18-05-2022
Republished from a counter-information website
[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