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SHUT DOWN HLS !

Shut down HLS ! | 06.10.2009 07:51 | Animal Liberation

News has reached campaigners opposed to the death factory that is Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) of an new expansion of their current facility.

We will never allow it to open.

Disheartened by the failure of the SHAC campaign a small group of activists devoted to animal welfare regardless of the costs to ourselves have investigated the HLS company, what we have discovered is both shocking and disgusting.

Despite the claims that HLS is failing or is in financial trouble the opposite is true. This year they have won twelve new animal testing contracts all of which have not been publicised to prevent actions by animal lovers and their revenue in 2010 is expected to grow to £340 million, up from about £145 million this year, profits are expected to reach nearly £104 million, profits gained on the deaths and suffering of other brothers and sisters. This money is earmarked to firstly pay of their current debts, they will be debt free by March 2010 and to build a new expanded testing facility at an undisclosed location. construction has already started so we urge anybody in the immediate area to look out for new large scale construction facilities, we will continue to try and get further information via our ongoing investigation.

WE WILL NOT LET THIS BE BUILT

Up until now HLS has got off lightly, the current SHAC campaign although good intentioned has failed, it's most committed members imprisoned and its effectiveness compromised by simply repeating what has failed in the past. We will not be organising A to B marches, we will not be running fluffy stalls on the high street .

We do not want your money, we seek no donations, we do not have a facebook page, we have no website, we have no bank account.

We want only your moral support and your love. Where SHAC has failed, we will succeed.

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Shut down HLS !

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SHAC is not a failure

06.10.2009 08:22

Good luck with your campaign to close HLS but SHAC is not a failure. So what if HLS is expanding, SHAC already knew that by the way, the campaign continues.

For those wanting to be involved, contact SHAC here

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
c/o FRIEND
89 Bush Road
East Peckham
Tonbridge
Kent
TN12 5LJ

Tel: 0845 458 0630

Main e-mail:  info@shac.net

Lynn Sawyer


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Lynn Sawyer

06.10.2009 11:01

Lynn,

Facing up to the failures of SHAC is one of the most important things the animal rights movement could do to make progress. SHAC started well but the concentration of power within a small grouping who controlled the money and the tactics resulted in its final capitulation as a result of Operation Achilles. Most of recognise the good intentions of the majority who worked for SHAC but good intentions do not liberate animals.

Regretfully SHAC is now just a money making operation.

Mark, once of SHAC in Manchester


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Not authorised

06.10.2009 11:04

This group is not recognised by SHAC and does not have our authority to conduct any operations against HLS.

Those who want to support the closure of HLS should only do it through SHAC which is the nationally recognised campaign to close HLS. This group and others who claim to be working against HLS are not under the SHAC umbrella.

SHAC
- Homepage: http://www.shat.net


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More 20-20 hindsight from Lynn Sawyer

06.10.2009 11:11

So SHAC knew that HLS was expanding did it Lynn ? Funny how you never mentioned it then.

Must be like how you knew all along that SHAC was infiltrated by an undercover cop, as you claimed here on Indy, even though you were denying it only three days before the story broke in the national press.

Let's face facts SHAC is a fucked campaign that has failed to achieve a single one of its targets and now has most of its leaders in prison. While people in SHAC expanded their bank balances and egos the animals went on dying and still they die today.

I wish this campaign all the luck in the world, its good to see real action from people who are not looking for publicity or a donation.

O please


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Too funny for words

06.10.2009 12:45

It must make the losers of SHAC feel good to know that any criticism of their organisation or attempts to set up other protest groups is hidden by the useful idiots of Indymedia. On this occasion one of the mods even took the time to write an pathetic little diatribe justifying his actions.

It's no wonder that HLS continues to thrive, truly pathetic.


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SHACWATCH
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