Save the Beagles - 2009 Protests

Posted on behalf of Save the Beagles Campaign

Protests against Valley Animal Research Centre will be held on the last Saturday of every month from next month onwards. We will alternate protests having them in Napier one month then Palmerston North the next. Confirmed protests dates for the rest of the year are as follows:

27 June - Napier
25 July - Palmerston North
29 August - Napier
26 September - Palmerston North
31 October - Napier
28 November - Palmerston North

Now that we all know in advance it'd be great if people can try to make trips up or down to show support for the campaign.

For further info email freethebeagles@gmail.com

More info: http://savethebeagles.wordpress.com/

Tour Against Torture Report

To mark World Lab Day and Week, animal rights activists went on a tour around Auckland City on bikes and buses stopping off at companies and institutions involved in animal testing. Unfortunately due to ANZAC day, most places were closed but we held protests outside of The Body Shop (who are owned by L'Oreal), GlaxoSmithKline (a client of the world's largest contract animal testing company, Huntingdon Life Sciences), Auckland University Medical School, Liggins Institute and Unilever. We got a lot of support from pedestrians and a busker who joined in our protests.

As we were outside of the Auckland University Medical School, a nursing student informed us about the experiments on sheep that was being conducted inside the basement. Not many students even know about this, but embryonic testing is done on pregnant sheep and their foetuses. They test on 8 sheep at a time. The student said to us, "They cut open pregnant sheep, putting electrodes on the foetus and sew them back up again" to monitor the embryo. They kill the sheep afterwards because nobody wants a tested sheep. If you have any more information about this, please email us and let us know.

Tour Against Torture for World Lab Animal Day

To mark World Lab Animal Day 24th of April 2009, Auckland Animal Rights Collective are organising a "Tour Against Torture" around Auckland city has part of a public education day to expose companies involved in animal testing. Around 300,000 animals are tested on every year in Aotearoa/New Zealand. There are also many companies operating here who are involved in animal testing or clients of animal testing facilities overseas. Because vivisection is shrouded in such secrecy we do not have all the information that goes on within the walls of animal testing laboratories, however we do know the names and addresses of some of the companies profiting from this torture. On this day, we will be standing up for all the animals that are tortured, mutilated and killed in laboratories all around the world.

We will be meeting at the Body Shop at 11am on Saturday 24th of April and we would encourage everyone to bring their bike along to ride to each different place. A route will be devised so we can visit as many animal testing clients and facilities as possible. These will be quick demonstrations to make our point and leave, please bring whistles and noise-makers. If you don't have a bike, and want to get a ride or can offer a car, let us know so we can arrange transport in advance.

Contact: animalrightscollective@gmail.com

Demos Against Sabato this week - Time to Step it Up!

Despite regular Saturday protests against Sabato, they still continue to support the foie gras industry. It’s time to step it up and show that we are serious about making Auckland free of this delicacy of despair. Please come to the demos listed below:

8th April Wednesday 12noon
9th April Thursday 2:30pm
11th April Saturday 12noon

Meet at 57 Normanby Rd, Mt Eden

See you there!

Foie Gras is the diseased liver of birds that have been force feed for months usually in factory farms. During the force feeding process the birds are in constant pain with many left gasping for air and unable to move due to the amount of food they are force fed. Many cities and states around the world have banned the sale and producion of Foie Gras.

Week of protests for AARC

We have had a busy week with two protests against SABATO for their ongoing sale of Foie Gras as well as an anti fur protests.

The first Foie Gras protest was held at lunch time on Wednesday as SABATO were busy with lunch time customers. As is becoming the norm one of the staff came out and took photos of everyone that was there. The cops showed up but these ones seemed intelligent enough to realise we had every right to be there.
Saturday saw the start of out anti fur campaign with a protest outside EUM on high st. After briefly opening the store then closed for an hour as they waited for us to leave. After seeing we weren’t leaving they once again opened the store and shortly afterwards they agreed to stop selling fur! Once again another positive result in this campaign.
After the protest outside EUM we returned to SABATO and held a relaxed demonstration talking to passers by and customers. A staff member came out again and took pictures of people at the protest – no doubt to supply to the Threat Assesment Unit which has been harassing animal rights activists since its inception.

The coming week will no doubt see more protests against SABATO, email animalrightscollective@gmail.com if you are interested in finding out when they are.

Upcoming stuff

Hi everyone we have a couple of protests coming up this week which it would be great if you could make it to.

Foie Gras Demo

As part of our ongoing campaign to end the sale of Foie Gras in Auckland we will be having a protest this Wednesday

When: Wednesday the 1st of April at 1pm
Where: 57 Normanby Road, Mt Eden, Auckland

Fur Demo

We will be having the first protest of the year against factory farmed fur on saturday. This campaign has been highly successful and is important in showing the public that fur is not acceptable.

When: Sat 4th April 10am
Where: Meeting corner of High st and Victoria st

AARC Activist in Court

edit it looks like these charges are being withdrawn so you dont need to come

An AARC activist will be back in court on monday next week defending himself against charges arising from a protest during world lab animal week last year.As part of the protest two activists climbed onto part of the medical school and unfurled a large banner saying "Torturing Animals - It's Not Science".The Activist is facing a charge of unlawfully on a building and will be defending himself. Supporters are welcome to attend and would be appreciated.Photos of the action can be seen on http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/75289/index.php

When: 10.15 Monday 6th of April
Where: 65 Albert st Auckland

edit it looks like these charges are being withdrawn so you dont need to come

Protest against Foie Gras this Saturday

Protest against Sabato this Saturday 14th March.

11am-1pm
Meet at 57 Normanby Road, Mt Eden, Auckland

Sabato are having a flat bread-tasting event at this time. Come and inform their customers of the animal abuse they contribute to and how their business profits from the torture of innocent ducks and geese.

See you there! Bring friends and noise-makers.