Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
SHAC
Newsletter 44 December 2006
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, 6 Boat Lane, Evesham, Worcs WR11 4BP Tel 0845 458 0630 email: info@shac.net www.shac.net “ We never give in and we always win.”
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaigns against Huntingdon Life Sciences, Europe’s largest animal testing laboratory. Huntingdon Life Sciences experiment on lots of different animals: horses, rats, mice, dogs, cats, ish, birds, monkeys, mini-pigs, rabbits, ferrets, even donkeys and deer according to their own promotional material. Huntingdon Life Sciences have been the subject of 5 undercover investigations at their 2 labs in the UK and
one in America. These investigations revea logue of some of the worst animal cruelty e on ilm, with workers in the UK punching be pies in the face and pretending to have sex and workers in the USA cutting open monke neck to groin that were still alive. HLS workers have been exposed for falsifyi ments to get drugs on the market, being ca on the way to work and dealing drugs on si even have a convicted sex offender working
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animals in one of their labs. HLS experiments we have uncovered include testing sun tan lotion, artiicial musk, artiicial sweeteners, food packaging, paints, dyes and food additives. To get these toxic products on to the market HLS killed thousands of animals. SHAC is a global campaign with many thousands of supporters worldwide. SHAC campaigns within the
law, holding demonstrations, making phone calls and emails, writing letters and doing everything we can to put the spotlight on HLS and those immoral enough to do business with them. HLS are 91 million dollars in debt and have lost hundreds of suppliers and customers globally thanks to caring people worldwide. Please ight for the animals inside HLS - you are all they have.
After the recent UK and Euro tours it is clearer than ever that we need to take the message to the decision makers. We first started to learn this in 2003 when doing the Japanese customers. We would be doing demos outside their UK offices and staff would come out to us and tell us how they wanted to make a statement and had emailed and phoned head office in Japan saying that they should make a statement.
this is an image they like to project. What you need to remember is that the decisions in that company are made by 12 individuals who sit on the board. They may employ 200,000 people but it is still the 12 of them that make the decisions.
Head office in Japan would email them back telling them to mind their own business, get back to work or they would be fired. Thousands of miles away they were unaffected and didn’t really care what was happening in the UK as it wasn’t affecting them.
Huntingdon Life Sciences are weak, there is real downward pressure on their shareprice (HLS have to keep inflating it back up at 3-59pm just before the markets close, it’s funny but illegal but hey this is HLS so that’s OK) the NYSE is a distant dream and they are in a financial hole they just cannot climb out of, which is incredible seeing the amount of industry and government help they’ve had.
From that point on we knew SHAC Global had to happen and for the first time a grass roots campaign is operating on a truly global level. SHAC Global is in its infancy and is sowing the seeds for years to come during Huntingdon and beyond. You will see more and more that where the decision makers are so are we. Multinational companies can seem daunting and huge, in fact
SHAC is a fast moving and innovative campaign. We are strong, accept no weakness and we set the agenda.
Remember you are SHAC and SHAC is you. It is time to close this hell hole once and for all, it will not happen in weeks but we are moving in the right direction at an ever faster pace, we are growing and the strategy has been refined and is 100% correct. Support us as we go for the decision makers across the globe like never before to wipe off the stain on the map that is Huntingdon Life Sciences. This is our time, our hour of greatness and we will not fail them.
how it all adds up Have you ever wondered where your donations to SHAC go to? Well over the next few paragraphs let me explain as it’s your hard earned money and you have a right to know. One thing is for sure not one penny goes to pay director’s wages or ‘administration costs’ SHAC operates from a deficit and has done so from the days of Consort and Hillgrove. As soon as it comes in it goes out. In the recent UK and Europe tours we did 6,300 kilometres in 12 days and in the first 3 days of the Europe tour visited the Global headquarters of Roche, Novartis, Arpida, Actelion, Sanofi Aventis and the company that imported 64 beagles into HLS Penauille Servisair. Demos do not come more high impact than these. Let me give you an idea of how much this cost. Minibus hire for 2 weeks £1,020-00 Fuel £800-00 Air horns £400-00 Food £300-00 There are many more expenses but for just four things we are at £2,500 already. To hit a company like HLS, their customers, suppliers and investors around the globe does not come cheap. We are currently at 18 different countries taking part in SHAC global demos and soon this will be 20 countries. Governments and multinationals spend millions every year just on entertainment budgets yet SHAC upsets them all for a fraction of the cost. You can rest assured that the money you donate goes to hitting them head on and none of it is wasted. We would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you who has donated over the past 12 months, because it takes all of us together to achieve the closure of HLS against all the odds. It will take each and every one of us to save those animals against powerful enemies, but we will win no matter what. Here’s looking forward to your continued support and the closure of the disgusting Huntingdon Life Sciences. Thank you
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Sky High Access Ltd
Sky High Access Ltd Unit 21, Claydon Business Park, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, Suffolk IP6 0NL Tel: 01473 834100 skyhigh@totalise.co.uk This company provides HLS with access equipment for building work.
Power Plant Services
Power Plant Services Langthwaite Grange Industrial Estate South Kirkby West Yorkshire WF9 3AP Phone 01977 641144 Thgis company services the diesel generators at HLS
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Peterborough Pumps & Valves
Peterborough Pump and Valves The Old Forge, Cross Street, Farcet, Peterborough PE7 3DE Tel: 01733 242 497 More liars. This company is 100% still dealing with HLS, even though they think they are covering their tracks. Wrong!
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Dangerous Goods Management
Dangerous Goods Management Unit 23 - Heston Industrial Mall Church road - Heston TW5 0LD Middlesex United Kingdom Tel 020 8577 8566 Fax 020 8577 8588 For global sites see http://www.dgmsupport. com/salesofices.asp This company made a statement but they lied. In November 2006 they shipped 1020 slides of monkey parts to Korea for HLS.
