Sunday, January 7, 2007

WAR Starts 2007 with 3 Key Demos

Demo #1 - Derryck Maughan, GlaxoSmithKline Director

WAR activists kicked off 2007 on the corner of Park and 71st, one of New York City’s most prestigious and luxurious neighborhoods. We unfurled our large graphic banner and raised our voices to tell Derryck Maughan that as long as his company GlaxoSmithKline continued to do business with the puppy killing scum at Huntingdon Life Sciences, we will keep coming back.

The doormen of this building continue to think that they are getting the better of activists as they use remote devices to turn on the horns and alarms of their cars in an effort to drown out our voices. I guess they don’t realize that by making more noise they are drawing more attention to our presence. We have actually had neighbors come out of their buildings to find out who we were there to protest. We also wonder if they realize that they are breaking the law when they do that. We would report them but then they might stop and that wouldn’t suit us at all.

Demo #2 - James Robinson III, Chairman of the Board, Bristol-Myers Squibb

A short walk to 73rd and Park Avenue, brought us to the swanky hi-rise building of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, James Robinson, III. Our small group once again displayed our banner and signs showing the remains of the tortured mutilated dogs, cats, monkey and rabbits after HLS experiments. Neighbors, many who were walking their dogs, stopped by to chat and to take literature about the Bristol-Myers Squibb relationship with Huntingdon Life Sciences. Many agreed to boycott Bristol Myers-Squibb products.

Demo #3 - John Guttilla – Partner – Rotenberg, Meril, Solomon, Bertiger & Guttilla

After a lengthy hiatus, we returned to the upper eastside home of John Guttilla. John’s firm, RMSBG, secretly took over as the CPA firm for Huntingdon Life Sciences, when Big 6 firm Deloitte Touche choose the honorable path and refused to continue acting as HLS’ Auditor. Huntingdon Life Sciences is the only company in the USA that is allowed to have a secret Certified Public Accountant. RMSBG hid from activists, but was eventually found out.

The 25’ rule on our restraining order put us smack dab at the entrance of the popular E. 86th Street Mexican eatery, Maz Mezcal. The restaurant manager didn’t seem too pleased to see us, as it was the height of the dinnertime crowd. She called the police, who had already been notified about our protest, causing more commotion and unnecessary drama on the street than we could have ever hoped to create on our own. Thanks lady!!! Diners didn’t seem at all bothered, as they stopped by to chat, on their way in or out of the restaurant. They learned that John Guttilla’s company, single handedly, enabled the killing to continue at Huntingdon Life Sciences.

One young lady and her escort stopped to tell us about her work on the carriage horse issue and to learn more about John Guttilla and HLS. She said that she would join us for future events. This is such an incredibly good location that no doubt we will return many times until John Guttilla gets the blood off of his hands. 500 animals are killed everyday, John, and you are as responsible as if you held the scalpel in your own hands.