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NOVARTIS, BRYSTOL MYERS SQUIBB AND ABBOTT DEMOS IN ITALY

We start this tour with a demo at the gates of a very important site of a very important customer of Huntingdon Life Sciences: Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics in Siena (Toscana). Here the Swiss pharma Leviathan is planning to grow even bigger making a huge investment for this site. The plant is specialized in the development of vaccines and has also labs with primates and other animals imprisoned behind cameras and barbed wire. The place is already huge, but it seems that the greed of Vasella and co. has no limit…

At 8.00 we are at the two entrances with megaphones, posters and banners telling the employees and directors starting their workday what we think of them. Some employees show us their middle finger. One thing is sure, everyone hear our chants and our shouting. There are also many young people visiting Novartis this morning. We learn that today there are visits for people interested in applying for a job… our presence is not a good publicity for Novartis! We warn all these students that working with Novartis means working for an industry that maims and kills millions of non human animals in vivisection laboratories and poisons tens of thousands of people with its drugs. We tell them to look for a job somewhere else… After two hours of demo under the rain we leave and head to the capital of Italy, Rome, where we’ll meet with our roman friends for 2 days of demos.

In the middle of the afternoon we arrive in Rome and find the main Italian offices of Bristol Myers Squibb. For two hours we stay in the car-park chanting and explaining to BMS employees and directors what happen inside HLS every single day. We tell them to ask their CEO Lamberto Andreotti for further information about the campaign to close down HLS… This is not the first time activists demo this place and we’re sure local activists will come back, as this is a very good site for loud and effective demos.
The last stop of the day are the main Italian offices of Abbot labs. A big glass building from where everyone inside can see the images of the animals on our posters. We arrive at the time when employees leave the offices, but it takes a lot of time to see the first faces opening the door and walking to the gates. They walk to the car-park escorted by security and police surrounded by twenty angry activists shouting in their ears. The next ones are a little bit more clever and we see them leaving the place from the back exit.

No problem! We split in two groups to cover also that one! After that only a few daring people leave the site and at 7 pm, when we leave, all the posh cars are still parked inside, and their owners cowering in their offices…

For sure one of the best demos of the tour!


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NOVARTIS, BRYSTOL MYERS SQUIBB AND ABBOTT DEMOS IN ITALY We start this tour with a demo at the gates of a very important site of a very important customer of Huntingdon Life Sciences: Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics in Siena (Toscana). Here the Swiss pharma Leviathan is planning to grow even bigger making a huge investment for this site. The plant is specialized in the development of vaccines and has also labs with primates and other animals imprisoned behind cameras and barbed wire. The place is already huge, but it seems that the greed of Vasella and co. has no limit… At 8.00 we are at the two entrances with megaphones, posters and banners telling the employees and directors starting their workday what we think of them. Some employees show us their middle finger. One thing is sure, everyone hear our chants and our shouting. There are also many young people visiting Novartis this morning. We learn that today there are visits for people interested in applying for a job… our presence is not a good publicity for Novartis! We warn all these students that working with Novartis means working for an industry that maims and kills millions of non human animals in vivisection laboratories and poisons tens of thousands of people with its drugs. We tell them to look for a job somewhere else… After two hours of demo under the rain we leave and head to the capital of Italy, Rome, where we’ll meet with our roman friends for 2 days of demos. In the middle of the afternoon we arrive in Rome and find the main Italian offices of Bristol Myers Squibb. For two hours we stay in the car-park chanting and explaining to BMS employees and directors what happen inside HLS every single day. We tell them to ask their CEO Lamberto Andreotti for further information about the campaign to close down HLS… This is not the first time activists demo this place and we’re sure local activists will come back, as this is a very good site for loud and effective demos. The last stop of the day are the main Italian offices of Abbot labs. A big glass building from where everyone inside can see the images of the animals on our posters. We arrive at the time when employees leave the offices, but it takes a lot of time to see the first faces opening the door and walking to the gates. They walk to the car-park escorted by security and police surrounded by twenty angry activists shouting in their ears. The next ones are a little bit more clever and we see them leaving the place from the back exit. No problem! We split in two groups to cover also that one! After that only a few daring people leave the site and at 7 pm, when we leave, all the posh cars are still parked inside, and their owners cowering in their offices… For sure one of the best demos of the tour!
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