Synopsis
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.
With over 500 pages of Animal Liberation Front news and action reports, this landmark compilation offers the most comprehensive look available on the underground animal rights movement and the Animal Liberation Front at the end of the 20th century.
Included in Underground:
- Animal Liberation Front interviews
- Animal Liberation Front action reports
- Essays by Rod Coronado, Jonathan Paul, and other convicted Animal Liberation Front members
- Anonymous "how it was done" accounts of landmark Animal Liberation Front raids
- Detailed info on Animal Liberation Front rescue and sabotage tactics
- Over 500 pages of Animal Liberation Front history
For most of the 1990s, Underground proudly documented the work of the Animal Liberation Front, a clandestine group of animal rights activists who carry out illegal raids to rescue animals and sabotage the businesses that profit from their exploitation. A.L.F. activity peaked in the 1990s, and for that decade Underground was the #1 source for A.L.F. news.
Compiled from rare copies of the legendary magazine, this massive collection serves as a powerful animal rights movement history lesson and in-depth look at the Animal Liberation Front.
Underground: The Animal Liberation Front in the 1990s is a vital read for anyone interested in the animal rights movement, and the misunderstood work of those who risk their freedom to save animals.
About the Authors
Rodney Adam Coronado (born July 3, 1966) is an American animal rights and environmental activist known for his militant direct actions in the late 1980s and 1990s. As part of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, he sank two whaling ships and destroyed Iceland's sole whale-processing facility in 1986. He led the Animal Liberation Front's Operation Bite Back campaign against the fur industry and its supporting institutions in the early 1990s, which was involved in multiple firebombings. Following an attack on a Michigan State University mink research center in early 1992, Coronado was jailed for nearly five years. He later admitted to being the sole perpetrator. The 1992 federal Animal Enterprise Protection Act was created in response to his actions. The operation continued with a focus on liberating animals rather than property destruction. Coronado also worked with Earth First.
The Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F.) is a clandestine movement of animal rights activists who work outside the law to rescue animals from abuse. Founded in Great Britain in the mid-1970s, the ALF a loosely organized movement of (mostly vegan) activists who break laws and risk prison to liberate animals. The ALF in North America became active in the 1980s. Considered heroes by many, and "ecoterrorists" by others, the tactics of the Animal Liberation Front range from arson to break-ins at laboratories, to fur farm raids, and beyond. The A.L.F. has carried out more than 1,000 actions since its inception and freed hundreds of thousands of animals.
At various times, Peter Young has been a fugitive, protester, author, prisoner, felon, spokesperson, entrepreneur, hobo, saboteur, publisher, speaker, and criminal of conscience. By various federal agencies and trade groups, he has been called a terrorist, eco-terrorist, domestic terrorist, "special interest" terrorist, burglar, accessory after the fact, danger to the community, armed and dangerous, flight risk, escape risk, and unindicted co-conspirator. Today he runs internet businesses and continues his lifelong, unbroken succession of conspiracies. He can be contacted at: peter@peteryoung.me
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