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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.

West Yorkshire Animal Rights Group
- e-mail: westyorksanimalrights@hushmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.academicabuse.wordpress.com

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A joke

21.11.2009 00:02

Successful? Nice spin you try to put on it. Far from successful it was a handful of people rightfully attracting passing laughter. You make it out as though students don't know of vivisection? What a silly comment to make, the vast majority of us are aware and it's certainly no secret. The lecturers display their research on their personal pages on the Bradford Uni website.

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

Might just be 'another day off' to you but for the university to take the steps of sensding a whole department home and cancel lectures? Sounds to me like they're taking it quite seriously, and for 12 campaigners to effectivyou have basicely bring the university to a stand still from what ally said - of course it's an achievement. This kind of reaction hasn't been seen since the days of the Cambridge lab at Girton with pairs of activists invading lectures.

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

So it's right that everyone was sent home. Well done! Ask GSK how much money they have lost through the years because of "Day's off" you'll find it hurts them alot.

Day's Off


@ Thanks for the day off

22.11.2009 01:00

No point writing anything to die hards on Indymedia, they like to delude themselves into thinking that they're winning. They failed to prevent the Oxford lab being built and instead had one of their maniac leaders Mel rightfully put behind bars for firebombing, they failed in their recent protest at Highgate (the turn out was a joke), they've failed to stop an increase in use of lab animals, they failed on their recent outing to Horsham, many of them are rightfully behind bars for committing criminal damage and blackmailing people, and more of them will be following their buddies in the coming months and years. These people are lucky if they ever attract more than 300 people on a demo. These people don't seem to realise that despite comprising much less than 0.1% of the population they can't dictate the 99.9% of sane people about with their fascism. People in this country are going to continue eating meat, visiting zoo's, going on safari on holidays, wearing leather, and testing drugs on animals whether a few deluded middle class teenagers try to stop them or not.

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

hit the panic button did we? .. the revolution continues ...

Dominic J


Your revolution of failure does indeed continue...

23.11.2009 00:22

Dear Dominic,

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


the panic button is hit

27.11.2009 00:41

by those that fear love

their misery is their own doing

great response from those that shirk responsibility


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