Wednesday, April 26, 2006

War takes on HLS Customers and Supporters

Activists assembled in front of Columbia Management in midtown Manhattan to educate the neighborhood about the horror that Columbia Management is supporting with all of it's investments in LSRI stock. Chants and screams could be heard for blocks as police filled the area and surrounded the busy sidewalk.

Our next stop was a Wachovia branch just a few blocks away. The shock in the eyes of the employees and passersby was priceless as they saw pictures of animals inside HLS that had been tortured to death because of a GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Director, Robert Ingram, who also sits on the board of Wachovia Bank. GSK is a major customer of Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Moving on, we hit up another Wachovia Bank branch, draping the banner across the way and marching up to the bank to let everyone know what goes on and the terror Robert Ingram is causing to cute little bunnies, cat and kittens and every other animal HLS can get their grubby little hands on.

Not even close to being done, we crossed the street and gave a good shouting at Chugai Pharma, a company that directly funds Huntingdon with contracts in murder. After 30 minutes or so, we had gotten to see almost everyone in the building as they all filed past us on their way home from work. We expressed our feelings and passion about the 500 animals killed by HLS every day. Clearly upset from their neighbor in the same building, maybe even down the hall, some promised to say something to Chugai Pharma, subsidiary of pharmaceutical giant, Roche.

Moving on and staying local we visited the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to drop off some information about one of their Trustees and Directors, Dr. Tadataka Yamada. It would seem that Mr. Yamada is also in bed with GSK and has blood all over his hands as well. We gave them some flyers and a copy of “The Truth” on DVD and left the posh building back out onto Madison Avenue, where voices rang out about this GSK director.

After 15 minutes, two women from the Rockefeller Fund came down to talk to us. They told us how they watched the DVD and could hear us on the 37th floor of their building. They had only heard about HLS today and promised to get us Mr. Yamada's contact information, as well as to take this matter up with him.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, being a progressive group concerned with environmental and social justice causes, was not only thanking us, but telling us how proud they were of us that we would get up and motivate to do this. It would seem that they work on organizing these types of events themselves and love to see them in action.