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HLS CUSTOMERS & FORTRESS SHAREHOLDERS DEMOS IN DC

Monday, 6th December

Protesters visited Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) customers Bayer, AstraZeneca and Sanofi-Aventis before showing up at Nomura to keep the pressure on Fortress, which shares a board of directors with Nomura. Nomura is also the largest stockholder in Fortress, and Fortress is the reason HLS is still open.

The Siege of Fortress continues in DC, injunctions be damned! All the cops seem to have gone to Goldman-Sachs, where protesters had given police the injunction-required notice of intent to appear, but protesters hit another Fortress stockholder, Nomura instead.

Fortress lent $70M in 2006 to HLS to stave off bankruptcy, but Fortress can call in the loan if the heat gets too much and injunctions, etc don't work.

HLS is a contract animal research firm that kills 500 animals every day, and repeated undercover investigations have found them being cruel to animals like punching beagle puppies in the face, dissecting live monkeys, and more.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tto3Gpt0BU0