOTAL LIBERATION OF LIFE AND LAND.
Antispeciesist Assembly
