World Animal Liberation Newswire Archive

There are plans to build a vast high level virus containment facility and animal testing lab on a Camden council house estate alongside St Pancras International behind the British Library. This opposed by MI5, MPs , councillors, local businesses and residents. There is an online government petition against this. Please sign online by going to  http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BLISS-Lab/

1st-6th January

OPEN RESCUE OF 31 RABBITS (Spain)
DOORS AND WALLS OF FUR SHOP PAINTED (Sweden)
FISH FREED FROM AQUARIUM (Mexico)
ELVES SABOTAGE RBS BANK (UK)
ACTION REPORTS (Sweden)
TELMEX PHONE BOOTH SET ON FIRE (Mexico)

Really, Really! It is true, Rod has already been released and just called me from a gas station in El Reno! He is on his way to us, and then will serve the last 3 months in a half-way house! There he can make his own food, visit us when he has visitation passes, work, and escape the sadness and violence within prison.

There are plans to build a vast animal testing lab and virus containment facility on a Camden council house estate alongside St Pancras Eurostar behind the British Library. Please oppose planning permission by writing to Camden council. Please also ask all European Embassies to oppose planning permission. Will AR Josie Dread please also contact Mandy on 07941552542.

December 31, 2008 - Chile
RODEO CLUB BURNED

December 30, 2008 - Mexico
EARTH-DESTROYING MACHINES SABOTAGED

We have a new leaflet advertising the SHAC City Shakedown!

SHACtivists hit HLS' customers and suppliers in the Midlands

21 days ago the new Directors of the Nepalese Tourism Board took up their positions, you can read about them in the original article here:
 http://www.welcomenepal.com/brand/news.asp?id=196#196

They've had 21 days to settle in to their new jobs, NOW let's make sure the monkeys are right at the top of their agendas!

As we come to the end of 2008, we’ve found there is so much to include that we’ve made this special 50th newsletter into a bumper edition! With hundreds of demos kicking off across the globe, throughout the year we have seen a constant and ever-imaginative way to show the collaborators of HLS just what they’re in for.

22nd-28th December

HOLIDAY PACKAGES SENT TO NAUGHTY VIVISECTORS (USA)
13 RABBITS LIBERATED (Netherlands)
POULTRY SHOP CLOSES AFTER ATTACKS (Mexico)
HLS SUPPLIER'S VAN GLUED (UK)
ANIMAL LIBERATION GRAFFITI (Italy)
BRICK SHATTERS BUTCHERS WINDOW (UK)
TURTLE FREED FROM CAPTIVITY (Mexico)
RETURN VISIT TO FUR STORE (Spain)
TWO TRUCKS AT SLAUGHTERHOUSE SET AFIRE (Mexico)
BULLFIGHT SPONSOR SABOTAGED (Colombia)
HOME OF NYSE EURONEXT DIRECTOR COVERED IN SLOGANS (Netherlands)
PAINT SPILLED ON TELMEX PHONE BOOTHS (Mexico)

Comment on TV report from "Lozenetc" the animal shelter

The campaign to shut down HLS has become a "meeting engagement"-a battle neither side can afford to lose. Here is what the pro-vivisection "Foundation for Biomedical Research" (or FBR) had to say in their 2006 "illegal incidents report" about the importance of the campaign to close Huntingdon "Life" Sciences (HLS)

The Japanese whaling ship Haiko Maru emerged from dense fog in front of the the Sea Shepherd MV Steve Irwin, crewed by anti-whaling activists about 0730 GMT December 26th, 2008. During manourvers by both ships a collision occurred causing minor damage to both ships, and no injuries, in Antarctic waters within the Australian Economic Exclusion Zone and Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, north of the Mawson Peninsula.

There are plans to build a "Super Virus Lab" in Camden. This has been opposed by locals, councillors, MPs, MI5 etc on safety grounds. In the event of virus leak, as happened at government facility Pirbright there is the very real chance that the soldiers at Regents Park Barracks would have to either evacuate or quarntine the area. Please write to them and ask them to oppose planning permission.

January issue of the latest anti-speciesist, anti-capitalist, abolitionist direct action news is out now.

About a week ago news broke in New Zealand that long time activist Rob Gilchrist had been a police informant for the last 10 years. Working for the Special Investigations Unit - an anti-terror, national security police unit - Rob had been informing on animal rights groups, environmental groups, unions, peace groups, even the Green Party.

State repression of Anti-Corporate Dissent: Animal right activists convicted of 'conspiracy to blackmail'

On December 23rd, 4 out of 5 activists on trial at Winchester Crown Court were found guilty of 'Conspiracy to Blackmail' at Winchester Crown Court after a 3 and a half month long show trial. The world's media, prompted by police press officers, were quick to condemn activists by pointing to harassment against the employees of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) and their customers, shareholders and investors. Actions against HLS, not linked to those convicted, such as hoax bombs, letters alleging paedophilia, and threats were pointed to as evidence of the defendants' extremism. Police spokesmen and the National Extremist Coordination Unit (NETCU), the branch of the police set up to deal with the AR movement and other expressions of the public's dissent, hailed the convictions as a victory. (For more information on NETCU see here and here.

Today's Guardian reveals that the campaign against HLS continues regardless of the trial & convictions of Heather, Dan & Dan, Gavin, Gregg and Natatsha and Gerrah. There are fears that if people can get a 14 yr sentence for daubing cars and sending sanitary towels in the post there are people who will "do something worth getting 14 yrs for", especially if people such as Heather recieve as such.

December 21, 2008 - Netherlands
HOLIDAY WARMTH FOR NYSE EURONEXT EXEC

December 20, 2008 - Mexico
TARGET: TELMEX

For this action alert we will be continuing with HLS shareholders and we are asking you to contact Wells Fargo who own 147,511 shares in LSR (The Ticker symbol used by HLS on the New York Stock Exchange).