UK Indymedia

WARN // SHAC CIty Shakedown Minibus going from Gloucester!

25-02-2009 14:13

There will be a minibus going from Gloucester leaving at 8:30am on Friday please ring 0844 249 2928 to book spaces as we have around 5 left!

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Netcu Watch // The Truth About Gladys Hammond

25-02-2009 14:03

The following is an account sent to us which explains some until now unknown details of the supposed grave robbery of Gladys Hammonds remains.

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Two Days of SHAC Netherlands Tour

22-02-2009 22:53

Thursday, 19th February - Eight HLS customers and a supplier are demoed
Friday, 20th February - Another nine HLS customers are demoed

'Our mission is clear, our demands simple and straight forward, our motivation indestructible. We will not sit idly by or look the other way whilst animals pine away and suffer inside HLS!'

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Direct Action; Estonia, Mexico, Germany, France, UK & USA

21-02-2009 21:25

17th-21st February

FUR STORE COVERED IN RED PAINT (Estonia)
FREEDOM FOR TWO HENS (Mexico)
DIRECT ACTION AGAINST THE FUR TRADE (Germany)
TELMEX PHONES GLUED SHUT (Mexico)
GRAFITTI IN SUPPORT OF DAN WADHAM (France)
HOME VISIT FOR ANALYST AT HLS INVESTOR (UK)
FAST FOOD RESTAURANT LOCKS GLUED (USA)
BOOBY-TRAPPED LETTERS SENT TO VIVISECTORS (USA)

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Dutch ALF rejects government non violence agreement

21-02-2009 14:51

In the past five years, the Dutch animal rights organisation Dierenbevrijdingsfront (similar to Britain’s radical Animal Liberation Front) has claimed over 40 incidents including night-time visits to the homes of pharmaceutical company staff, damaging cars belonging to workers and arson.

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Two of Top Five HLS Investors Sell Their Shares

21-02-2009 13:36

Wells Fargo, who were one of the top 5 institutional investors in LSR (Huntingdon Life Sciences), have sold all their shares and Bank of New York Mellon, which was also one of the top 5 institutional investors, has sold most of their holding in LSR.

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SHAC Financial Week of Action: 23-27 Feb

20-02-2009 16:41

This global week of action will focus entirely on Huntingdon Life Sciences' financials - Shareholders, and the NYSE who are the only stock exchange in the world allowing HLS (LSR) to trade shares. The week starts with a day of action against HLS & NYSE shareholders and will end with activists marching in the city of London to protest against the financial institutions that keep HLS killing animals.

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CoML: Animal Rights and odd bedfellows

18-02-2009 19:29

I hope to write a few articles discussing different aspects of the Convention on Modern Liberty, beginning with the bedfellows we seem to have chosen - some of which rather dislike one another. My recent copy of SchNEWS (no. 666, issued on Friday 13th February!) discusses the Convention in none-too-flattering terms. Henry Porter, co-organiser, remarked that none of the participants wish to get rid of the State, but SchNEWS points out that actually many of the people bearing the brunt of the anti-liberties legislation are anti-statist - from animal liberationists to anti-militarists to no-borders activists.

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Biocair & Barclays Demos in Cambridge

18-02-2009 18:14

Tuesday, 17th February

Today activists headed to HLS supplier Biocair, The Business Centre, Church End, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 3LB. Armed with two megaphones campaigners let employees and neighbouring companies know all about Huntingdon Life Sciences who test things such as sweeteners, GMOs and weed killers on animals.

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More Barclays Demos in Barclays

18-02-2009 18:11

Tuesday 17th February

What better way could one of us spend our birthday than standing up for the animals and naming and shaming animal abusers? We were feeling so generous we thought we'd even give Barclays a few presents of our own - so we headed there with our placards, leaflets, banner and megaphone we made sure they wouldn't feel left out as we know from previous demos they truly appreciate being exposed of their unethical investments in HLS.

