Novartis gets 5th office demo of week!

Audio coverage courtesy of WSQT Radio
At 4pm on August 28, animal advocates showed up yet again at Novartis , 701 Penn Av e NW near the Navy Memorial for yet another loud, bullhorn-boosted protest. Presumably this is their lobbying office, from which they contribute millions to poisoning health care reform.

Activists were demanding that drugmaker Novartis permanently stop sending business to Huntingdon Life Sciences(HLS).

For about an hour, protesters were in front of Novartis for the fifth time this week-with NO cops! Hundreds of people passed by on their way home, many asking our of curiosity what the hell was going on with Novartis to attract such a protest.

HLS is a real piece of work. Seven undercover investigations have each found a continuation of animal torture unrelated to study requirements, such as the infamous incident where beagle puppies were punched in the face. The fact that shit like this keeps happening implies a failure of HLS to learn from their mistakes. This, in turn, casts into doubt any ability of their part to understand the principles of science-where you try to learn from the results of an action.

In fact, the sloppy science at HLS is suspected in having a role in the Vioxx deaths. When Merck was testing Vioxx, HLS got the contract, and duly reported that the drug was safe after killing who knows how many puppies. When the drug was given to people, dozens died and hundreds were hospitalized after heart attacks.

Speaking of heart attacks, Bonnie Washington must have nearly had one when protesters showed up at her Chevy Chase home after the first protest of this weeklong series. Protesters on Friday asked how she liked that night.

FBI agent tries, fails to order HLS/Novartis protesters to disperse

Audio coverage by WSQT Radio
On August 25, protests against Hungtingdon Life Sciences customer Novartis continued with an 8AM protest at the downtown DC office at 701 Pennsylvania Ave NW.

About a half hour of protest was followed by activists walking around the building-followed by security guards. When activists returned to the main entrance, a blonde woman popped out the door, showed an FBI badge, and attempted without success to order protesters to disperse.

The blonde woman is the FBI agent. protesters laughed at her demands-the only thing that can get HLS protesters to leave Novaertis alone is for Novartis to agree never again to do business with puppy-killing Huntingdon Life Sciences, a contract animal testking lab infamous for their brutality.

UPDATES:

TON of cops at next day’s HLS/Novatis demo

4Th day of demos, NO cops!

Novartis gets HAMMERED in DC for HLS contracts

The Week of August 24-29 has been designated at a global week of action against puppy-killing Huntingdon Life Sciences. In DC, protests started out hot and heavy, with two office demos and a home demo against Novartis in the space of about 16 hours.

Audio coverage by WSQT Radio

Warming up at 4 PM with an office demo. Protesters divided for a while to cover two doorways.

Spooky home demo at home of 3801 Williams lane in Chevy Chase, MD- Bonnie Washington, Vice President for health policy for Novartis.
Protesters saw her car headinG down the driveway-and she saw the activsts, turned around, and bailed back to the house!

A nasty neighbor threatens the legal observer-I thought she was about to get tackled or beaten. This same man also tried without success to intimidate protesters into removing face masks (worn for security in light of AETA cases, etc).

Eveyone got out in one piece-and with NO cops appearing!

The Self Described Anarchist Collective has obtained the following email exchange on the G20 Summit from sources who prefer not to be named.

The Self Described Anarchist Collective has obtained the following email exchange from sources who prefer not to be named.

Send a message to Nemacolin here.

Email archives: Infiltrated messages of the Latrinal Art Dudes, 8/10/09

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Abbreviated analysis: Law enforcement officials should keep a close eye on the possibility of this burgeoning latrinal art terrorist Organization,especially in regards to possibilities of a widespread assault on Nemacolin concurrent with the G20 meetings. Were this group to be bolstered with the support of the anarchist community or other radical fringe operation, disruption of the meetings is a real possibility, and disruption of the morning breakfast buffet is guaranteed. The following information was gathered with the help of Google, and displays the growing discontent in this precariously placed field.

To:Me

From: Scary Secretary

Bill

Sour news. Nemacolin just canceled our spaces and our event [re: Pittsburgh Latrinal Art Convention, 9/24/09]. We need to come up with something real quick-like.

