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The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is an international, leaderless resistance that engages in illegal direct action in pursuit of animal rights. Activists see themselves as a modern-day Underground Railroad, removing animals from laboratories and farms, destroying facilities, arranging safe houses and veterinary care, and operating sanctuaries where the animals subsequently live.[1] Critics have classified them as terrorists.[2][3][4]

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  1. For their mission statement, see ALF mission statement, accessed June 5, 2010. For more information about their aims, and their view of themselves as an Underground Railroad, see:
    *Coronado, Rod. "Reflections on Prison and the Needs of Our Movement", No Compromise, Issue 13, accessed June 5, 2010.
    *"History of the Animal Liberation Movement", Animal Liberation Press Office, accessed June 7, 2010.
    *Best, Steven & Nocella, Anthony J. (eds), Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?, Lantern Books, 2004, p. 91.
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