WEEK OF ACTION DAY 2 >>

At 2 PM around a dozen activists again showed up to demonstrate at the Salt Palace. Inside the Salt Palace were over 4,000 animal abusing scum present at the AALAS convention; sponsored by Huntingdon Life Sciences, Covance, and other similar slime. Today was the first day we began distributing the DVD "Inside Vivisection: What They Don't Want You to See." On this DVD we have footage from inside Covance, Huntingdon Life Sciences, and Sinclair Labs; all three are major sponsors of this years AALAS conference. We handed out several DVD's to passersby, but only a handful to conference attendees. Several people attending the conference made ridiculous comments like "your DVD only contains lies." I'm sorry - but this DVD is raw footage. Are you claiming we staged those incidents of abuse? Or are you just ashamed of your profession and your conference?

The only group of people willing to engage us in any semblance of discussion was a pro-vivisection organization called Pro-TEST. We spoke with a gentleman named Laurie Pycroft who said he was more than willing to debate us on the use of animals for research in public. We were quite shocked at this, because we've been trying for years to get similar debates happening in the States. We'll be in communication with Pycroft and Pro-TEST and keep you updated.

The police presence - especially the embarassingly-obvious-undercover kind, were everywhere snapping our photos and at one point telling us they couldn't use our bullhorn. So we had to be loud with our voices and our drums - and we sure got the job done. Unmarked vehicles also followed activists for blocks as they left the demo.

Then in the evening we showed up again at the Marriott Hotel which is housing the conference attendees. While the conference attendees were watching a private performance of one of the American Idol losers, we showed up with a Body Screen showing gruesome images from inside animal labs and blaring the depressing noises of screaming animals that these people have become so used to. One person glanced at the footage and simply said "yea, so?" Many many passersby took DVD's of the footage we were showing on the body screen.

We then marched down to the Hilton, the other hotel housing vivisectors, and conducted a very noisy demonstration that had the entire hotel security in front forming a barricade. Vivisectors watched from their windows on the upper floors. They may feel comfortable on the 15th floor of the Hilton, but what about when we show up at their offices or their homes to protest? The campaign to close HLS and to end vivisection is worldwide and we'll stop at nothing.

Tomorrow home protests resume - and for the 4 nights after that as well. Huntsman Corporation is now officially on the radar for Salt Lake animal activists; who will be next?

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