Monday, 8-22-05

WAR launches campaign front on Wall Street with 5 Protests
Win Animal Rights hit the streets of lower Manhattan Monday, August 22nd, visiting a number of companies who have financial dealings, either directly or indirectly, with Huntingdon Life Sciences.

First stop was the trading office of Tradition Asiel on Broadway. Tradition has quietly been trading a large volume of LSRI stock, so we expect that until we hear that they have stopped trading this will be a regular place for activists to visit. We visited Tradition's 4th floor offices, but no one was answering the door or the phone. A protest was held and numerous flyers, detailing Tradition's dirty dealings of LSRI stock, were distributed. Literature was left scattered across the floor of their office lobby and with their doorman, who promised to pass along the message to Tradition that we promised to return and to return often.

The next company we visited was Wachovia Securities on Broad Street, just a block away from the Stock Exchange. There we let folks know that Robert Ingram of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) sits on the Board of Directors of Wachovia and that until he is removed from their board, we will continue to look at Wachovia as a target. This demo was our loudest as the cavernous lobby seemed to echo our strong voices.

A few blocks away at 110 Wall Street, we visited the office of the
Center to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (CECP). None other than Jean Pierre Garnier, Chief Executive Officer of GlaxoSmithKline, one of HLS' largest customers sits on CECP's Board of Directors. We politely asked that CECP stop accepting blood money from pharmaceutical companies and asked that Jean Pierre be removed from their Board of Directors. A demo and aggressive flyering took place this time. Next time we might not be so polite.

Our next target was our single most important one, the New York Stock Exchange. We timed our protest for 4:00 PM, the time that trading ceases and most brokers head back to their offices. Some held a large banner which said "Don't Invest in HLS?.No ROI (note: ROI = Return on Investment) for Animal Cruelty".

Others met brokers as they came out of the gate and held up graphic posters of bloody puppies in a way that the brokers could not avoid seeing them. They were handed literature about GSK and told about their financial relationship with the puppy killers at Huntingdon Life Sciences. Many stopped to gasp at the horrible posters of mutilated puppies and cats. Some even told us that they would check their portfolio to make sure they weren't investing in animal cruelty. WAR activists pledged to make the Stock Exchange a regular and frequent stop.

Last but not least we decided to pay a call on Seaboard Securities, a shady firm if there ever was one. During the time we were there, Seaboard employees came down to tell us that: a) they never traded LSRI stock, b) they used to trade it but now they have stopped and c) they are selling the stock but selling it short. Seems that the headline of our flyer is true: "Seaboard Lies and Puppies Die". The one trader that insisted that Seaboard was not trading a single share of LSRI stock was offered a copy of the Monthly Share Volume Report from the Over The Counter Bulletin Board. He declined our offer. Shame on you Seaboard. We will keep coming back until you get your stories straight.