New Book: “The A.L.F. Strikes Again” – ALF writing collection
“The A.L.F. Strikes Again : Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front In North America” – nearly everything written by the Animal Liberation Front, in one place.
Twelve years ago I started a project with one goal: to collect every piece of writing from the North American Animal Liberation Front into one massive book.
Over a decade in the making, the book is now live.
“The A.L.F. Strikes Again: The Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front In North America” was compiled to serve as the definitive historical record of the Animal Liberation Front.
Coming in at 700+ pages, the book is available now at these links:
- Amazon.com (cheapest)
- Bookshop.org (support local stores)
- European orders
- Many other sites + international
Details
- Title: “The A.L.F. Strikes Again: Collected Writings Of The Animal Liberation Front In North America”
- Pages: 704
- ISBN: 9781732709690
- Price: $14.95 on Amazon, more elsewhere (about 30 cents above cost).
Front & back cover:
Table of Contents
Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again: Table of Contents by Peter_Daniel_Young on Scribd
Part One: How It Was Done – The A.L.F. gives step-by-step accounts of some of their most spectacular animal liberations, including:
- The University Of Arizona (1,200 animals rescued, 1989)
- University of California – Harbor (12 dogs rescued, 1983)
- College Of Notre Dame (250 mice rescued, 2000)
- …and a dozen more
Part Two: Interviews – Rare tell-all interviews with the Animal Liberation Front, including activists behind raids such as:
- The University of Pennsylvania (labs broken into and vivisection footage removed, 1984)
- Texas Tech University (Five cats rescued, 1989)
- University of Alberta (29 cats rescued, 1992)
- …and ten more.
Part Three: Essays – From anonymous bulletins for the A.L.F. to communicate between cells, to overt calls to action, to prison writings – it’s all here. Among them:
- “A.L.F. Bulletin To All Fur Farm Raiders” (message from an A.L.F. cell on optimizing fur farm liberations)
- “Life Underground” (Anonymous A.L.F. member on the necessity of going underground for animal liberation)
- “Fire Is A Good Tool” (Activist behind rescue of 46 dogs from a California lab on regrets over not burning the lab down)
- …and over 15 more.
Part Four: Communiques – Over 150 anonymous statements released after A.L.F. actions, among them:
- University Of Oregon (264 animals rescued, 1986)
- University Of Minnesota (116 animals rescued, 1999)
- United Feeds (fur farm feed supplier burned down, 1999)
- …and over 150 more.
Part Five: How To Guides – Literal manuals on carrying out Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F.) actions – large to small, including:
- An Animal Liberation Primer (introductory manual to basic sabotage techniques)
- How To Sink Whalers (how to sink ships that kill animals)
- The Final Nail (step-by-step guides to raiding fur farms)
- …and more.
Download a sample excerpt
From Section One: “How It Was Done – Raiding Loma Linda University (+more)”
Download here (PDF)
From the intro:
“The largest-ever collection of writings from the Animal Liberation Front
At over 700 pages, this is the definitive look inside the Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F.).
The A.L.F. Strikes Again is the largest-ever collection of writing from members of the Animal Liberation Front (the “radical fringe of the animal rights movement”), tying together over 40 years of documents and writings with one goal: A complete collection of everything written by the A.L.F. in North America.
The Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F.) intervenes where mainstream animal rights groups have failed. The A.L.F. breaks into buildings, rescues animals, and destroys property of animal abusers. They work outside the law, and, unless caught, their identities are never known.
With few blindspots, this book compiles nearly everything written by the North American A.L.F. – Settling the score on what the A.L.F. is, what they believe, and exactly how they do what they do.
Forty years into the A.L.F.’s history in North America, despite over 1,000 actions, being the subject of multiple congressional hearings, and surviving the label of “America’s number one domestic terrorist threat”—their history has been largely untold.
Academics, journalists, internal opposition and external opposition—many have taken small shots at the full story. Among it all, the A.L.F.’s voice in its own history is the one pushed furthest to the back. In being the saviors of the voiceless, one also becomes the voiceless.
In this collection, the A.L.F.’s voice is restored.
Regarded by many as heroes today, yet regarded by nearly all as heroes tomorrow—this book will play a role in history vindicating the Animal Liberation Front.”
Available now:
I’ll end with the source of the cover image: This article from an Arizona newspaper after the ALF liberated 1,200 animals from the University of Arizona labs in 1989:
PS: Wholesale copies are available in quantities of five or more, sold at-cost (literally the exact cost to print and ship). Email for wholesale rates.
