SPEAK NATIONAL DEMO - SATURDAY 21st OCTOBER
12 Noon, Oxpens Park, Oxpens Rd, Oxford
Map:
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Details of transport from around the country will be sent shortly
In Oxford City Centre, builders wearing balaclava masks to hide their
identities are at work building a large animal research complex. The
building was due to be completed almost a year ago in Autumn 2005, and but
for the courage and determination of campaigners, by now thousands of
animals would have been tortured and killed at the hands of vivisectors
behind the locked doors of the building.
For the past 2 and a half years SPEAK has been fighting the combined might
of Oxford University, the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, and
the government in a relentless campaign to prevent the lab from being
built.
At the same time we have had great success in exposing the lies and
fraudulent science behind animal experimentation. With regular and
extensive media coverage both nationally and internationally, for the
first time the scientists and the drug companies have found themselves in
the spotlight and have been forced to try to justify their misleading,
cruel and dangerous experiments.
Following a successful campaign, work on the animal labs was halted for
over 18 months. When the government stepped in and pledged £100 million of
taxpayers money in an effort to shore up the project, we were not
surprised. The (New) Labour Party has received millions of pounds in
donations (bribes) from the biotech industry, its biggest single source of
donations, both before and after coming into government, and now it's time
to reward their paymasters.
Added to this is the fact that many government ministers, including Tony
Blair, the Prime Minister, are former Oxford University students, as are
many of the biotech and pharmaceutical industry bosses - it's called the
'Old Boys' network.
In an attempt to silence SPEAK, Oxford University used its financial and
political might to obtain a High Court injunction which severely
restricted protests at the site of the proposed labs to just one day a
week for four hours.
And despite all this, the campaign has continued and grown. In April this
year 1,500 protesters marched through the streets of Oxford to oppose the
lab and support the campaign.
We expect the march and rally on 21st October to be one of the biggest
protests so far, so please turn up to show your solidarity with the SPEAK
campaign and send a clear message to the government, the university and
the so-called scientists - We will not be silenced and we will not go away
and we will fight you every inch of the way in order to bring to an end
the cruel scientific fraud that is vivisection, a practice that has been
responsible for killing both human and non human animals.
Please Join us on 21st October.
www.speakcampaigns.org.uk
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Vivisection Information Network (VIN)
Recommended site: www.vivisection-absurd.org.uk
Recent discoveries in animals:
30 effective HIV vaccines
22 treatments for spinal cord injury
100 treatments to prevent type 1 diabetes
700 stroke drugs.
ALL FAIL IN HUMANS
Animal testing isn't working.
