Shac - protest target CWCapital
Brian Cass | 15.04.2011 10:23
HERE IS WHY: Fortress is the company responsible for lending a blood-money loan to Huntingdon Life Sciences - we aim to bring bad publicity to both their subsidiary companies and acquisitions by exposing them for dealing with cruelty.
PROTEST TARGETS: SUBSIDUARIES OF NOMURA AND FORTRESS
There are three key types of Fortress protest targets. Of course their main offices are the best way of taking our message directly to the decision makers, but it is vital to remember how Fortress make their money; they are an investment company, and therefore rely on their subsidiaries and acquisitions to keep them profitable. This therefore widens the field considerably, and means that there are strategic protest targets across the world, from ski resorts to newspapers, which can all play a vital part in chipping away at Fortress' resolve. The third target area is their shareholders, who in essence own the company. All of the key targets have been listed below, so have a look through and see if any are near you.
FORTRESS LOCATIONS
GLOBAL HQ www.fortressinv.com/
Fortress Investment Group LLC, 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10105, USA
Phone: 212 798 6100
OWNERS: NOMURA www.nomura.com
Nomura own over 30% of Fortress and share directors with them. Part of them is CWCapital.
PROTEST TARGET: CWCapital
Founded in 1993
HQ:
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
United States
Phone: 781-574-9000
Fax: 781-707-9398
www.cwcapital.com
other offices:
11200 Rockville Pke.
Rockville, MD 20852-3154
United States
Phone: (301) 255-4700
Fax: (301) 231-0321
1010 Washington, Suite 200
Vancouver WA 98660
Phone: (360) 713-5900
Fax: (360) 713-5999
Michael D. Berman
President and Chief Executive Officer, CWCapital LLC
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9300
Al Beaumariage
Vice President, Agency Lending
214.438.6305
abeaumariage@cwcapital.com
Gardner Hall
Managing Director, Primary Servicing
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9401
ghall@cwcapital.com
James Schroeder
Senior Vice President, Primary Servicing
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9403
jschroeder@cwcapital.com
John Collins
Vice President, Chief of Asset Management
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9405
jcollins@cwcapital.com
Tad Philipp
Managing Director, CW Risk Management Solutions
1540 Broadway, 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10036
646.253.8816
tphilipp@cwcapital.com
Dan Warcholak
Managing Director
11200 Rockville Pike , Suite 302
Rockville, MD 20852
301.255.4760
dwarcholak@cwcapital.com
Charles Spetka
Chief Executive Officer, CW Financial Services and President, CWCapital Investments
646.253.8850
cspetka@cwcapital.com
Tad Philipp
Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer
CW Financial Services
646.253.8816
tphilipp@cwcapital.com
Julia Hu
Senior Vice President, CWCapital Investments
646.253.8822
jhu@cwcapital.com
Jessica Jacques
781-707-9419
jjacques@cwcapital.com
Jeffrey Goodman
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, CWCapital LLC
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9311
jgoodman@cwcapital.com
Donald King
Managing Director
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9494
dking@cwcapital.com
David Levy
Managing Director
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9310
dlevy@cwcapital.com
S.Scott Baker
Managing Director
1050 Crown Pointe Parkway, Suite 600
Atlanta, GA 30338
678.256.1400
sbaker@cwcapital.com
Ellen Kantrowitz
Managing Director
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9309
ekantrowitz@cwcapital.com
David Iannarone
President, CWCapital Asset Management
7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 500 West
Bethesda, MD 20814
202.715.9502
Trisha Daugherty
Managing Director
7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 500 West
Bethesda, MD 20814
202.715.9570
tdaugherty@cwcapital.com
Brian Hanson
Managing Director
7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 500 West
Bethesda, MD 20814
202.715.9510
bhanson@cwcapital.com
Ken Frank
Managing Director
7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 500 West
Bethesda, MD 20814
202.715.9550
kfrank@cwcapital.com
Tom Dwyer
Managing Director
7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 500 West
Bethesda, MD 20814
202.715.9540
tdwyer@cwcapital.com
Peter Muoio, Ph.D.
