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Free Gary Mckinnon Campaign- London Autistic Rights Movement - demonstration

Protest to support Gary Mckinnon's case all will be most welcome to attend this protest... Please spread the word.... See link below for more details....

Barclays and Vanguard get HLS protests in DC

24-09-2008 19:16 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | Health | World

On Friday, Sep 19, two bottom-feeding investment firms got office demos over their stubborn refusal to divest themselves of puppy-killing, money-losing Huntingdon Life Sciences(HLS).

Philippine women’s groups urge lawmakers to pass Reproductive Health Bill

22-09-2008 12:45 | Gender | Health | Social Struggles | World

MANILA, Philippines – A day before several lawmakers deliver their respective sponsorship speeches on the controversial bill promoting the use of both artificial and natural means of family planning, among others, a network of more than 50 non-government and people's organizations advocating women's and people's rights today urged other members of the House of Representatives to affirm women’s right to reproductive self-determination, and to support the immediate passage of the Reproductive Health Bill.

Anti-HLS US Demo Tour, Monthly Roundup

Over a period of thirty days and thirty nights, from mid-August 2008 through mid-September 2008, Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) customers and profiteers across the United States were struck by a surprise anti-HLS tour of the country.

Italy bans Pesticides linked to Bee Devastation

The Italian government banned the use of several neonicotinoid pesticides that are blamed for the deaths of millions of honeybees. The Ministero del Lavoro della Salute e delle Politiche Sociali issued an immediate suspension of the seed treatment products clothianidin, imidacloprid, fipronil and thiamethoxam used in rapeseed oil, sunflowers and sweetcorn

GSK & anti-vivisection protests in Dresden, Germany

17-09-2008 22:30 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | Health | World

On September, 13th and 14th , about 100 people were demonstrating deafeningly at Dresden, Germany against animal testing and fur. The cause was the annual conference of the "Gesellschaft für Versuchstierkunde" (GV-SOLAS, "Society of laboratory animal science"), a meeting of 700 vivisectionists and companies like Harlan, Charles River and Taconic.

DC Activists Protest Against Abbott Labs

On Tuesday 9 September, activists paid a nighttime visit to John
Richardson, Director of Abbott Labs. When John peeked through his
peephole, he was staring straight at a large banner depicting images of
what goes on behind closed doors at HLS and read 'Your Business profits from the Murder of 500 Animals per day!'

SHAC Global Day of Action against NYSE Euronext

16-09-2008 23:11 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | Health | World

SHAC Global Day of Action against NYSE Euronext and their shareholders
Monday 29th September 2008

"For every share traded, an animal dies insides HLS!"
GET ANGRY, GET ACTIVE! MAKE IT HAPPEN!

McTrial Cambridge – POSTPONED

Trial Postponed!

A McTrial – McDonalds Vs Activist

Following the arrest of a protester in June at an action in Cambridge as part of the anniversary of the McLibel case (see

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/401637.html ) the activist is in front of Cambridge Magistrates Court charged under Section 5 of The Public Order Act on 15th Sept – 10 a.m.

The Leaking German Nuke Waste Storage Scandal, no-one wants to touch.

05-09-2008 17:19 | Ecology | Health | World

Even though the administrators of the German state knew there were serious problems in Asse II some years ago, it was not till this Summer that the topic reached public discussion at Government level. The former salt mine at Asse which is held up as a model for deep geological repository storage of radioactive material by many states including the UK has however been in public consumption all along. Coz it's leaking into the water table and then through cows into breakfasts all over Germany and the civilized milk consuming public. That gives a new twist to heavy water.

Belgian researcher finds doubled mortality rate caused by mobile phone radiation

31-08-2008 21:29 | Health | World

On Monday 23th June, Dirk Adang, a researcher working at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, presented a Ph.D. study which ought to set many a mobile phone and wireless internet user thinking.

Export banned of Nepalese monkeys for vivisection

GREAT NEWS; EXPORT HALTED: Round one is ours, now it's up to all of us to win this campaign and liberate the captured monkeys in the breeding facility in Nepal.

Three HLS bosses home demos in DC

27-08-2008 22:49 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | Health | World

On Aug 24, opponents of Animal torture marched on the homes of Marlene Nicholson, Danial Shapiro, and Jennifer Luray(or Loray), all high-ranking officials of corporations doing business with Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Download audio-Three HLS client execs get home demos:
dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/7/hls_aug_24_mix.mp3

Pesticides cause mass death of bees

25-08-2008 15:40 | Health | World

The German Coalition against Bayer Dangers today brought a charge against Werner Wenning, chairman of the Bayer Board of Management, with the Public Prosecutor in Freiburg (south-western Germany). The group accuses Bayer of marketing dangerous pesticides and thereby accepting the mass death of bees all over the world.

US Military Shocking and Shooting Monkeys Pigs Goats Etc in Trauma Training

19-08-2008 22:39 | Animal Liberation | Anti-militarism | Health | World

In the 70's under Caspar Weinberger the US military
was shooting dogs to give surgical practice to surgeons

PETA picketed his home.. .and he switched the DOD
from dogs to goats

Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, is in charge
of the current atrocity: shooting monkeys, pigs and goats in trauma training

Press Office DOD
:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/dodnews.aspx
Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131

The Defense Dept is not interested in hearing from you or me.
They feel they are above the law.

3 days of SHAC demos in DC

19-08-2008 16:11 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | Health | World

Over twenty people demoed in Washington DC this weekend at the homes and offices of HLS collaborators.

Barclays and AstraZeneca Protests in London

Friday 15th August

A group of about 15 activists met at 11am to start the day of demonstrations against the allies of HLS. Barclays was first, second and third on the list.