Wednesday, May 7, 2008
victory...for now
Settlement Halts Sea Lion Trapping and Killing This Year
(May 6, 2008) — Today, The Humane Society of the United States and the Wild Fish Conservancy announced the filing of a settlement agreement with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the States of Oregon and Washington to halt the planned trapping or killing of up to 85 sea lions at the Bonneville Dam this year. The agreement means that no sea lions may be trapped or killed before The HSUS' lawsuit challenging the program is resolved sometime in 2009.
The settlement comes two days after the disturbing news that six sea lions were shot in their closed traps at the dam on Sunday, and a week after a seventh sea lion died under the agencies' care after trapping. An eighth sea lion was discovered dead further down river today, and the cause of death is still under investigation. The HSUS has offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for the shooting of trapped sea lions, and both state and federal law enforcement agencies are investigating.
"In light of these reckless and illegal killings, the government has done the right thing by shelving its plans to trap and kill sea lions this year," said Jonathan R. Lovvorn, vice president for animal protection litigation for The HSUS. "This program was clearly fostering an environment of intolerance and persecution of these animals, and it's time look for a more balanced approach to salmon conservation."
Federal law only allows the killing of sea lions when the agency proves they are having a significant negative impact on salmon. The HSUS has challenged the removal program in court as being irrational in light of other much higher sources of salmon mortality, like fishing and dams. Last week, a federal appeals court issued an order preventing any killing of sea lions. However, the court had allowed trapping and live relocation to continue until the case was resolved. The latest agreement will halt all trapping, relocation, and shooting of California sea lions.
Media contacts:
Kristen Everett: 240-654-2667, keverett @humanesociety.org
Kurt Beardslee: 425-788-1167, kurt@wildfishconservancy.org
The Humane Society of the United States is the nation's largest animal protection organization – backed by 10.5 million Americans, or one of every 30. For more than a half-century, The HSUS has been fighting for the protection of all animals through advocacy, education and hands-on programs. Celebrating animals and confronting cruelty -- On the web at humanesociety.org.
Wild Fish Conservancy is a non-profit organization dedicated to the recovery and conservation of the Northwest region's wild-fish ecosystems, with about 2,400 members. Wild Fish Conservancy's staff of over 20 professional scientists, advocates, and educators work to promote technically and socially responsible habitat, hatchery, and harvest management to better sustain the region's wild fish heritage.
Interested in taking action online to help animals? Then join our online community! Go to:
https://community.hsus.org/humane/join
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
shut down hundington life sciences! free the shaq 7
Find our more about about HLS and what you can do to close them with this A to
Z of Huntingdon Life Sciences:
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A is for.... AIR FRANCE. They ship in animals to HLS. This company dominate the
market in flying primates to labs in Europe, many die in transit from
suffocation.
Air France HQ, 45, rue de Paris, 95 747 Roissy CDG Cedex, Tel: 01 41 56 78 00
(9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday), Fax : 01 41 56 70 29
Air France, 10 Warwick Street, Piccadilly Circus, London, W1 5RA, Tel: 0845
0845 111
USA, Tel: 1-800-237-2747
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B is for... BEAGLES. Channel four filmed Huntingdon workers punching tiny
beagle puppies in the face because they were crying with pain from having
needles pushed in them. They were swung, shaken and punched whilst other
workers stood around laughing.
Find out for yourself, view the footage here: http://www. shac.
net/HLS/exposed/broughton. html
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C is for... CUSTOMERS. Customers are the companies that pay HLS to carry out
tests for them. No customers = No HLS.
Find customers in your area and get out your placards and megaphones:
http://www. shac. net/HLS/clients. html
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D is for... DAIICHI. Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd have used HLS hundred of times to
test their products.
EU HQ: Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH, Zielstattstrasse 48, 81379 Munich, Germany,
Tel: +49 (0)89/78 08-0
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E is for... EXPOSED. HLS have been exposed on eight separate occasions for
animal cruelty. They have been exposed by undercover workers both in the UK and
US as well the national media. One expose in 1997 led to Huntingdons License
being suspended for animal cruelty.
