To mark World Day for Laboratory Animals, campaigners from all over the UK and beyond will be gathering in London to call for an end to animal experiments. This is the official date of 24 April, a UN recognised day to remember animals who suffer and die in laboratories all over the world.
Meeting from 11.30am at Cavendish Square, London W1G OPR (nearest Tube: Oxford Circus), to march through the centre of London, taking the anti-vivisection message to large numbers of shoppers, tourists and residents, followed by a rally to protest against the government’s pro-vivisection policies.
Veggies are participating in the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale, which is happening everywhere from April 24th - 2nd May, with vegan cakes available on the streets of London from Cavendish Square and beyond!
On Saturday April 24th 2010 campaigners from across the country, as well as many from overseas, will be gathering in London to mark World Day for Animals in Laboratories. Following a rally in Cavendish Square, close to Oxford Circus, we will be marching through the centre of London, past some of the busiest places in the world, Regent St, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square taking the anti-vivisection message to tens of thousands of people. Then onto Whitehall, past Downing St and to the Houses of Parliament where we will be calling for an end to all animal experiments once and for all.
Please keep this date free and join us on 24th April, and let's make our voices heard as we call for "Justice for the Animals".
Coaches and minibuses will be arranged from around the country, contact us for details of transport from your area.
More details will be announced over the next few months, including more details about the events of the day, as well as important developments in the international fight against vivisection which are expected as we count down to World Day 2010.
If you haven't already made travel plans, now is the time. Coaches and minibuses have been organised from around the country, contact us for details of transport from your area.
It promises to be the biggest anti-vivisection march for years, and will bring together campaigners from many different parts of the movement. As well as seasoned campaigners, we also hope to attract many new and young activists, some of whom were not even born when many thousands regularly marched against animal experiments. With this march we hope to revive the spirit of those marches, and unite the movement in a show of strength and solidarity.
What to bring
Please do feel free to bring your own banners, placards, costumes, be creative, inventive and colourful, we want to make the march as eye-catching as possible. Also please bring megaphones, drums, whistles etc, let's make ourselves heard; as well as showing our anger and sorrow about vivisection, we also want the march to be a celebration of our movement and its determination to bring the suffering to an end once and for all.
Publicity
Whether or not you can make it on the day, you can help us to publicise the march. We have posters and leaflets which we can send you by post or you can download from the website. Please help us to spread the word by distributing them to friends and fellow campaigners, or by placing them in places such libraries, health food shops, community centres, offices etc. Forward this email and the link to our website and facebook page to as many of your contacts as possible. There are web banners you can download from the website.
Donations:
The march and rally and other events for World Day in London are being organised by a collective of individuals and grass-roots groups. Please consider making a donation to help us make the day a big success. Send Cheques/POs (payable to 'WDAIL') to the address below.
World Day for Animals in Laboratories (WDAIL)
Write to: BM Box 8623, London WC1N 3XX. Email: Website: http://www.wdail.org
"He who does not hesitate to vivisect would not hesitate to lie about it" George Bernard Shaw
It is now over 10 years since Labour was voted into government but any hopes that they would carry out their pre-election promises on animal experiments have long vanished. Soon after coming to power, the Government abandoned plans to hold an official inquiry into animal experimentation claiming this would be too costly. At the same time the Labour Party was accepting millions in party donations from powerful figures in the biotech and pharma industries, who were in return given key government positions and life peerages.
In the intervening years this has allowed the drug companies to wield huge influence over government policy. Far from the promised reduction and end of vivisection, in the past 3 years the number of animal experiments has actually started to increase for the first time since the 1970?s.
Meanwhile the Government continues to ignore growing scientific evidence that animal experimentation is a seriously flawed practice. There are fundamental physiological differences between different species, and even within species, which make animal testing unreliable and dangerous. Side effects from medical drugs are responsible for 18,000 deaths in the UK every year, the fourth biggest cause of premature death after heart disease, cancer and stroke. Yet all of these drugs were passed as 'safe' following tests on animals. Animal experiments have no place in 21st century science. The longer the scientific community denies this, the more shame it will bring upon itself.
It's clear that we cannot rely on the government or the vivisectors to take the necessary action to put an end to this huge scandal. Please join us on 24th April and let's make our voices heard for the millions of forgotten victims of vivisection.
Whenever possible Veggies feature the publications of the Movement for Compassionate Living, which we print and distribute to promote simple living and vegan self-reliance as a remedy to the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth. We also support our nominated charity, Vegfam, ‘Feeding the hungry without exploiting animals’. If you can help us with either of these projects at this event, whilst we are busy with Veggies catering, please email pat@veggies.org.uk.
To mark World Day for Laboratory Animals, campaigners from all over the UK and beyond will be gathering in London to call for an end to animal experiments. This is the official date of 24 April, a UN recognised day to remember animals who suffer and die in laboratories all over the world.
Veggies are participating in the 
