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Compassion In World Farming / British Anti-Vivisection Association / National Anti-Vivisection Society
- Leafletting at London BR/Tube Stations on Wednesdays. Ph: 020 7281 2356
Compassion In World Farming / Animal Aid
Leafletting and fundraising in Hampstead on Sundays. Ph: 020 8341 2509
Bantin & Kingman
- Suppliers of animals, technicians, equipment and feeds for the vivisection industry.
Demos at B&K, The Field Station, Grimston, Aldborough, Hull HU11 4QE, (at Garton on B1242, Hornsea to Withernsea), E Yorks . [map]- Bantin & Kingman Universal Ltd is situated on an isolated clifftop on the east coast near Hull. They breed beagles and other small animals for the vivisection industry, in fact they boast that they can supply any part of any animal to order, as well as supplying lab technicians and torture equipment.
B&K Campaign: 07961 967063
click here for more information.
- Bantin & Kingman Universal Ltd is situated on an isolated clifftop on the east coast near Hull. They breed beagles and other small animals for the vivisection industry, in fact they boast that they can supply any part of any animal to order, as well as supplying lab technicians and torture equipment.
Close down Basildon Zoo Campaign
- Details: Essex Animal Rights/ Basildon Animal Concern, PO Box 211, Short Street, Southend SS1 1AA. Phone: 07092 120386 or email
Bio-Sciences Conferences
- The BioIndustry Association, the trade association for innovative, emerging small to medium sized enterprises in the UK's bioscience sector, have kindly launched a website which lists opportunities for topical debate about emerging trends and key issues - plus excellent networking opportunities. Check out the events listing here.
The Royal College of Pathologists arranges an extensive programme of scientific meetings to serve the interests and meet the needs of pathologists. Check out the events listing here.
BIBRA Labs
- British Industrial Biological Research Association, Woodmansterne Road, Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, SM5. [map] [Nearest Station/s: Carshalton Beeches, Sutton].
Cambridge Primate Labs Abandoned
- Campaign continues at Oxford University:
Speak Campaign, PO Box 6712, NORTHAMPTON, NN2 6XR
Email: info@speakcampaigns.org.uk
Website: http://www.speakcampaigns.org.uk
Circus (and Zoo) Campaigns
- Some local groups already organise a lot of demos when a circus is in their area but this year CAPS would like to get something more co-ordinated. If you see a circus advertised in your area let CAPS know immediately, and organise demos. CAPS have quite a comprehensive list of where circuses will be to help plan your campaigns. CAPS also has detailed profiles on each circus and can supply leaflets, posters etc.
- Captive Animals' Protection Society: 0845 330 7955 or email
- Captive Animals' Protection Society: 0845 330 7955 or email
Covance laboratories.
- Pickets on random days at Otley Road, Harrogate . [map]
- See new Covance Campaign website .
Ph:07960 992824 / 07949 349630 or write to the Covance Campaign, c/o The Bear Cafe, 29 Rochdale Road, Todmorden, Lancs OL14 7LA or email.
- See new Covance Campaign website .
Fur Campaigns
- Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade
PO Box 38, Manchester M60 1NX
Phone: 0845 330 7955 / Press:07761 533152
Email: caft@caft.org.uk
Website: http://www.caft.org.uk
London - Regular demos - for details call LAA: 0845 458 4775
or 07899 775493 / 07950 669333 / 07951 274371
Email: info@londonanimalaction.org.uk
See also: Campaign Against Leather and Fur: calf@alrob.freeserve.co.uk
GlaxoSmithKline Laboratories
- Monthly pickets relaunched - Click for details.
First Sunday Monthly at Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage (off A1 at Junction7) . [map]Campaign details from Stevenage Animal Rights: 01430 220480
Email: annbunting@sar.demon.co.uk
Website: http://www.sar.me.uk
Greyhound Campaigns
- Prevent the licensing of proposed greyhound tracks and the resulting suffering and deaths of thousands of greyhounds each year.
