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ANIMAL RIGHTS CALENDAR

Compiled by Veggies to co-ordinates animal rights campaign events throughout the UK!

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We aim to update this calendar each weekend, (although we are often too busy out on the streets to get lost in cyberspace). The links and layout are checked with Internet Explorer.

Published monthly in Arc News, and distributed at the many events attended by Veggies - see Veggies Diary for events at which Veggies are providing food, transport and further information.

Campaign organisers: please send provisional dates
To maximise support for campaigns it is essential to minimise clashes. Some of the dates are unconfirmed entries, based on the possible repeat of events held in previous years.

If you can confirm event details please send feedback

Organisers of high profile campaigns could also submit details to http://www.protest.net/ - the worldwide listing of protest events, the Schnews Guide - events throughout the UK, Guilfin Calendar and Arkangelweb.

Multimap : maps and Route Planner . To request or offer a lift to an event try http://www.freewheelers.co.uk/

Check out your rights to protest at http://www.freebeagles.org/
Note details of a good solicitor, such as Kevin Tomlinson: 01246 211006

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Featured Campaigns

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Stop the Badger Killers

 

This cruel, futile, tax-wasting badger slaughter has been stopped until the beginning of May, but keep checking website for latest details. Help is needed to 'monitor' the killing areas and individuals take action to save badgers' (and other animals) lives. Please contact 07811 629846 or 0776 342 4892.

Coalition of Badger Action Groups
PO Box 129, Plymouth, Devon PL1 1RY
Badger Hotline: 07817 858166
E-mail: cbag@webtribe.net
Web: http://www.badger-killers.co.uk/

Speak Out Against Vivisection

After failing to build a primate vivisection lab at Cambridge (SchNEWS 439), mad scientists are now trying a more subtle approach by building an “animal housing facility” at Oxford University, which will (surprise!) be doing some of the same research that was going to be done at Cambridge. In a desperate attempt to hoodwink the public, the new project has been euphemistically called a research “hotel” in the planning application. Some Hotel!—Where you get kept in solitary wire cages, injected with drugs, deliberately brain damaged and then killed. In response to this latest development, the campaign that stopped the Cambridge lab has been resurrected to fight the new proposals.

Speak Campaign
PO Box 6712, Northampton, NN2 6XR
Ph: 0845 330 7985 / 07957 588 253
Email: info@speakcampaigns.org.uk
Website: http://www.speakcampaigns.org.uk/

Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs

Regular demos from 11am at Darley Oaks, (A515) Newchurch, Staffs [map] on Wednesdays and Sundays, and empty days/evenings that need filling.  

For over 30 years now, David Hall and Partners of Newchurch near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK have been breeding guinea pigs to sell to vivisection laboratories. There are 10,000 guinea pigs there at any one time living in disgusting conditions, waiting to be to be tortured to death at the hands of this brutal industry. Today and every day 55 people die due to adverse drug reactions in the UK alone. "The moral is that animal model systems not only kill animals, they also kill humans!" Dr Irwin Bross, former director of the world's largest cancer research institute. David Hall and Partners continue to profit from this scientific fraud and massive abuse of life, human and guinea pig alike.

Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs
Ph: 01902-564734 / 07814 488173
 

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty

 

There are demos worldwide every day, mainly targetting customers and suppliers of the notorious Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Click here for your daily Guide to Action

Major events are listed on the calendar below.

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
6 Boat Lane, Evesham, Worcs WR11 4BP
Ph: 0845 458 0630
Email: info@shac.net
Website: http://www.shac.net/

 

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Calendar updated 27th April 2004

and details, (since the March edition of ARC News), are marked.
Deadline for next edition: Friday 30th April : Email your event details.

APRIL 2004

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Wednesday 28th : : Bantin & Kingman

Demos at B&K, suppliers of animals, technicians, equipment and feeds for the vivisection industry.
1pm at The Field Station, Grimston, Aldborough, Hull HU11 4QE, (at Garton on B1242, Hornsea to Withernsea), E Yorks . [map]

B&K Campaign: 07961 967063
click here for more information.

