Building upon anarchist critiques of racism, sexism, ableism and classism, this collection of new essays melds anarchism with animal advocacy in arguing that speciesism is an ideological and social norm rooted in hierarchy and inequality. Rising from the anarchist-influenced Occupy Movement, this book brings together international scholars and activists who challenge us all to look more critically into the causes of speciesism and to take a broader view of peace, social justice and the nature of oppression. Animal advocates have long argued that speciesism will end if the humanity adopts a vegan ethic. This concept is developed into the argument that the vegan ethic has the most promise if it is also anti-capitalist and against all forms of domination.

Using Marxism, anarchism, and social ecology to explore domination, power, and hierarchy, the author criticizes the use and abuse of animals in capitalist society and argues for the abolition of animal involvement in industry and as a human food source.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 122. Chapters: Animal Liberation Front, International Workers Association, Green anarchism, Reclaim the Streets, Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo, Timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, 2005-present, Timeline of Earth Liberation Front actions, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, Barry Horne, Timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, 1976-1999, Timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, 2000-2004, Animal Rights Militia, International Workers' Association, Heather Nicholson, Justice Department, Rod Coronado, International Working People's Association, Roger Yates, Keith Mann, Veganarchism, SPEAK campaign, Craig Rosebraugh, Argentine Regional Workers' Federation, Britches, Southern Animal Rights Coalition, Anarchism and animal rights, Mel Broughton, Green Scare, Jerry Vlasak, Revolutionary Cells - Animal Liberation Brigade, Operation Backfire, Konfederatsiya Revolyutsionnikh Anarkho-Sindikalistov, Undercover Slut, International of Anarchist Federations, Anarchist Black Cross, Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs, Greg Avery, Daniel G. McGowan, John Feldmann, Western Animal Rights Network, Food Not Bombs, Association of Autonomous Astronauts, An American Opera, Robin Webb, Campaign against Highgate Rabbit Farm, Ronnie Lee, Oxford Arson Squad, Free Workers' Union, Animal Liberation Press Office, Shamrock Farm, Bite Back, Laboratory animal suppliers in the United Kingdom, Darren Thurston, Behind the Mask, Unione Sindacale Italiana, Hunt Retribution Squad, Save the Hill Grove Cats, Red and Anarchist Skinheads, Solidarity Federation, Infoshop.org, Biotic Baking Brigade, Anarchist Black Cross Network, David Barbarash, Consort beagles, Dielo Truda, International Libertarian Solidarity, Anarchist St. Imier International, Arkangel, Nicolas Atwood, European Youth For Action, Jura federation, No Compromise, Centre International de...

When in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a section of the old-growth forest to a timber company. But ELF’s communiqué on the action went beyond the radical group’s customary brief. Drawing connections between the harms facing the myriad animals who make their home in the trees and the struggles for social justice among ordinary human beings resisting exclusion and marginalization, the dispatch declared, “all oppression is linked, just as we are all linked,” and decried the “patriarchal nightmare” in the form of “techno-industrial global capitalism.” In Total Liberation, David Naguib Pellow takes up this claim and makes sense of the often tense and violent relationships among humans, ecosystems, and nonhuman animal species, expanding our understanding of inequality and activists’ uncompromising efforts to oppose it. Grounded in interviews with more than one hundred activists, on-the-spot fieldwork, and analyses of thousands of pages of documents, websites, journals, and zines, Total Liberation reveals the ways in which radical environmental and animal rights movements challenge inequity through a vision they call “total liberation.” In its encounters with such infamous activists as scott crow, Tre Arrow, Lauren Regan, Rod Coronado, and Gina Lynn, the book offers a close-up, insider’s view of one of the most important—and feared—social movements of our day. At the same time, it shows how and why the U.S. justice system plays to that fear, applying to these movements measures generally reserved for “jihadists”—with disturbing implications for civil liberties and constitutional freedom. How do the adherents of “total liberation” fight oppression and seek justice for humans, nonhumans, and ecosystems alike? And how is this pursuit shaped by the politics of anarchism and anticapitalism? In his answers, Pellow provides crucial in-depth insight into the origins and social significance of the earth and animal liberation movements and their increasingly common and compelling critique of inequality as a threat to life and a dream of a future characterized by social and ecological justice for all.

An essential read for activists, community organizers, and justice scholars Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice: Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation is a collection that combines scholarship and activism in nine ground-breaking and provocative chapters. The book includes contributions from around the world influenced by critical theory, feminism, social justice, political theory, media studies, environmental justice, food justice, disability studies, and Black liberation. By promoting total liberation and liberatory politics, these essays challenge the reader to think about new approaches to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. The contributors examine and disrupt many of the exclusionary assumptions and behaviors by those working toward justice and liberation, encouraging the reader to reflect on their own thoughts and actions.

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 A.L.F. news and action reports, this landmark compilation offers the most comprehensive look available on the Animal Liberation Front at the end of the 20th century. Included in "Underground" *A.L.F. interviews *A.L.F. action reports *Essays by Rod Coronado, Jonathan Paul, and other convicted A.L.F. members *Anonymous "how it was done" accounts of landmark A.L.F. raids *Detailed info on A.L.F. 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 that carries 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.