PHONE CALLS

This week the animals in HLS need you to make calls to as many of HLS' customers as you can. They are very quick and simple to do, so please take time to fit some in on your lunch breaks and throughout the day if you are free. If you are out and about and you pass a phone box, remember to stop and make a call; or top up your mobile to make calls on the go. Why not print off the numbers you need and keep them with you so you remember to call.

If this is your first time, then there is nothing to worry about, just ring the numbers below and tell the person on the other end that you are calling because their company is funding horrific cruelty at HLS and you are ringing because you want it to stop. You can ask to be put through to someone in management to discuss the issue. It is a good idea to write down a few facts and points about HLS which you can research on our website so you remember what to say and don't get tongue tied.

We know that there are many supporters of our campaign who are connected to the industry in some way due to the nature of some of the information we are leaked, so if you want to take part in our phone protest but are concerned about your identity because of your job, then use a public phone box instead of your home phone and dial 141 before you make your call.

>> Monday - International phone action against Novartis

United Kingdom: 01276 69 22 55

Australia: +61 2 9805 3555
Belgium: +32 2 246 1975
Chile: +56 2 350 0200
France: +33 1 5547 8100
Finland: +358 9 6133 2211
Germany: +49 911 273 0
Ireland: +353 1 260 1255
Italy: +39 0577 24 3111
Mexico: +52 55 5420 8700
Netherlands: +31 20 564 0564
New Zealand: +64 9 820 3728
Russia: +7 495 967 1270
Spain: +34 93 306 4200
Sweden: +46 8 732 3200
USA: +1 212307 1122

If your country is not listed, then please click here for worldwide locations and telephone numbers:  http://www.novartis.com/about-novartis/locations/worldwide-offices.shtml

>> UK numbers only:

Tuesday - Bristol Myers Squibb UK HQ: 01895 52 30 00
Wednesday - Astra Zeneca UK HQ: 02073 04 50 00
Thursday - Abbott Labs UK HQ: 01628 77 33 55
Friday - Glaxosmithkline UK HQ: 02089 90 90 00

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LETTER WRITING

Please write to the ten companies listed below during this week of action.

If you have a printer see the link above to download the Mad Science Award certificate which you can post with your letter as well as any leaflets you have about vivisection and Huntingdon Life Sciences. (You can order our leaflets from our resources page)

If you would like to write to company sites outside the uk, please click here to see our customer data base:  http://www.shac.net/action/customers/clients/index.html

>> Sample letter:

To whom it may concern

I am writing to you because the you are one of many winners of SHAC's mad science award for carrying out cruel and unnecessary experiments at Huntingdon Life Sciences.

You would have to be mad to carry out experiments at a laboratory...

• notorious for manipulating and recording fraudulent data.
• which has been infiltrated more times than any other in the world.
• where workers were filmed pretending to have sex with animals and punching beagles in the face.
• which is heading towards bankruptcy.
• which has to water down disinfectant and reuse needles.

I invite you to visit the website: www.shac.net to find out more about the exposes at Huntingdon Life Sciences and the campaign to shut them down.

[your name here]

>> Who to write to

Abbott Labs
Vanwall Business Park
Vanwall Road
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 4XF

Actellion
BSI Building, 13th Fl.
389 Chiswick High Rd
London
W4 4AL

Astra Zeneca
15 Stanhope Gate
London
W1K 1LN

Bristol Myers Squibb
BMS House
Uxbridge Business Park
Sanderson Road
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB8 1DH

Glaxo Wellcome UK Ltd
Stockley Park West
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB11 1BT

Makhteshim & Agan
Unit 16
Thatcham Business Village
Colthrop Way
Thatcham
Berkshire
RG19 4LW

Novartis
Frimley Business Park
Camberley
Surrey
GU16 7SR

Sanofi Aventis
1 Onslow Street
Guildford
Surrey
GU1 4YS

Schering Plough
Breakspear Road South
Harefield
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB9 6LS

Syngenta
Jealott's Hill International Research Centre
Bracknell
Berkshire
RG42 6EY