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Arkangel, Periodicals

Arkangel #1-3

03.14.11

Welcome to the first three issues of the influential British publication, Arkangel. We’ll be posting more of these in the future.

Ronnie Lee was kind enough to write an introduction for their re-release on TALON. We accidentally bumped into him online while emailing the UK ALF Supporters Group asking for back issues of newsletters, and were heartened to see that one of the grandfathers of the direct action movement is still involved with activism and outreach.

“The idea for Arkangel came to me in 1989 while I was serving a 10 year prison sentence for involvement with the Animal Liberation Front. I thought it was important for there to be a magazine which provided news coverage of all aspects of the animal protection movement (public education, political campaigning, direct action etc.) from a radical perspective and which also provided a forum for rational debate/discussion.

Vivien Smith, whom I had previously worked with in publishing the ALF Supporters Group newsletter, had recently been released from prison and we teamed up again to produce the first issue of Arkangel, with me doing most of the writing and Viv typing it out and putting it together with artwork to create the magazine.

The second issue was produced in a similar fashion but, after that, everything had to change, as the prison stopped me from sending out articles, following complaints from the vivisection industry, and Viv was put in prison again for ALF actions.

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