To our friends, allies, supporters, and collaborators,
No doubt many of you have taken notice that the Portland Animal Defense League (ADL) has been inactive for well over a year. Because you all have taken a part in making ADL what it was, we would like you to know that after much consideration we have made the decision to officially dissolve.
The reasons for this decision are many and originated over the course of ADL’s existence. Needless to say, we have embarked upon new projects and can no longer maintain ADL as an active organization. From our history, two new organizations have emerged, and both deserve consideration and scrutiny:Portland Animal Liberation (PAL) is an all-volunteer, grassroots collective of individuals, who organize and network locally and regionally to address the complex underpinnings of animal exploitation, ecological destruction, and human imperialism. PAL promotes the deliverance of all species from subjugation and bondage, by means of confronting the complicit and responsible institutions and individuals.As far as local & regional animal liberation advocacy and activity is concerned, PAL is ADL’s heir apparent. But that does not mean that ADL and PAL constitute the same group or are made-up of the same people. PAL is not ADL. PAL is its own organization. We are simply using our resources to help promote them as a new organization that promotes ADL’s ends and shares ADL’s goals.
Resistance Ecology is a soon to be 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Portland, OR. Resistance
Ecology is pulling resources together into a national organization to focus on education and analysis, networking and resource sharing, opening and maintaining channels of communication, identifying strategic movement-wide targets and campaigns, and most importantly sustaining relationships within and between movements. Ultimately, Resistance Ecology wants to build a new movement from the ground up, one in which “animal rights” and “environmentalism” become synonymous with social justice and liberatory politics.
Resistance Ecology is the new project of the Portland Animal Defense League. This organization emerged from the core of ADL and is the principal reason that we are dissolving ADL. This is our new endeavor.If you wish to follow either of these organizations, their contact information is below:
- resistanceecology@gmail.com
- info@portlandanimalliberation.org
Please follow both of these organizations on Facebook:
- https://www.facebook.com/PortlandAnimalLiberation
- https://www.facebook.com/resistanceecology
Portland Animal Defense League