19-05-2022
Republished from a counter-information website.

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)

Anarcho-abnormal antispe

2 days against hunting
on the occasion of anti-hunting brochure publication

20/5
19.00: Presentation of the brochure ANTI-HUNTING
20.00: Seaspiracy documentary screening

21/5
17.00: Antispe gathering (kafeneio)
20.00: The Ivory Game documentary screening

At Zizania squat, Fylis and Feron

 

* sexist, transphobic, homophobic, abusive, racist, speciesist and other oppresive (based on age, ability, etc.) behaviour will not be tolerated

** the consumption of products containing murdered non-human animals and/or their by-products will not be tolerated

PARASITA- Anarchist Collective for the Total Liberation

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parasita.espivblogs.net

Repost from counter-information webpage.

“Intervention at hunting associations”

On Monday the 1^st of February we staged an intervention with spray paint, stencils and flyers at the 2nd Hunting Association of Athens in Kipseli and the 2^nd 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.

“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
Republished from a counter-information website.

“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.”

Repost from counter-information webpage.

Solidarity to D. and Th., prosecuted for their anti-hunting action.

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

“On 26 December 2018 we read a news item in the mainstream media about  “a couple of environmentalists attacked, beat and took the gun from a hunter”. So according to what has come out, some people who encountered a hunter on their way did the obvious: they intervened and attempted (successfully) to prevent him from killing free sentient creatures. The details of the incident are not known. In mid-February a text was released by these individuals in which they make a clear statement as to the motives and ideological context that motivated them to get involved in the incident. According to the individuals themselves, the altercation with the hunter resulted in the removal of his hunting weapon. Because of this, they face a felony charge of robbery. The fact that their motives do not indicate robbery, as is evident from their own text, shows that the state’s choice to formulate such an indictment against them can only be vindictive.

A large part of society was consumed with the question of whether or not violence should be used against the hunter. The individuals themselves deny hitting him. For our part, as an anarchist collective for total liberation, we are not concerned about whether or not there was a beating. In a war where you are called upon to take a practical stand, any harm, moral, physical or mental, that you can inflict on a murderer of free individuals in order to achieve a temporary or permanent stop to his actions is acceptable. In fact, it is necessary. Just as it would be necessary for “public opinion” in the case where the killer-hunter was hunting dogs instead of other kinds of animals. His purpose, whether it be for hobby, food, or whatever, is of no concern to us and in no way should be a criterion for the position we take towards him, after all, in neither scenario is there any real need.

The bile that has been spouted in the meantime by this whole social coterie consisting of hunting clubs, butchers, fishermen, sexists, and even “calm revolutionaries” does not surprise us. The problematic collective morality and culture is nothing more than an expression of the reality of the culture that domination has constructed. The logic of imposition, however repugnant it may be to many people, is an element by which the domesticated human has been raised to embrace. Even among that small segment of human society which abhors human’s authority over human, it is difficult to find individuals who are not alienated by the opposition to authority suffered by individuals who are not of the human species. Even the old age of the hunter was used by some individuals as an argument to avoid challenging the brutal for non-human animals normality, as if the purpose of the action was not the prevention of murders, but the demonstration of power. But even these rationales where an action is judged in terms of power demonstration are nothing more than part of the authoritarian society we have all grown up in. But it is this authoritarian society that we consciously choose to fight against.

In this text we would not want to analyze our arguments about the concept of speciesism and the self-evident inclusion of antispeciesism within the characteristics of an anarchist group. We would not want, therefore, to document here why we are proposing to attack every animal hunter, every slaughterer, every egg-dairy-meat industry, every fur, leather or other animal “products” industry, every pet shop owner, etc. We give the priority to the words of the two individuals who acted with actions. In their text, each and every one can find the analysis needed to understand the logic behind such prepositions.

In this text our purpose is to express our support and solidarity with every such “perpetrator” until such “perpetrators” become many and there are no more oppressors of any kind out there. We are not interested in the label that each struggling individual puts on himself or herself. We don’t care if he/she signs up as an anarchist. We harbor no illusions of uniformity among the world of struggle. Of course this does not mean that we accept as our comrades and uncritically support any individual. Our criterion is their words and actions, and words that are clearly oriented towards linking various forms of oppression are certainly words we support.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE TWO PERSECUTED INDIVIDUALS

HUNT THE HUNTERS

Anarchist Collective for Total Liberation

PARASITA

parasita.espivblogs.net

parasita@riseup.net

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Below we quote in full the entire text of these individuals:”

(editor’s note: you can read the text by clicking here)