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FedEx
Endeavour House, Coopers End Road, Stansted Airport, Essex, CM24 1HA Telr: 01279 666589 This company along with PDP handle 90% plus of Huntingdon’s foreign logistics. This makes FedEx and PDP both number 1 logistics targets.
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York Refrigeration
York Refrigeration are a key supplier to HLS and guess what? HLS owe them tens of thousands of pounds! York are still supplying HLS and are a key supplier. www.york.com for nationwide sites Head ofice: YORK International Ltd Gardiners Lane South Basildon, Essex SS14 3HE Tel: 01268 246000 Fax: 01268 246001
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HRP
HRP HRP, Unit B6, Manton Centre, Manton Lane, Bedford MK41 Tel: 01234 272 702 HRP, Rougham Industrial Estate, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP30 9XA Tel: 01359 270 888 A local irm to HLS passing on equipment to HLS for Eastern Counties, listed below. Email: bedford@hrpltd.co.uk SHAC has contacted this irm and the managing director of it said that it is a free country and people can do what they like. Of course it is, and we can carry on informing her staff of just who they are doing business with.
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THERMO ELECTRON
Thermo Electron Unit 5, Ringway Centre, Edison Rd, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6YH Tel: 01256 817282 Thermo Electron 01223 345 410 or 0870 609 9203 (Basingstoke) www.thermo.com They supply HLS with Lab Equipment. Also at Thermo Electron Swift Park, Unit 2A Old Leicester Road Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1DZ Tel: 01788 820300 Thermo Electron 93 - 96 Chadwick Road, Astmoor Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 1PR Tel: 01928 562600 Thermo Electron Corporation Bath Road, Reading Berkshire, RG5 7PR Tel: 07787 568038 stephen.pickering@thermo.com analyze.uk@thermo.com Labmedics Ltd. Telegraphic House Waterfront Quay, Salford Manchester, M5 2XW Tel: 0161 869 0420 Country locator http://www.thermo.com/com/cda/article/general/1,,882,00.html
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Impex
Unit 1 Peartree Business Centre Bretton Peterborough PE3 8YQ Tel 0845 602 1662 Mobile 07836 739 096 Fax 0845 602 1663 email: info@impex-uk.com www.impex-uk.com We said we would track Impex down and we have. After a demo at their premises last year they moved out within 48 hours, and sneaked off and signed a 3 year lease on the above premises last July. This is a truly disgusting company who have shipped many animals to their deaths at Huntingdon.
10 Sartorious Sartorius Ltd. Longmead Business Park Blenheim Road Epsom Surrey, KT19 9QQ Phone: 01372.737100 Fax: 01372.720799 E-mail: sartorius.uk@sartorius.com This disgusting company manufacture laboratory equipment and were recently leaked to the campaign as a supplier to Huntingdon. They have some good global sites.
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Nissin UK Ltd
Nissin UK Ltd Unit 5, Horton Industrial Park, Horton Road West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 8JD Phone: 1895-439777 yokoyama@nisuk.com ono@nisuk.com sakurait@nisuk.com www.nitusa.com Nissin are wholly owned by the Nissin group from Tokyo, Japan and they are importing documents and experimental samples into HLS
12 F S Mackenzie Ltd F S Mackenzie Ltd Ground Floor Bowden House Luckyn Lane Basildon SS14 3AX 01268-275555 01268-275556 www.fsmac.com For worldwide locations see http://www.fsmac.com/contact.html This is another company that is importing documents into HLS from around the world
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Little Creek Kennels
Little Creek Quarantine Kennels Kingswood Lane Saughall Chester CH1 6DE Tel: 01244 880 267 Fax: 01244 881 193 Mobile: 07850 841 030 Email: enquiries@thelittlecreek.com This company is a quarantine kennel 45 minutes from Manchester Airport, where numerous lab animals are imported into the UK for torture. It has been leaked to the SHAC campaign that this company has been acting as an agent for HLS lab animal supplier Charles River
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Chordline
Chordline 6 Kingsfold Court Dorking Road Kingsfold Horsham W. Sussex RH12 3SW Tel 01306 628172 This company imports documents and experimental samples into HLS
15 R & B Site Services R & B Site Services Unit 3, Southampton Rd, Eastleigh, Hampshire SO50 5QT Tel: 023 8064 4646 This company has recently been involved with building work at HLS, Occold.
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Stratton Glass and Windows
Stratton Glass and Windows 9 Hopper Way, Diss IP22 4GT Tel 01379 650797 Unit 1, Wellesley Road, Long Stratton NR15 2PD Tel 01508 531321 This is another company that has recently been involved in building work at HLS Occold
17 Millipore Millipore (U.K.) Limited Units 3&5 The Courtyards Hatters Lane Watford, WD18 8YH Tel 0870 900 4645 019 23 81 33 65 They supply HLS with lab equipment and have done so for years
18 VET WAY AND DGP VET WAY AND DGP 1 Harrier Court, Airield Bus Park, Elvington, York YO41 4AU Tel 01904 607 600 Email: sales@dgpgroup.com Vet Way/DGP have been lying. They made a statement but HLS now send their own vans as Vet Way’s courier company won’t go there. How stupid Vet Way are to think they wouldn’t get caught out....
Triac Air
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Gilt Edged Promotions
Gilt Edged Promotions Ltd Kings Park Rd, Moulton Park Industrial Estate, Northampton NN3 6LL Tel: 01604 671671 sales@giltedged.co.uk indsales@giltedged.co.uk This company does promotional brochures/ material for HLS.
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Zenith International Freight Ltd
Zenith International Freight Ltd 153 Sunbridge Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 2PA Tel 01274 727888 This company has imported documents/samples for tests into the country for Huntingdon
Triac Air Conditioning Ltd, Shrubbery House, 47 Prospect Hill, Redditch, B97 4BS Tel 01527 591 199 Triac have put tens of thousands of pounds worth of chiller equipment into HLS. In the last 3 months they made a delivery that took 2 articulated lorries to deliver
22 Earth Check Ltd Earth Check Ltd. The Business Exchange Rockingham Road Kettering NN16 8JX Tel: 08000 856 996 E-mail: sales@earthcheckltd.co.uk mjenkins@earthcheckltd.co.uk This company tests electrical equipment used on animals inside HLS.
