UC Berkeley Lab Animal worker's car vandalized

http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/communiques/2009-02-01_timmel_ucberkeley.htm

The unnecessary experiments to an unbelievable amount of animals 40,000 and soon to be 68,000 with the new center to open next year. This is combined with the dark energy of storing 13,000 Native American remains is a key to capture of the herds attention-metaphysical. Long Live Death and the Skroll and Keys of UCB

I don't condemn your actions as i wouldn't condemn any atack against any form of oppression, but I would like to share these thoughts:

By attacking one of the many symptoms of oppression as a result of the state and capitalism you really accomplish very little. The cruelty to animals no doubt a horrific result of this domination over our lives and nature is not going to be stopped by simply threatening and vandalizing the property of those who participate in it. Corporations, politicians, the police, they are the real causes of the oppression that you oppose, yet where are the attacks against them. Perhaps those involved in the animal liberation movement at UC Berkeley should take a look at their social situation and then at their privilege within the system they live in, and ask themselves if their actions will truly leads to liberation from all living creatures or simply reforms that will hardly undermine the system that grants them the comfort they no doubt live in being University students. Until all people of the world have found their liberation from oppression, how do you expect animals to. Thousands in Gaza are being butchered, Oscar Grant was executed by the Pigs in our own backyard, and you attack for lab animals?

"As he left his car parked in a garage on campus, he was whistling and had no idea he had been followed."

It's hard to imagine anyone who truly cares about animals, trees, humans or anything else feeling good about gloating over someone being unaware they are about to have their car vandalized. It has a 5-year-old feel to it.

He's not the one who just looted all of the savings of working people all over the US, and got away with it.

He's not the person who ordered the murders of hundreds of thousands of civilians by invading Iraq (and you can just imagine how many animals were murdered or abused with that situation).

He's not the person who just held the California budget hostage until his personal demands were met, costing the state millions everyday and now potentially destroying the political system in the state by getting open primaries onto the ballot, a proposal rejected twice by CA voters that we will now have to go into the streets to fight against all over again.

He's not the one pretending to represent millions of people in California while voting to bomb Iraq and profiting off those same bombs, selling out to lobbyists who then destroy every part of our lives by handing it all over to corporations. Everyday.

Best to just go after some guy parking his car in Berkeley . . .

Yeah, he's just a guy that tortures animals all day!


Besides, "reader" is taking action against that "guy" who is responsible for all the great evils in the world, that don't involve just thousands upon thousands of non-humans, by typing away self-righteously on Indybay all day!

SIKE.

Props to those who took this action and sent the message that for those who torture animals to death, it's no longer business as usual anywhere.

I'd like to second A's comments. Animal liberation movements like this one, and other so-called "environmental" groups, are often filled with extremely privileged people who might want to do something to "change the world for the better," but when confronted with a more complex and strategically salient struggle such as fighting for justice with poor people of color in their own cities, suburbs or rural areas, usually back off and decide that trees or caged animals are easier causes. No need to think critically about racism, poverty, violence and crime. No need to deal with angry, complicated, poor people. No need to confront one's own economic privilege or racial anxiety. Only a lily white, classless, docile, bunny rabbit to protect.

Don't get me wrong, there are anti-racist, revolutionary environmental movements, however these UCB NAAL people are not it.

I see this "action" as racist and classist and more about these people's needs to assuage their own consciences rather than really seeking social justice. Business as usual.

I would like to hear your reasons for labeling this actions racist

Obviously that should say "action" singular. It was late.