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Over 50 activists in Sweden storm monkey testing laboratory

Animal rights | 26.08.2008 08:04 | Animal Liberation | Bio-technology

Early monday morning a vivisection laboratory in the Stockholm area was stormed by anti vivisection activists

It has been reported that an animal testing laboratory in Stockholm was stormed on monday morning. During an early morning demonstration, around 60 activists alledgedly rocked the gates and forced them open. Activists apparently flooded inside the compound with banners and megaphones. Monkeys could be seen in their cages waiting to die, with workers in Biohazard suits spraying down some empty cages. No damage was done and the police allowed everyone to leave, but later Swedish police trapped activists in a subway, forcing all trains to bypass the station and not let anyone on or off. Activists were searched, photographed and had details taken.

The Swedish media picked up the story immediately, headlining newspapers and local news channels. No arrests were made but there are various claims that the police are now investigating criminal damage and tresspass offences.

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Sweden raids

26.08.2008 20:03

Update-- two houses in stockholm have been raided in the middle of the night by police following earlier arrests of 2 young males. The activists were not demonstrating at the time but were apparently seen walking down the street with animal rights placards by passing police and were unlucky enough to be taken into questioning. They have since been released.

Some media and other sources have reported that despite police allowing activists to leave the scene on monday, they now may be pressing to charge over the damage committed at the monkey lab (broken gate, tresspass etc)

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Animal Rights - Get a wider perspective

27.08.2008 13:48

'Coltan is fuelling Congo's civil war, the UN recently warned that this black eastern Congolese mud -- ($80 per kilo, refined into tantalum for cellphones and laptops) -- had already created a new African slave trade. A coltan miner can produce a kilogram of mud sludge a day. Earlier this year, that was worth $80 -- a remarkable bounty in a region where most people live on 20 cents a day.

Late last year, exploding demand for tantalum powder created a temporary worldwide shortage, which contributed to Sony's difficulties in getting its new PlayStation 2 into American stores, as well as to a tenfold price increase on the world tantalum market.'

No-one rushing around doing actions and being self-rightious for these poor fuckers are they? Every time we comment on Indymedia we should remember how we get to type away on computers whilst new slave economies keep the heady capitalist world spinning. Animal rights is a minimal perspective.

'But with the influx, miners are endangering their lives, slave labor is forming and people are destroying gorilla habitats and shooting animals for meat.'

Or you could just start intimidating the miners for their animal abuse.

KJH

Animal rights is a minimal perspective

28.08.2008 17:47

The liberation of all earthlings, human or otherwise, to be free from pain, suffering and exploitation....is a minimal persepective? Describe to me how a human-based liberation movement could me more broadly encompassing than a human & non-human based total liberation movement?

Human Rights + Non-Human Rights = Animal Rights

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