Ground Zero: One Billion Screams

Sharath Prabhu (@sharzard5.bsky.social): "Heads swirling with the fumes of ammonia, we shriek in this artificially lit hell. We are political animals who resist. We are not ghosts. We are #OneBillionScreams. We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social"

A wide eyed, fully conscious, week old male calf on the kill table in an Australian slaughterhouse is being gripped around the head by the gloved hands of a worker who is about to slash his throat. The floor below is a pool of spilled infant blood.

You claim that murdering us for your nonessential purposes is ‘natural’, so we’re wondering why you hide & cower away from the violence inflicted upon us? Being sickened, and even traumatised by such brutality is entirely incompatible with such claims.

We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A close up photograph of the face of a fawn coloured calf individual. A human is sat astride his back and is forcing his face into the ground whilst using a hot iron instrument to burn away his horns.

What might we learn from a society that normalises violence & disavows & disowns innate empathy & compassion? What are the wider implications of a society built upon mercilessness, callous indifference & gratuitous cruelty?

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A close up photo of the head of a young cow individual with a tether around their face binding them closely to the metal bars of the enclosure where they are incarcerated.

We can continue to be ‘normal’, & be on the side of violence, of force breeding to kill. The side of death, injustice & tyranny. Or we can stand in solidarity with the oppressed, draw upon our integrity of character & do what is right.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A close up, black and white photograph of the heads of three young cow individuals, nuzzling each other.

A minimal level of decency is to recognise & honour each other’s legitimate right to life, freedom & self determination. It is to refuse to privilege our own desire for self-gratification over another’s desire to be free from violent oppression & death.

We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A close up photo of a female chicken with their head looking out of a gap in the bottom of the filth strewn tiny metal cage in which she is imprisoned with countless others. In the foreground is an egg.

If we could speak your language, what do you think we might say about your treatment of us, your refusal to consider us, your petty rationalisations & feeble excuses for the atrocities you commit upon hundreds of billions of us?

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A close up photograph of the left eye of a distressed young pig. Viewed through a gap in the side of a slaughterhouse truck.

You constructed an oversaturation of forces, attitudes, traditions & beliefs to erase the legitimate interests of us nonhumans & render us unworthy of moral consideration. We resist, we fight, but in merciless disregard, you ignore us.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A human wielding a bolt gun walks among the countless young pig individuals crammed tightly into a farm building.

When you consume the end products of the exploitation of us fellow animals, you’re not only endorsing & normalising all violence, you’re also perpetuating & reinforcing eternal hierarchies of dominance, supremacy, inequality & injustice

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A newborn infant piglet lies cowering on the metal grate floor of a darkened Australian farm building. His mother (just visible), lies unable to reach him behind the metal bars of her prison.

Violence is intrinsic to any form of exploitation of me or any sentient animal. You cannot reform violence, oppression, suffering & death. If you oppose violence & injustice then you demand total abolition.

#ThisIsMyGroundZero
We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A close up photo of the head of a young cow individual with yellow plastic number tags pierced into both ears, looking out the bars of the enclosure where they are confined.

Just like you, my life is of utmost importance to me, despite your vile perspective that sees me only in terms of utility. You may rationalise my violent abuse to soothe your conscience but that ignores the only perspective that matters; mine.

We are #OneBillionScreams @polanimalclass.bsky.social

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

Well said @grahamm.bsky.social. So much deceit.

A young piglet looks out of a hole in the side of a slaughterhouse truck.

If you’ve already decided it’s okay to violently exploit & kill me for your own purposes, any subsequent claim to care about me is merely a pretence, an exercise in self-deception, a lie. You’re clearly more interested in my death.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

Relegated to the margins of your systemic speciesist empire, we scream day and night for liberation. But we are not alone. We are of a class. We will make you listen to us.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A distressed young pig individual in a tiny, solitary cage, chews on the bars of his prison in a darkened farm building. Alongside him a several other incarcerated pigs.

We scream in agony every minute.
We plea for mercy.
You’ve been taught to ignore our screams & pleas by merciless people who profit from our agony.
What will it take to make you caring people actually care?

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

These are the 3 Core Strategies of @polanimalclass.bsky.social during Amplification, our first phase on social media.

Through them, we build vision, identity, and power.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

A close up photo of the head of a young male calf poking his face through a gap in the front of his tiny, solitary cage to drink from the nozzle of the feeder just outside. Removed from his mother at birth, he will live here until he reaches ‘slaughter weight’.

We can offer our hollow, tired excuses, but our exploitation & killing of nonhuman animals is just an exercise in the abuse power uncoupled from accountability. We enact this tyranny simply because we’re able to & they’re unable stop us

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

We are those who scream hour after hour,
Day after day, to the universe,
As our skin is sliced off, as our testicles
are ripped out, as we are gassed.
We, the wretched of your anthropocentric, capitalist dominion,
Fight back.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

We aren't after animal welfare.
We aren't after even animal rights alone.
We aim for a new existential-political horizon,
Where animality reorders the very foundations,
Around which we coalesce.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

Not just another "animal group."
A force they can't ignore.
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

**The artwork I post here is AI-generated, but each image begins with a vision. I guide, edit, and refine it — often through many iterations — until it feels right for the Political Animal Class.

This Is Our Ground Zero.
Join us @polanimalclass.bsky.social
We are #OneBillionScreams

One billion screams of animals do not evaporate.
We forge political power from their resistance.
We organize around the scream.

We are #OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

We are#OneBillionScreams
We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social

What is the Political Animal Class? A broad overview.

We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
We are #OneBillionScreams

The powerless are never alone. We are a class.
We do not stand by while our class is oppressed.
As #OneBillionScreams, we are the Political Animal Class.
And we will take this struggle to the highest levels of power.

@polanimalclass.bsky.social

Dominated by anthropocentrism and capitalism, the world sees as you nothing.

People ignore your desperate, shrill screams. But some of us boil with fury for you every day.

We will force your suffering on the table. We turn your screams into political force.
@polanimalclass.bsky.social

If you're a vegan and a leftist,
If you feel politically powerless,
If you want to build a new bloc,
That empowers us to speak radically,
About animal liberation.
Even as we see all oppression is intertwined.
Join us.

This Is Our Ground Zero.
#OneBillionScreams
@polanimalclass.bsky.social