Virtual Sit-in of HLS TODAY: Tuesday, Feb. 27th, 2001
me | 27.02.2001 08:26 | Animal Liberation
URGENT ACTION REMINDER
February 27, 2001
This coming Tuesday participate in a massive floodnet action with activists
from around the world to bring down Huntingdon Life Sciences's web site.
Activists participating in this electronic civil disobedience will learn on
Tuesay morning the location of the webpage that will enable them to activate
the floodnet program from their computers and will begin to send a barage of
download requests over and over again effectively shutting down this mode of
communication for HLS.
The Animal Liberation Internet Tactical Response Network has put together
the action in support of the commitment made by the animal rights movement
to see HLS shut down. Visit the AL-TIRN site
http://floodnet.webjump.com for
more information on how to use floodnet in preparation for Tuesday's action.
Huntingdon Life Sciences, one of the world’s largest and most notorious
animal testing centers, has been the subject of a relentless campaign after
it was exposed in five undercover investigations showing horrific animal
cruelty and sloppy fraudulent science. The investigations revealed workers
maliciously punching beagle puppies in the face, dissecting a live monkey,
transplanting a frozen pig heart into an otherwise healthy baboon thereby
killing the animal, taking drugs and drinking at work, and falsifying
scientific data, procedures, and animal welfare standards. Stop Huntingdon
Animal Cruelty has convinced a large number of shareholders and customers of
HLS into dropping their support of the company. The results have been
all-time low worker morale, shattered customer confidence, and crisis level
shareprices that almost lead HLS into foreclosure less than one month ago.
Keep visiting http://www.shac.net for more details of the upcoming action.
For this action to be a success a high-level of participation is needed.
PLEASE circulate this action reminder to email lists and activists
worldwide. Participating on this action and joining the international effort
to close HLS means participating in making history. By closing HLS the
movement will be doing more than simply saving 180,000 animals annually, we
will be hammering a signficant nail into the coffin of the vivisection
industry.
Action Times Around the World:
Pacific Standard Time 6:30 AM
Mountain Standard Time 7:30 AM
Central Standard Time 8:30 AM
Eastern Standard Time 9:30 AM
Greenwich Mean Time 2:30 PM
You can find out the times of the virtual sit-in in your area by using a time zone map ( http://floodnet.webjump.com/images/TimeZoneMap2001.jpg) and checking a table of times and dates ( http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/) around the world.
LET'S GET READY FOR TUESDAY, AND SMASH HLS!
February 27, 2001
This coming Tuesday participate in a massive floodnet action with activists
from around the world to bring down Huntingdon Life Sciences's web site.
Activists participating in this electronic civil disobedience will learn on
Tuesay morning the location of the webpage that will enable them to activate
the floodnet program from their computers and will begin to send a barage of
download requests over and over again effectively shutting down this mode of
communication for HLS.
The Animal Liberation Internet Tactical Response Network has put together
the action in support of the commitment made by the animal rights movement
to see HLS shut down. Visit the AL-TIRN site
http://floodnet.webjump.com for more information on how to use floodnet in preparation for Tuesday's action.
Huntingdon Life Sciences, one of the world’s largest and most notorious
animal testing centers, has been the subject of a relentless campaign after
it was exposed in five undercover investigations showing horrific animal
cruelty and sloppy fraudulent science. The investigations revealed workers
maliciously punching beagle puppies in the face, dissecting a live monkey,
transplanting a frozen pig heart into an otherwise healthy baboon thereby
killing the animal, taking drugs and drinking at work, and falsifying
scientific data, procedures, and animal welfare standards. Stop Huntingdon
Animal Cruelty has convinced a large number of shareholders and customers of
HLS into dropping their support of the company. The results have been
all-time low worker morale, shattered customer confidence, and crisis level
shareprices that almost lead HLS into foreclosure less than one month ago.
Keep visiting
http://www.shac.net for more details of the upcoming action. For this action to be a success a high-level of participation is needed.
PLEASE circulate this action reminder to email lists and activists
worldwide. Participating on this action and joining the international effort
to close HLS means participating in making history. By closing HLS the
movement will be doing more than simply saving 180,000 animals annually, we
will be hammering a signficant nail into the coffin of the vivisection
industry.
Action Times Around the World:
Pacific Standard Time 6:30 AM
Mountain Standard Time 7:30 AM
Central Standard Time 8:30 AM
Eastern Standard Time 9:30 AM
Greenwich Mean Time 2:30 PM
You can find out the times of the virtual sit-in in your area by using a time zone map (
http://floodnet.webjump.com/images/TimeZoneMap2001.jpg) and checking a table of times and dates (
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/) around the world. LET'S GET READY FOR TUESDAY, AND SMASH HLS!
me
Homepage:
http://floodnet.webjumump.com
Comments
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HLS first, SDI next
27.02.2001 10:07
Milly Tant
confused
27.02.2001 16:19
dazed and confused
Isn't this terrorism?
28.02.2001 12:14
cyber
Ludicrous
28.02.2001 17:35
Llud
Stephens Web
01.03.2001 10:24
Stephens Inc. is the number one shareholder in Huntingdon Life Sciences, a torturous animal-testing laboratory who kills 180,000 animals yearly and was the target of a recent undercover investigation which found horrific, inhumane abuse. In addition, it has been discovered that Stephens Inc. recently provided HLS with a 33 million dollar loan, to prevent the Lab's closing. A news report detailing this is available here:
Disclaimer: This website is maintained by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC). It in no way is affiliated with Stephens Inc. This site merely exists to inform you of the cruelty that Stephens Inc. invests in as shareholders in Huntingdon Life Sciences.
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*** The following mainstream news article may contain biased or distorted information and may be missing pertinent facts and/or context. It is provided for reference only. ***
Financial Times 28-02-2001
Huntingdon activists shift protest to cyberspace
Animal rights activists on Tuesday launched an electronic attack on the website of Stephens, the US investment bank which saved Huntingdon Life Sciences, the drug testing company, from liquidation.
Stephens stepped in to finance HLS in January, after Royal Bank of Scotland withdrew its overdraft facility in the face of anti-vivisection protests.
Animal Liberation - Tactical Internet Response Network, a group behind a number of electronic attacks against organisations which experiment on animals, claimed to have jammed the bank's web site by flooding it with information requests. Stephens confirmed its web site had been attacked, but said the hackers failed to completely disable the site.
Stop Huntingdon Life Sciences, the anti-vivisection group leading the campaign against HLS said the hackers' next target would be online share trading sites such as Winterflood Securities, one of the few sites that still trades HLS shares.
"I'm told this is a practice for anyone connected with HLS, including those who rely on the services for revenue," said Greg Avery, of Stop Huntingdon Life Sciences.
TD Waterhouse, the UK's largest execution-only broker, recently stopped taking orders to buy shares in HLS, the drug-testing group, after pressure from the animal rights activists.
Over the past year Phillips & Drew, the fund manager and HSBC, Credit Suisse First Boston, Citibank and Merrill Lynch, the investment banks, have cut their ties with HLS after being targeted by Shac.
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