Sunday, April 22, 2007

WAR Marches on the Money Men – Eastside – Part 2

Demo #1 - William Ford III, CEO of General Atlantic Partners & Director of NYSE

Activists took advantage of the beautiful spring weather that filled the street of Manhattan with throngs of walkers. First stop was the home of William Ford who sits on the Board of Directors of the NYSE and who also acts as Chief Executive Officer of General Atlantic Partners, one of the top shareholders in the NYSE. We continued the strategy that worked so well on Saturday. Instead of being on the side streets directly in front of Ford’s building, we choose to take a much more visible position on Fifth Avenue.

Double-decker tour buses stopped to read our large graphic banner and to ask why we were protesting in a residential area. We explained the connection between the New York Stock Exchange and Huntingdon Life Sciences. People were horrified to learn that LSR (HLS trading symbol) had been listed by the prestigious NYSE. People were just as concerned about the exposure of investors as they were about the animal cruelty evidenced by our posters. More than one tour bus used their loud speakers to tell all about Huntingdon Life Sciences, how they kill 500 animals a day and that they had been listed by the NYSE.

Demo #2 - Per Lofberg, President & CEO of Merck Capital Ventures

Next stop was Per Lofberg’s lovely brownstone on 92nd Street and Madison Avenue. Lofberg heads up a Merck subsidiary and we all know that Merck is one of HLS’ premiere customers. We found this location to be rather quiet compared to Fifth Avenue, but we did have a chance to meet a lovely woman who stopped to show her support. She took literature and asked many questions about Huntingdon Life Sciences and pledged to support us in any way she could. She vowed to check out our website and indicated that she would contact us in order to find out more about what she could do to help.

Demo #3 - Catherine Kinney, President – NYSE

After the quiet side street, we were anxious to get back to the Fifth Avenue apartment of NYSE President Catherine Kinney. Once again, we opted to take the demonstration across Fifth Avenue to the Central Park side of the street. Benches allowed activists to take our large banner and raise it up high making it easier to read by both pedestrians and people riding by on buses and in cars. We distributed a great deal of literature with a full color picture of Catherine Kinney alongside the mutilated corpse of an eviscerated beagle puppy. Many found the graphic to be shocking.

We noticed that Kinney’s doorman nervously escorted a middle-aged woman, who was the spitting image of Catherine Kinney, to Fifth Avenue to hail a taxi. We can’t imagine what they were nervous about, as we were fully 100 feet away from them and totally focused on talking to people who were interested in finding out more about how Puppy Killers have invaded Wall Street! The day was a huge success and we must admit that the court restraining order seems to have worked very well in our favor. As we like to say…..”When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”.

 

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