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Valentines home demos: HLS, fur, and the Israeli Ambassador in DC

17-02-2009 18:58

On Valentine's day, Feb 14th, activsts descended on DC from places as far away as Baltimore and Philly to protest fur (at stores) and vivisection (HLS home demos). Time was taken out form this to protest the horrific suffering in Gaza-at the HOME of the Israeli Ambassador.

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Direct action in solidarity with SHAC/SPEAK prisoners

17-02-2009 18:29

Communiques in solidarity with Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) prisoners and Mel Broughton (SPEAK Campaigns) reported in; Spain, UK, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Uruguay and California, to Bite Back Magazine

http://directaction.info.

20th Jan - 16th Feb: Animal Liberation Front (ALF) volunteers rescued a dog from abuse in Spain, ALF North Yorkshire liberated hens and sabotaged thousands of eggs and ALF Poland pained HLS customers buildings in the Netherlands. Anonymous activists rescued 16 hens in the Czech Republic, painted HLS customer Bayer in Uruguay and sealed off Andover town center, in Hampshire, following a report of a suspicious package at HLS shareholder Barclays. Furthermore, Berkeley Students for Animal Liberation followed UC Berkeley's Gregory Timmel, the veterinarian in the universities vivisection labs, vandalising his shiny new Audi.

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Big Issue support for SHAC

16-02-2009 19:03

The Big Issue has printed an advert for SHAC. It's good to see support in a magazine bouth by ordinary, good people all the UK and that is sold in a good cause. Please support the Big Issue and buy one. Please also write to the Big Issue and say thanks....AND write letters pointing out that Big Pharma is contributing to homelessness in Camden with plans for a deadly lab in Camden.

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Lamb-like approach to greedy banks means Labour slaughter

15-02-2009 03:52

The masters of the universe - those of them who had the nerve to turn up - were mired in deep gloom at Davos in the Swiss Alps last week. Come April in the Watford Gap, representatives of the G20 group of nations may well feel suicidal as the social and economic consequences of the financial disaster deepens and widens.

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Direct Action; UK, Netherlands, Czech, Italy & Mexico

14-02-2009 21:26

ABUSED HENS RESCUED FROM "FREE RANGE" FARM (UK)
VACATIONING ALF VISIT HLS CUSTOMERS (Netherlands)
OPEN RESCUE IN SUPPORT OF SHAC PRISONERS (Czech Republic)
MAX MARA SHOP SPRAY-PAINTED (Italy)
TELMEX SABOTAGE CONTINUES (Mexico)

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Second time round - Mel Broughton found guilty

14-02-2009 14:39

He is sentenced to 10 years - similar to the SHAC defendants

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Barclays demos continue in Birmingham

12-02-2009 16:51

Wednesday,11th February

Keeping up the pressure against Barclays, today SHAC Birmingham protested once again outside 2 of their branches in the city centre.

Bad weather as well as bad mannered Barclays staff during the protests were not to deter us in the slightest, as we begun out first demo against this unethical bank with unethical investments, trying to make money from puppy killing.

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2008 Year - End Report on Animal Liberation Activities in North America

10-02-2009 19:35

Click on the link to read the entire 2008 year-end report (PDF File) compiled by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office: This report contains 2008 actions (including diagrams) as well as a discussion of future directions, and a prisoners and snitches section. If you'd like a hard copy edition of this report please e-mail

press@animalliberationspressoffice.org

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Direct Action; Mexico, USA & Uruguay

07-02-2009 16:02

5th-7th February

RIOT AT BULLRING (Mexico)
SPECTATORS, POLICE ATTACKED DURING BULLFIGHTING CELEBRATION (Mexico)
UCLA VAN PAINT-STRIPPED (USA)
BAYER (HLS CUSTOMER) PAINTED IN SOLIDARITY WITH IMPRISONED ACTIVISTS (Uruguay)
SHOPS GRAFFITIED (Mexico)
FULL COMMUNIQUE RELEASED FROM ELF ACTION AT UNIVERSITY (Mexico)

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Barclays has more demos in Birmingham

05-02-2009 04:26

Wednesday 4th Feb 2009

SHAC Demonstrations continue against Barclays branches in Birmingham as today we carried on with our regular protests against them.