Coventry Against Greyhound Exploitation (C.A.G.E) Events
Regular demos EVERY SUNDAY at 5.30pm details here. We hold banners and placards that remind the attendants of what happen to greyhounds after their racing days are over. Coventry Stadium is situated between the villages of Binley Woods and Brandon, a few miles east of Coventry on the A428 Rugby Road. (Maps on CAGE website). Contact CAGE if you need transport. (Note: please email or ring before attending to check times and places).It is important that pressure is kept up on the Coventry track, as attendances are falling, with a great deal of dissatisfaction from punters, and even some greyhound racing enthusiasts are claiming that dog racing will come to an end there within a few months unless the situation improves.
Contact CAGE: 0777 1953465
Email: soledad_john@hotmail.com
Website: http://ga.redblackandgreen.net/CAGE.html
More Greyhound Campaign details available from
Greyhound Action, P.O. Box 127, Kidderminster, Worcs, DY10 3UZ
Ph:01562 745778 / Fax:0870 138 3993
Email: greyhoundaction@blueyonder.co.uk
Website: www.greyhoundaction.co.uk
Harlan UK aka Hillcrest - Breeders for vivisection.
- Weekly pickets, various days, 3.30pm - 5.30pm at Dodgeford Lane, Belton, Leicestershire . [map]
Ring first to confirm: Loughborough Animal Concern: 01283 550536
Email: close_harlan@hotmail.comOther Harlan sites: Cambridge Farm, Cambridge Lane, off Hanging Birch Lane, Waldron, nr Horam, E.Sussex.
Hunting Campaigns
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Hunt Watch. All around the country, all through the year the hunts are being watched for illegal activity.
If you spot anything suspicious, eg hounds & horses out in early morning, or in hidden locations inform your local Hunt Sab Group, and the HSA.Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA)
PO Box 5254, Northampton, NN2 3ZA
Ph: 0845 450 0727
Email: info@huntsabs.org.uk
Website: www.huntsabs.org.ukHunt Sabbing from London:
- South & West: 07899 775 493
- North & East: 07747 165 196
- Croydon: 07956 359 891
- Chiltern: 07980 124 186
For other local hunt sab contacts : Click here.
General animal rights contacts from Veggies DirectoryRoots-of-Blood Campaign
- A campaign against the wildlife policy of the Woodland Trust, who allow hunting on their land.
- For details email rob@roots-of-blood.org.uk
Website: http://www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
- Surrey Anti Hunt Campaign
- Campaign to end hunting in Surrey, Kent and Sussex, including the Old Surrey, Burstow and West Kent Foxhunt. Regular demos, pickets and sabbing.
SAHC: , or write to BM 7099, London, WC1N 3XX
Ph: 07951 701664
Email: info@sahc.org.uk
Website: http://www.sahc.org.uk
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
Campaigning to close down HLS Vivisection Centre at Wooley Road, Alconbury. [map] . [Photo]
Diary dates listed on main calendar and at http://www.shac.net/ACTION/dates.html
SHAC USA diary of events: http://www.protest.net/SHACevents/calendrome.cgi
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)
6 Boat Lane, Evesham, Worcs WR11 4BP.
Ph:0845 458 0630
Email info@shac.net
http://www.shac.net/
Note that mail sent to the BM Box in London or the Cheltenham PO Box will not be forwarded on.
Live Exports
- Every (almost daily) shipment from Dover may be in excess of 6,000 live sheep and lambs, destined for Italy, Greece, who knows where?
- Dover Demos : First Saturday every month. 12noon - 3pm at Eastern Docks roundabout. Please register attendance - phone Marie at Compassion In World Farming (CIWF) on 01730 264208 or email marie@ciwf.co.uk
Website: http://www.ciwf.co.ukOther regular Saturday demos take place at 11am onwards, (also possibly Friday mornings 10am-12noon). Call 01304 204688 for updated info and news.
