Guest guest Posted February 27, 2001 Report Share Posted February 27, 2001 >Animal activists announce virtual-sit-in of HLS's website >_______ > >Press Release >15-02-2001 > >Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), the international animal protection >campaign dedicated to shutting down the animal testing lab Huntingdon Life >Sciences (HLS), has received an anonymous communiqué from the Animal >Liberation >- Tactical Internet Response Network (AL-TIRN) announcing an Electronic >Civil >Disobedience action against HLS to take place on February 27th. > >The communique states, " the physical location of HLS has seen thousands of >protesters demonstrating outside their gates. AL-TIRN is now calling all >opponents of HLS animal cruelty to participate in a similar action on the >internet. " This action anticipates that thousands of HLS opponents across >the >world will participate in a virtual sit-in of the HLS website, effectively >shutting it down. > >According to the communique, " the campaign against HLS is now being >intensified >to include a new area of protest aimed at blocking the information highway >of >the company. " This form of internet activism has been used in the past to >shut >down the website of other animal abusers in the fur and vivisection >industry, >and was made famous when people around the world flooded the website of >President Zedillo of Mexico in support of the Zapatistas of Chiapas Mexico. > >The campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences, one of the world’s largest >and >most notorious animal testing centres, has been the subject of a relentless >campaign after it was exposed in five undercover investigations showing >horrific animal cruelty and sloppy fraudulent science. The investigations >revealed workers maliciously punching beagle puppies in the face, >dissecting a >live monkey, transplanting a frozen pig heart into an otherwise healthy >baboon >thereby killing the animal, taking drugs and drinking at work, and >falsifying >scientific data, procedures, and animal welfare standards. Stop Huntingdon >Animal Cruelty has convinced a large number of shareholders and customers >of >HLS into dropping their support of the company. The results have been >all-time >low worker morale, shattered customer confidence, and crisis level >shareprices >that almost lead HLS into foreclosure less than one month ago. > >According to a SHAC spokesperson, " for every 500 animals HLS brutally >murders >everyday there are 500 strategies that activists will employ to destroy >their >vile business. " The announcement by AL-TIRN comes on the heels of an action >filled week that saw over 1500 UK activists lay siege to several of HLS’s >biggest clients causing severe disruption, and US activists flooding the >phone >lines, email systems, and offices across the states of Stephen’s Inc, HLS’s >biggest shareholder and financier that saved it from financial collapse. > >The SHAC spokesperson further states, " we’ll be in their offices, at their >doorsteps, on their phones, or in their computers. There will be no rest >for >the wicked. " The communique ends promising to release more information on >what >demonstrators should do as the date approaches. >Everyone anywhere in the world can participate. You do not need to be a >computer expert. > >Stay tuned. > >More details to be announced soon. > >More information about HLS can be found at http://www.shac.net > >The TIRN website is at: http://floodnet.webjump.com > -- Free email services provided by http://www.goodkarmacafe.com Powered by Instant Portal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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