24 Feb 2001
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Frontline: HLS Virtual Sit-In (Worldwide)

Frontline Information Service - News 2/24/01

Animal activists announce virtual-sit-in of HLS's website

Press Release
15-02-2001

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), the international animal protection campaign dedicated to shutting down the animal testing lab Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), has received an anonymous communiqué from the Animal Liberation - Tactical Internet Response Network (AL-TIRN) announcing an Electronic Civil Disobedience action against HLS to take place on February 27th.

The communique states, "the physical location of HLS has seen thousands of protesters demonstrating outside their gates. AL-TIRN is now calling all opponents of HLS animal cruelty to participate in a similar action on the internet." This action anticipates that thousands of HLS opponents across the world will participate in a virtual sit-in of the HLS website, effectively shutting it down.

According to the communique, "the campaign against HLS is now being intensified to include a new area of protest aimed at blocking the information highway of the company." This form of internet activism has been used in the past to shut down the website of other animal abusers in the fur and vivisection industry, and was made famous when people around the world flooded the website of President Zedillo of Mexico in support of the Zapatistas of Chiapas Mexico.

The campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences, one of the world’s largest and most notorious animal testing centres, has been the subject of a relentless campaign after it was exposed in five undercover investigations showing horrific animal cruelty and sloppy fraudulent science. The investigations revealed workers maliciously punching beagle puppies in the face, dissecting a live monkey, transplanting a frozen pig heart into an otherwise healthy baboon thereby killing the animal, taking drugs and drinking at work, and falsifying scientific data, procedures, and animal welfare standards.

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty has convinced a large number of shareholders and customers of HLS into dropping their support of the company. The results have been all-time low worker morale, shattered customer confidence, and crisis level shareprices that almost lead HLS into foreclosure less than one month ago.

According to a SHAC spokesperson, "for every 500 animals HLS brutally murders everyday there are 500 strategies that activists will employ to destroy their vile business." The announcement by AL-TIRN comes on the heels of an action filled week that saw over 1500 UK activists lay siege to several of HLS’s biggest clients causing severe disruption, and US activists flooding the phone lines, email systems, and offices across the states of Stephen’s Inc, HLS’s biggest shareholder and financier that saved it from financial collapse.

The SHAC spokesperson further states, "we’ll be in their offices, at their doorsteps, on their phones, or in their computers. There will be no rest for the wicked." The communique ends promising to release more information on what demonstrators should do as the date approaches.

Communique As Follows:

AL-TIRN ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC ACTION AGAINST HUNTINGDON LIFE SCIENCES - Tuesday 27th February (GMT)

Animal Liberation - Tactical Internet Response Network (AL-TIRN), a group behind several Electronic Civil Disobedience actions against animal abusers around the world, is announcing a joint action against Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).

The campaign against HLS is now being intensified to include a new area of protest aimed at blocking the information highway of the company. The physical location of HLS has seen thousands of protesters demonstrating outside their gates. AL-TIRN is now calling all opponents of HLS animal cruelty to participate in a similar action on the internet.

Everyone anywhere in the world can participate. You do not need to be a computer expert.

Stay tuned.

More details to be announced soon.

More information about HLS can be found at http://www.shac.net

The TIRN website is at: http://floodnet.webjump.com

--ENDS

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