Managing Director
1540 Broadway, 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10036
646.253.8871
pmuoio@cwcapital.com
Philip Brooks
Senior Vice President
Richmond, VA
Donald King
Managing Director and Head of CWÂ’s Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lending platforms
Trevor Fase
Senior Vice President, Agency Lending
818.661.1110
tfase@cwcapital.com
William Battaglia
Vice President, Agency Lending
949.271.8510
wbattaglia@cwcapital.com
Trent Brooks
Managing Director, Agency Lending
949.271.8500
tbrooks@cwcapital.com
Bryan Frazier
Managing Director, Agency Lending
949.271.8500
bfrazier@cwcapital.com
Tom Meunier
Vice President, Agency Lending
949.271.8513
tmeunier@cwcapital.com
Allan Edelson
Senior Vice President, Agency Lending
847.478.1654
aedelson@cwcapital.com
Michael Darling
Vice President, Agency Lending
781.707.9428
mdarling@cwcapital.com
Andrew Gnazzo
Senior Vice President, Agency Lending
781.707.9354
agnazzo@cwcapital.com
Ellen Guelfi
Vice President, FHA
781.707.9344
eguelfi@cwcapital.com
Ellen Kantrowitz
Managing Director, FHA Program
781.707.9309
ekantrowitz@cwcapital.com
Donald King
Managing Director, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Programs
781.707.9494
dking@cwcapital.com
Dee McClure
Senior Vice President and Mid-Atlantic Regional Manager, FHA
410.500.4301
dmcclure@cwcapital.com
Michael McCullough
Senior Vice President, FHA
410.500.4306
mmccullough@cwcapital.com
Frank Baldasare
Senior Vice President and Southeast Regional Manager, Agency Lending
678.256.1410
fbaldasare@cwcapital.com
Jeff Lawrence
Vice President, Agency Lending
678.256.1417
jlawrence@cwcapital.com
Kevin Walsh
Vice President, Agency Lending
678.256.1420
kwalsh@cwcapital.com
Craig West
Senior Vice President, Agency Lending
678.256.1405
cwest@cwcapital.com
Jay Hansen
Vice Pesident, FHA
425.746.1020
jhansen@cwcapital.com
Tom Peters
Managing Director, FHA
360.694.1322
tpeters@cwcapital.com
Philip Lewis
Vice President, FHA
415.593.6010
plewis@cwcapital.com
Craig Russell
Vice President, Agency Lending
206.494.9672
crussell@cwcapital.com
Dustin Swartz, Vice President,
Agency Lending
301.255.4781
dswartz@cwcapital.com
Tom Shearer
VP & Senior Asset Manager
Elizabeth Orcutt
Marketing Director
781-707-9334
eorcutt@cwcapital.com
Brenda Bailey
1010 Washington St, Ste 200
Phone: 360-694-1322 x8103
Fax: 360-694-5218
bbailey@cwcapital.com
CWCapital Asset Management LLC (CWCAM)
David Iannarone, President
Burr Ault, Daniel Balkam, Patrick Connell, David Smith, Sam Stern, and Geoffrey Wood, all named Vice Presidents and Senior Asset Managers
diannarone@cwcapital.com
bault@cwcapital.com
dbalkam@cwcapital.com
pconnell@cwcapital.com
dsmith@cwcapital.com
sstern@cwcapital.com
gwood@cwcapital.com
ALL OF THEM:
abeaumariage@cwcapital.com, ghall@cwcapital.com, jschroeder@cwcapital.com, jcollins@cwcapital.com, tphilipp@cwcapital.com, dwarcholak@cwcapital.com, cspetka@cwcapital.com, jhu@cwcapital.com, jjacques@cwcapital.com, jgoodman@cwcapital.com, dking@cwcapital.com, dlevy@cwcapital.com, sbaker@cwcapital.com, ekantrowitz@cwcapital.com, tdaugherty@cwcapital.com, bhanson@cwcapital.com, kfrank@cwcapital.com, tdwyer@cwcapital.com, pmuoio@cwcapital.com, tfase@cwcapital.com, wbattaglia@cwcapital.com, tbrooks@cwcapital.com, bfrazier@cwcapital.com, tmeunier@cwcapital.com, aedelson@cwcapital.com, mdarling@cwcapital.com, agnazzo@cwcapital.com, eguelfi@cwcapital.com, ekantrowitz@cwcapital.com, dmcclure@cwcapital.com, mmccullough@cwcapital.com, fbaldasare@cwcapital.com, jlawrence@cwcapital.com, kwalsh@cwcapital.com, cwest@cwcapital.com, jhansen@cwcapital.com, tpeters@cwcapital.com, plewis@cwcapital.com, crussell@cwcapital.com, dswartz@cwcapital.com, eorcutt@cwcapital.com, bbailey@cwcapital.com, diannarone@cwcapital.com, bault@cwcapital.com, dbalkam@cwcapital.com, pconnell@cwcapital.com, dsmith@cwcapital.com, sstern@cwcapital.com, gwood@cwcapital.com
AND HERE IS WHY:
Fortress is the company responsible for lending a blood-money loan to Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Fortress are a leading global investment company.
