WAR JOINS THE GLOBAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST ESCADA
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Join the Global Campaign Against Escada and the Fur Trade
To find our more about the global campaign, click on the banner above. A new global anti-fur campaign against the Escada designer group was kicked off with a weekend of action in October, 2007. The campaign operating under the banner of the Global Network Against the Fur Industry and is calling for demos to take place at any shop or office in any part of the world that distributes or directly sells items by Escada. Escada was selected as its target due to its high profile influence throughout the global fashion industry. Escada's 2007 autumn/winter collection includes many fur and fur trimmed items, and campaigners say that there are stores belonging to the ESCADA group, or concessions or shop-in-shops of these brands selling fur in department stores in almost every city in the world. Escada has been contacted prior to the launch of this campaign in an effort to negotiate cooperation from the company to stop selling fur items. The company has refused to communicate with activists. A campaign press release states: "Those in charge of the global luxury brand of ESCADA have had enough time for consideration about the violence for which they are responsible, about the the deaths of thousands upon thousands of animals, and also about what it means to be the target of a campaign by the global animal rights / liberation movement. As the management of ESCADA clearly sees no need to take action, the animal rights movement feels obliged to carry out world wide protests against the brands belonging to the ESCADA Group (Escada, apriori, BiBA, cavita and Laurčl)."  Escada - 715 Fifth Avenue, New York City The Escada Campaign already has grassroots participants in countries such as Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK, and more groups are joining the coalition as the weekend of action approaches. Win Animal Rights has joined the international coalition and is urging other USA groups to join the campaign. Please take a moment to click on the link below that will take you to our Escada contact page. Send a message to Escada's World Headquarters, their US Headquarters and to your local Escada store or concession.  Demo reports from previous Escada protests: 02/16/08 - Protest Heartless Monster Fur Pimps Escada, Saks and Basso 02/09/08 - WAR honors fallen activist Jill Phipps at Escada & HLS Targets 02/03/08 - Global Escada Campaign Continues - WAR Invades Long Island 02/02/08 - Escada Weekend of Action Dedicated to Memory of Jill Phipps 01/26/08 - Canadian Seal Slaughter Protests, Escada and HLS Investor 01/13/08 - WAR Targets Escada, HLS Affiliates Spark and AstraZeneca 12/31/07 - New Years Eve Anti-Fur Action at Escada 12/24/07 - Global Campaign Against Escada Continues in New York City 12/09/07 - Dissent is Not Terrorism Demo and Escada Fur Protest 11/23/07 - Fur Free Friday New York City - Target Escada and Others 11/03/07 - International Anti-Fur Coalition Day of Action Targets Escada and Others 10/13/07 - Global Weekend of Action Against ESCADA  | |
