The Campaign That Changed Everything: SHAC USA http://youtu.be/kaLbmLoxPr4 I
challenge everyone to watch this video. To bear witness, speak, demand.
And ACT as one, again.
As a past spokesperson for SHAC USA (Stop
Huntingdon Animal Cruelty), I marched beside activists with common
purpose: To close Huntingdon Life Sciences - one of the world's largest
contract research labs. HLS annually kills some 180,000 animals to test
pesticides, fertilizers, cleaners, cosmetics, sweeteners,
drugs...anything they're hired to screen.
SHAC USA formed in 2001 to
shut down HLS. They targeted HLS customers, suppliers and financiers in
an unrelenting campaign of letters, emails, faxes and unprecedented
national/local protests.
In 2006, SHAC USA leaders were imprisoned
for the "crime" of free speech under the Animal Enterprise Protection
Act - an obscure law to protect animal industry profits. Nothing within
the animal rights movement has equaled the unity, clarity and presence
of SHAC USA.
But I believe we can find that energy again. Please
watch this video, share it...and then rise up.
Brenda Shoss director, Kinship Circle
former SHAC USA spokesperson
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Animal Advocacy * Humane Education * Animal Disaster Aid http://www.KinshipCircle.org
