ELF is the collective name for anonymous and autonomous individuals or groups that according to the new ELF press office

							ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT
     MARIELA LARA
    DIANA CORNEJO
                          HISTORY
   Animal Liberation Front are animal
    liberation activists who engage in direct
    action on behalf animals. Animal activists
    would remove animals from facilities and
    sabotaged facilities in protest against
    animal testing, fur farming and other
    animal based industries.

   Animal Liberation Front began in the 19th
    Century, and was re- created in 1965.

   ALF’s roots can be traced back to the 19th
    century England, a group of the activists
    called the Bands of Mercy, which was set
    up in 1824 to thwart fox hunters.

   The Bands of Mercy changed their names to
    the Hunt Saboteurs Association. Hunt
    Saboteurs association would blow horns to
    send the hounds the wrong direction, set
    off smoke bombs, and members laid down
    between the hunters and fox.
               HISTORY CONT’D.
   Animal Rights is the movement to protect non-human
    animals from being used or regarded as property by
    humans.

   Alf attack laboratories to liberate animals used for
    clothing, food, testing and for sports.

   The ALF defines itself as non-violent, defining violence as
    acts of physical aggression directed at human and non-
    human animals.
     IMPORTANT PEOPLE
•    Robin Webb runs the Animal Liberation
     Press in UK.


•    Webb states that the ALF aims are to:

1.   "To liberate animals from suffering or potential
     suffering and place them in good permanent homes
     or, where appropriate, release them into their natural
     environment."
2. "To damage or destroy property and equipment
     associated with animal abuse, by taking that
     property out of the arena of animal abuse so it can
     no longer cause harm, and inflicting economic loss
     on the abusers with the intention of driving them out
     of business."
3. "To take all reasonable precautions not to endanger
     life of any kind."
         Important People Cont’d.
   Jerry Vlasak is an animal rights activists and
    press officer for the animal press office. He is
    also a member of the Physicians committee
    for responsible medicine.

   Ronnie Lee was a member of the Hunt
    Sabotagers Association in the 1970’s. He
    formed an offshoot called Band of Mercy.

   Cliff Goodman was also an activists in 1972,
    Goodman would attack hunters vehicles.

    Both would attack pharmaceutical
    laboratories, seal hunting boats, and would
    set fires.

    Lee and Goodman were both arrested for
    taking part in a raid on Oxford animal
    Laboratory colonies. They were both
    sentenced to three years in prison, but only
    served two.
             TERRORIST EVENTS
   On November 10, 1973, ALF set fire to a
    building in Milton Keynes, as part of a
    strategy to make insurance prohibitive
    for what they saw as exploitative
    industries, and thus began a campaign
    of arson that continues to this day.
   Alf activists broke into laboratories
    used by the psychology department
    from the University of Iowa. ALF took
    88 mice and 313 rats. They destroyed
    documents and computers by pouring
    acid on them. Members caused damage
    worth up to $ 450,000.

   ALF stole over 100 research animals
    and ransacked labs at University of
    Minnesota. Alf caused $2 million dollars
    worth of damages and disruption of
    many research projects.
     UNITED STATES REACTIONS

   January 2005, ALF was named as a terrorist threat in the
    United States by Homeland Security.

   Officials from the FBI and ATF stated that “Violent animal
    rights extremists and eco-terrorists now pose one of the
    most serious terrorism threats to the nation.”
                         BRITCHES

   Britches a Stump tail Macaque monkey was
    born at the University of California at the
    research center in Riverside, California. Right
    after birth he was taken away from his
    mother, and his eyelids were sewn together.
    The stitches left him blind. Britches was
    deprived from any comfort and was kept in a
    cage with only one padded cylinder to cling
    to.

   The University of California conducted this
    experiment as part of a maternal and
    sensory deprivation experiment

   In 1985, ALF released britches from the
    university after having a raid.
            INJURED ANIMALS
   These are some pictures of animals that were injured by
    laboratories.
      EARTH LIBERATION FRONT
   ELF is another animal activist terrorist group.
   ELF is the collective name for anonymous and autonomous
    individuals or groups that according to the new ELF press
    office, use “Economic sabotage and guerilla warfare to stop
    the exploitation and destruction of the national
    environment”
   ELF’s guidelines require individuals or groups on its behalf
    “take all necessary precautions against harming any
    animal – human and non-human.”
   Elf was founded in the United Kingdom and has been active
    in the United States, Canada, and Greece.

    March 2001, ELF was classified as the top domestic terror
    threat in the U.S. by the FBI.
   Elf has committed more than 1,200 acts of vandalism and
    arson in the U.S. causing more than $2 million in damage.
                    REFERENCES
American Liberation Front. Retrieved February 1, 2007. Web Site.
  http://animalliberationfront.com/index.html

Kaiser, Jocelyn (04/16/1999). Activists Ransack Minnesota Labs. Science, vol.
   284, issue 5413.

McGraw, Hill (2006). In Violence and Terrorism. Thousand Oaks: Sage
  Publications Inc.

Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 1, 2007. Web Site.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_Front#_note-britchescj