BBC Fire
23 Protection Limited BBC Fire Protection Limited St. Florian House, Ayton Road, Wymondham Norfolk NR18 0RA Tel: 01953 857700 Fax: 01953 857750 Email: sales@bbcire.co.uk Website: www.bbcire.co.uk A company local to HLS’s lab at Eye but deals with both UK labs.
24 Mettler Toledo Mettler-Toledo Ltd., 64 Boston Road, Beaumont Leys Leicester, LE4 1AW Tel: 0116 234 5005 Tel: 0116 235 7070 They supply HLS with lab equipment and have been doing so for years.
Cooling 25 Industrial Systems Industrial Cooling Systems Head Ofice Gore Road Industrial Estate, New Milton Hampshire BH25 6SA T +44 (0) 1425 625 900 F +44 (0) 1425 639 041 Email: info@industrialcooling.co.uk This company are owed £16,544 by HLS and have recently sold them an industrial chiller unit.
26 PDP P D P Freight Services Ltd Unit 10, Ashford Industrial Estate, Shield Road, Ashford, Middlesex TW15 1AU. Tel: 01784 420 466 Fax: 01784 424 300 PDP are Huntingdon’s main worldwide courier company. They lie constantly. What a sick business.
27 Lancer UK Ltd Lancer UK Ltd 1 Pembroke Avenue, Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB5 9QR tel : 01223 861 665 fax: 01223 861 990 Lancer UK Ltd (Northern) 1 Lancer Court, Astmoor, Runcorn, WA7 1PN tel: 01928 580 783 fax: 01928 580 784 email: sales@lancer.co.uk www.lancer.co.uk Lancer supply HLS and have done for years.
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Frontier Forwarding Services
Frontier Forwarding Services Frontier House Pier Road Feltham Middlesex TW14 0TW Tel 0870 4430 259 simon@frontierforwarding.co.uk www.frontierforwarding.co.uk This company import/export goods for HLS
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Trans Global Freight Management
Trans Global Freight Management International House Girling Way Feltham Middlesex TW14 0PH Tel: 020 8400 3400 Trans Global Freight Management Unit D1, Dolphin Estate Windmill Road Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 7HE Tel 0845 3376 40 This company import/export goods for HLS
30 Kuehne & Nagel Kuehne & Nagel 1 Union Business Park Florence Way, Rockingham Road UB8 2LS Uxbridge, Middlesex Phone:01895-552000 Fax:01895-552001 E-Mail:info.london@kuehne-nagel.com Kuehne and Nagel Ltd Cargopoint Heathrow Old Bath Road, Colnbrook Slough SL3 0WN 01753 762400 This company import lab samples and documents for experiments into HLS
31 SYNE QUA NON LTD SYNE QUA NON LTD Navire House, Mere St, Diss Norfolk, IP22 4AG tel 01379 644 449 fax 01379 644 445 sqn@synequanon.com tony.rees@synequanon.com karen.grover@synequanon.com roger.ashby@synequanon.com One of the largest niche data management and statistics companies in Europe HLS do archiving for them so they pay HLS makes a change! A source of income for HLS.
32 Biocair Biocair The Business Centre, Church End, Cambridge, CB1 3LB Tel: 01223 245 223 sales@biocair.com Biocair have frequently lied to SHAC stating that they do not deal with HLS. THEY ARE LIARS! They are a specialist transport company for the biotech industry just like PDP
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Parkside/Most Construction
Parkside/Most Construction Tel: 01423 565 572 and 01423 521 298 12a Park Parade, Harrogate, HG1 5AF gm@mostconstruction.plus.com al@mostconstruction.plus.com Most Construction alias Parkside have participated in the building of units to house animals in at HLS and have made themselves a fortune on the backs of animals dying inside HLS.
34 Penauille Servisair Penauille Servisair Atlantic House Atlas Business Park Simonsway Manchester M22 5PR Tel: 0161 490 5600 Fax: 0161 490 5700 Email: marketing@servisair.com This company cleared a shipment of 64 Beagle pups from Marshall Farms, destined for death inside Huntingdon Life Sciences in September 2005. Please contact them to tell them why they should ditch doing business with the animal killers at HLS.
Industrial and
35 Scientiic Supplies Industrial and Scientiic Supplies The Grip Industrial Estate, Linton, Cambs CB1 6NR Tel: 01223 891 953 www.industrialscientiic.co.uk Email: sales@industrialscientiic.co.uk A secretive irm that hide away in a unit with no name outside - ISS still got caught out!
36 SCOTT NUTRITIONS SCOTT NUTRITIONS Scott Nutritions, Sedge Fenn Road, Southerry, Downham Market, Norfolk Tel: 01353 676 234 This company supply HLS with animal feed. This company is run by the same people who run Harlan, who supply animals to labs.
Chiller Rental
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Chiller Rental Services Ltd Wigan Rd, Leyland, Lancashire PR25 5XW Phone Warren on 01772 643040 This company have very recently rented chiller units to HLS and say they will not rule out going there again.
