Northern Animal Rights Network

Northern Animal Rights Network | 24.02.2007 22:12 | Animal Liberation | Sheffield

PLEASE NOTE:

Please be advised that as of Monday 26th February 2007, Northern Animal Rights Network (NARN) will cease to exist and all events organised by ourselves will not be occuring.
Thank you for your support,
NARN

Northern Animal Rights Network
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Additions

Not the only ones

25.02.2007 22:07

It appears that it is not only narn that are liquidating

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/363405.html

XYZ

Comments

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Sad News!

25.02.2007 08:20

NARN have done some great work in the North and I understand they have had massive success particularly with shutting over 60 fur outlets. Good Luck to it's members in the future, why the dis-memberment ?

Lewis

why ?

25.02.2007 10:40

Why is this ?

POSH PAWS

Luke

25.02.2007 10:40

Why is this Luke ?

Tom.

Police pressure?

25.02.2007 12:27

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/363104.html

x-man

they held him down .

25.02.2007 13:25

this will be due to police pressure, the person who ran this campaign was only a young boy, i think the pressures were all too much for him, somone told me he was scared of the police locking him up after they sat on him when he was arrested. may be he will rejoin animal rights when he is older and wiser.

gregera

Salute

25.02.2007 16:10

What's done is done and achieved plenty and that is ultimately good.
Forward the revolution!

nineteen eighty bore

"gregera"

25.02.2007 19:05

That's pretty unfair.

When a youngster has far surpassed her/his elders in promoting animal rights in the UK over the last few years you now publicly consign him/her to the dustbin saying that she/he may be of more worth to the animal rights movement when she/ he reaches what is maturity (in your eyes)?

Bollocks to you 'gregera'.

get real or fuck off dude.

876uyt

Not the first time.

25.02.2007 20:02

876uyt

This is not the first time this young lad has dropped a campaign due to police pressure. It is a shame that the campaign didn't have a solid structure to stop this from happening.

Some people just don't listen to good advice. Some good work was done but now the police has closed down two campaigns! Sends out the wrong message.

Alot of good work was done but I fear this will undo everything..

828

Ignorance isn't bliss

25.02.2007 20:19

Obvious that your are so ignorant that you believe you know everything about campaigns that you are not even involved in.

Think outside the box dude and get a fucking life instead of sitting on your pc all day waiting for people to reply to your misguided posts.

8282

Ego.

25.02.2007 20:30

Some people just have a huge one.

If it's too hot then don't go into the kitchen..

828

Help

25.02.2007 22:37

The problem here was a young guy, doing a great job yes, but who simply wouldn't listen to advice from his elders. Running a campaign from home, getting raided on a monthly basis as a result and making no secrets of the fact that he was a player in the national A.R. movement, hardly covert ! Yes blatant cheek amuses the masses, as does rubbing plod up the wrong way and playing the panto clown to an audience on demos, but now look whats happened. It's all very sad but there is a lesson to be learned.

Mouse

Support

26.02.2007 10:26

Maybe, people shouldn't have to be secretive about their campaigns? Especially when they are totally legitimate - under SOCPA the cops made legal protest against suppliers illegal which is utter bollocks. Luke is a great guy and has done more for the animal liberation movement at his age that most people have in their lifetimes. Just because NARN isn't going anymore doesn't mean animal rights activists will cease demos up north it simply means that the obvious "animal rights Network" which the cops love so much wont exist. Now they will have to get their fat donut eating arses out on expensive evidence gathering operations. - Good work!

Maybe instead of slatting some of you should so some fucking solidarity with those who go the extra mile.

Bobby Roberts & the Circus of Horrors.

Bobby Robert

Bollocks

26.02.2007 20:06

876uyt said.............

This is not the first time this young lad has dropped a campaign due to police pressure. It is a shame that the campaign didn't have a solid structure to stop this from happening.

Some people just don't listen to good advice. Some good work was done but now the police has closed down two campaigns! Sends out the wrong message.

Alot of good work was done but I fear this will undo everything..

REPLY

Listen 876.
The NARN campaign was never short of good advice, the Plod have closed down fuck all, there are specific reasons for not broadcasting planned events and actions, they seem determined to drive the whole movement underground and they're doing a great job of it too, more fool them. The days of huge demos and legal tatics are clearly numbered, time to sleep by day and 'work' by night....................................

Andrew Lyndon Foley

Beg ya pardon

26.02.2007 20:08

828 not 876

ALF

Andrew

26.02.2007 23:48

Wouldn't be the same Andrew who writes abusive letters to people involved in the abuse industry would it? The very same who puts his name and address on the envelope?

The campaign was doomed to fail because of a certain person who wanted to be in control and wouldn't take advice from others.

A sniff of reality in the form of police raids and a possible stretch in a young offenders institution was enough deflate egos.

