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SHAC Prepares For National March & Rally

Imc Uk Features | 11.07.2008 09:30 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | Health | Cambridge

On the 12th July, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) hold national march and rally [Report | Pics] 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.

The rally in the park included info stalls and food/drink from Veggies before campaigners marched through Peterborough. The demonstration ended in Alconbury, so 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.

Details: Webpage for the rally, march and demo - Info and times | Rally in the park - Map and meeting point

Reports from last demo in April: Pictures: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Video: 1 | 2

Newswire: HLS Largest Customers Fined For Overcharging Docters | Call for action at SHAC march x2 | Arson Attacks at HLS Animal Breeder | Video of AR Protesters Illegal Arrest at Arromight Hereford | Callout to any FIT watchers - SHAC rally July 12th | Action Alert: Largest HLS Investor: Part 1 & 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Dispatch from Andy Stepanian (SHAC 7) | HLS Supplier DHL trashed for Active Slaughter | Novartis Global Week of Action Roundup | Time For Action 4 - SHAC Need Your Footage + Trailer | Last Primate Lab in Austria to Close! | Staples lies and beagles die | Message from SHAC: May Raids Anniversary | SHAC May Raids Anniversary | ALF torch Staples trucks | PIA Stop Beagle Flights | Sciencelink animal lab has been abandoned | Novartis HQ painted and smashed (Video) | Previous march (Novartis): SHAC Report | Barriers dismantled

Previous features: Victory for animal rights campaigners | Activist Imprisoned for Shouting | Fisher Scientific Embarrassed Over Links with HLS | SHAC World Day for Lab Animals | Asahi Glass Protesters Harassed by Police | "March Against the Murderers"

Links: SHAC-UK | SHAC-UK Prisoner Support | Veggies | Antispeciesist Action | Animal Rights CopWatch | Indymedia UK SHAC topic page



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.

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Autonomous bloc

21.06.2008 12:04

Calling all antispeciesists, antivivisectionists, anticapitalists, abolitionists & anarchists...

Mask up and unite as one against NETCU, SOCPA & police repression:
 http://netcuwatch.org.uk /  http://repeal-socpa.info

militant antispeciesist


SHAC-UK Prisoner Support: 15 Activists charged with "conspiracy to blackmail"

21.06.2008 12:06

Gregg & Natasha Avery and Heather Nicholson were arrested and remanded into custody after 32 separate police raids, involving 700 police officers in the UK, The Netherlands and Belgium on May 1st 2007.

They have been charged with "conspiracy to blackmail" Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) and they are currently being remanded in prison. Their trial is booked to start on the 29th September 2008 at Winchester Crown Court (UK) and might take as long as six months.

12 other activists have been charged with "conspiracy to blackmail" and are awaiting trial and due to the number of defendents their will most likely be 2 seperate but connected "conspiricy to blackmail" trials one after each other. With the last trial (each trial may take as long as 6 months) probably not starting until April 2009 at the earliest. The 12 SHAC activists are currently on bail, with severe bail conditions preventing them doing any animal rights activities at all, or even leading a normal life and it appears that some of them will be on bail for years.

All the activists deny the charge being all completely innocent. This politically motivated "conspiricy to blackmail" charge carries a maximum 15 year prison sentence.

There is also going to be two other trials relating to the raids on May 1st 2007, one involving activists accused of allegedly liberating a dog from abuse (this was an animal rights action but not SHAC related, however the police are claiming it is) and one envolving the alleged theft of information from a employees place of work. Their are 18 defendents in total and one activists is facing two separate trials.

HLS is the worlds most exposed, brutal and vile animal testing lab, it helps no one and hurts many, please get involved if you possibly can. (please visit SHAC's website).

On the 21st July last year, Natasha had a release licence from a previous unrelated sentence for animal rights actions revoked, due to the new "conspiracy" charges against her. She is no longer classed as a remand prisoner and she is now serving out the time on her previous sentence. When the time left on her sentence finishes she will be put back on remand. This in practise just reduces her privileges and means if convicted she may not be able to use the time she has served not on remand to offset any sentence.

A letter from Heather read out at the SHAC national in November:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCgkfzoaW0A

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Gregg, Heather and Natasha have said on many occasions the best way of supporting them and the other defendents is to get out there, do demos, write letters, do what you can. There are campaigners fighting HLS all round the world so please if you can please get involved. (SHAC).

You can also write to them:

Gregg Avery (TA7450)
HMP Winchester
Romsey Road
Winchester
SO22 5DF
United Kingdom

Natasha Avery (NR8987)
HMP Bronzefield
Woodthorpe Road
Ashford
Middx
TW15 3JZ
United Kingdom

Heather Nicholson (VM4859)
HMP Bronzefield
Woodthorpe Road
Ashford
Middx
TW15 3JZ
United Kingdom.

