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CO-OP drops SHAC

Co-Op | 17.02.2009 09:35 | SHAC | Animal Liberation

CO-OP declines to provide SHAC with telephone service. Invokes ethical policy.

Due to the involvment of SHAC with violent protest the CO-OP has dropped support for SHAC and withdrawn the SHAC 0845 number.

Requests for clarification are met with the CO-OP's ethical investment and community policy.

Co-Op

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chickening out!

17.02.2009 10:01

yeah right, the coop chickened out (!)
well we should't chicken out of writing to the coop which im sure many of us do, and if they persist being chicken shit then taking our money out of the coop and letting them know why - FYI there are other, and sounder, "ethical" banks than the coop. (for instance, the coop group, including coop supermarkets, have very unethical practices, including the sale of products from illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank).

anon

A more realistic version of what has probably happened...

17.02.2009 10:26

When will the cops get bored of posting on this place? Lets have a more realistic article (if this is in fact true about the phone number):

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Due to hysterical policing of effective campaigns, the police have been trying their best to disrupt the daily running of the SHAC campaign and would have no doubt contacted the CO-OP themselves with a ridiculous story about SHAC being a violent or illegal campaign. Subsequently the CO-OP, given this so-called 'information', had little choice but to cut off the SHAC 0845 number.
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Hello copper

COPS MAKING UP STORIES AGAIN??

17.02.2009 10:31

I have just rung the SHAC 0845 number and it still rings through to SHAC, so I'm not sure where this has come from?

Maybe whoever posted can let us know where they heard this from.

Steve Discombe

UK Indymedia