38 Invitrogen Ltd Invitrogen Ltd 3 Fountain Drive Inchinnan Business Park Paisley PA4 9RF Phone: 0141 814 6100 FAX: 0141 814 6260 Email: euroinfo@invitrogen.com Tel: 0800 269 210 Free Fax Orders: 0800 243 485 Email: ukorders@invitrogen.com HLS has 2 accounts with Invitrogen - on one of them they owe ÂŁ2937.34p. Invitrogen a really sick company. Check out their website: www.invitrogen.com
39 Xerox Xerox (UK) Limited Bridge House Oxford Road Uxbridge UB8 1HS Tel: 01895 251133 Fax: 01895 254095 Xerox gave a statement to the campaign but they have sneakily been supplying HLS via Business Direct (who have since made a statement)
shac uk tour - 5 days Day 1: We started off the UK tour at 7-30am all the way up in York at long standing HLS supplier Vetway who made a statement and lied. The car park at Vetway was completely empty as they had all parked their cars elsewhere (see picture 1) and had even covered up the name plates in the car park - paranoid or what? After two and a half hours we made our way across Yorkshire and Lancashire visiting KD systems (supplier) in Leeds, Teva (customer) also in Leeds, Pure Filters & Strand transport (both suppliers) in North Manchester. We finished day 1 at Chiller Rental Services (supplier) in Leyland, Lancashire (picture 2). they are situated on a busy main road and from 4-6pm we named and shamed them with lots of hoots of support from the passing public. On day 1 of the 6 sites we visited 5 of them had never had demos before. Day 2: We started off bright and early at Triac in Redditch, West Midlands. Only 2 months before Triac had delivered two large lorry loads of air conditioning equipment into HLS. Triac were not in and the place was locked up in an attempt to avoid us (what cowards!) stupidly they had also taken their sign down (see picture 3) of course we were fooled by this as you can imagine. We stayed though until 10am so they couldn’t crawl back in and 3 different newspapers came down to take pictures and do interviews. Next we went to Thermo Electron (supplier) in Rugby where we held a noisy demo for the best part of 2 hours then it was on to Mettler Toledo in Leicester. Like Triac this was Mettler Toledo’s first demo and they are situated on a busy trading park, with the megaphones and 10-12 cops outside, of course loads of people came out to see what it was all about. The manager of the site knew what it was all about and he seemed very agitated as he continually bobbed up and down at the top window taking pictures of us (wow that’s never happened before!) Next we paid a flying visit to Tartan Mechanical Services just outside Leicester. This company definitely wins the award for the crappiest company of the tour. The site was no larger than a shed! Now with other companies employing the services of major builders like McAlpine’s, HLS deal with a company operating out of a shed one and a half hours away from HLS - impressive or what? The last visit of the day was to hell itself Huntingdon Life Sciences. We arrived at about 4-30 just as the monsters were leaving. We stayed until 6-30pm and shouted ourselves hoarse at the puppy killers. This was the third site of the day that didn’t have a sign outside the company (see picture below right) they do this so they can order supplies in made up names like Paragon Global Services and when the delivery driver enters the site he is none the wiser that he is entering Huntingdon Life Sciences so if they are none the wiser then they cannot tip us off like Dangerous Goods Management (see middle of opposite page) Can you name me another multinational company that doesn’t have its own sign outside their own company?
No neither can I, but there again I cannot think of another company that has no bank, no listing, no insurance company and is in such a shit state as HLS. Day 3: Today was big pharma day in Hertfordshire/ Essex so where a better place to start than GlaxoSmithKline’s massive research complex at Harlow in Essex. Our arrival seemed to cause a certain amount of panic in the 10 or so security guards who seemed to think we had come to raid the place (Here’s a tip - When you are going to raid a place you don’t normally advertise it on our website and newsletter first. That’s why you don’t see websites like www. I’mabouttoraidabank.com) We left the security to it as we’ve seen it all before. This site was perfect for the big megaphone we had as it echoed all over the site and the workers had to walk past the pictures of what they do. Funny that they will do it to a living creature but when confronted with pictures of it won’t look at them. At 10am we moved onto... Another GlaxoSmithKline site at Ware, Herts and with the change of police force came a change of attitude as the circus had well and truly arrived with 6 cops at Harlow we now had about 50 or so. Anyway we just got on with the demo at GSK. Next we went to Merck at Hoddesdon, Herts which is a good site for demos. Again the megaphone echoed all over the site and the usual security watched us from the rooftops. Whilst at this site we were joined by 3 local newspapers who took pictures and did interviews. There were about 12 of us and we were very noisy and visual with the noise constant and people taking turns on the megaphones to give speeches to the workers or lead the chants. We then travelled to a Merck manufacturing site at Enfield. This site obviously is not important enough for the circus as they sent only two cops with us who..er..left after 20 minutes leaving us to get on with the demo (see picture left) The last site of the day was Roche’s UK HQ at Welwyn Garden City and wouldn’t you know the circus was back in town. We were promptly told by a hystrerical inspector that we couldn’t use megaphones as we were calling the workers Puppy Killers (which they are). When one of us said we would use the megaphone away from the workers and only talk about HLS’s cruelty record he again refused showing that it had nothing to do with calling them Puppy Killers. They expected that we would leave, yeah right! So we stood there and warmly welcomed all the workers leaving the site with our loud voices whilst showing them
s and 52 hours of demos good and with lots of hoots from passing motorists we gave the workers leaving the good news. We stayed here for over 2 hours and left at 6-30pm happy that we had visited some major customers and suppliers of HLS during the day and we had got the message across loud and clear. Day 5: We were meant to start off the day at Novartis, Crawley but Sussex police obviously do not like peaceful protest as they informed us the night before
pictures of dead dogs with the words...wait for it...Puppy Killers written in large letters on them. Oh yes and we decided to stay an extra half hour until just after 6-30pm. Day 4: Today we started off at GSK’s global HQ at Brentford, West London. We were in the Met area this time who can be a schizophrenic police force and today they were in circus mode.
the demo that we could not hold the demo for 2 hours as they were going to limit it under section 14 to just one hour. So what were we to do? We could have gone to Novartis and got involved in a spat with the local police, but this is not the SHAC way. We are not there to be sidetracked into a fight with the police which is what they want. So come on what were we to do? The SHAC way is to make things more difficult for the customer that is being undemocratic and in this case that was
We then went a few miles down the road for demos in Uxbridge at Xerox (supplier) and Japanese pharma company Otsuka. We stayed at both sites for a combined total of about 2 hours on the megaphones, drum and airhorns with both sites on a busy main road we were also very visual.