You can see the evidence here: http://www. shac. net/HLS/exposed. html
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F is for... FRAUDALENT. A senior scientist has recently filed a law suit
against HLS after he was sacked without explanation after refusing to falsify
data in laboratory experiments.
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G is for... GLAXOSMITHKLINE. GSK are one of HLS's largest customers. They have
great demo targets all over the world. If you can't go on a demo you can write
to their HQ and ask them to justify what they do: GlaxoSmithKline, Glaxo
Wellcome UK Ltd., Stockley Park West, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB11 1BT.
You can also ring them free from the U.
K (infact GSK will have to pay for your call): 0800 221441
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H is for... HERBICIDAL MANIACS. Despite claims by Huntingdon that they only
carry out life saving research, they in-fact carry out tests for pointless
products like Herbicides and Agro chemicals.
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I is for... INFO PACKS. Want to find out more about the campaign? E-mail
info@shac.net and ask for a free info pack.
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J is for... JUNKIES. Workers have been caught out taking drugs and then working
with animals. Whilst at work, UK Animal techinician James Berry took speed, and
then offered it around to other employees.
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K is for... KIDDY FIDDLERS. Two executives of some of Huntingdon's largest
customers have recently been exposed as peadophiles. Pfizer's executive Alan
Hesketh faces trial after posing as a 28 year old woman and trading cruel
images of children engaged in sex acts. He did this both from his home and work
computer, as well as whist staying at a hotel during a UN conference.
http://www. dailymail. co. uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.
html?in_article_id=548273&in_page_id=1770
Also the former VP of Chiron (Novarits) was recently caught in a police sting,
after arranging to meet up to have sex with underage girls, luckily, however,
the "girls" were actually police decoys.
http://www. indymedia. org. uk/en/2008/04/395573. html
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L is for... LIARS. HLS tried to cover up SHAC's latest report. Two workers
spoke out about the cruelty they witnessed in the beagle unit at Huntingdon
Life Sciences.
Brian Cass then wrote to all their customers to tell them SHAC made it up, and
to ignore it! Silly Cass, obviously we got it all on tape! Go here for the
latest expose: http://www. shac. net/MISC/Inside_HLS. html and here to see the
letter full of lies that Brian Cass sent out: http://www. shac.
net/ACTION/newsletters/HLS_letter. pdf
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M is for... Morale. Leaked documents from HLS's Occold Lab reveal that morale
is very low. One technician when interviewed about why he walked out of work in
the middle of the day without informing anyone, stated that he "had reached the
end of his tether." He said that other members of staff felt the same, and that
he "was merely the first to crack.
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N is for... NYSE EURONEXT. This is the most important target for the financial
aspect to this campaign. Without them HLS can't trade their shares and they
have no future whatsoever. Contact NYSE and ask them to stop dealing with HLS.
Here are their offices:
AMSTERDAM, Beursplein,5, 1000 GD Amsterdam, Tel: +31 (0)20 550 44 44
BRUSSELS, Palais de la Bourse/Beurspaleis, Place de la Bourse/Beursplein,
1000 Brussels, Tel: +32 (0)2 509 12 11
LISBON, Av.
da Liberdade, No 196, 1250-147 Lisbon, Tel: +351 (0)21 790 00 00
LONDON,
Cannon Bridge House, 1 Cousin Lane, London EC4R 3XX, Tel: +44 (0)20 7623 0444
NYSE, 3 Old Burlington Street, W1S 3AE, Tel 0207 025 7882
NYSE, Tower 42,
25 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1HQ PARIS, 39, rue Cambon, 75039 Paris
Cedex 01, Tel: +33 (0)1 49 27 10 00
NEW YORK, Board of Directors, c/o The corporate Secretary, NYSE Euronext, 11
Wall Street, New York, NY10005
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O is for... ORANGE. Agent Orange was tested at Huntingdon Life Sciences. The
deadly chemical was used for deforestation during the Vietnam war and ended up
giving soldiers cancer as well as causing birth defects for families in the
local vicinity.
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P is for... PHENOMENEX. This company supply vital laboratory equipment to HLS.
Their managing director said that withouth them HLS would find it difficult to
keep running.
