[WAR] Novartis Global Week of Action - Day 1

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****Cross Post Freely***** Note from WAR: Let's give this week long campaign against Novartis, a good solid week of effort. Many of you have written to us asking how you can be involved in this campaign without an active local group in your eara. If you cannot travel to protests, this is how you can lend your support. Take a few minutes to make some contacts to reach Novartis. Remember that the activists that are hitting the streets and protesting at various Novartis locations around the world need your support. They need you to get active. As U.S. Memorial

Day comes to a close lets remember all of the animals that have been killed at Huntingdon Life Sciences. Let's also remember our friends that are in prison because of their advocacy and compassion for animals. Do it for them. I know they would appreciate it. Reposted from SHAC UK: Novartis Global Week of Action - Day 1=============================This is the first installment of a jam packed week of action alerts which will compliment protests happening all over the world against Novartis. These alerts are really important and effective as it puts you straight in contact with those who have the power to put a stop to HLS.Novartis are one of Huntingdon's largest customers and have been the main campaigning focus this year; they are paying for many of the animal testshappening at HLS.Today we are going to contact the key players and decision makers at Novartis, and

ask them to take a look at the sham of a company Huntingdon Life Sciences and to ask them to take a stance and stop giving HLS their custom. For anyone who is new to action alerts, there is a sample letter which you can use, or base your own letter on. Feel free to write your own letters, but keep them polite and informative at all times.SAMPLE LETTER=============Dear [insert name]I am writing to you regarding Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) HLS are the most exposed laboratory in the world, and were caught on camera in 1997 committing various acts of animal cruelty such as punching beagle puppies in the face, and workers pretending to have sex with animals. HLS tried to excuse this behaviour and assured their clients that these acts were just a one off, however in 2005 they have been exposed again for the same criminal acts. You can read more about this expose by visiting this website:http://www.shac.net/MISC/Inside_HLS.html They have also been shown on many occasions to falsify and manipulate research data, just this year an ex employee has filed a lawsuit against HLS when he was sacked after refusing to falsify data. If you have no concerns about animal cruelty then maybe you care about the quality of the research data HLS is obtaining for you. You have an important decision to make and I urge that you do not side with Huntingdon Life Sciences, please turn your back on the cruelty, lawbreaking and shoddy research that has been proven to take place. [your name here] ---------------- Novartis Management Team ====================== Daniel.Vasella - Chief Executive Officer Raymund.Breu - Chief Financial Officer Urs.Baerlocher - Head of Legal and Tax Affairs Thomas.Ebeling - CEO Pharmaceuticals Andreas.Rummelt - CEO Sandoz Paul.Choffat - CEO Consumer Health Mark.Fishman - President of Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Juergen.Brokatzky-Geiger - Head of

Human Resources Paul.Herrling - Head of Corporate Research James.Shannon - Head of Pharma Development Bruno.Heynen - Corporate Secretary Ann.Bailey - Head of Corporate Communications Thomas.Wellauer - Corporate Services Business Unit Heads ================ Kurt.Graves, David.Epstein, Nicholas.Franco, Larry.Allgaier, George.Gunn, Michel.Gardet -------------- All of the emails featured in this action alert: Daniel.Vasella, Raymund.Breu,Urs.Baerlocher, Thomas.Ebeling,Andreas.Rummelt, Paul.Choffat,Mark.Fishman, Paul.Herrling,James.Shannon, Bruno.Heynen,Ann.Bailey, Thomas.Wellauer,Kurt.Graves, David.Epstein,Nicholas.Franco, Larry.Allgaier,George.Gunn, Michel.Gardet =========================== DISCLAIMER AND INFORMATION All details in this action alert are provided for informational purposes only,and should not be used for any illegal activities as defined by the jurisdiction you live in. SHAC are not involved

in, and do not encourage, any form of harassment or illegal action. Nothing in this action alert has the purpose of inciting such behaviour. Please keep all communications polite. For general information on the campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences please visit the website www.shac.net, or alternatively call Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty on (UK) 0845 458 0630.Please feel free to forward on this action alert.----------End of forwarded message----------Visit the WAR Calendar for future events: http://calendar./winanimalrights Visit the WAR MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/winanimalrights Visit the WAR CrueltyFree.com page:

http://www.crueltyfree.com/winanimalrights For more info contact Win Animal Rights at: winanimalrights Call: 646.267.9934 or visit the WAR website at: http://war-online.org W.A.R. (WIN ANIMAL RIGHTS) is an independent non-profit organization not affiliated or associated with SHAC, SHAC USA or any other group or organization and does not conduct or incite any illegal activity. The above information is not meant to incite or request any illegal actions or illegal activities of any kind. If you have any questions about the legality of any act, we encourage everyone receiving this (or the) action alert(s) to check your local laws and ordinances before proceeding to do anything.