Wednesday 28th : London Vegans Meeting

6.30 - 9.30pm at Community Rooms, Millman Street (entrance next to 38a), Bloomsbury, WC1. (Nearest Station/s: Russell Square, Holborn) . [map]

Admission free, but donations of money or vegan snacks to share would be appreciated. Free hot drinks provided. Newcomers welcome. No alcohol or smoking allowed, but nearby pub session afterwards is customary. [Last Wednesday of every month except December]

London Vegans
Ph: 01708 735697 / 020 8931 1904
 

Thursday, 29th April : : SPEAK Demo

Demo at AGM of The RMC Group, building suppliers to Oxford University animal torture labs; 10am at the Inter-Continental Hotel, One Hamilton Place, Hyde Park Corner, London. Please join in to voice your opinions to the share holders as to exactly what their higher management are getting them involved in.

For more details on SPEAK contact:
PO Box 6712, Northampton, NN2 6XR
Ph: 0845 330 7985
Email: info@speakcampaigns.org.uk
Website: http://www.speakcampaigns.org.uk/

Friday 30th : National Institute for Medical Research

Demo to Commemorate Laboratory Animals Month, at NIMR, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 [map] . 11am to 9pm. Nearest tube Mill Hill East, bus 240 stops opposite NIMR.

Mill Hill Anti-Vivisection Alliance
PO Box 24049, London NW4 2ZR
Ph: 07767 471111

Friday 30th : East Anglia Monthly Demo

East Anglia Animal Rights Coalition are holding monthly demo's on the last Friday of each month, meeting at Cambridge services (A14 jnct 28) at 11am.

East Anglia Animal Rights Coalition
PO Box 487, Norwich, Norfolk, NR5 8WE
Telephone 07788 404 074
Email: eastangliaarc@hotmail.com

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MAY 2004

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Saturday 1st: : ArcNews Deadline

To submit your diary dates click here.
Send news items to the editor as below:

Arc News
Animal Rights Coalition, P O Box 339, Wolverhampton, WV10 7BZ
Ph: 0845 458 0146 / 01902 562463
Email: james@arcnews.co.uk
Website: http://www.arcnews.co.uk/

Saturday 1st : : Mayday anti-capitalist Day of Action

London Animal Action is organising a major protest against capitalism and human and animal exploitation on May 1st 2004. Under the banner, 'Kill Capitalism, Not Animals!' we will be marching through central London and targetting companies such as McDonald's and fur shops, of which there are many in the area. There are other one-off targets as well, including a bloodsports shop and the HQ of the Resarch Defence Society, the group whose only reason for existing is defending the torture and murder of laboratory animals.

We are inviting other groups to join us and bring their own banners. Let's make this as big as possible and show the state it can't intimidate us. Tell everyone you know to join us by assembling at Piccadilly Circus, by the statue of Eros, at 12noon on May 1st.

LAA Website: http://www.londonanimalaction.org.uk/

Saturday 1st : Billericay animal charity event

There will be a combined animal charities event at the Reading Rooms in Billericay High Street from 9am to 1pm, hosted by the St. Francis Foundation.

Stalls for information displays and sales of merchandise/fund raising goods are available to sanctuary and campaign organisations operating in the Essex area.

For stall enquiries/bookings or just more details please call 07984 332399

Sunday 2nd : : Animal Rights Coalition POSTPONED

Northampton Meeting Postponed.
For further details email Arkangelweb@aol.com

Sunday 2nd : : GlaxoSmithKline demo

Demonstration against vivisection at GlaxoSmithKline, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage (off A1 at Junction7) . [map] . First Sunday monthly from 11am.

Stevenage Animal Rights: 01438 220480
Email: annbunting@sar.demon.co.uk
Website: http://www.sar.me.uk/

Thursday 6th : : Bantin & Kingman

Demos at B&K, suppliers of animals, technicians, equipment and feeds for the vivisection industry.
1pm at The Field Station, Grimston, Aldborough, Hull HU11 4QE, (at Garton on B1242, Hornsea to Withernsea), E Yorks . [map]

B&K Campaign: 07961 967063
click here for more information.

Saturday 8th : North West Vegan Festival

To be held at Sachas Hotel, Tib Street, Manchester . [map] . 10.30am to 5pm . Approx 50 stalls covering all aspects of the vegan way of life. Free admission. Everyone welcome.
Organised by Realfood Campaign and sponsored by Zedz Foods, Redwoods, Cocoa Tree, Yaoh and Veggies.

We are looking for volunteers to help on the day contact:
NW Vegan Festival, c/o PO Box 339, Wolverhampton, WV10 7BZ
Ph: 0845 458 0146
Email: info@veganfestivals.org.uk
Website: http://www.veganfestivals.org.uk/

Sunday 9th : Punks For Animals

Fundraiser for North West Vegan Festival at Satan's Hollow, Princes St, Manchester. 2pm - 10pm. Tickets £5 advance; £6 on door; £4 concessions.

