388, ALF Dog Rescue

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The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is an international, underground leaderless resistance that engages in direct action, carrying out illegal acts to benefit captive animals. Activists see themselves as a modern-day Underground Railroad, the 19th-century anti-slavery network, removing animals from laboratories and farms, destroying facilities, arranging safe houses and veterinary care, and operating sanctuaries where the animals live out the rest of their lives. According to the ALF’s code, any act that furthers the cause of animal liberation, where all reasonable precautions are taken not to harm human or non-human life, may be claimed as an ALF action.

ALF covert cells, which may consist of just one person, are active in over 40 countries, operating clandestinely and on a need-to-know basis. Robin Webb, who runs the British Animal Liberation Press Office, has said: “That is why the ALF cannot be smashed, it cannot be effectively infiltrated, it cannot be stopped. You, each and every one of you: you are the ALF.”