[IMC-UK-Features] upcoming coverage proposal: WDAIL

[Animal Rep]

<P><strong>April 25th, London</strong> <a href="http://www.wdail.org">World Day for Animals in Laboratories National March</a>

 

Previously proposed in January: http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2009-January/0127-5c.html

 

Background:

"It is now over 10 years since Labour was voted into government but any hopes that they would carry out their pre-election promises on animal experiments have long vanished. Soon after coming to power, the Government abandoned plans to hold an official inquiry into animal experimentation claiming this would be too costly. At the same time the Labour Party was accepting millions in party donations from powerful figures in the biotech and pharma industries, who were in return given key government positions and life peerages.

 

This is the first time in over 15 years that the anti-vivisection movement has held a march in London to mark World Day, in previous years such marches attracted crowds of thousands. The march on 25 April is intended to revive the spirit of those earlier marches, to unite and mobilise the anti-vivisection movement, to attract new campaigners and to take the antivivisection message out to the public and to the heart of government."

 

Its being organisied by a 'World Day Organising Group', with mainstream anti-vivisection campaigns and animal liberation organisations promoting the event, as well as SHAC who have it as a banner at the top of their page.

 

IMO: I think the two sides of the movement have put differences aside to put this on, under the WDOG banner, instead of under the banner of all organisations as what used to happen for the 80s/90s WDAIL marches (they were the most famous).

 

I think this is probably because the state successfully broke the unity between groups like navs and shac, so an official organising group is a way round this problem. After noticing AA's sympathy to prisoners of late it wouldn't suprise me anyway, clever thinking either way whether intentional or not. That's my radical perspective on the relevance anyway.

 

Thanks, Shactivist.

 

PS - 'Anniversary of Iraq Invasion - All Night Demo at EDO MBM' passed a few days ago, so can come off the upcoming coverage list.

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