The government’s logic was that if people were unaware of the Front’s existence, perhaps membership would be lower and fewer attacks would be carried out. Police PR departments were told to deny that attacks were happening, newspapers were pressured to stop covering direct actions for animals, and raids were carried out against the ALF Supporters Group and other producers of movement media. By 1983 the government of England was well aware of this. They were people who heard about actions and were inspired to take actions of their own. If you have them- or other publications of note- please contact us!īecause the Animal Liberation Front is without central leadership it exists more as tactic than an organization. This meant that the zine was always filled with fresh perspectives, letters, and debate, and that eventually groups from across the country got in touch to share ideas and announce their campaigns.Īlthough issues 1-5 of Out Of The Cages are said to be mostly local organizing bulletins we would still love to complete our set. This proximity to history gave the magazine a much different tone than Holocaust or Dressed in Black, and unlike Militant Vegan, the group publishing OOTC were above ground liberationists, accessible for correspondence and submissions. Rod Coronado, Jonathan Paul, and other early AR radicals called it home. Santa Cruz had been the home of US hunt saboteurs and the earliest cooperation between animal rights activists and Earth First!. As the main west coast publication of its time it had a link to the 80s glory days in the area it was printed. Out of the Cages filled an important niche in the pre-internet, pre-No Compromise 90s.
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