Together in one professionally-bound book, for the first time.

The Militant Vegan was a low-production-value, limited-circulation, photocopied publication that ran from 1993 to 1995, and never enjoyed a wide audience. This is the complete collection of the animal liberation zine covering direct action, animal rights activism, and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF).

To understand The Militant Vegan is to understand the historical context from which it arose: By 1993, the Animal Liberation Front had carried out its most strategic campaign to date, targeting weak points in the fur industry in a multi-state liberation and arson spree called Operation Bite Back. The media was all but silent. There was no internet, so activists outside the small media markets where these raids happened were unaware this campaign was underway, and many of the raids weren't reported by the media at all. The Animal Liberation Front (again, pre-internet) had little-to-no platforms to which they could disseminate their communiques, rally the movement to join them in taking action, or let the world know of their victories.

It was from this void The Militant Vegan emerged. To quote issue #1, "The Militant Vegan is being released because there has been a media blackout on direct action on behalf of enslaved animals."

Before the internet, animal liberation news could only be spread through photocopied documents like The Militant Vegan, distributed person-to-person, and seen by few.

While dominated by re-purposed material (such as ALF primers and newspaper clippings), there is also notable content, ALF history, and other direct-action themed rarities contained in these pages. Some of it never to be found elsewhere.

The Militant Vegan published some of the first publicized fur farm addresses - several of which would go on to be raided by activists. A communiqué for the Malecky Mink Farm arson (also part of Operation Bite Back) is a rare piece of ALF history. And even the grainy newspaper article reprints can't be downplayed, in a time when to not live in an area where an ALF action had occurred was to never know it happened at all - were it not for The Militant Vegan.

In the mid-1990s, reading The Militant Vegan was like a window to a secret history you watched unfold in its pages.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	108
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Warcry Communications
Fecha de Publicación	2019-10-15
Dimensiones	11.0" x 8.5" x 0.22" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	Si

Animal Liberation Front

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.

Young, Peter

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