Next we went to the UK offices of American pharma company Abbott Labs who are a major customer of Huntingdon and we know for a fact that they have contracted experiments at HLS in the past 3 months. Again a good site for demos and the glass walls mean that everyone inside can see and hear us. We will keep coming back to Abbott Labs around the world time and time again until they drop HLS. The penultimate demo of the day was at Lonza Biologics in Slough. We will be holding demos at their HQ in Basel, Switzerland on the upcoming Euro tour (see back cover) and this site in the UK is right bang next to the A4 main road making this a very public demo. This is the first time Lonza have ever had a demo and so all the workers were continually at their windows whilst we shouted on the megaphones at different points of their site at the same time. The local press sent a photographer down whilst we hammered the point to Lonza for nearly one and a half hours. The last site of the day was Wyeth labs at Maidenhead just in time to catch all the workers leaving. The local support from the neighbouring houses here is very
Sssoooo....They had police spotters on the motorway bridges for 50-60 miles around looking for us (honestly you couldn’t make this stuff up!) They spotted us (not difficult really seeing as we were in a white 15 seater minibus) as we came up the M3 and then followed us all the way to Sartorious (supplier) at Epsom, Surrey. Here our numbers swelled to about 17 of us. Sartorious like most companies that deal with HLS are paranoid and so they had parked their cars elsewhere. We took turns on the megaphone and chanted for an hour then we were off to ... Exxon Mobil (customer) who trade under the name Esso in the UK. They have tested additives and chemicals at HLS (as have Shell, Texaco and BP) We stayed here for an hour again making lots of noise. Hundreds of school kids passed us on a sponsored walk and, what timing, just as the last ones went past our time was up. Next was GSK at St Georges Hill, Weybridge, Surrey. This site is an experimental site and has had a few demos in the past which explains the high steel fence around the place. We stayed by the main gate for about one and a half hours and kept up a constant noise which carries all over the site. GSK are Huntingdon’s largest customer and this is never forgotten when we do the demos, it comes across in the passion in our voices.
Next we left the Met area and headed into Thames Valley police’s area. The number of cops dropped from 40 in the Met to 3 in TVP’s area (Yes the logic is lost on us too - of why they need 40 cops that is) We arrived at Perkinelmer’s (supplier) site out in the countryside near Beaconsfield. This is a good site for demos and we quickly got on the megaphone to get the point across to all the workers inside the offices who were listening at their windows.
know where we were.
Novartis. So instead of one demo in Crawley we held 2 novartis demos at some of their other UK sites. First we turned up at Sandoz (Novartis) at Borden, Hants at about 7-50am. Now they were so pleased to see us that they locked the gates and turned all the workers away. The site manager was so pleased to see us he started to chain smoke. Eventually they brought the workers into the site in several convoys except for some big wig in a BMW who was left outside fuming (see picture) At 9am we left for our second Novartis site of the day, Ciba Vision near Southampton. Novartis have a habit of greeting us by locking all the doors and turning anyone away. We weren’t going to enter the offices anyway, we had come to name and shame them to all the other companies on the trading estate. The demo was loud, clear and to the point and unfortunately to keep on time schedule with the rest of the day we had to go after an hour. This is a good site and this was a good demo so we will definitely be back. What normally happens on these demos is that one police force will pick us up at the last demo in the neighbouring police force and then take over as we come into their area of control, but because we hadn’t turned up in Sussex as planned they didn’t
The last demo of the tour was at Pfizer’s European HQ at Walton Oaks, Surrey. This site only has one way out and with lots of passing traffic all the workers who passed us could hear the constant hoots of support from passersby. Pfizer had clearly sent hundreds of workers home early as the number of workers passing us was a fraction of what is normal. Great stuff for us and it just shows you what a few people can achieve. History is often changed by small groups of focused, committed people. We stayed until just after 6-30pm when it was dark and after 52 hours of demos in 5 days and 1,500 miles travelled were we ready for a rest? Er no 36 hours later we set off on the Sunday morning to go on the European tour...Let’s Go!
Hey Hey Hey! with all this talk about UK & Euro stuff what about America? Don’t worry they are still hittin’ ‘em head on as well and here’s just a taster of what’s happening.
shac xmas cards
Get your SHAC Christmas cards. 12 cards with 6 different designs per pack selling for SHAC smackin’ £4-50 per pack inc P+P. All you need to do is send a cheque/PO payable to SHAC for the right amount and send it to SHAC, 6 Boat Lane, Evesham, Worcs WR11 4BP. Each of the designs has a traditional festive snow scene inside and a SHAC design on the back explaining where the animal on the front was rescued from and a famous quote from either Shakespeare, Leornardo Da Vinci, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein or Winston Churchill. You will also find them on the merchandise list.
gotcha
We were recently in email correspondence with Dangerous Goods Management who we had caught delivering to Huntingdon. They assured us that it was a one off and that they didn’t realise who they were delivering to. We emailed them to say that we were very suspicious of them but would as always take what they were saying at face value but we would be keeping an eye on them. Well whadya know? Within 2 months we had been leaked documents that showed that not only were they still involved with Huntingdon but only weeks ago they had shipped 1020 slides of monkey parts from Huntingdon to LG life Sciences in Korea. What a disgusting company (LG life Sciences as well) you will find Dangerous Goods Management’s details on the Santa SHAC pages so please give them a call and see what they have to say.
No way forward at Penauille Servisair, Paris
7-30am Sanofi Aventis Global HQ, Paris
Gettin Nova
Meet the mur Novartis H
No way forward at Penauille Servisair, Paris
Confronting the guilty at Teva’s manufacturing plant outside Amsterdam
Getting the
Chaos at the entrance of Sanofi Aventis’s HQ in paris
Sanofi Aventis, Paris
Don’t worry old chap! It can only get worse!