They are the secret multi-million pound lenders who saved HLS from closure in 2006 and again in 2009 them and ask them to use their influence over Fortress to boycott
They are our priority financial target
Fortress have get out clauses in the deal with HLS, so we just need to give them a reason to dump HLS
There are three directions in which the Fortress campaign can take.
The first is to take the message direct to Fortress in the form of
demonstrations, phone calls and letters.
Secondly, we aim to bring bad publicity to both their subsidiary companies and acquisitions by exposing them for dealing with cruelty.
THREE: The third approach is to campaign against shareholders who, in essence, part-own the company. If Fortress lose shareholders due to
the bad corporate image of being associated with animal cruelty, then it makes HLS very bad for business
CWCapital is connected with Fortress and Nomura. Nomura are an investment bank who own 15% of Fortress, but the two companies share directors and they ultimately have a sway in the company's policy making decisions. Therefore they are a target of the campaign.
MORE INFORMATION: INSIDE REPORT
1997 - HLS EXPOSED IN THE UK
In 1997 Zoe Broughton worked undercover inside HLS as part of a Chanel Four series, Countryside Undercover.
Her investigation showed workers punching beagle puppies in the face and home office inspectors failing to do their job.
To view the video footage of Zoe Broughton and Michelle Rokkes investigations, please click here
Ever since I was young I used to wonder what went on behind the high barbed wire of the huge animal-testing laboratory down the road. I decided to apply for one of the lab's many vacancies advertised in the local paper, to see for myself.
A few days later I got an interview for a job as an animal technician. The pay was about £120 for a five-and-a-half-day week. I made myself sound keen and stressed that I had experience of working with animals.
They checked my name to see if it appeared on any animal campaign lists and before I'd come to terms with what I was about to involve myself in I was working in one of Britain's largest animal testing laboratories.
DAY 1
I don't know what to expect, not even which department I will get sent to or how I will respond to seeing animals in pain. To fit in, I make up a false past. I can hardly reveal I am a filmmaker. But I am worried that I may something that might blow my cover. I am assigned to the dog toxicology unit.
I've always had pet dogs, but as we enter the building the noise and smell hits me. I cannot stop my face showing the shock. I notice immediately that the little puppies are keen to play, whereas the older dogs are wary of human touch. Some stay at the back of their cages and don't even move when I give them their food.
My job is to look after a room of 32 puppies. On the first afternoon I am asked to check the health of my dogs. I am shown how to do it, but trying to check teeth and paws on a wriggling little puppy seems almost impossible. Later I read the Home Office guidelines and it states that it has to be done by a competent person. How can I be competent on my first day at work?
All the dogs had their own distinctive characters and I was shocked to find out that they would al be put down. By the end of the day I was mentally and physically exhausted.