Wednesday meetings. KALE: 01304 204688; E.Kent A.Welfare: 01304 363071
- The website of Kent Action agaignst Live Exports also contains useful info, (although the site is not currently regularly updated).
McDonalds Protest
Police have recently used the new Anti Social Behaviour Act to disperse McDonalds demonstrators. This was an arbitrary use of their power and an infringement on basic right of freedom of speech and assembly. The Police must not be allowed to stifle legitimate protest! Please come
in solidarity to defend the right of peaceful protest and show McDonalds
we will not give in to Police intimidation.Meet at Leicester Square McDonalds, every Thursday , 5.30 till 7.30pm. Details here.
Email: antimcdonalds@doramail.com
National Institute of Medical Research
- Large biomedical laboratory. Picket every Wednesday from 6:30 pm at The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 . [map]
- The thousands of animals currently tortured at this government-funded laboratory, include guinea pigs supplied by The Halls in Newchurch, rats, mice, chicks, frogs, birds and fish.
- The nearest underground is Mill Hill East and the 240 bus stops right outside NIMR.
- Ph: 0771 3403694, 0781 3367289, 0796 0036044
See also special report at http://www.acigawis.freeserve.co.uk/national_institute_for_medical_research.htm
Save the Newchuch Guinea Pigs : SNGP
Guinea pig farm at Darley Oaks, Newchurch, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire to close!Demand release of remaining animals into the care of rescue / rehoming groups.
Demos continue every Sunday at noon until final closure, expected at year end .[map]Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs
Ph: 01902-564734
Email: info@liberation-now.org
Website: www.liberation-now.org
Speak Out Against Vivisection
After failing to build a primate vivisection lab at Cambridge (SchNEWS 439), mad scientists are now trying a more subtle approach by building an 'animal housing facility' at Oxford University, which will (surprise!) be doing some of the same research that was going to be done at Cambridge. In a desperate attempt to hoodwink the public, the new project has been euphemistically called a research 'hotel' in the planning application. Some Hotel! Where you get kept in solitary wire cages, injected with drugs, deliberately brain damaged and then killed. In response to this latest development, the campaign that stopped the Cambridge lab has been resurrected to fight the new proposals.
Speak Campaign
PO Box 6712, Northampton, NN2 6XR
Ph: 0845 330 7985 / 07957 588 253
Email: info@speakcampaigns.org.uk
Website: http://www.speakcampaigns.org.uk
Stop Sequani Animal Testing (SSAT)
- Anti vivisection demo, on randon days each week, at Sequani animal testing laboratory, Bromyard Road, Ledbury, Herefordshire, (near Ledbury train station) [map].
Once called Toxicol, then Quintiles and now Sequani; the names have changed, but they're still testing on animals at the Sequani Labs in Ledbury, Herefordshire.
- The labs are located within 'spitting distance' from the Ledbury train station (turn right upon leaving the train sation parking lot). You can't miss it! Locked up like the Crown Jewels with CCTV and mile-high fencing, it is located on the left hand side of the road just a few hundred yards from the train station. Ledbury is also served with buses from both Hereford and Worcester and other surrounding areas.
Contact SSAT to confirm dates and for more info or advice on how you can help battle Sequani.
Stop Sequani Animal Testing
Email: ssat@vivisection.info
Website: http://www.vivisection.info/ ssat
Trafalgar Square - Feed The Pigeons
- The plan of Mayor Ken Livingstone and the Greater London Assembly to rid the Square of pigeons has already caused weakness & death, the pigeon food seller having been paid off. The Pigeon Action Group believes that the reduction of food is causing many birds to suffer and need help with a daily rota to maintain feeding, to transport food and to take sick birds to Pigeon Recovery.
