taken from Direct Action.Info

Nov 9th. 2009.

“Some friends of mine from Portugal removed two boxes containing nine rabbits each from a vehicle that was going to transport them to the slaughterhouse. Unfortunately, they had no means of transporting more than those two boxes, and were unable to liberate the hundreds of others that were left in the remaining boxes that vehicle carried. This video shows them liberating the eighteen rabbits after transporting them to a safe place where hunting is prohibited. I wish the rabbits adapt well to living in the wild since they were bred and kept in captivity all their life, but no matter what dangers they may face now, they’re free and surely better off than facing certain death in a slaughterhouse.”

Hello!

All orders from our STORE made after today will not be sent out until Dec 28th. So, if you wanted to get something in time for Dec 25th, it would have to be sometime today/ tonight.

(Happy Holidays from Athens, Greece.)

Thanks for the support!

-vT!

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A plan to conduct anthrax experiments on baboons has been stopped by Oklahoma State University president Burns Hargis. The project had already been approved by the National Institutes of Health and by the university’s own Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). More than 100 baboons would have been experimented on, and all would be euthanized afterwards.

Hargis has said that this decision was not influenced by the threat of protests by animal rights activists but that the decision was complicated and contained “confidential factors” that could not be discussed. Keep in mind that in April of 2009, OSU had announced that they would no longer be euthanizing dogs in teaching labs at the veterinary school. Controversy about euthanizing animals after students experimented on them arose after Madeleine Pickens threatened to redirect a $5 million donation to the vet school because she did not agree with such practices. But I’m sure that Madeleine’s disapproval in the schools experiments had nothing to do with this decision either…..right Burns Hargis?

Does Burns Hargis know that these experiments would be worthless in the eyes of science? Is Hargis scared that anti vivisection demonstrations at his school would shed light on the experiments? Whatever the real reason is for ending the experiments, there’s no question that compassionate people and 100+ baboons are glad with the decision.

You can read more about it HERE, as well as many other places.

DUE TO OVERWHELMING RESPONSE, WE HAVE CUT OFF THE ‘free gift’ OFFER. THANK YOU!

Our friend Carrie Feldman is currently in jail for refusing to testify in front of a secret grand jury in Davenport, Iowa. The grand jury was most likely trying to get information about the local animal rights movement and the activists who are out on the streets fighting for animal liberation. As you read this, Carrie is sitting in jail lonely and bored. She would love to get a letter from you. Really, it would make her day. If you send her a letter, we will send YOU something. Anything from stickers, shirts, and patches.

In order to prove that you wrote a letter to her, you will write the letter via email and send it to davenportgrandjury@riseup.net . Your email is then printed out and given to Carrie. I will be able to confirm the letter if sent this way. Please make this as lengthy as you can, the longer, the better. Make sure to include your mailing address in the body of the email, so she can write you back!

If you don’t care about getting something in return, then you can write her a real letter and send it yourself!

After you email your letter, send us an email telling us that you wrote Carrie info@veganthis.org. Let us know your address and what size of shirt you are ( Womyn sizes or Unisex sizes ). Just a thank you from us for writing Carrie.

Carolyn Feldman
Washington County Jail.
2185 Lexington Blvd. PO Box 6
Washington, IA 52353

Mail rules: nothing graphic, no perfumes, nothing but the address on the envelope. She can have 10 small pictures total in her cell. No Polaroids. You cannot send stamps; she has to buy them with commissary money

For info on Carrie and Scott and Grand Jury Resistance

Davenport Grand Jury