You can email Heather and Natasha through www.refusedbail.com, emails cost 30 pence (£0.30) each and are delivered directly to them. The emails are all read by prison authorities and there is no facility allowing Heather or Natasha to reply. It is however a good and relatively cheap way of showing your support, especially if your based overseas.

Support Greg, Natasha & Heather
- Homepage: http://myspace.com/shacukprisonersupport


Video - come along!

07.07.2008 23:05

Smash HLS


Photos from the SHAC March & Rally 2008

13.07.2008 22:00

Approx 250 people marching through Peterborough
Approx 250 people marching through Peterborough






Support Sean! http://supportsean.wordpress.com
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Luke's speech outside HLS
Luke's speech outside HLS

Demo moves to HLS
Demo moves to HLS






Photos from the SHAC National March & Rally 2008 in Peterborough, followed by a demo outside the gates of hell itself.

PC Bacon
mail e-mail: info@shac.net
- Homepage: http://www.shac.net


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Show Your Support

02.07.2008 12:47

....and help stop this horrible industry! Expose vivisection for the disgusting and pointless tourture it is!!!!

Please come to the March.

Abolitionist AR


You fight the forces of hell

11.07.2008 15:08

One of the first things Blair did when in official power was to reverse plans to destroy all smallpox culltures on the planet. Accelerated programs were then put in place to weaponise the deadly illness.

Shortly afterwards, on the occasion of the false flag of 911, zionists here and in the US claimed that muslims were behind a terrorist use of anthrax. Later, when most of the public were not looking, it was revealed that the anthrax was a weaponised form originating from one of Blair and Bush's military research labs.

Meanwhile, the people who foretold 911 (see PNAC), just as Mein Kampf foretold the horrors of the nazi war machine, stated that the US and UK must develop biological weapons that target the unique genetics of muslim and chinese people.

Those that fight government animal torture are in a similar situation to any that would have opposed the depraved medical experiments of the nazis or war time japanese. The subservient allies that Blair helped create in much of Europe, will exterminate any effort to roll back their biological weapons programs, muchly disguised as growth in commercial R+D.

This is Indymedia UK, so I can assume most of you regulars haven't a clue.

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html

Here's proof that such information isn't even hidden from you in the mainstream press, if you care to look. These monsters are just as happy to use the homeless, or poor, or africans as substitutes for lab animals.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1786882.stm

Here's another one. Research this story, and you'll find that maybe tens of thousands of elderly Humans were recently murdered by polish medical workers for small profit. No need to wonder why Hitler favoured poland as a location for death camps.

You should know that much of Europe has zero interest in animal rights, and often consider Humans of different skin colour as no better than animals. Guess what happens when New Labour puts scientists recruited from these nations to work producing biological and chemical weapons?

There is no Law in the UK and there is no Justice. There is just power, of the purest evil, cloaking itself in whatever form will keep enough of the sheep quiet for the required period. Most of the high ranking animal abusers in the UK claim to be 'atheists', and this is very important. Their particular cult of 'atheism' claims that there is no difference between processing an animal or Human, and any other resource you might take from the planet. We are all just mechanical soul-less machines to them.

You will find the same cult contained the monsters that did identical work back in WW2. The screams of a tortured cat, or homeless women, are no different to them than the screeching sound of an old car being torn apart for its raw materials. For them, 'scientific curiosity' out-weighs any amount of Human suffering (including, one must say, often their own).

Like all cults, the people who control and benefit from the collective actions of the cult members are not stupid enough to hold the same views or beliefs. This particular group of 'atheist' scientists work in the service of people who consider themselves very 'spiritual', although again a form of spiritual belief (as shown by Blair and Bush) that is depraved and evil to an infinite degree.

The men and women who have murdered untold tens of millions of people in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and most recently Somalia, would happily round up all low-level animal rights protestors in the UK, and use them for live vivisection (and their 'scientists' would jump at the chance for using test subjects of a more ideal genetic form). While this is still a few years away (but closer than you think- only a disgusting racist would claim that the UK will not follow in the footsteps of similar regimes), the state will still use the most extreme force now that does not damage the greater plan.

it will only get worse


Why no link to video?

16.07.2008 13:19

See you at the Carnival though...

 https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/403672.html

PC Bacon


stop the cruelty

18.07.2008 17:19

agree with the action but how about including halal & kosher slaughter which is diabolical torture of animals as well

Karla

Karla