Morgan

To: Me

From:Creepy Stalker Boss

betterthangod@latrinalarts.com>

Morgan,

What the fuck? We are supposed to have a hundred guests. What gives? Did they give you a reason? What are we going to do with 500 paninis? Ethel demanded squid and horseradish paninis! She is going to be super pissed!

Bill

To:Me

From: Scary Secretary

Bill,

Apparently, the G20 is coming to Pittsburgh. Do you want me to get that place in Macchu Picchu? Are paninis appropriate in South America? Mark’s calling. I’ll email later.

Morgie

To: Me

From:Creepy Stalker Boss

Morgan,

Hold off on the Peruvian thing. I’m not the president of LAD anymore. I didn’t know La Libre Esthétique project was still going strong. Give me all the info you have on these Nemacolin fuckers. How’s the hubby?

Bill

To:Me

From: Scary Secretary

Bill,

Mark still wants you dead. But here’s what we have on Nemacolin: It’s owned by Maggie Hardy Magerko. She’s the president of 84 Lumber. She is the 133rd richest of the Forbes 400. She feels that Thanksgivings (an actual quote) provide strong relationships. She has an auditorium named after her at Penn State- Eberly. She hired Bill Cosby to entertain her father on his 78th birthday, and was Lynn Swann’s biggest campaign contributor. She also gives to Murtha and any other politician she can get her hands on.. What did they expel you for?

Morgie

PS. The G20 is the meeting of the world’s 20 richest countries. It has nothing to do with art.

To: Me

From:Creepy Stalker Boss

betterthangod@latrinalarts.com>

Morgan,

Being too hoity-toity about limericks in ballpoint pen. I don’t want to talk about it. There is an art to these things. Not an art expo at Nemacolin? Richest countries? Is this some sort of global domination thing? Sean Hannity says it’s proof of a New World Order. Bill Cosby? I didn’t know he could be bought. I’ve had fantasies of Mr. Cosby playing with Steppenwolf. Or was it The Association? Okay, so let’s still hold this event. We should hold it at Nemacolin, perhaps as a demonstration. I mean, who is going to protest the G20? Do people even know what this is? Does anyone care? I’m not sure I do, but they fucked us. Tell Mark, I needed the hair dryer. It’s not something worth killing over. I’ll buy him a new one.

Bill

To:Me

From: Scary Secretary

Bill,

The anarchists are planning something, as always. It’s supposed to be a big deal: National Guard and all sorts of monsters. The N. W. O. is taking this very seriously. I’m sure the Teabaggers would hop on this campaign. They are frisky. At least they don’t smell bad and you won’t get scabies from them? I’ll talk to Lucy. She’s a Mormon now, but she has to know someone in the anarchist circles still. She’s a Teabagger to boot, so we might actually have something? You want to hold it on Nemacolin grounds? One hundred people? Where would they stay? Mark says fuck off. It was his grandfather’s hair dryer.

Morgie

To: Me

From:Creepy Stalker Boss

betterthangod@latrinalarts.com>

Morgan,

They spend thousands of dollars on relics “for a good time.” They’ll stay wherever they want minus Nemacolin. You think the President of Fiji is part of the G20? Does he know it’s going on? He’s a member of LAD. And hey thanks Morgan, I’ll propose all you suggested to the council. I’ve mentioned some of it to a couple members and they are totally down. Hector Flaherty wants us to do a full exhibit of tile from Amoco stations across the world. I think it would be neat if one hundred fans of bathroom graffiti exchanged their prizes in front of the most elite. Let’s set up an opening campaign. We should get everyone in LAD to call and complain. Maybe send them faxes about how they will not be able to pay the bills this year because they make 50 percent of their wages off this event. I’ll let you know more after the meeting. And whatever on the hair dryer. It was useful with the goldfish.

Bill

To:Me

From: Scary Secretary

Bill,

We’re sitting here in the park having lemonade and playing charades. Any update on what the council wants to do?

Morgie

To: Me

From:Creepy Stalker Boss

betterthangod@latrinalarts.com>

Morgan,

The Council convened and we have come up with a plan of action, we are asking everyone to email the Nemacolic Organization the following email below. We hope that everyone will send it to them immediately.

