Los Angeles Indymedia : Activist News

A loud and vigorous protest was aimed at the walls of BlackRock, Inc. which is an American multinational investment management corporation for it's association with Astra Zeneca who contracts with Huntington Life Sciences or HLS. The company conducts experiments on various primates and mammals in the context of toxic household substances and their harmful effects.

There has been a ten year campaign to shut HLS down with companies such as ARCO, Johnson and Johnson, Charles Swab, Merril Lynch, Novartis and Xerox cutting their ties to the firm.

Photos and additional details: Primate Liberation Week Protest at BlackRock Inc. by Robert Stuart Lowden

June 2011: After months of scanning, laying out, editing, polishing, and re-polishing, the Underground book is finished, printed, and ready to ship. Underground is 500+ pages of history, interviews, how-to articles, and essays on and by the Animal Liberation Front.

Here is just a sample of the many chapters: *Dealing with grand juries *How to sabotage traps *Directory of infiltrators and informants *Letter from A.L.F. prisoner David Barbarash *Anti-prison work and the animal liberation movement *Choosing A.L.F. Targets *Security tips for activists *Fishing sabotage tactics *Fur farm liberations *How the A.L.F. raided the University of Arizona *Mink liberation myths vs. facts. *Burned-down Oregon slaughterhouse closes *A.L.F. documentary announced *List of U.S. fur farm raids....

Complete announcement: "Underground: The A.L.F. in the 1990s" book published by Warcry Communications

The next World Week for the Abolition of Meat (WWAM) will take place, as planned, between 23 September and 30 September 2011. The aim is to promote again and again the idea that the production and consumption of animal flesh must be abolished.

Advocating the abolition of meat is the logical extension of vegetarianism or veganism. People who are against bull-fighting do not only ask the public to boycott bull-fighting events, they ask for bull-fighting to be banned. The opponents of "foie gras" do not only advise people against buying it, they want force feeding to be banned. Why would the opponents of meat be the only ones to restrict themselves to giving individual advice?

The refusal to eat meat can be seen as a political boycott and as the expression of one's support for the demand for abolition similar to the campaign for the abolition of slavery in Britain at the end the 18th century where 300,000 people boycotted the sugar produced from slave plantations. . . .

Full announcement: World Week for the Abolition of Meat: 23-30 Sept 2011 by meat-abolition.org

This week TV stations are observing Shark Week by running shows that play on people's fear of sharks. One even re-creates a grisly attack on a human. Meanwhile, individuals are paying homage to Jaws on their websites. It seems like a better way to observe Shark Week might be to learn more about sharks, how best to avoid contact with certain ones, and how we humans are eradicating them out of existence. Instead, sharks continue to be vilified, and the misconceptions (many arguably the result of Jaws) are being perpetuated. All of this makes them more desirable as hunting trophies, meals, and aquarium exhibits.

Article: Another Way to Observe Shark Week? by Rick Panna

Animal Rights activists took their message to 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica on Memorial Day to protest the use of live animals in experiments at UCLA and Cedars Sinai. Veiled Animal Rights activists dressed in black carried a coffin and signs down one of Los Angeles's busiest shopping streets on Sunday May 29th in memoriam for the millions of animals that die annually in laboratories. Passersby were stopped in their tracks as the procession wound it's way slowly down 3rd Street Promenade. Organized by Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! Los Angeles chapter.

Report/photos: National Day of Mourning for Animals In Laboratories by Julia MacKenzie and Dom Greco (photography)