“Underground: The A.L.F. in the 1990s” book has arrived

Ten months in the making, the Animal Liberation Front history book Underground is published

After months of scanning, laying out, editing, polishing, and re-polishing, the Underground book is finished, printed, and ready to ship. Underground is 500+ pages of history, interviews, how-to articles, and essays on and by the Animal Liberation Front.

Underground: The Animal Liberation Front in the 1990s compiles the rare first 15 issues of Underground, the magazine of the North American Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group. At over 500 pages, this huge compilation offers the most comprehensive look available on the Animal Liberation Front at the end of the 20th century.

Order Underground here.

I picked up Underground #3 at my first animal rights group meeting in Seattle in 1996. The tactics and ideas I was introduced to in that issue would go on to affect the rest of my life, and of many others who read Underground in the 1990s. I can’t overstate how meaningful this book is to me personally, and how valuable I think its message is.

Much of the history and articles in this book was never seen outside the pages of Underground.

You can view the table of contents here, or look at this sampling of the articles inside this massive book:

Dealing with grand juries
Fur farm addresses
How to sabotage traps
A.L.F. legal case updates
Directory of infiltrators and informants
Letter from Rod Coronado
Letter from A.L.F. prisoner David Barbarash
Anti-prison work and the animal liberation movement
Choosing A.L.F. targets.
Security tips for activists
History of the Swedish A.L.F.
History of the Justice Department letter-bomb campaign
Destroying the U.S. fur industry
Grand juries as a tool of repression
Who turned in Rod Coronado?
Making Freedom of Information Act requests
Reward offered for mink liberators
Fishing sabotage tactics
Mink liberations reaching all-time high
Rod Coronado on fur farm raids
Interview with A.L.F. activist on raiding the University of Alberta
Rod Coronado support debate
How to use a slingshot
Roger Troen defends snitching allegations
Interview with an A.L.F. activist
Preparing for hunt sabs
Fur farm liberations
Letter from Keith Mann
How the A.L.F. raided the University of Arizona
Excerpt from Free the Animals book
Barry Horne goes on hunger-strike
Arrests in Massachusetts mink farm raid
Utah A.L.F. arrests
Direct Action Defense Fund
A.L.F. bulletin to fur farm raiders
Interview with an E.L.F. member
Story of “Chatham 3” mink farm raid arrests
Update on attempted arson defendant Lise Olsen
More Utah arrests for a mink liberation & McDonalds arson
Trial for arson at Utah trapping supply store
Debate over ecological impact of mink releases
Mink liberation myths vs. facts.
Introducing the Provisional A.L.F.
A.L.F. prisoner Josh Ellerman
Burned-down Oregon slaughterhouse closes
Syracuse activists sue police
RCMP surveillance of Darren Thurston & Gina Lynn
Introducing the North American A.L.F. Press Office
The A.L.F. as “terrorists”
Update on So Cal man accused of attempted slaughterhouse arson
A.L.F. fugitive Josh Ellerman turns himself in
More A.L.F. arrests in Utah
How to sabotage McDonalds
A.L.F. informants in Utah
Chatham 3 mink liberation case
Rod Coronado on pacifism
Mink liberation charges in Wisconsin
A.L.F. fur farm raid communiques
Barry Horne hunger strike resumes
Update on Utah A.L.F. snitches
“Smashing the Fur Trade Quickly and Efficiently”
Accused A.L.F. activist Alex Slack dies
A.L.F. raids University of Minnesota
Message from A.L.F. fugitive’s father
A.L.F. documentary announced
Daylight raid at Washington fur farm
A.L.F. security protocols
Fake A.L.F. prisoner discovered
Former A.L.F. spokesperson debate
Activists acquitted of Utah bombing
Story of A.L.F. fugitive Justin Samuel
Gina Lynn jailed for refusing testimony to a grand jury
List of U.S. fur farm raids
History of lab raids

And so much more. Underground is a densely-packed, 518-page book of A.L.F., direct action, and animal liberation movement history.

A.L.F. activity peaked in the 1990s, and for that decade Underground was the #1 source for A.L.F. news.

You can order from Animal Liberation Front-line here. Within days, Underground will also be available from Amazon, Powells, and all major online booksellers.

We are also accepting bulk orders. View our wholesale rates.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this book happen over the last 10 months: everyone who helped scan, edit, made Photoshop corrections, loaned their old issues, and donated money and software so this book could see the light of day. I don’t know if I will ever again be part of a publishing project this incredible.

-Peter Young

Underground: The Animal Liberation Front in the 1990s
518 pages
8.5″ x 11″
Perfect Bound
ISBN 978-0984284443

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