DAY 4
The hardest job is putting the young puppies away after their one hour of exercise in the small concrete corridor between the two rows of cages. They paw at me with their shitty feet; I pick one up, read the number tattooed in its ear and walk the length of the room to find its cage; all the while trying not to tread on paws and slip in the fresh shit. It's repulsive and by the end of the each day my lab clothes have turned from white to brown.
DAY 8
I have to help take blood samples. They call it "doing a bleed". I bring the first dog out and sit her on a chair beside me, holding both front paws in one hand and holding the chin up with the other. The animal technician shaves the dog's neck and then plunges the needle in. She continues bleeding afterwards.
I get blood on my arm and I see the other dogs look and know what is coming. Some grip the floor cringing and a couple try to dart past me and escape. Often the technicians can't find a vein. I count one needle being put in three times and once under the skin prod in different directions 15 times before finding a vein. I feel pretty queasy.
DAY 10
I am told not to use so much sawdust as "one shovelful is enough and it needn't be piled up." There is no bedding and this is all the dogs have on the concrete floors. The Home Office inspectors turn up. I don't see them look in any of the units I deal with - they just stand outside the dog rooms and chat with the technicians.
DAY 15
Another visit from the Home Office inspectors. This time I see them outside in the corridor a technician tells me to sweep the floor I sweep it, but they don't enter my side of the laboratory. I've now seen them arrive twice, but I haven't seen them look at a dog yet.
DAY 18
I still feel physically sick with nerves. The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has granted me permission to film what is going on. The camera equipment is strapped to my body. It is very bulky and I am worried because it is visible every time I bend over.
DAY 29
The worst day yet, as the experiments started on my 32 puppies. The test involves putting each dog in a sling and injecting a chemical used in scanning of human livers. Two are sick as they are being injected, some of their legs swell up and on top of this the puppies have 10 blood tests each through the day. The technicians keep saying that "these dogs are too young for this type of experiment as their veins are too small" - so why have they got them so young? If the puppies wriggle, they are hit or shaken by the scruff of their necks. I feel like a torturer. I hold them and soon get their blood on my hands.
DAY 30
I help prepare the doses for another experiment - it is an agrochemical toxicity test for a Japanese company. A lot of the tests in my department were testing for the toxicity of herbicides and fungicides. The man I am working with measures out the compound and I put it into capsules. He is meant to print out the weight of each dose on a computer so it can be checked. What he actually does is measure one dose correctly, print this out seven times and then make the next six doses for the week far more quickly and with less accuracy. This means the dogs are not getting the right dose: these experiments may be invalid.
DAY 32
Walk into my unit and one of my puppies, number 1619, has half a pint of congealed bloody faeces around his cage. The vet looks at him and says it is all right to continue with the daily doses.
DAY 33
I'm finding it hard to watch these needles being repeatedly put into the dogs legs, over and over. One technician gets so angry when he can't find a vein that he shouts and quickly jabs the needle in repeatedly, often going right through the vein. Twice I have seen him give up and squirt the rest of the liquid into the bin.
DAY 40
I have had plenty of opportunities to read the files. I have been writing notes on scraps of paper and have now established which experiments are in which rooms, who's sponsoring which companies, the compounds being tested and how each is being administered.
DAY 45
Today I film the pictures of the animal technicians' pets on the wall - many of them talk non-stop about their lovely pets and then go back to work.
DAY 56
We have now finished the experiment with my puppies and today we have to go through the whole blood-testing rigmarole again. I cannot believe the animal technicians' attitudes - they are messing around while trying to take blood. One technician pokes, tickles and fools around with the man he is working with. This makes the process of finding a vein take even longer.
DAY 57
They've started the post mortems on my dogs. Today I carry my favourite puppy along the corridor to what are known as the Death Row cages. I spent last weekend deciding whether to blow this whole project and smuggle her out - but I must think of the future of the other animals here and hope that my film will help all of them.
