Japanese Ambassador gets home demo over whaling

On Jan 30, the Bob Barker brigade deployed 4 protesters in a snowstorm-to the home of the Japanese Ambassador.

VIDEO of Bob Barker Brigade protest

The Protest, held in solidarity with Sea Shepherd, demanded that the Japanese government shut down the whaling corporation known as the institute for Cetacean Research or ICR.

Also on Jan 30, the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin was in port to drop off crew members from the Ady Gil, refuel, and make emergency repairs to the helicopter. They Ady Gil was the Sea Shepherd fast attack craft the whalers rammed and sunk.

Capt Paul Watson said in a video interview that “If I had rammed and sunk a Japanese whaling vessel The Australian Navy would be down there with a warrant for my arrest,” demanding that the government of Australia investigate the ramming of the Ady Gil.

Funk the Warming raids PEPCOAL, MonSatan, CaterKiller

Also known as PEPCO, Monsanto, and caterpiller..

On Jan 2009, Funk the Warming, featuring DC SDS and Rising Tide DC, stormed the offices of PEPCO(aka PEPCOAL),Caterpiller, and Monsanto, to deliver “fossil eggs” about the size of soccer balls. Additional deliveries took place outside The US Chamber of Commerce, Shell and the building housing Xe(Blackwater) and Chevron.

Video on Youtube

The storming of PEPCO featured a special treat: A W Va style square dance outside after the cops grabbed the entry team and physically threw them out of the building. A smaller square dance was staged inside Caterpiller’s lobby.

At Pepco and Monsanto, cops drew billy clubs against protesters in a futile attempt to defend the “fossil hawks” from Funk the Warming. All the entry teams ended up being grabbed and physically thrown out of the buildings, though nobody was arrested.

In effect, protesters raided the “Fossil Hawks” instead of their security forces raiding protesters!

PEPCO, which sources half it’s electricity from coal, much of it mountaintop removal coal,was a particularily good target, given that treesitters are currently keeping Massey’s Beetree Surface Mine shut down in West Virginia.

The “fossil eggs” were an amusing followup to the “melted glaciers” delivered to another list of corporate targets back in November.

DC cop chases DC Indy photographer at Jan 23 fur demo

Here’s his picture, from later in the same protest:

The fur demo involved shut down Andriana’s Furs, at 4400 Jen ifer St NW , which locked their doors and effectively closed until cops arrived 15-20 minutes later.

WSQT Audio coverage of the protest at Andrianas Furs

Protesters later went to Neiman-Marcus(AKA Neiman-CARCASS), and finally back to Andrianas for a second time around.

Bristol-Myers Squibb gets HLS demo

Early the morning of Jan 28, protesters showed up at the office of Huntingdon Life Sciences customer Bristol-Myers Squibb. Fearing an invasion, they locked their doors, forcing employees to go around to other entrances

WSQT Audio coverage

Huntingdon Life Sciences is a contract animal testing laboratory that kills over 500 animals every day testing products like bleach and Splenda. Experimental drugs tested there have later sent human test volunteers to the hospital with multiple organ failure, and protesters are fed up with their animal torture.

Sanofi-Aventis and Novartis also received protests at their offices-and one employee of another firm that shares space with Sanofi-Aventis has been complaining about Sanofi-Aventis’ HLS customer status for years-and that they needed to listen to protesters instead of “locking them up”!