PHENOMENEX, Melville House, Queens Avenue, Hurdsfield Industrial Estate,
Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 2BN, Tel: 01625 501 367 Fax: 01625 501 796
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Q is for... QUARTER. HLS's first quarter results are just out... but so are
SHAC's and demo's are on the up. Direct action attacks against HLS carried out
by a separate group called the Animal Liberation Front are also on the up.
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R is for... RACISTS. An senior scientist at their US site has recently filed a
lawsuit against HLS after being paid less than white people.
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S is for... SUPPLIERS. A laboratory can't operate very well without equipment,
without stationary, without computer software... Knocking out suppliers won't
close HLS but will make life incredibly difficult, coupled with the lack of
customers could prove to be devastating.
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T is for... TEVA.
This company have used HLS tonnes of times to test their products, they have
sites all over the world, check it out: http://www. tevapharm. com/worldwide/
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U is for... UNSCIENTIFIC. When asked if they agreed that animal experimentation
can be misleading because of anatomical and physiological differences between
animals and humans, 88% of doctors agreed.
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V is for... VICKY RUSH. This Huntingdon worker broke the leg of a marmoset when
restraining him with a gangcage.
The animal was susequently "euthanased"
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W is for... WORLDWIDE. SHAC global has taken HLS by storm. E-mail info@shac.net
to get active in your country!
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X is for... XENOTRANSPLANTATION . Huntingdon carried out sick
xenotransplantation experiment for Novartis. This involved stitching pig hearts
in to babboons. These primates were taken from the wild and shipped across the
world for the sicko's to play around with. Some suffocated in transit, infact
HLS predicted this would happen, which is why they ordered twice what they
needed. The experiment was a failure and HLS broke the law over 520 times
during this study.
Global HQ: Novartis International AG, PO Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland, Tel
+41 61 324 11 11
Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd, Frimley Business Park, Frimley/Camberley,
Surrey, GU16 7SR, Tel: 01276 692255
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Y is for... YOU. When will Huntingdon close? Well that's down to you... the
more action that happens, the quicker it will come.
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Z is for... ZYKLON B.
This was a cyanide-based insecticide used by Nazi's to gas jews to death during
the holocaust, it was made by Bayer one of Huntingdons customers
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**Portland Animal Defense League**
PO Box 11883
Portland, OR 97211
sea lions vs. hicks
these are the sea lions killed last weekend..... one was already killed in captivity...why did they just let them sit there...
so you think portland is a progressive town? we are surrounded by all sides with zombies. both the department of fish and wildlife, and ignoramus small town inbred idiots. go 20 minutes in any direction and you will find these people. please, do what you can. i myself am ready to organize a boat to go out and permanently disrupt these asshole's fishing spot.
National Call In Day for Sea Lions (Monday)!!!
Please distribute far and wide!
6 Sea Lions were just murdered (2 Endangered Stellar
Sea Lions were
among the victims) by someone at the Bonneveille Dam
while they could not
escape the traps they were in. One has died at a Zoo
in Tacoma at the
hands of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
after trapping,
stressing, branding, and anethesizing numbers of sea
lions that are
supposed to be protected, but instead are being sold
to Sea World in Florida.
The Murder and the Trapping Needs to Stop!!!!
Please call the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA),
the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW),
and Governor Kulongoski Friday and Monday.
Let them know that you want the trapping to stop
completely and not
continue because you don't want anymore Sea Lions
killed!
LEAVE THE SEA LIONS ALONE!!!!
We are their voice!!!!
Call many times!
Monday
9:00am - 11:00am
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service NW Regional
Office: 206-526-6150
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Oregon Dept of Fish and Wildlife Director's Office:
503-947-6044
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Governor Kulongoski: 503-378-4582
Please also contact Washington governor Gregoire, who
is in a position
to stop this slaughter, and who may be responsive to
our calls.
Governor's Office (360) 902-4111
Also, contact the Washington Dept of Fish ad Wildlife,
because they are
as culpable as the Oregon Dept of Fish and Wildlife,
and they should
be hearing about our outrage at the killing of a sea
lion in their
custody. THis is the phone number for their director:
360-902-2200.
Your calls matter. Make them. There's no excuse not
to. If you care
about this issue, take a moment and call. Even if you
can't call at the
times mentioned above, call. It's important.
