24 Feb 2001
Frontline Information Service - News 2/24/01
Animal activists announce virtual-sit-in of HLS's website
Press Release
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
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