DAY 64
I have just walked out of the laboratory for the last time. I wanted to say goodbye and pet the dogs, but I've found it so hard loving those about to be put down that I kept my distance at the end. I don't think anybody suspects me. I have followed the whole process with my puppies, from the settling-in weeks, through experiments to the post-mortem. As I was leaving, they told me my chores for the next morning - nobody knew I would not be there, but in the edit suite, assembling the evidence of their cruelty."
There are three key types of Fortress protest targets. Of course their main offices are the best way of taking our message directly to the decision makers, but it is vital to remember how Fortress make their money; they are an investment company, and therefore rely on their subsidiaries and acquisitions to keep them profitable. This therefore widens the field considerably, and means that there are strategic protest targets across the world, from ski resorts to newspapers, which can all play a vital part in chipping away at Fortress' resolve. The third target area is their shareholders, who in essence own the company. All of the key targets have been listed below, so have a look through and see if any are near you.
FORTRESS LOCATIONS
GLOBAL HQ www.fortressinv.com/
Fortress Investment Group LLC, 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10105, USA
Phone: 212 798 6100
OWNERS: NOMURA www.nomura.com
Nomura own over 30% of Fortress and share directors with them. Part of them is CWCapital.
PROTEST TARGET: CWCapital
Founded in 1993
HQ:
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
United States
Phone: 781-574-9000
Fax: 781-707-9398
www.cwcapital.com
other offices:
11200 Rockville Pke.
Rockville, MD 20852-3154
United States
Phone: (301) 255-4700
Fax: (301) 231-0321
1010 Washington, Suite 200
Vancouver WA 98660
Phone: (360) 713-5900
Fax: (360) 713-5999
Michael D. Berman
President and Chief Executive Officer, CWCapital LLC
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9300
Al Beaumariage
Vice President, Agency Lending
214.438.6305
abeaumariage@cwcapital.com Gardner Hall
Managing Director, Primary Servicing
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9401
ghall@cwcapital.com James Schroeder
Senior Vice President, Primary Servicing
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9403
jschroeder@cwcapital.com John Collins
Vice President, Chief of Asset Management
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9405
jcollins@cwcapital.com Tad Philipp
Managing Director, CW Risk Management Solutions
1540 Broadway, 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10036
646.253.8816
tphilipp@cwcapital.com Dan Warcholak
Managing Director
11200 Rockville Pike , Suite 302
Rockville, MD 20852
301.255.4760
dwarcholak@cwcapital.com Charles Spetka
Chief Executive Officer, CW Financial Services and President, CWCapital Investments
646.253.8850
cspetka@cwcapital.com Tad Philipp
Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer
CW Financial Services
646.253.8816
tphilipp@cwcapital.com Julia Hu
Senior Vice President, CWCapital Investments
646.253.8822
jhu@cwcapital.com Jessica Jacques
781-707-9419
jjacques@cwcapital.com Jeffrey Goodman
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, CWCapital LLC
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9311
jgoodman@cwcapital.com Donald King
Managing Director
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9494
dking@cwcapital.com David Levy
Managing Director
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9310
dlevy@cwcapital.com S.Scott Baker
Managing Director
1050 Crown Pointe Parkway, Suite 600
Atlanta, GA 30338
678.256.1400
sbaker@cwcapital.com Ellen Kantrowitz
Managing Director
One Charles River Place, 63 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
781.707.9309
ekantrowitz@cwcapital.com David Iannarone
President, CWCapital Asset Management
7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 500 West
Bethesda, MD 20814
202.715.9502
Trisha Daugherty
Managing Director
7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 500 West
Bethesda, MD 20814
202.715.9570
tdaugherty@cwcapital.com Brian Hanson
Managing Director
7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 500 West
Bethesda, MD 20814
202.715.9510
bhanson@cwcapital.com Ken Frank
Managing Director
7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 500 West
Bethesda, MD 20814
202.715.9550
kfrank@cwcapital.com Tom Dwyer
Managing Director
7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 500 West
Bethesda, MD 20814
202.715.9540
tdwyer@cwcapital.com Peter Muoio, Ph.D.
