[IMC-UK-Features] Topic special proposal: SHAC National March & Rally

Sat Jun 21 04:41:18 PDT 2008

Hiya,

Animal Rep wrote:

> The page for the rally & march is now online, so have edited in the links and have also edited the content a bit to improve it a little...
>   

I've made some minor changes (mainly html and title) and published it as 
a topic page special. Please see correct html version below.

The animal liberation and health topics are ticked and I have sent an 
email to imc-cambridge at lists.indymedia.org to propose it for the 
Cambridge page (the local IMC sites are run by collectives so it needs 
proposing seperately). For their contact details see: 
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/contact.html

Cheers, Wietse

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TITLE: SHAC Prepares For National March & Rally

PIC: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/images/2007/11/385710.jpg

ABSTRACT:

<p>
On the 12th July, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) will be holding 
a national march and rally to show the mass opposition to the fraudulent 
vivisection industry and the vile 'experiments' at Huntingdon Life 
Sciences (HLS). SHAC is an international campaign aiming to close HLS, 
the largest contract testing laboratory in Europe.</p>
<p>
The rally in the park will include info stalls and food/drink from 
Veggies before campaigners march through Peterborough. There will then 
be a demonstration in Alconbury to meet the animal abusers who kill 500 
animals every day of the week to test products such as weed killer, food 
colourings and drugs.</p>
<p>
<strong>Details:</strong> <a 
href="http://www.shac.net/National2008/index.html">Webpage for the 
rally, march and demo - Info and times</a> | <a 
href="http://www.shac.net/National2008/map.htm">Rally in the park - Map 
and meeting point</a></p>
<p>
<strong>Pictures:</strong> <a href="/en/2008/04/397775.html">1</a> | <a 
href="/en/2008/04/397744.html">2</a> | <a 
href="/en/2008/04/397673.html">3</a> | <a 
href="/en/2008/04/397667.html#additions">4</a></p>
<p>
<strong>Videos:</strong> <a href="/en/2008/04/397794.html">1</a> | <a 
href="/en/2008/04/397610.html">2</a></p>
<p>
<strong>Newswire:</strong> <a href="/en/2008/06/401481.html">Dispatch 
from Andy Stepanian (SHAC 7)</a> | <a href="/en/2008/06/400948.html">HLS 
Supplier DHL trashed for Active Slaughter</a> | <a 
href="/en/2008/06/400823.html">Novartis Global Week of Action 
Roundup</a> | <a href="/en/2008/05/399524.html">Time For Action 4 - SHAC 
Need Your Footage + Trailer</a> | <a href="/en/2008/05/398896.html">Last 
Primate Lab in Austria to Close!</a> | <a 
href="/en/2008/05/398774.html">Staples lies and beagles die</a> | <a 
href="/en/2008/05/398065.html">Message from SHAC: May Raids 
Anniversary</a> | <a href="/en/2008/04/397876.html">SHAC May Raids 
Anniversary</a> | <a href="/en/2008/04/397547.html">ALF torch Staples 
trucks</a> | <a href="/en/2008/04/397198.html">PIA Stop Beagle 
Flights</a> | <a href="/en/2008/04/397171.html">Sciencelink animal lab 
has been abandoned</a> | <a href="/en/2008/03/394970.html">Novartis HQ 
painted and smashed (Video)</a> | Previous march (Novartis):</strong> <a 
href="/en/2008/04/397775.html">SHAC Report</a>  | <a 
href="/en/2008/04/397667.html">Barriers dismantled</a></p>
<p>
<strong>Previous features:</strong> <a 
href="/en/2005/08/321837.html">Victory for animal rights campaigners</a> 
| <a href="/en/2004/10/298852.html">Activist Imprisoned for Shouting</a> 
| <a href="/en/2004/06/292675.html">Fisher Scientific Embarrassed Over 
Links with HLS</a> | <a href="/en/2004/04/289530.html">SHAC World Day 
for Lab Animals</a> | <a href="/en/2003/11/282089.html">Asahi Glass 
Protesters Harassed by Police</a> | <a 
href="/en/2003/12/283243.html">"March Against the Murderers"</a></p>
<p>
<strong>Links:</strong> <a href="http://www.shac.net">SHAC-UK</a> | <a 
href="http://www.myspace.com/shacukprisonersupport">SHAC-UK Prisoner 
Support</a> | <a href="http://www.veggies.org.uk">Veggies</a> | <a 
href="http://www.antispe.tk">Antispeciesist Action</a> | <a 
href="http://www.arcops.wordpress.com">Animal Rights CopWatch</a></p>

CONTENT:  

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) was set with the sole aim of 
closing HLS down. The campaign was set up at the end of 1999 by a group 
of activists who had successfully closed down Consort kennels and 
Hillgrove cat farm. Both campaigns ended with the businesses closing 
down and hundreds of animals being safely rehomed instead of tortured in 
labs.

SHAC campaigns for the closure of HLS using evidence obtained in five 
undercover investigations at their different laboratories in the UK and 
USA where HLS workers have been caught on film punching puppies in the 
face, simulating sex with animals in their care, cutting open primates 
while they are still alive and falsifying experiments to get products on 
the market. HLS workers have even been caught drunk at work and dealing 
drugs at the labs.

Huntingdon Life Sciences have a criminal record from a British court of 
law for breaking the Companies' Act. They are the only UK laboratory to 
ever have their licence revoked by the government.

Shareholders, stockbrokers, market makers, suppliers and clients have 
all dumped HLS, including the world's largest companies; all four main 
high street banks in the UK, the world's largest financial institution, 
the world's second largest bank and the world's largest insurance 
broker. Huntingdon are $89 million dollars in debt with NO commercial 
bank and insurance company anywhere in the world prepared to deal with 
them.