Over the next 6 pages are images from the recent SHAC Euro tour. We could have written pages of articles but they say a picture says a thousand words and you can see from the pictures how we hit them head on across Europe.
ng the message across at the artis HQ, Basel, Switzerland.
In 5 days we travelled about 4,000 Kilometres, covered 4 different countries and demo’d 6 Global Headquarters. Activists came together from 8 different countries from America to Croatia - all with one goal - to make the words Huntingdon Life Sciences ring in the ears of the decision makers. In fact
rderers at the HQ, Basel.
Meeting the workers at GSK’s primate lab in Belgium. They brought them out in convoy.
e message across at GSK, Belgium.
the only people not there were the UK police who asked to come to all of the four countries but were politely told to FCUK OFF! So we left them playing Sunday League whilst we play a Global Game. We would like to say a big thank you to all those who took part, it was a privilege to be along side you. A big thank you also to those who donated to make this tour happen. Here’s to the next one! Like we say Wherever you are, Whoever you are and Whenever you know SHAC will be there... and you know the UK police will be left at home.
Sanofi Aventis, Paris. The second site to be hit within 4 hours in Paris
Sanofi Aventis, Paris
Getting the message across at the Novartis HQ, Basel, Switzerland. The guilty ones, Novartis HQ, Basel. This picture reminds me of people pointing at the Nazi’s after the fall of Germany in WW2.
Meet the murderers at Novartis Pharma HQ in Basel
Getting the message across at GSK, Belgium.
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Your Money! Your Fault! Your Contracts! Your Fault! Your Greed! You Fault! Blood Money! Your Fault! Novartis Pharma HQ, Basel, Switzerlan
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No way through. GS Primate lab Belgium
These are the same companies who have ordered experiments with kittens at 10 days old! They had to be sent with their mothers and the first time they opened their eyes they saw inside HLS!
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Fasten your seat belts! It may be a bumpy ride.
Sanofi Aventis, Greeting the workers at GSK’s primate lab in Belgium
HLS customer Arpida’s HQ, Munchenstein, Switzerland
6pm Novartis Pharma HQ, Basel, Switzerland.
No way forward at Penauille Servisair, Paris
6-10pm Penauille Servisair HQ, Paris, France.
Pointing out the murderers, GSK primate lab. Belgium.
Pointing out the murderers, GSK primate lab. Belgium.
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5-30pm Novartis Pharma HQ, Basel, Switzerland.
6-00pm Penauille Servisair HQ, Paris, France.
First day of the Euro Tour, Roche HQ, Basel, Switzerland
Confronting the workers with the truth 8am, Novartis Global HQ, Basel, Switzerland.
Novartis HQ, Basel
Telling it like it is, Actelion HQ, Basel, Switzerland.
“HAVING FUN WITH HLS ON A GLOBAL SCALE.” At the first of November 2004 we kicked off. Respect voor Dieren in the Netherlands was born. Four days later we joined the biggest animal liberation campaign - Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Fisher Scientific is a supplier of HLS and we confronted them for hours. Immediately locals supported our goal. To us it became clear that people are so angry about animal abuse. Unfortunately Fisher is still a supplier of laboratory equipment. In the true spirit of the campaign ‘we never give up and we always win.’ So last week we stood our ground again, for the 16th time since the beginning. Fisher invested in security cameras after one year campaigning, which we think is perfect. Now they can also see us from inside the building, and they don’t even have to open their curtains. The cowards. Soon we protested at all the customers and suppliers in the Netherlands. In May 2005 we had our first victory. HLS supplier Labtronics (with an office in Canada and the Netherlands) dumped the sick lab. We sent them a letter explaining the campaign and asking them to drop HLS. No reaction. We sent them emails and asked them to drop HLS. No reaction. We stood in front of their company and leafleted the neighbourhood of the director of Labtronics. Within 48hours they dumped HLS. Again a clear sign that confronting the animal abusers and their support basis, from supplier to customer, is the only way forward.It’s no wonder GlaxoSmithKline in the Netherlands has a huge fencing around the building. Cameras everywhere.
Not one but two gates at the front side. Security and extra security when we’re doing our demonstrations. None of this existed before we took part in the HLS campaign. One of the most fun things to do was going to a big career event and guess who was there as well? GSK manager Christiaan Caanen. Dressed up smart we went to his talk. After 10 minutes we stood up and started our protest. Surprise, surprise! This guy went to-tal-ly mad and tried to throw chairs at us. Ha-Ha. We left through the emergency exit leaving an angry GSK manager behind. August the 19th of 2005 we went to Belgium to join our newly created chapter: Respect voor Dieren Belgium. From day one there was a click between the activists (even though some have a funny accent). We were angry and loud at customers like Roche and Novartis. In March 2006 we started the Bank of America demos. This company had shares in HLS,worth millions. In New York activists demoed at the front doors of the directors, Italian activists joined in and in the Netherlands and Belgium we stood our ground. Within 2 months they sold their shares,fed up with the hassle of dealing with HLS. In the same time period Emerson Process, a supplier of HLS, also dumped Huntingdon. Again we contacted them, no reply. Three