Managing Director
1540 Broadway, 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10036
646.253.8871
pmuoio@cwcapital.com Philip Brooks
Senior Vice President
Richmond, VA
Donald King
Managing Director and Head of CWÂ’s Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lending platforms
Trevor Fase
Senior Vice President, Agency Lending
818.661.1110
tfase@cwcapital.com William Battaglia
Vice President, Agency Lending
949.271.8510
wbattaglia@cwcapital.com Trent Brooks
Managing Director, Agency Lending
949.271.8500
tbrooks@cwcapital.com Bryan Frazier
Managing Director, Agency Lending
949.271.8500
bfrazier@cwcapital.com Tom Meunier
Vice President, Agency Lending
949.271.8513
tmeunier@cwcapital.com Allan Edelson
Senior Vice President, Agency Lending
847.478.1654
aedelson@cwcapital.com Michael Darling
Vice President, Agency Lending
781.707.9428
mdarling@cwcapital.com Andrew Gnazzo
Senior Vice President, Agency Lending
781.707.9354
agnazzo@cwcapital.com Ellen Guelfi
Vice President, FHA
781.707.9344
eguelfi@cwcapital.com Ellen Kantrowitz
Managing Director, FHA Program
781.707.9309
ekantrowitz@cwcapital.com Donald King
Managing Director, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Programs
781.707.9494
dking@cwcapital.com Dee McClure
Senior Vice President and Mid-Atlantic Regional Manager, FHA
410.500.4301
dmcclure@cwcapital.com Michael McCullough
Senior Vice President, FHA
410.500.4306
mmccullough@cwcapital.com Frank Baldasare
Senior Vice President and Southeast Regional Manager, Agency Lending
678.256.1410
fbaldasare@cwcapital.com Jeff Lawrence
Vice President, Agency Lending
678.256.1417
jlawrence@cwcapital.com Kevin Walsh
Vice President, Agency Lending
678.256.1420
kwalsh@cwcapital.com Craig West
Senior Vice President, Agency Lending
678.256.1405
cwest@cwcapital.com Jay Hansen
Vice Pesident, FHA
425.746.1020
jhansen@cwcapital.com Tom Peters
Managing Director, FHA
360.694.1322
tpeters@cwcapital.com Philip Lewis
Vice President, FHA
415.593.6010
plewis@cwcapital.com Craig Russell
Vice President, Agency Lending
206.494.9672
crussell@cwcapital.com Dustin Swartz, Vice President,
Agency Lending
301.255.4781
dswartz@cwcapital.com Tom Shearer
VP & Senior Asset Manager
Elizabeth Orcutt
Marketing Director
781-707-9334
eorcutt@cwcapital.com Brenda Bailey
1010 Washington St, Ste 200
Phone: 360-694-1322 x8103
Fax: 360-694-5218
bbailey@cwcapital.com CWCapital Asset Management LLC (CWCAM)
David Iannarone, President
Burr Ault, Daniel Balkam, Patrick Connell, David Smith, Sam Stern, and Geoffrey Wood, all named Vice Presidents and Senior Asset Managers
diannarone@cwcapital.com bault@cwcapital.com dbalkam@cwcapital.com pconnell@cwcapital.com dsmith@cwcapital.com sstern@cwcapital.com gwood@cwcapital.com ALL OF THEM:
abeaumariage@cwcapital.com, ghall@cwcapital.com, jschroeder@cwcapital.com, jcollins@cwcapital.com, tphilipp@cwcapital.com, dwarcholak@cwcapital.com, cspetka@cwcapital.com, jhu@cwcapital.com, jjacques@cwcapital.com, jgoodman@cwcapital.com, dking@cwcapital.com, dlevy@cwcapital.com, sbaker@cwcapital.com, ekantrowitz@cwcapital.com, tdaugherty@cwcapital.com, bhanson@cwcapital.com, kfrank@cwcapital.com, tdwyer@cwcapital.com, pmuoio@cwcapital.com, tfase@cwcapital.com, wbattaglia@cwcapital.com, tbrooks@cwcapital.com, bfrazier@cwcapital.com, tmeunier@cwcapital.com, aedelson@cwcapital.com, mdarling@cwcapital.com, agnazzo@cwcapital.com, eguelfi@cwcapital.com, ekantrowitz@cwcapital.com, dmcclure@cwcapital.com, mmccullough@cwcapital.com, fbaldasare@cwcapital.com, jlawrence@cwcapital.com, kwalsh@cwcapital.com, cwest@cwcapital.com, jhansen@cwcapital.com, tpeters@cwcapital.com, plewis@cwcapital.com, crussell@cwcapital.com, dswartz@cwcapital.com, eorcutt@cwcapital.com, bbailey@cwcapital.com, diannarone@cwcapital.com, bault@cwcapital.com, dbalkam@cwcapital.com, pconnell@cwcapital.com, dsmith@cwcapital.com, sstern@cwcapital.com, gwood@cwcapital.com AND HERE IS WHY:
Fortress is the company responsible for lending a blood-money loan to Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Fortress are a leading global investment company.