With Active Slaughter; Don’t die of ignorance; Bring me the horizon; Regicidal; Kismet HC; Indicator; Eastfield; Riot/Clone. Realfood, c/o PO Box 339, Wolverhampton, WV10 7BZ
Ph: 0845 458 0146
Email: info@artistsforanimals.org.uk
Website: http://www.artistsforanimals.org.uk/

LAA's next meeting takes place on Monday 10th May

7.30-9.30pm At Marchmont Community Centre, 62 Marchmont Street, London WC1. Nearest tube: Russell Square, but close to Euston. We have a speaker from Animal Aid with an update on the pet shop campaign which has so far been successful in getting bird shows banned and persuaded shops to stop selling animals. There will also be delicious vegan food after the meeting

Saturday 15th : Movement for Compassionate Living

Annual Members Meeting. 1pm - 5pm at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1 (nearest underground Holborn) . [map] .
See http://www.mclveganway.org.uk/

Monday 17th : : GlaxoSmithKline AGM

To be held at the Queen Elizabeth 11 Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London SW1, from 2.30pm.

Contact Stevenage AR: 01438 220480 / 07818 041220

Wednesday 19th : : Bantin & Kingman

Demos at B&K, suppliers of animals, technicians, equipment and feeds for the vivisection industry.
1pm at The Field Station, Grimston, Aldborough, Hull HU11 4QE, (at Garton on B1242, Hornsea to Withernsea), E Yorks . [map]

B&K Campaign: 07961 967063
click here for more information.

Saturday 22nd : 8th Global Boycott of Procter and Gamble Day

Uncaged Campaigns join forces with US group In Defense of Animals, and activists all over the world, for an international day of action to highlight and oppose Procter & Gamble's (P&G) poisoning and killing of animals in the development of their consumer products. Please join us in this successful and growing anti-vivisection campaign!

See http://www.uncaged.co.uk/pg.htm

Uncaged, 9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield, S1 4EG
Ph: 0114 272 2220 . Fax: 0114 272 2225
Email: info@uncaged.co.uk
Website: http://www.uncaged.co.uk/

Saturday 22nd : : Stop Shell and HLS

Protest at the Shell garage, Welling, Kent from 1.30pm. Shell pay the notorious Huntingdon Life Sciences to torture animals to test new petrochemical products. Click here for details.

 

Saturday 22nd : : Leicester Cruelty Free Fair

10am-4pm at City Rooms, (top of Market Place), Leicester.
Featuring many local animal sanctuaries and Leicester Wildlife Hospital. Cruelty free trading stalls, including Dr Hadwen Trust, and lots of tasty vegan grub. Leicester Animal Concern: 0116 262 2030

Saturday 22nd - Saturday 29th : Greyhound Awareness Week

 

Greyhound Awareness Week gives an opportunity for all those concerned about the plight of greyhounds to educate the public about the mass slaughter of dogs caused by the greyhound racing industry. With a large enough boycott by ordinary people, the industry can be brought to its knees and the suffering and untimely death of thousands of greyhounds prevented. Street stalls and/or demos will be taking place throughout the country. Anyone who would like to take part, please contact Greyhound Action for leaflets, posters, petition forms etc.

Please organise in your area.

Greyhound Action
PO Box 127, Kidderminster, DY10 3UZ
Tel: 01562 745778 . Fax: 0870 138 3993
E-mail: greyhoundaction@blueyonder.co.uk
Website: http://www.greyhoundaction.co.uk/

Mon 24th - Sun 30th : National Vegetarian Week

Individuals and families are welcome to get involved in National Vegetarian Week as well as groups, organisations and businesses. See website for suggestions.

Vegetarian Society: 0161 925 2000
Email: info@vegsoc.org
Website: http://www.vegsoc.org/nvw/

Saturday 29th May: : Hunt Sabs Benefit Gig

Punk benefit gig at Chat's Palace, Homerton, London. With Icons Of Filth, Active Slaughter, Lost Cherrees & Kismet HC. Split benefit for North & East London Hunt Sabs and the Haringey Solidarity Group. 7:30pm till 11:30pm. Adm: £5.

Website: http://www.northandeastlondonhuntsabs.com/index2.htm#events