unexpected demos and they drop. Most of these companies do not have a heart. They drive into HLS and do know what it is all about. The SHAC campaign contacted them, followed up with an email alert. Giving thousands of people the chance to join in and show their compassion. It’s only when the protests begin which are shaking them. It’s our duty to shake all of these companies, as the vivisectors of HLS are shaking the beagle puppies. As the HLS sickos are using animals like punching bags. There’s really no justice for them, just you and me. After our big anti-fur demonstration through the streets of Amsterdam, with 500 people attending, more people joined in the campaign. In December 2005 Another ‘branch’ opened. In the North Respect voor Dieren activists started demonstrating at the monsters of Abbott Laboratories and Astellas. Both using HLS frequently. Both companies complaining to the local authorities to BAN our protests. There’s no way we ever give up on the animals. The future? We’ll
keep on rocking. Respect voor Dieren is constantly on the move. Now looking back, 2 years later, we have grown from an enthusiastic group of activists to a professional AR group. We’re still on the move, growing and finding new ways.Sometimes we’re not so bright. As the time we stood in front of HLS supplier York, the week between Christmas and NewYear 2005. Finding out only one employee being there. ‘Maybe it has something to do with the holidays?’ we were saying to each other (Doh!). So we wished him a happy New Year (Yeah right) and went on to DHL which was fully staffed. No problem for us, only for them. We’ve had amazing times over the past couple of years like showing up at a completely empty Roche Headquarters at 15.00 on a friday afternoon for an announced demonstration. ‘Elvis has left the building’. So we went to their other office, which, surprise,surprise, were all there! Receiving ice cream from locals at 32 degrees during our Fisher protest. Two weeks of holiday payed by the state, found not guilty and getting 1000 euros on top! Love those guys with moustaches! Meeting inspiring activists all over the globe. One egg hitting the head of Mr.Respect voor Dieren Belgium (you noisy bastard!). More security, more police in Brussels, (soon banks will be robbed during demos by criminals as all police are at Pfizer), more fun. The real fun comes when HLS is closed. When the last bricks are taken down and the activists are drinking beer (Vitamalt for the Straightedge) on the ruins of HLS. HELL YEAH! Here are our contact details. You’re welcome to visit us and mixing in with our demos. It doesn’t matter which language you shout. (The customers of HLS are blind and deaf anyway.) www.respectvoordieren.org Belgium: email us at respectvoordierenbe@yahoo.com Netherlands: email us at respectvoordieren@yahoo.com
UK Prisoners Natasha Avery (NR8987) HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middlesex. TW15 3JZ. Birthday: 28 December Serving 16 months in relation to affray against a hunting family. What you can send: stamps, envelopes, writing paper, cheques/postal orders payable to UKDS - included inmate’s number on back and name/address of sender -----------------------Sarah Gisborne (LT5393) HMP Cookham Wood, Rochester, Kent. ME1 3LU Birthday: 5 July Serving 5½ years for conspiracy to cause criminal damage in relation to Huntingdon Life Sciences. What you can send: self-addressed-envelopes (SAEs), writing paper, envelopes, cheques/postal orders payable to THE GOVERNOR - please write inmate number and sender name/address on back. -----------------------Donald Currie (TN4593) HMP Woodhill, Tattenhoe Street, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK4 4DA Birthday: 13 April Charged with arson attacks. What you can send: stamps, paper, envelopes, photos, postal orders/cheques payable to THE GOVERNOR - please write inmate no and name/address of sender on back. -----------------------Joseph Harris (TN5728) HMP Lewes, Brighton Road, East Sussex. BN7 1EA. Birthday: 10 November Serving 3 years for connection with charges relating to damage against suppliers to Huntingdon Life Sciences What you can send: stamps, envelopes,
writing paper, postal orders made payable to THE GOVERNOR, write sender name/address on back and inmate’s number. -----------------------Jon Ablewhite (TB4885) HMP Lowdham Grange, Lowdham, Nottingham. NG14 7DA. Birthday: 27 January Serving 12 years for conspiracy to blackmail the Hall family, who used to run Newchurch guinea pig farm. What you can send: stamps; postal orders/cheques payable to HMP LOWDHAM GRANGE - include inmate’s number on back and name/address of sender. Will not accept writing paper or packs of envelopes. -----------------------Madeline Buckler (PR7492) HMP Morton Hall, Swinderby, Lincoln, LN6 9PT Birthday: 23 October Serving two years in connection with charges relating to the former campaign against the Newchurch guineapig farm What you can send: stamps, writing paper and postal orders/cheques payable to THE GOVERNOR - include inmate’s number on back and name/address of sender. -----------------------Josephine Mayo (PR6508) HMP Drake Hall, Eccleshall, Staffordshire. ST21 6LQ. Birthday: 18 February Serving 4 years for conspiracy to blackmail the Hall family, who ran Newchurch guineapig farm. What you can send: stamps, envelopes, gummed tear-off writing paper (not metal ring bound), postal orders/cheques payable to THE GOVERNOR with prisoner’s name and prison no on back, also sender’s name/address. -----------------------John Smith (TB4887) HMP Lowdham Grange, Lowdham, Nottingham. NG14 7DA.