They are the secret multi-million pound lenders who saved HLS from closure in 2006 and again in 2009 them and ask them to use their influence over Fortress to boycott
They are our priority financial target
Fortress have get out clauses in the deal with HLS, so we just need to give them a reason to dump HLS
There are three directions in which the Fortress campaign can take.
The first is to take the message direct to Fortress in the form of
demonstrations, phone calls and letters.
Secondly, we aim to bring bad publicity to both their subsidiary companies and acquisitions by exposing them for dealing with cruelty.
THREE: The third approach is to campaign against shareholders who, in essence, part-own the company. If Fortress lose shareholders due to
the bad corporate image of being associated with animal cruelty, then it makes HLS very bad for business
CWCapital is connected with Fortress and Nomura. Nomura are an investment bank who own 15% of Fortress, but the two companies share directors and they ultimately have a sway in the company's policy making decisions. Therefore they are a target of the campaign.
MORE INFORMATION: INSIDE REPORT
1997 - HLS EXPOSED IN THE UK
In 1997 Zoe Broughton worked undercover inside HLS as part of a Chanel Four series, Countryside Undercover.
Her investigation showed workers punching beagle puppies in the face and home office inspectors failing to do their job.
To view the video footage of Zoe Broughton and Michelle Rokkes investigations, please click here
Ever since I was young I used to wonder what went on behind the high barbed wire of the huge animal-testing laboratory down the road. I decided to apply for one of the lab's many vacancies advertised in the local paper, to see for myself.
A few days later I got an interview for a job as an animal technician. The pay was about £120 for a five-and-a-half-day week. I made myself sound keen and stressed that I had experience of working with animals.
They checked my name to see if it appeared on any animal campaign lists and before I'd come to terms with what I was about to involve myself in I was working in one of Britain's largest animal testing laboratories.
DAY 1
I don't know what to expect, not even which department I will get sent to or how I will respond to seeing animals in pain. To fit in, I make up a false past. I can hardly reveal I am a filmmaker. But I am worried that I may something that might blow my cover. I am assigned to the dog toxicology unit.
I've always had pet dogs, but as we enter the building the noise and smell hits me. I cannot stop my face showing the shock. I notice immediately that the little puppies are keen to play, whereas the older dogs are wary of human touch. Some stay at the back of their cages and don't even move when I give them their food.
My job is to look after a room of 32 puppies. On the first afternoon I am asked to check the health of my dogs. I am shown how to do it, but trying to check teeth and paws on a wriggling little puppy seems almost impossible. Later I read the Home Office guidelines and it states that it has to be done by a competent person. How can I be competent on my first day at work?
All the dogs had their own distinctive characters and I was shocked to find out that they would al be put down. By the end of the day I was mentally and physically exhausted.
DAY 4
The hardest job is putting the young puppies away after their one hour of exercise in the small concrete corridor between the two rows of cages. They paw at me with their shitty feet; I pick one up, read the number tattooed in its ear and walk the length of the room to find its cage; all the while trying not to tread on paws and slip in the fresh shit. It's repulsive and by the end of the each day my lab clothes have turned from white to brown.
