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SMASH HLS! AstraZeneca Knock Out week of action

SHAC | 13.08.2012 12:28 | SHAC | Animal Liberation

>> Monday, 27th - Friday, 31st August

Times are hard for the puppy killers at Huntingdon Life Sciences as job losses at both their UK sites leave about 100 abusers without jobs (www.shac.net/news/2012/july/31.html). Things aren't much better for their customers either, with leaderless AstraZeneca's profits dropping by over a third (www.shac.net/news/2012/july/27.html). Maybe they'd have better luck if they didn't spend their time torturing animals.

These financial problems have given us the perfect opportunity to get active in an August attack and knock out HLS' top customer AstraZeneca! The animals imprisoned inside HLS need us to fight for them - don't let AZ get away with murder at the world's most exposed animal testing lab.



AstraZeneca are a major current customer and vocal supporter of HLS' cruel methods of animal torture and scientific fraud. Over the past few years they've suffered huge layoffs and recently experienced even more financial and legal problems. So it's the perfect time to pile on the pressure and get them to ditch HLS!

In response to Animal Defenders International's expose from 2008 AstraZeneca had the audacity to state that no suffering occurs at HLS - what a bunch of liars! During the time of the expose, AZ were funding experiments on primates at Huntingdon. Not only did the breeding farm in Vietnam who supplied the poor animals not meet basic UK animal welfare standards, but the conditions of the animals when housed inside the lab were horrific; some monkeys were missing limbs, had skin problems or other infections. The monkeys also routinely escaped from their cages, resulting in some being raped and attacked. Read more here: www.shac.net/HLS/exposed/2008

Targets: AstraZeneca, their subsidiaries and shareholders.
Find your nearest AZ company at: www.shac.net/AZAction/takeaction/index.html

If there aren't any AstraZeneca offices or sites near you, why not protest at another HLS top customer in your area? Remind them that they'll be a target until they stop funding barbaric experiments at HLS. For more info, see: www.shac.net/action/top_targets/toptargets.html

Get in touch if you need any help picking targets or organising protests.

See you on the streets! Knock out AZ - smash HLS!

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time

13.08.2012 12:51

for you to get off your backsides and do what you expect others to do. SHAC is dead.

Paul

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Over by Christmas

13.08.2012 13:40

A few weeks publicity to keep that money rolling into the SHAC accounts before three weeks rest at the French house to help with,
" a book about the struggle"


For those who really care about animals there are better campaigns and much more importantly better places to send your money

former SHACster

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Reading between the lines

13.08.2012 13:44

Knock Out week of action = attempt at dragging some more money out of a dead campaign.

reader

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History

13.08.2012 13:50

Once Tom Harris called it a day back in September last year the last of the hard core of SHAC was gone and SHAC was finished in real terms. These days it is just a website and a regular request for money to keep four people off the streets (full time activists in SHAC language) and pay the mortgage on the French house.

Tom felt very betrayed after his conviction upon discovering where much of the money has gone and he had been telling friends for some time that he had "wasted so much of my life with SHAC and Animal Rights". Harris has taken the advice of the visiting prison priest and is concentrating on working toward a degree so he can rebuild his life after prison and keep away from SHAC.

When the story of the demise of UK AR is written there will be a lot of fingers pointed at SHAC and the enormous damage they did.

Greg's ghost

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SHAC is not dead, SHAC is winning.

13.08.2012 13:58

SHAC is a vibrant, growing, committed campaign that will see HLS closed either this year or next. SHAC has been the most successful AR campaign in history anywhere in the world. We bankrupted HLS ,we saved hundreds of thousands of animals and we raised the public conscience about vivisection to a new high.

HLS will close.

We never give up, we never lose

Lynn Sawyer

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SHAC is not dead, SHAC is winning.

13.08.2012 14:09

SHAC is a vibrant, growing, committed campaign that will see HLS closed either this year or next. SHAC has been the most successful AR campaign in history anywhere in the world. We bankrupted HLS ,we saved hundreds of thousands of animals and we raised the public conscience about vivisection to a new high.

HLS will close.

We never give up, we never lose

Friend of SHAC

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Trolls

13.08.2012 14:23

lie in wait for any post regarding SHAC it seems. Strange to contemplate that some on planet waste their existance like this, remarkable even, beyond sad.

Life

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Trolls ???

13.08.2012 14:55

What you call trolling is what I call laying out the reasons why SHAC took money under false pretences, knew the campaign against HLS had failed seven years ago but still kept asking for "one more push" to ensure the money kept rolling in and worst of all took money that people thought was going to be used for animal welfare to fund the lifestyles of those who sat at the top of the tree.

SHAC betrayed thousands of people and it deserves nothing but contempt from us all. When Greg gets out he will I'm sure quickly find his way to France with the others and the details of Jersey bank accounts. I just hope it's all gone by the time he gets there.

former SHACster

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Details of the house in France,

13.08.2012 15:24

Drop by, I'm sure they will not mind

 http://mob.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/05/496484.html?c=all

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The house is now being split into time share apartments

13.08.2012 15:26

It is in the town of St Mere Eglise part of the Lower Normandy region. I saw a link some months ago, I will try and find it

Wannabe Estate agent

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SHAC and money

13.08.2012 15:28

Don't forget how much money was being generated by SHAC in the early days. A stall in a good sized town could generate $10,000 on a Saturday and a lot of people discovered they could become 'full time activists'. Sarah Whitehead for example lived with her partner for three years on SHAC money while having no other source of income. Neither Jason Mullan or Nicola ­Tapping worked after 2007 and lived on money coming from the bank account Greg established in Luxembourg.

ex SHAC

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URGENT - Remove house detail

13.08.2012 15:36

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Please remove details of the house immediatly. Personal details are in breach of the Editorial Guidelines and may place the SHAC people there at risk from government and private security.

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Motive

13.08.2012 15:45

"......and may place the SHAC people there at risk from government and private security. "




It would certainly place you at risk from people seeing where their money went.

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@"former SHACster"

13.08.2012 15:46

This article is regarding a call to action. There's no mention of donations to the campaign. Wtf are you on about?

You Troll!

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Where SHAC spends your money

14.08.2012 09:06


Drop by, I'm sure they will not mind

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Campaign focus

14.08.2012 11:31

Where SHAC spends your money



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Updated info

14.08.2012 14:50



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That comment above

14.08.2012 16:11

is from a troll who has nothing to do with SHAC please remove, thanks.

5H4C

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medd hall

14.08.2012 19:47

Gavin medd hall facist friend of nick griffin bnp

sean the dj sab

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Smash HLS - demo details

16.08.2012 12:13


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Good luck everyone

16.08.2012 13:33


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