Birthday: 6 March Serving 12 years for conspiracy to blackmail the Hall family, who ran Newchurch guineapig farm. What you can send: stamps; postal orders/cheques payable to HMP LOWDHAM GRANGE - include inmate’s number on back and name/address of sender. Will not accept writing paper or packs of envelopes. -----------------------Kerry Whitburn (TB4886) HMP Lowdham Grange, Lowdham, Nottingham. NG14 7DA. Birthday: 18 April Serving 12 years for conspiracy to blackmail the Hall family, who ran Newchurch guineapig farm. What you can send: stamps; postal orders/cheques payable to HMP LOWDHAM GRANGE - include inmate’s number on back and name/address of sender. Will not accept writing paper or packs of envelopes. ------------------------
A.R. Prisoners abroad Kevin Kjonaas #93502-011 FCI Sandstone P.O. Box 1000 Sandstone, MN 55072 Sentence: 6 years for running SHAC USA and supposedly encouraging others to break the law via newsletters and websites. The whole trial and prosecution was a farce, welcome to America! Kevin, Jake, Darius, Lauren, Joshua and Andy (all below ) are all part of the SHAC 7 see www.shac7.com for more details Visit Kevin’s support website at: www.shac7.com/kevin -----------------------Jacob Conroy #93501-011 FCI Victorville Medium I Federal Correctional Institution P.O. Box 5300 Adelanto, CA 92301 Sentence: 4 years Visit Jake’s support website at: www.SupportJake.org ------------------------
They didn’t forget the animals in the
Darius Fulmer #26397-050 FCI Fort Dix P.O. Box 2000 Fort Dix, NJ 08640 Sentence: 1 year, 1 day Visit Dari’s support website at: www.shac7.com/dari -----------------------Lauren Gazzola #93497-011 FCI Danbury Route #37 33 1/2 Pembroke Road Danbury, CT 06811
Sentence: 4 years, 4 months Visit Lauren’s support website at: www.SupportLauren.com -----------------------Joshua Harper #29429-086 FCI Sheridan Federal Correctional Institution P.O. Box 5000 Sheridan, OR 97378 Sentence: 3 years Visit Josh’s support website at: www.JoshHarper.org -----------------------Andy Stepanian #26399-050 FCI Butner Medium II Federal Correctional Institution P.O. Box 1500 Butner, NC 27509 Sentence: 3 years Visit Andy’s support website at: www.AndyStepanian.com -----------------------Peter Young #10269-111 FCI Victorville Medium II Federal Correctional Institution PO Box 5700 Adelanto, CA 92301 USA Peter Young was recently sentenced to 2 years for raiding 6 fur farms and releasing 8,000 mink. Peter was on the run for 7 years. Peter’s support website is www. supportpeter.com and you can either send letters by post or email them to letters@supportpeter.com -----------------------Josh Demmitt #12314-081 FCI Safford Federal Correctional Institution P.O. Box 9000 Safford, AZ 85548 USA Josh is serving a two and a half year sentence for setting fires at an animal science farm at Brigham Young University. In an earlier action at BYU, six rabbits and seven birds were liberated from the farm. Visit the Support Josh web page for regular updates www.supportjosh.org
Burrows, snitched on Josh for a lighter sentence. But in typical fashion, the government sold him out as well, giving him the same sentence as Josh. Goes to show that grassing will get you nowhere, except in jail without outside support. -----------------------Chris McIntosh #30512-013 USP Hazelton U.S. Penitentiary P.O. Box 2000 Bruceton Mills, WV 26525 USA On December 16, 2005, Chris McIntosh was sentenced to eight years in prison relating to a fire at a Seattle McDonald’s in 2003. The action was jointly claimed by the E.L.F. & A.L.F.
USP Hazelton is a high security facility, hundreds of miles away from Chris’ family and friends. Receiving letters of support will mean the world to him. -----------------------all the Please take the time to write to If you can prisoners on these two pages. you are not a write regularly then great but if a Christmas big writer then please send them liberty on Card. These people have put their ation so the line in the fight for animal liber support them. can send to Please read carefully what you stamps etc send to want you if ners the priso information as each prison is different. The on these pages was obtained from www.vpsg.org tml www.directaction.info/prisoners.h ort Letters and cards are vital to supp prisoners for two reasons. they are not 1 They show the prisoners that ts. spiri their raise and tten forgo the 2 they show the government and people are not vivisection industry that these ed forgotten and we will not be divid le and are OK so you don’t know these peop n’t matter just not sure what to write? It does dy expects you write what you are doing, nobo skyscraper that to say you have abseiled off a are doing, day so just write about what you r you want. ateve ...wh ghts thou your ics, polit prisons is Lastly remember that all mail in the authorities read by the screws..er..I mean d get you or so do not write anything that coul the prisoner into trouble. Most of all write that letter or send cards today!
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Note: Josh’s co-defendant, Harrison
labs and we must never forget them.
The End: Lesson 1 : How to get the message across.
Ok we know picture 6 is the odd one out but recently we put the words ‘copper’ into a photographic search engine on the internet and this picture is what it gave us! Eh! We’re not saying anything.
Disclaimer This newsletter is not intended to encourage illegal activity of any kind. SHAC’s intent is to close down HLS by legitimate means only, spreading information and disseminating the facts relating to HLS’s record of animal cruelty, fraud and incompetence. We believe that there is more than enough evidence for the UK government to withdraw HLS’s licence and close them down. Readers must bear in mind that certain demonstrations eg home demonstrations AND OFFICE OCCUPATIONS are now illegal in the UK although they are perfectly legal in other countries, and the inclusion of reports relating to these demos abroad does in no sense amount to encouragement to do similar demos in the UK.
Company details are listed for the purposes of readers making informative and polite communications with the companies listed. The details are not intended for repetitive, rude or threatening calls. The legal advice guide with this newsletter covering sections 145 and 146 of the Serious Organised Crime & Police Act 2005 is something you should read and familiarise yourselves with. You can aslo download it from our website at www.shac.net/FEATURES/legal_advice.pdf SHAC is now a global organisation and so the laws differ from country to country. Sections 145&146 make it a speciic offence to target a company involved with the vivisection industry with a view to getting them to sever a contract by illegal means.
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So does this mean that demonstrations, phone calls and emails are now illegal? No it doesn’t but what it does mean is that to target a company illegally is. So what does illegally mean? Well to ring a company up or send them an email saying that they shouldn’t be dealing with HLS because of Huntingdon’s appalling record of animal cruelty is perfectly legal. But on the same hand to ring a company up and say they should stop dealing with HLS or else know what I mean? Is illegal as it is threatening. It is all about common sense and proportionality. If you are still unsure please consult the legal booklet, contact us if still unsure and also maybe check out www. freebeagles.org
Merchandise is free unless stated. However donations to cover costs are appreciated. Return the order form below to SHAC, 6 Boat Lane, Evesham, Worcs WR11 4BP.
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‘Slaughter of the Innocent’ by Hans Ruesch Classic scientiic anti-vivisection book, £5
Michelle Rokke’s diary of her 9 months working undercover inside HLS, £2
Book : ‘Caught in the Act’, £3 Undercover investigation on Prof Feldberg
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Science book ‘Sacred Cows and Golden Geese’ by Dr. Ray Greek, £8
Airhorns £5
‘Campaign against cruelty’ An activist’s handbook - Covers all the basics, £5
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