B&K is a breeders that we can all close but it will take more than a handful of kids acting like dickheads. B&K should be taken on by experienced campaigners with the rest of the movement behind them.

NARNs did some good campaigning and shut down loads of fur selling but now these shops are going to start up again with the campaign shut down. All this talk of going underground is just pisshead talk.

dog poo

dog poo

27.02.2007 07:55

You talk exactly that you arsehole, B and K have taken a real hammering and I should imagine will continue to do so, (the reason for the constant raids and arrests) not that you would know. Not everything that takes place is broadcast far and wide. Don't be critical until you have all the facts. You sound a right woolly fucker, and woolly doesn't always work.

Andrew

dog poo

27.02.2007 07:55

Andrew

hmmmm

27.02.2007 16:42

"Wouldn't be the same Andrew who writes abusive letters to people involved in the abuse industry would it? The very same who puts his name and address on the envelope?"

>>> It would appear that the name Andrew is used by lots of people within the world, not just nutcases like Andy Kirk. Besides, if you could actually read stuff and not just comment it, you would realise the poster is using a pseudomin of Andrew Linden-Foley aka "ALF"

"The campaign was doomed to fail because of a certain person who wanted to be in control and wouldn't take advice from others. A sniff of reality in the form of police raids and a possible stretch in a young offenders institution was enough deflate egos."

>>> Does the above say demo's will not be happening? It just says those from a group with a 'face' and website will not be occurring.

"B&K is a breeders that we can all close but it will take more than a handful of kids acting like dickheads. B&K should be taken on by experienced campaigners with the rest of the movement behind them"

>>> So why not get up off your arse and do something? Or are you more content sitting on your computer all day commenting others who do actually campaign,

"NARNs did some good campaigning and shut down loads of fur selling but now these shops are going to start up again with the campaign shut down."
>>> What proof do you have that there will no-longer be any fur demo's?

"All this talk of going underground is just pisshead talk."
>>> So the fact that publicly-faced groups are disbanding and a quick look at directaction.info shows that the number of UK underground actions have gone up, more than doubling, but of course this is all 'pisshead talk'.

All this talk sounds a little like a pisshead (oops that word again!) from the reminiscent Wakefield Animal Rights who did a few demo's and got scared off by the police whilst condemned others for continuing their campaigns.

Muncher

What does Muncher Munch ?

27.02.2007 18:41

How people like Muncher dare be critical of activists like Luke and Mark who are prepared to lose their liberty for the cause is well beyond me. The A.R movement needs more people like this, these people aren't scared of the plod you tosser, wish I knew who you were, I wouldn't half kick your arse. Can't imagine any of the many activists I know writing such crap. If you had one ounce of wit you would understand that nothing is going to change, yes I dare say D.A will increase, whats wrong with that ? Shame on you .

West Yorkshire Activist.

Hope you activism is better than your intel.

27.02.2007 21:44

Muncher, don't you mean pseudonym?

So we see Muncher slag off an activist and a campaign (One that I googled and couldn't find) in just one post! Nice person, not...

>>> Does the above say demo's will not be happening? It just says those from a group with a 'face' and website will not be occurring.

Yes it says that demos in the north are no longer going to happen.

>>> So why not get up off your arse and do something? Or are you more content sitting on your computer all day commenting others who do actually campaign,

I do get off my arse and do something, I have a job.

>>> What proof do you have that there will no-longer be any fur demo's?

Wait and see, I will be back to remind you of what you said.

>>> So the fact that publicly-faced groups are disbanding and a quick look at directaction.info shows that the number of UK underground actions have gone up, more than doubling, but of course this is all 'pisshead talk'.

You might look back over the past few years and you will notice a drastic decline in direct action. I did notice some SUV direction action going on in the name of the ALF, do you think this was on the way back from the pub?

>>>All this talk sounds a little like a pisshead (oops that word again!) from the reminiscent Wakefield Animal Rights who did a few demo's and got scared off by the police whilst condemned others for continuing their campaigns.

Can you give me a little more info on this group? Seems like this is another group of Northern dickheads who haven't got a clue!

828

Stirring up fake arguments is an old tactic

27.02.2007 23:26

Looks like the filth are using the old tactic of stirring up fake arguments to try to get some activist to shout their mouth off. Also to make it look to none activists as if the Animal Lib movement is backstabbing. Well don't believe it - this is an old tactic and is often used. Remember the only people who would ever benefit from bickering are the animal abusers and the filth neither of which are below using this sort of shit stirring, don't give them any info at all.

Well done NARN for what you have done up til now and good luck to all those who will move on to less public ways.

Mrs Pearls Lover

Mrs Pearls Lover

Sequani campaign

28.02.2007 16:27

hang on!

There is NO mention of the campaign against Sequani going anywhere. Ok, the website is going down but hell, do you think people who have spent over 20 years protesting outside that deathcamp are just going to go home and forget it? No chance.

