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When: Saturday 19th April 2008 Time: 12 noon
Where: Oxpens Park, Oxpens Road, Oxford (map)
Details:
World Day for Laboratory Animals is a United Nations recognized day of international commemoration of the suffering and killing of millions of innocent sentient beings in laboratories throughout the world.
Behind the 'dreaming spires of Oxford', its university is responsible for the torture and death of countless numbers of animals in cruel and worthless experiments; animals like Felix the monkey, who had the top of his skull sliced off, electrodes implanted into his brain, was chemically brain damaged and then, when he had outlived his usefulness, was killed in July last year.
With Oxford University's new animal research laboratory on South Parks Road nearing completion, inside which many, many more animals like Felix will be tortured and killed, SPEAK will be holding a rally and march through the centre of Oxford on April 19th, to mark World Day and to make it clear to the university and its friends in high places that our fight will never end until animal abuse inside its laboratories is a thing of the past.
The opening of the new lab will signal the beginning of the next phase in the campaign against animal cruelty at Oxford University. Whereas in the last four years the demonstrations have been held against the building of the lab, in the future the protests will be held directly against those who are mutilating and brutalizing the animals inside the lab. They will be able to see us, they will be able to hear us and they will not be able to hide.
The animals inside the laboratories of Oxford have no voice of their own, they need us to SPEAK out for them. Their lives belong to them, and no-one else. Please join us to fight for their rights and freedom, we are all they have.
Transport is being organized from all over the country. For information on transport from your area, please visit http://www.speakcampaigns.org/diary.php/#tsp. Please contact 07840 986864 if you are either able to offer space(s) in your vehicle or you need a lift.
Event: SPEAK benefit gig taking place after the national demo listed above
When: Saturday 19 April 2008 Time: 7.30 till late
Where: North Oxford Rugby Club, North Hinksey, Oxford, OX2
Band: The GeriPatricks Irish Band
Price: £7.50 (with food included)
Details:
late bar, raffle, AR stalls and much, much more...
Overnight camping at the rugby club is available on Saturday night, £10 charge per tent by the club (no camp fires allowed). If you are interested in camping, you must reserve a pitch prior to the event. Please ring 0845 330 7985 or Mob: 07986 559012 or emailinfo@speakcampaigns.org to reserve your pitch.
For those interested in staying at a nearby hostel, the following information may be of interest:
Central Backpackers Oxford
http://www.centralbackpackers.co.uk/
Ph 44 (0)1865 24 22 88
Email: oxford@centralbackpackers.co.uk
Address: 13 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HH
Oxford Backpackers
http://www.hostels.co.uk/index.php?content=oxford.htm
Ph 44(0) 1865 721 761
FAX 44(0) 1865 203 293
Email: oxford@hostels.co.uk
Address: 9a Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, OX12EW
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