Monthly Archives: May 2010

On Friday, the 28th of May, DC area animal rights activists staged a series of suprise HLS protests at Novartis, Astra-Zenica(these two in one building), Sanofi-Aventos, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. All three buildings were entered as security got caught napping! Audio: … Continue reading →

On May 27, protesters arrived at the law offices of Crowel and Moring LLP. This law firm is representing Pacific Rim, a mining corporation which has been prevented from strip mining for gold in El Salvador and poisoning an entire … Continue reading →

On May 26, protesters at the Austrian Embassy demanded that the Austrian government drop all charges against animal rights activists filed as part of the government’s crackdown on peaceful aboveground activsts. These protests will continue in more than 20 nations … Continue reading →

Activists disrupted the annual general meeting of criminal corporation Massey Energy this morning in Richmond, VA. Two of the group were arrested after hanging a banner INSIDE the building where Massey was about to start their stockholder(AGM) meeting. WSQT Audio … Continue reading →

At about 7:30 AM on the 18th of May, animal rights protesters returned to the offices of four Huntingdon Life Sciences customers in DC: Astra-Zenica, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. At Bristol-Myers Squibb, a new security guard and one of … Continue reading →

On the 13 of May, protesters disrupted the “Diversity Green Business Conference,” a “green capitalism” conference at the Baltimore Convention Center, where Josia Lindsay, vice president of a “Green Energy” hedge fund run by Fortress Investment was scheduled to speak. … Continue reading →

On the 11th of May, protesters outraged by BP’s massive oil spill in the Gulf marched on the White House. As Reverend Yearwood (from Louisiana) pointed out at the protest, five years ago, the Gulf Coast was devastated by Hurricane … Continue reading →

Early morning on May 11, animal rights protesters invaded 701 Penn Ave, a downtown DC office building housing lobbying offices of both Novartis and Astra-Zenica, notorious customers of puppy-killing Huntingdon Life Sciences. WSQT Audio Coverage After building security guards managed … Continue reading →

It’s official folks-the cause of death of our overseas mirror, http://www.dcdirectactionnews.baywords,com is enemy action. The target of this action by (presumably Swedish) government agents was http://www.shutdownhls.baywords.com, shown here in a screenshot of it’s last Google cache. This site was chock … Continue reading →

BY ETHAN GENAUER May 8, 2010 Washington, DC In advance of an announced protest by Code Pink women for peace, the U.S. Army shut down their annual weapons exhibit, closing it to public access while the women marched around the … Continue reading →