Regular weekly demos are still taking place at deathcamp Sequani every single week and that isn't about to change just because the SSAT website is being taken down.

The site became a bit of a 'cop's morning newspaper' if you will, now activists just want to pull the blinds down and get on with it without being in the spotlight (or giving the cops ANYTHING to work with).

You're welcome to pass this msg on to anyone who thinks this campaign is disappearing.

Details of regional and national demos at Sequani will be posted on sites like imc, keep on fighting etc when they come about.

Keep the faith and keep on fighting

AKtivist

Respect and Solidarity

28.02.2007 20:38

One struggle, one fight. The ex-members of NARN maybe taking-on different strategies and in my opinion all respect and solidarity to them. If anyone wants a Northern network so bad go set one up!

“I do get off my arse and do something, I have a job.”

As Mrs Pearls Lover, implied as a cop maybe? If not, you seem a little negative, put your energy in to positive things like activism.

ARA

Do you have a problem?

28.02.2007 23:42

"All this talk sounds a little like a pisshead (oops that word again!) from the reminiscent Wakefield Animal Rights who did a few demo's and got scared off by the police whilst condemned others for continuing their campaigns."

Muncher you are a coward hiding behind a computer and all this shit spreading by activists in the north is becoming tedious. If anyone has anything to say about me then knock on my door and say it to my face instead of hiding behind a computer!

It's has come to something when we receive hate mail and people slagging us off on the internet when we have to cope with the prospect of going to prison this Tuesday leaving our kids in the shit!!! I will be going away for 2 or 3 years for the same stupidity NARN activists got wrapped up in.

I will not stoop to your low level by slagging a fellow activist off, something the north is good at.

I have been on very strict bail conditions for the last 20 months now and one condition is that I am not allowed to attend any animal rights demos, I also have to sleep at my house every night and even when I go to court I need to inform the police where I will be stopping over so they can make sure it's not an activists house I am staying at.

I have had my home raided 6 times and on each occasion my front and back door were smashed in, all computers, mobiles, clothes, cameras, and camcorders were taken. I had my seven seater back with so much damage to the inside I had to replace the lot! We came back from the AR gathering 2005 to a house that was wrecked and ALL our clothes taken, even the kids stuff was taken by the police.

On one raid my wife was beaten in her own bed by 4 male police, she was naked and they held her down and punched her while holding her legs over her back and pushing her face into the bed so she couldn't breath, all this in front of screaming kids trying to help her!!

My 13 year old daughter was singled out at the Newchurch demos and dragged off by a few male police while she was screaming. This was for standing still!

Don't tell me about what I have and haven't done. Don't tell me I am nothing until you can say it to my face.

Mark

Wakefield Animal RIghts pisshead.

W.A.Rights

01.03.2007 07:33

Hope the sentence is as lean as you can get Mark, the movement needs more like you. Love and Solidarity

W.Y.A.

NA

07.04.2007 11:33

THE PROBLEM IS THAT SOME PEOPLE WITHIN THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ARE JUST LOOKING TO TRY AND CONTROL OTHER PEOPLE TO BOOST THEIR SILLY LITTLE EGO'S AND MAKE THEM FEEL MORE IMPORTANT. I AM THINKING OF THE LEADERS OF NARN, SHAC AND SPEAK CAMPAIGNS PRIMARILY, IN FACT THE ONLY ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP TO MY MIND THAT HAS PEOPLE THAT DO NOT HAVE THEIR HEADS UP THEIR OWN BACKSIDES IS THE MAGNIFICENT ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT, WHICH LET'S FACT IT WILL ALWAYS BE NUMBER ONE IN FIGHTING FOR THE ANIMALS. I WORK HARD, PAY TAXES BUT I STILL DO MY OWN EFFECTIVE ANIMAL RIGHTS WORK ON THE QUIET BECAUSE QUITE FRANKLY HAVING TO ASSOCIATE WITH OTHER ACTIVISTS JUST USUALLY WINDS ME UP. NO DISRESPECT TO ANYONE ELSE BUT PLEASE GET OVER YOURSELF AND REMEMBER THAT THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO ALWAYS FIGHT FOR THE ANIMALS AND OF COURSE CHILDREN. IF ANYONE WANTS TO DISAGREE WITH MY VIEWS PLEASE FEEL FREE TO MEET ME FACE TO IN SKIPTON IF YOU HAVE THE COURAGE BUT SOMEHOW I DOUBT THAT YOU WILL!

SUZANNE - SKIPTON
mail e-mail: NA
Homepage: http://NA

Inflighting...

08.06.2007 12:23

All this infighting makes the AR movement (or part of it) look like its made up of lots of large egos fighting with one another, dosent look good, but then maybe thats why so many people dont use indymedia as its full of alot of wasters...

jane

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