Garden Gnome Liberation Front
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The Garden Gnome Liberation Fronts (GGLF) are organizations that stand for the liberation of garden gnomes. The most famous is the Front de Libération des Nains de Jardin (based in France), the creator of the world movement. Another famous and important group is the Movimento Autonomo per la Liberazione delle Anime da Giardino (based in Italy) the most organized and impressive organization. There are several differences between the many groups in the world. Usually, though, the members of these groups (called Liberators) enter the gardens and take away the little statues. The FLNJ leave them in the woods with claim tickets, the MALAG smash the plastic body permitting the spirit of the gnome to fly away. They are sure that these little plastic statues have a spirit and rights. They claim a better place than a small garden for the garden gnomes, hoping a coming back to the Nature and the magic world of the wood.
Some of GGLF's members "kidnap" gnomes to participate in the travelling gnome prank.
The Garden Gnome Liberation Front is largely an underground movement as their primary methods of liberation often subvert local trespass and property laws. A separate but related group, Free The Gnomes, is the legitimate political wing of the subversive Garden Gnome Liberation Front. As a political advocacy group, they seek to further the rights of gnomes around the world through legal, non-violent means. The fundamental premise of this and most Garden Gnome Liberation groups is that Gnomes, like humans, have an inalienable right to freedom. Forcing Gnomes to stand in gardens without just compensation and against their free will, for the sake of ornamentation is, to these groups, immoral. The largest of these groups is the French MENJ (Mouvement d´Émancipation des Nains de Jardin).
The European Gnome Sanctuary in Barga,Tuscany, Italy (open since 1999) has been a place of refuge for all freedom loving gnomes.
External links
- The French wing of the GGLF (FLNJ)- official site.
- MALAG - official site.
- The Italian version of the GGLF
- Free The Gnomes - Garden Gnome Liberation - official site.
- Article: CNN: Garden Gnome Liberation Front strikes Paris show
- BBC: Underwater gnome threat returns Article about liberated gnome settlement in Cumbria, UK
- [1] Cubicle Gnome Memorial Site
- EGS - European Gnome Sanctuary in Barga Tuscany Italy
Similar organisations
- Gnome World Domination is a cult effort to propel gnomes into positions of social powerfr:Front de libération des nains de jardin