Saturday, April 29, 2006
WAR Campaign to Educate Pfizer – Redux

Demo 1 – Pfizer

Activists with Win Animal Rights started the final day of their World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week activities with another protest at Pfizer. A banner proclaiming World Laboratory Animal Liberation Day was prominently displayed along with more graphic banners and posters. Once again, hundreds of color flyers were distributed to pedestrians and anyone going into or coming out of Pfizer headquarters.

Demo 2 - Pfizer Director – Medical Relations Revisited

During our previous visit, the building security manager made it clear to us that we were unwelcome at his building, the home of Pfizer's David Clay. We had explained yesterday that our protest was totally legal and that as such we would feel free to return. We made good on our promise to return as we chanted about David & Pfizer's complicity in the killing of animals at HLS.

Demo 3 – Pfizer Chief Medical Officer Revisited

Next stop was just down the way, the home of Dr. Joseph M. Feczko, Pfizer's Chief Medical Officer and President of Worldwide Development. There were lots of people walking this quiet residential street and many stopped to see why we were there. Since our last visit a day ago, Dr. Feczko had removed his name from his doorbell and did not answer the door when the bell was rung. We did however see him in his darkened living room, as he peeked at us from behind his curtains and frantically phoned the police.

Demo 4 – Pfizer CEO and Chairman of the Board Revisited

Next up was a return visit to Hank McConnell's apartment in posh Midtown Manhattan. We had hoped that his daughter Alison would come down to speak with us, but she didn't. We didn't stay too long (only long enough for the doorman to almost get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from repeatedly dialing the police who didn't arrive until after we were gone).

We will just have to keep returning until we catch Alison at home. We want to make sure that she received the DVD we left for her. Wonder if the Pfizer Security Guard stationed in the lobby of this address will be kept there on a permanent basis?

Demo 5 - Pfizer Vice Chairperson Revisited

Pfizer's Vice Chairperson Karen Katen has had several visits from activists previous to World Week and we wanted to make sure that she knew that she was still one of our favorite Pfizer Execs to visit. The acoustics in her neighborhood are an activist's dream and the private driveway with large plate glass windows and lots of neighbors milling about the lobby make this a continued favorite. Karen, when are you going to come down and talk to us? “We will never back down” chanted protestors “until they stop the killing.”

Demo 6 – Bank of America Executive Vice President Revisited

We were in Jeffrey Barker's neighborhood and couldn't resist a return visit. Activists lined the plate glass windows of Barker's lobby and chanted “500 animals died today, Jeffrey Barker is to blame.” He is to blame as long as Bank of America holds millions of dollars of share in Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Demo 7 – Director – GlaxoSmithKline

Sir Deryck Maughan has been a regular stop on the Executive HLS Customer Death Tour of Manhattan. We have been to this building countless times and still no Sir Deryck. If he continues to elude us we may have to start the regular protests at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and NYU Medical Center again. Maybe we will catch him on his way to one of their Board meetings. Sir Deryck, GSK is a major customer to HLS. You have blood on your hands. Do the right thing. Cut your ties.

Demo 8 – Pfizer Senior Director

Our final visit was to the home of Melissa Grigorieff, Senior Director of Marketing Pfizer, Inc. Although this was our 8 th and last demo of the night it was as loud and energetic as our first. The street rang with chants and cadences and we wrapped up World Week very much the way it began 7 days ago. It is our hope that all of the literature distributed and the information packets personally delivered to Executives will have a profound impact on Pfizer, Inc. and the other HLS financial supporters. We hope to hear soon that they are as disgusted as we are about the cruelty and abuse going on at Huntingdon Life Sciences and that they are severing their ties with HLS.