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Greater London Action for Animals Formed

Greater London Action for Animals (GLAA) | 01.12.2010 22:43 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Ocean Defence

Wednesday 1st December 2010

BACKGROUND
London being the capital city of England holds all the main focuses and lobby groups for industries which use and exploit animals in their day-to-day business; be it the vivisection industry, meat trade, fur being peddled as part of the major fashion cities, those associated with bloodsports, head offices for many of the racing companies and is the centre of power in terms of making progress. For this reason, the city needs a radical presence of activists using a diverse method of grassroots tactics to focus on these companies, show them the opposition to the wrongs they are involved in and effectively push for change.

MEETING DECISIONS

Group Formation
It was decided that in order to achieve the goals above, a new grassroots group should be formed, named Greater London Action for Animals (GLAA) which would use a diverse range of tactics in order to bring attention to animal abuse within the Greater London / M25 area. Regular and co-ordinated information stalls will be held across the area, sustained protest pressure, leafleting about animal rights issues and publicity stunts to draw the attention of the media and public towards the issues at hand. The group will be open and non-hierarchical, with decisions being made at regular meetings about the direction of the group - the next meeting date is to be confirmed and announced over the coming days.

Campaigns
GLAA will primarily focus on two campaigns, with the aim of increasing into four by the new year:

- London Fashion Schools
The British Fur Trade Association (BFTA) are pushing for young designers to bring fur into their designs, using this as a means to keep their dying industry going. Without this link in the chain, the fur industry really has no future, with nobody to take up animal pelts in their clothing and into shops across the world. We have evidence that London's fashion schools are facilitating this - furriers, such as Saga, are going into colleges to conduct workshops, materials catalogues feature designated suppliers of pelts and students are encouraged to enter fur-design competitions, with the promise of a cash reward and industry contacts if they succeed. The campaign is aimed at taking the furriers out of the fashion schools and cutting off the future for the fur industry.

- The Royal Parks Deer Shoot
Bi-annually, several Royal Parks (Richmond, Bushy and Greenwich) take up guns and slaughter hundreds of deer in the name of a cull. Research and evidence shows that the deer populations are sustained and healthy and if there was really any need to decrease herd numbers, non-lethal methods are available - despite this, shoots occur for two months in each park. The aim of the campaign will be to stop deer being killed in the Royal Parks and work with the authority to stop this massacre.

Information Stalls, Demo's and Website
- The first day of co-ordinated street stalls will begin in the coming weeks (Dates to be announced)
- Demo's are to begin next week (Dates to be released)
- Website & Email to be launched next week
- A GLAA Press Office will be launched at the same time as the website to deal with media interest

Get Active, Get Involved
We will be launching the group contact details in the coming week, so please get in touch and get involved.

FOR THE ANIMALS,
Greater London Action for Animals (GLAA)

Greater London Action for Animals (GLAA)

Comments

Display the following 9 comments

  1. Just what we don't need — tofu
  2. @tofu — Dave B
  3. Just what we need — cockney
  4. Good news but the name? — Anon
  5. No - the last thing we need is... — another Luke / Brendan group
  6. What about Camden? — Camden Mandy
  7. Pointless, divisive and unsustainable — Quentin
  8. First Victory - Hamleys Cancel Penguin Promotion — GLAA
  9. A victory, but for who? — Big Ron
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