DAY 8
I have to help take blood samples. They call it "doing a bleed". I bring the first dog out and sit her on a chair beside me, holding both front paws in one hand and holding the chin up with the other. The animal technician shaves the dog's neck and then plunges the needle in. She continues bleeding afterwards.
I get blood on my arm and I see the other dogs look and know what is coming. Some grip the floor cringing and a couple try to dart past me and escape. Often the technicians can't find a vein. I count one needle being put in three times and once under the skin prod in different directions 15 times before finding a vein. I feel pretty queasy.
DAY 10
I am told not to use so much sawdust as "one shovelful is enough and it needn't be piled up." There is no bedding and this is all the dogs have on the concrete floors. The Home Office inspectors turn up. I don't see them look in any of the units I deal with - they just stand outside the dog rooms and chat with the technicians.
DAY 15
Another visit from the Home Office inspectors. This time I see them outside in the corridor a technician tells me to sweep the floor I sweep it, but they don't enter my side of the laboratory. I've now seen them arrive twice, but I haven't seen them look at a dog yet.
DAY 18
I still feel physically sick with nerves. The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has granted me permission to film what is going on. The camera equipment is strapped to my body. It is very bulky and I am worried because it is visible every time I bend over.
DAY 29
The worst day yet, as the experiments started on my 32 puppies. The test involves putting each dog in a sling and injecting a chemical used in scanning of human livers. Two are sick as they are being injected, some of their legs swell up and on top of this the puppies have 10 blood tests each through the day. The technicians keep saying that "these dogs are too young for this type of experiment as their veins are too small" - so why have they got them so young? If the puppies wriggle, they are hit or shaken by the scruff of their necks. I feel like a torturer. I hold them and soon get their blood on my hands.
DAY 30
I help prepare the doses for another experiment - it is an agrochemical toxicity test for a Japanese company. A lot of the tests in my department were testing for the toxicity of herbicides and fungicides. The man I am working with measures out the compound and I put it into capsules. He is meant to print out the weight of each dose on a computer so it can be checked. What he actually does is measure one dose correctly, print this out seven times and then make the next six doses for the week far more quickly and with less accuracy. This means the dogs are not getting the right dose: these experiments may be invalid.
DAY 32
Walk into my unit and one of my puppies, number 1619, has half a pint of congealed bloody faeces around his cage. The vet looks at him and says it is all right to continue with the daily doses.
DAY 33
I'm finding it hard to watch these needles being repeatedly put into the dogs legs, over and over. One technician gets so angry when he can't find a vein that he shouts and quickly jabs the needle in repeatedly, often going right through the vein. Twice I have seen him give up and squirt the rest of the liquid into the bin.
DAY 40
I have had plenty of opportunities to read the files. I have been writing notes on scraps of paper and have now established which experiments are in which rooms, who's sponsoring which companies, the compounds being tested and how each is being administered.
DAY 45
Today I film the pictures of the animal technicians' pets on the wall - many of them talk non-stop about their lovely pets and then go back to work.
DAY 56
We have now finished the experiment with my puppies and today we have to go through the whole blood-testing rigmarole again. I cannot believe the animal technicians' attitudes - they are messing around while trying to take blood. One technician pokes, tickles and fools around with the man he is working with. This makes the process of finding a vein take even longer.
DAY 57
They've started the post mortems on my dogs. Today I carry my favourite puppy along the corridor to what are known as the Death Row cages. I spent last weekend deciding whether to blow this whole project and smuggle her out - but I must think of the future of the other animals here and hope that my film will help all of them.
DAY 64
I have just walked out of the laboratory for the last time. I wanted to say goodbye and pet the dogs, but I've found it so hard loving those about to be put down that I kept my distance at the end. I don't think anybody suspects me. I have followed the whole process with my puppies, from the settling-in weeks, through experiments to the post-mortem. As I was leaving, they told me my chores for the next morning - nobody knew I would not be there, but in the edit suite, assembling the evidence of their cruelty."
Brian Cass
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