[IMC-UK-Features] Feature proposal: SHAC To Shakedown Financial Investors In The City

Thu Jan 29 10:56:55 PST 2009

Title: SHAC To Shakedown Financial Investors In The City

For: SHAC, Animal Liberation & Health topics. If it could go up as a topic special asap, then as a startpage special a week or so before the event (similar to other anti-viv events) that'd be great. Cheers in advance.

Picture: http://www.shac.net/action/demos/city_shakedown/polaroid1.gif

In response to the <a href="/en/2009/01/419733.html">imprisonment of seven SHAC campaigners</a> for 'conspiring to blackmail' notorious vivisectors Huntingdon Life Sciences' and the business' <a href="/en/2009/01/419976.html">falling share price</a>, anti-vivisectionists will be taking to the streets of London on Friday 27th February during a <a href="http://www.shac.net/action/diary_dates.html">global week of action against HLS' financials</a>. The SHAC City Shakedown march and protest will be for the 70'000 animals imprisoned and abused inside the laboratories, targeting the financial institutions who profit from and delay the companies collapse.

As the value of Europe's largest and most exposed animal testing laboratory drops by over 80% in recent months, the New York Stock Exchange now have an extra reason to <a href="http://www.shac.net/SHAC/history.html">again</a> kick the abusers off the exchange. Other reasons include the labs financial problems, serious debt, animal abuse, data falsification and <a href="http://www.shac.net/science/facts.html">scientific fraud.</a>

<p><strong>Resources:</strong> <a href="http://www.shac.net/action/demos/city_shakedown/"><strong>SHAC City Shakedown Webpage</strong></a> | <a href="http://www.shac.net/action/demos/city_shakedown/WhyHLS/index.html">Why HLS?</a> | <a href="http://www.shac.net/action/demos/city_shakedown/Banners/index.html">The Protest</a> | <a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ALSR">HLS Share Price</a> | <a href="http://www.shac.net/action/demos/city_shakedown/PostersandLeaflets/index.html">Download resources</a>

<p><strong>Related newswire:</strong> Bayer Day of Action [<a href="/en/2009/01/420484.html">West London / Hampshire</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/420529.html">New York City</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/420568.html">Cambridge</a>] | <a href="/en/2009/01/420435.html">South Wales Anarchists stand in solidarity with the SHAC 7</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/420239.html">UK SHAC 7 Heather Nicholson Speaks Out</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/420019.html">Hackers Target HLS Suppliers in Solidarity with SHAC Prisoners</a> | <a href="/en/2009/01/419924.html">Letter from Shactivist/Veganarchist Prisoner Dan Wadham</a>

<p><strong>Previous features:</strong> <a href="/en/2009/01/419733.html">50 Years For The UK SHAC 7</a> | <a href="/en/2008/12/416251.html">Anti-vivisection campaigners convicted of blackmail</a> | <a href="/en/2008/07/404253.html">Largest HLS Investor Dumps All Shares</a> | <a href="/en/2008/06/401604.html">SHAC Prepares For National March & Rally</a> | <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><strong>Links:</strong> <a href="http://www.shac.net">SHAC</a> | <a href="http://www.shac.net/features/prisoners.html">SHAC Prisoner Support</a> | <a href="http://myspace.com/shacukprisonersupport">SHAC UK Prisoner Support</a> | <a href="/en/actions/2008/shac"><strong>Indymedia UK SHAC topic page</strong></a>

Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) are in the business of poisoning healthy animals to death. They are a contract testing operation that tests products for others. They have three sites two in the UK and one in the US. Five hundred animals are put to death every day by HLS, killing tens of thousands of horses, cats, dogs, primates, rabbits, hamsters, rats, mice and fish amongst others each year.

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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consort_beagles">Consort kennels</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Hill_Grove_Cats">Hillgrove cat farm</a>. Both campaigns ended with the businesses closing down and hundreds of animals being safely rehomed instead of tortured in labs.

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 $83 million dollars in debt with NO commercial bank and insurance company anywhere in the world prepared to deal with them.

HLS' key weakness is their finances and by throwing the spotlight on those funding their abuse campaigners across the globe have managed to bring HLS to the <a href="http://www.shac.net/action/top_targets/toptargets.html">brink of financial collapse</a>. Throughout the campaign activists have made financial history as one by one major corporations have yielded to protester power and severed their links with the failing company.

Campaigners use evidence obtained in <a href="http://www.shac.net/HLS/exposed.html">five undercover investigations</a> 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.

<p>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. 
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