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Direct Action: Spain, Sweden, UK, Czech & Italy

30st March - 1st April

1000 MINK FREED (Spain)
STONES AND PAINT AGAINST ASTRAZENECA (Sweden)
EASTER BUNNY VS. NOVARTIS (UK)
FOUR LIVES SAVED (Czech Republic)
RABBIT RESCUED, TIRES SLASHED ON MEAT CO. VANS (Italy)

STONES AND PAINT AGAINST ASTRAZENECA (Sweden)

1000 MINK FREED (Spain)

1000 mink, mostly pregnant females, were freed from a fur farm in Santa María de la Alameda (northwest of Madrid) late on March 30. According to the media, escaped mink have been spotted in two nearby rivers and as far as five miles from the farm. Several hundred mink have been recaptured.

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STONES AND PAINT AGAINST ASTRAZENECA (Sweden)

reported anonymously:

"During the night of March 30 an AstraZeneca facility in Lund was attacked with rocks and paint bombs. Several windows were smashed and red paint spread inside their fancy entrance.

This is just the beginning and we will continue our actions until AstraZeneca quit all contracts with Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Djurens Befrielsefront, the Swedish ALF."

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EASTER BUNNY VS. NOVARTIS (UK)

anonymous report:

"Easter has just passed and the Easter Bunny has paid visits to all the good people, handing out vegan goodies. However, CIBA Vision [Novartis] has been very, very bad, using animals to test their contact lenses. Rabbits are typically used for these sorts of experiments due to their inability to blink away the chemicals poured into their eyes. Well, well, well CIBA Vision, looks like you got found out. The Easter Bunny got mad for her brethren and decided one more visit was in order…

Workers at CIBA Vision would have arrived at work to find front and back doors glued firmly shut and their com-pad out of use. Slogans such as 'SCUM' and 'ALF' were daubed across walls, windows and doors. Hopefully, while the workers had to wait to break into their own facility, they would have had time to contemplate the demands of the Easter Bunny…"

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FOUR LIVES SAVED (Czech Republic)

reported by activists in the Czech Republic:
click here for video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27QqnoWl32c

"On March 21, four chickens were rescued, given new homes with fresh air where they can watch the sun everyday and live their lives until a natural end. Animal rights activists Czech"

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RABBIT RESCUED, TIRES SLASHED ON MEAT CO. VANS (Italy)

reported by activists in Italy:

"7/02/08 Bamporto (MO)
The same small rabbit farm raided in September was visited again and the only remaining male breeder has been rescued. (see

http://www.directaction.info/news_oct14d_07.htm for previous action).

14/02/08 Felino (PR)
Tyres of a meat company van were slashed.

15/02/08 Colline Emiliane
Hunting platform sawed and destroyed.

18/02/08 Emilia
Tyres slashed on a AIA meat company van.

20/02/08 Emilia
More tyres slashed for another AIA meat van."

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March Articles

Global

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/394998.html (29th)

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/394954.html (28th)

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/394510.html (22nd)

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/394367.html (20th)

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/394159.html (18th)

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/393707.html (13th)

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/393020.html (5th)

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/392640.html (1st)

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/392477.html (Feb)

Spain: Video of Novartis sabotage

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/394970.html

Austria: Novartis exposed

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/394568.html (22nd)

UK

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/03/394424.html (KFC subvertised, 21st)