“Dearest Nemacolin, its managers, employees and overall haters of art,

We have found ourselves in the position of being at your whims to support the most brutal forces of nature. Our ponderings suggest that we are in fact more stylish and friendly than G20 delegates. We find that our convention and its board unavailable to be an insult to thousands of years of expression. Did not the Peche Merle mean anything? We are the emissaries of the Es Safa, the prostitute at Ephesus and the contemporary riddles prattled on lavatory structures.

Your obsession with the world’s top leaders and their assistants is insulting the common person. They are a jibe at truth. In retribution, we are joining forces with the modern day invaders, the anarchists, and we will create our own Kalmyk Republic in your groove. The time for disappointment has passed. Your participation in the Inquistion against humanity in the form of the most pretentious circus is testament to your feelings about real human beings. Your hotel will be filled with vampires and we are the Hopkins and Stearns. This trangressence against humanity can not remain free of concern. Your birds of a feather feast on the cadavers of the beggars who are scapegoated for despots.

Signed,
Most High Society of Latrinal Art Dudes and Friends”

Japanese Embassy gets whaling protest

Audio Coverage by WSQT Direct Action Radio
On Monday, August 17, about 15 people sickened by the brutality they witnessed on Whale Wars over the weekend staged a protest at the Japanese Embassy against the so-called “research” whaling.

While protesters didn’t have an LRAD sound cannon like the one the whalers used against Sea Shepherd, they did have two LOUD bullhorns that could be set to squeal and feed back.

There were also speeches and chants opposing the whaling-and in some cases, supporting the ramming and sinking of the whaling fleet.

Some in Japan have called Sea Shepherd
“whale Samaurai” warning that their country cannot ingore Sea Shepherd. The root of the word Samaurai is “to serve” and that’s exactly what Sea Shepherd is doing in protecting the lives of whales. Like the Samaurai of old, Sea Shepherd volunteers are willing to give their lives if necessary on behalf of those they serve(the whales) and thus cannot be deterred and will never surrender!

Abbot Labs /HLS home demo August 17

Audio Coverage by WSQT Direct Action Radio

On August 17, animal rights protesters showed up at the home of John Richardson of Abbot Labs, a customer of puppy-killing Huntingdon Life Sciences or HLS.
An estimated 500 animals are tortured to death every day at HLS.

John Richardson, at 2732 P st NW is Vice President of Abbot Fund.In addition to Abbot Labs’ role as a Huntingdon life Sciences customer, they have also been poisoning democracy in the US with their campaign cash. Abbot Fund is Abbot’s campaign contribution fund.

The huge amounts of campaign and lobbying cash pouring into Capitol Hill have been a major factor in corrupting and poisoning efforts to reform America’s outrageous employment-based health insurance system.

HLS home demos return to DC

The “Open the Cages” benefit show on August 9(last week) was followed the next day by protests against customers and suppliers of Huntingdon Life Sciences(HLS). About 500 animal are tortured to death every day at HLS for customers like Abbot labs.

Interview courtesy of WSQT Direct Action Radio

Ms Jennifer Luray lives at 3554 Appleton St NW near just off Connecticut Ave NW. She is the head of government relations for Abbot Labs. On August 9th she was out on her screen porch on the phone-and activists showed up with no warning at all, with two bullhorns on her quiet residential block. Two bullhorns running wide-open on Appleton St make QUITE a ruckus on a quiet Sunday afternoon!

An executive from Bristol-Myers Squibb also received a home demo on August 9.

Staples was protested on August 8, right after the Open the Cages benefit. Staples delivers office supplies to HLS in unmarked trucks, so animal rights activists are asking people NOT to shop at Staples.

These protests and especially the home demos work-Barclays dumped their investment in HLS after a global campaign that included so many protests at a Barclay’s exec in DC’s home that Barclays had to shell out for full time security guards and a massive camera surveillance system. Didn’t work, and Barclays dumped HLS in the end.

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Protesters demand recall of Mayor Fenty

On August 5, an event at the Wardman Park Marriott that Mayor Fenty was supposed to show up at drew over 100 protesters. Fenty did NOT show up-knowing that after giving nearly as much to the Marriott for the Convention Center hotel as he is taking from the poor in budget cuts, this would be too explosive politically for even him.

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Cabdrivers showed to protest the 30% cut in income Fenty’s meter rates have imposed

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DC government workers and union folks showed up to warn that continuing to destroy city services as well as put people out of their jobs would have consequences

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