Anti-Vivisection Demo at Bradford Uni
West Yorkshire Animal Rights Group | 20.11.2009 19:38 | Animal Liberation
Twelve anti-vivisection campaigners today held a noisy and visual demo at the University of Bradford following the expose of animal abuse inside their laboratory.
Initially, activists turned up outside the IPI building which contains the animal house and found it swarming with extra security guards and police. However, it was apparent that the building had been placed into lockdown and remained empty, with staff being sent home early to avoid the protest!
So, the demonstration moved on to the front of the main university building, the Richmond Building, which also houses the School of Life Sciences offices where al vivisection is controlled from. Hundreds of leaflets were given out to students, most of whom were unaware that animal experimentation even happened at Bradford. Lots of support was also received. Chanting continued for over an hour and nobody was left without a doubt of our determination to end vivisection at Bradford. A number of students also joined the demo, however were banned by security from entering the university buildings!
Towards the end of the demo, the university Vice Chancellor came out to speak with campaigners and present a copy of the press statement Bradford have been forced to issue in response to the demo and ongoing concern.
Earlier on in the day, some campaigners decided to also hold a large banner on a round-a-bout in the centre of Bradford, reading "Bradford University Torture Animals". Lots of support was received from drivers, who honked their horns and gave thumbs up.
The demo was very succesful and is the first of many to come as part of our new campaign to stop vivisection at Bradford.
So, the demonstration moved on to the front of the main university building, the Richmond Building, which also houses the School of Life Sciences offices where al vivisection is controlled from. Hundreds of leaflets were given out to students, most of whom were unaware that animal experimentation even happened at Bradford. Lots of support was also received. Chanting continued for over an hour and nobody was left without a doubt of our determination to end vivisection at Bradford. A number of students also joined the demo, however were banned by security from entering the university buildings!
Towards the end of the demo, the university Vice Chancellor came out to speak with campaigners and present a copy of the press statement Bradford have been forced to issue in response to the demo and ongoing concern.
Earlier on in the day, some campaigners decided to also hold a large banner on a round-a-bout in the centre of Bradford, reading "Bradford University Torture Animals". Lots of support was received from drivers, who honked their horns and gave thumbs up.
The demo was very succesful and is the first of many to come as part of our new campaign to stop vivisection at Bradford.
West Yorkshire Animal Rights Group
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westyorksanimalrights@hushmail.com
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http://www.academicabuse.wordpress.com
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A joke
21.11.2009 00:02
Thanks to your demo staff got a free day off (fully paid one might add), and the students got out of attending lectures making a number of us happy (weekend starts a day earlier).
The majority of students on campus think you were a joke. Nout' but rowdy nonsense.
It's easy to make up lies when you think no one from Bradford uni will comment on this site. The link to Indymedia has been passed to a number of us now.
12 campaigners, is that all you can muster? How shameful. Top Shop could get 100 times that just by advertising a sale. Shows how much support you actually have.
Thanks for the day off
New Girton?
21.11.2009 01:11
Looks like WYAR are planning more demo's, wonder if the uni will react the same.
Libber
God to hear
21.11.2009 13:34
Day's Off
@ Thanks for the day off
22.11.2009 01:00
The animal rights movement is a dead former shadow of the promise it once had. The ones that are left are nothing but oldies, brainwashed teenagers, and psychopaths who think it's perfectly acceptable to break into someones property as if they have a higher purpose than any other common criminal.
Against all abuse? The amount of activists i've counted on the anti-fur demos in London wearing stuff from Primark, H&M, and Top Shop is laughable. What these people really mean is that they're against abusing the fwuffy bunnies, who gives a damn when it's a child working in a factory in Bangladesh or India.
The public
"The public"
22.11.2009 22:51
Dominic J
Your revolution of failure does indeed continue...
23.11.2009 00:22
The revolution continues? Evidently not having much success though are you. I still see an abundance of meat on the shelves in supermarkets and I see plenty of the public buying it. I still see an abundance of leather goods in shops and I see plenty of the public buying it. I see you protesting against vivisection yet I also see from statistics that the number of animals used in experiments has risen. When I take my kids to see the lions at the zoo I see plenty of fellow patrons enjoying a day out. When I order my food in a restaurant I notice the majority are consuming a meat dish.
Your revolution isn't exactly having the mighty impact that was foretold Ronnie Lee and Robbin Webb is it now? ;-P
By all means continue to day dream though. I'll continue to eat my tasty chicken & lettuce sandwich. Whilst you frustrate over your lack of progress.
The public
more like the pubic (wig)
23.11.2009 02:56
Merkin
Merkin
23.11.2009 04:36
I'm not the one suffering from frustration, none of my friends are in prison ;-P
And I can sit here quite content knowing full well that some sad kids (recently arrested) in Gloucester painting "don't eat the moo cows!" on a few shop windows is having zero impact upon my life other than providing a source of amusement for myself, the media, and continued employment for the police.
Let me guess your next target is going to be pastrolist farming communities in Africa? Going to tell them that herding cattle for the past 3,000 years is wrong? Perhaps you're going to smash up some Inuit folks property and spray paint messages on their houses because they happen to fish and hunt seals as a part of their traditional subsistence lifestyle and culture?
I bet the fact that meat & dairy consumption around the world is continuing to rise makes a mockery of your fight. How successful have your silly childish campaigns been? Not very is the answer.
The public
Come...
23.11.2009 10:22
AR is a class issue too ;)
Jo(k)e Public
The Pubic Lice
23.11.2009 11:20
Abandoned as a child, mayhap? I find it sad really, but if I had you as a child I'd do a runner too.
It must really stick in your throat that those "people in prison" have such a support network and so many friends and associates willing to help, whilst you can't even keep family-never mind a single friend.
yap, yap, yap, b12, yap, yap, prison, yap, yap, yap, africa, yap, why did you all have to leave me--why!?!?
Henry the 8ths Merkin
Henry the 8ths Merkin,
23.11.2009 15:28
Just showing animal rights activists to be what they are, irrational numpties.
You have no answer to the lack of natural B12 (evidently veganism is not a sustainable lifestyle diet), you have no answer about inuit fishermen, no answer about African pastoralists.
All animal rights arguments work on the presumption that everyone lives a western industrialised lifestyle.
The public
Luke can't call anybody a child
23.11.2009 17:33
Is your mum still driving you to demos Luke?
Hang on....
The pubics want what the pubics get
24.11.2009 16:22
Keep takin the serties chuck, they might help the frustration and OCD.
ginger candyfloss flavoured pubic hair
the panic button is hit
27.11.2009 00:41
their misery is their own doing
great response from those that shirk responsibility
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