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FORTRESS COLLABOTORS HAVE PROTESTS IN THE CITY

Thursday, 22nd April

This week, having campaigned outside the Fortress offices at 5 Saville Row every week for several months, we decided to strike at some of their allies. Legg Mason are the second largest shareholder in Fortress (over 6 million shares, worth approximately $35 million) and we gave them a quick visit at their offices at 75 King William Street. Legg Mason are a large shareholders in all sorts of unethical companies, including Goldman Sachs, Pepsico, JP Morgan Chase, Halliburton, Merck and Monsanto to name but a few. We stayed outside their offices for a while, handed outmany leaflets and had a good response from passers-by.

Next, we went to Nomura who have a 10% stakeholding in Fortress that they bought in 2006 for nearly $900 million and they also share directors with Fortress.

We demonstrated at their large expensive building at Nomura House, 1 St-Martin's-le-Grand, London, where we did le grand demonstration outside their doors with much interest from Nomura employees and passers-by. Nomura should now know that any bad moves that Fortress make - like giving a loan to HLS - will be reflected on them as well. AND making themselves a target for the SHAC campaign.

It was a good day of demos and we shall return to both of these new targets before too long.

SHAC London