Animal Info 1-8 (1995-1996. Christchurch, New Zealand)
Animal Info was a thin, photocopied newsletter that was published with the hopes of increasing the militancy of New Zealand’s animal activists. It’s pages contained news relevant to local campaigns, alongside the home addresses and phone numbers of various animal abusers. The zine’s rhetoric was, at times, over the top and even racially insensitive. Issue #1 contains an N-bomb on the front page that was seemingly intended to make an anti-racist point, but has the opposite effect.
Still, Animal Info is an example of committed (but imperfect) activists organizing on a grassroots level and agitating against speciesism. Its international news coverage was impressive given the limited number of pages, and nicely bridges the U.S. coverage lapse between the time Open the Cages stopped publication and No Compromise began.