Pigeon Action Group
c/o 20 Whitton Waye, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 2LU
Ph: 020 7328 7665 / 07779 465356Van Vynck Avian Solutions are employed by the Greater London Council (GLC) to use hawks to terrify and kill pigeons on the Square. Details of the company appear below. Please contact them by phone, email or fax telling them they are not welcome on Trafalgar Square. You can always tell them face to face, the hawkmen are always on the Square from 11.00am until 3.00pm, seven days a week:
Van Vynck Avian Solutions
The Tack Room, Lorkins Farm, Conways Road, ORSETT RM16 3EL
Tel: 01375 893143; Fax: 01375 893841
Email: info@vanvynckpestcontrol.co.ukMeanwhile Save the Trafalgar Square Pigeons, now run by the National Anti-Hunt Campaign and Animal Aid, have entered into an agreement with the GLA in support of food reduction (but opposed to the use of hawks). As Ken Livingstone is determined to reduce the pigeons from the square, regardless of any suffering caused, they believe that by ensuring that the welfare of the birds is monitored, their numbers can be reduced in a humane way.
Save the Trafalgar Square Pigeons
BM Pigeon, London, WC1N 3XX
Ph: 07979 485858 / 07752 880792 also Anne: 020 8802 2072
Email: pigeon@nahc.freeserve.co.uk
also pigeon@nahc.freeserve.co.uk
Website: http://www.savethepigeons.orgAnimal Aid's news bulletin (Sept'03): http://www.animalaid.org.uk/news/2003/0309pige.htm
Please write to Ken Livingstone to insist that any food phase-out programme should not cause any suffering to the pigeons, and insisting that he put a stop to the hawkman.Ken Livingstone, Greater London Authority, City Hall, Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA
Southport Zoo - CLOSED!
Uncaged Campaigns Against Vivisection
Uncaged Campaigns' two and a half year legal fight for the public's democratic right to know what was really happening in Government-backed pig-to-primate transplant experiments at Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) began to reap rewards with a large story on page three of The Observer.
Furthermore, the documents we are now allowed to publish reveal the scandalous conduct of the Government in the way it licensed some of the most extreme and bloody experiments ever seen in the UK and then amazingly allowed serious breaches of the law to go unpunished. The myth of 'tightly regulated animal experiments' has now been blown out of water.
Read Uncaged report then Click Here To Help!
Home Office leafletting on the last Friday of every month since Sept'03 (except December). 11.00am-2.30pm (approx) at Home Office, New address, 2 Marsham Street, London, SE1 (10 mins from Victoria Bus Station, via 507 bus to Marsham St). Organised by Uncaged Campaigns supporter, Svetlana Davies.Please contact Svetlana on 0207 254 5350 beforehand; (or Uncaged Campaigns on 0114 272 2220)
Uncaged, 9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield, S1 4EG (note new address)
Ph:0114 272 2220 . Fax: 0114 272 2225
Email: info@uncaged.co.uk
Website: www.uncaged.co.uk
Wickham Research Laboratories
- Campaigning for the animals suffering in their thousands at Wickham Research Labs in Hampshire.
- Regular pickets to greet the workers [map]
- Phone the labs on 01329 832511 or fax 01329 834262 to protest against cruel, unnecessary and unscientific experiments on animals . (Wickham Labs website)
- Contact Stop Wickham Animal Testing (SWAT), c/o PARG, Avalon, 73 Fawcett Road, Southsea, Hampshire, PO4 0DB or Gosport and Fareham Animal Rights Group, c/o 26 Brune Lane, Rowner, Gosport, Hampshire, PO13 9RA. Ph: 023 9258 8516
- Regular pickets to greet the workers [map]
Event Organisers are urged to send event details or phone on 0845 458 9595 before setting dates to avoid clashes, and as soon as a date is set, for details to be added to this nationally co-ordinated calendar.
Contacts information is available from The Animals Contacts Directory; which is also compiled by Veggies. The current edition is available for £4.95 UK pounds +80p p&p, by royal snail, from Veggies, 245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham NG7 6HX