Title: SPEAK National Demo in Oxford
Description: "World Day for Laboratory Animals is a United Nations recognized day
of international commemoration of the suffering and killing of millions
of innocent sentient beings in laboratories throughout the world.
Behind
the ‘dreaming spires of Oxford’, its university is responsible for the
torture and death of countless numbers of animals in cruel and
worthless experiments; animals like Felix the monkey, who had the top
of his skull sliced off, electrodes implanted into his brain, was
chemically brain damaged and then, when he had outlived his usefulness,
was killed in July last year.
With
Oxford University’s new animal research laboratory on South Parks Road
nearing completion, inside which many, many more animals like Felix
will be tortured and killed, SPEAK will be holding a rally and march
through the centre of Oxford on April 19th, to mark World Day and to
make it clear to the university and its friends in high places that our
fight will never end until animal abuse inside its laboratories is a
thing of the past.
The opening of the new lab will
signal the beginning of the next phase in the campaign against animal
cruelty at Oxford University. Whereas in the last four years the
demonstrations have been held against the building of the lab, in the
future the protests will be held directly against those who are
mutilating and brutalising the animals inside the lab. They will be
able to see us, they will be able to hear us and they will not be able
to hide.
The
animals inside the laboratories of Oxford have no voice of their own,
they need us to SPEAK out for them. Their lives belong to them, and
no-one else. Please join us to fight for their rights and freedom, we
are all they have." (quoted from http://www.speakcampaigns.org/diary.php#natdemo) There's transport being organised from all over the country, check out http://www.speakcampaigns.org/diary.php#natdemo SPEAK's website for more info. There is also a benefit gig afterwards at the North Oxford Rugby Club with a late bar, AR stalls, vegan food, a raffle, good company and more =)
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