Welcome to the Northern Animal Rights Coalition website!

NARC was set up to try and network between existing groups and individuals in the north of England. There used to be a lot of activity in the north – stalls, demonstrations, hunt sabs, etc. but this has declined in recent years. Now we would like to start up campaigns again around the northern counties and provide an easy way for people to get in touch with their local hunt sabs group, or people interested in doing demos at various targets, organising vegan promotion days or stalls and so on.

Our “Upcoming Events” page is regularly updated when we receive new information so keep an eye on that. Some things will also be posted on this main page so check it out often. If you have information about upcoming events or would like to start a campaign group, or just want info or advice, please contact us! If you would like to receive a newsletter or regular email updates, we’re sure we can sort those out for you.

Keep an eye on our “current targets” page as well. If you have any suggestions, send them this way!

Suggestions and comments greatly appreciated. Blue @ NARC

They Call Us Violent!

HSA News release:

(this follows several other attacks on hunt sabs and monitors in recent weeks and attacks of the high-street store Lush after they began openly supporting the HSA)

On Saturday 14th November, members of Yorkshire Hunt Saboteurs were monitoring the opening meet of the Rockwood Harriers Hunt, just South of Emley, Huddersfield.

Most of the group were following the hunt to ensure they weren’t illegally hunting.  The driver and a passenger were in the sab van, which was parked by the side of the road.  Suddenly four 4×4 vehicles drove at speed toward the van.  They parked in such a way that the van couldn’t move and two men wearing masks and carrying hammers ran toward the van.  They smashed the windscreen and both rear windows and slashed one of the tyres before returning to their vehicles and racing away.  Other members of the group, in another vehicle, soon arrived at the scene to find the two occupants of the vehicles shaken up and upset by what had happened.  They were just about to call the police when they arrived on the scene.  The police had been called by the hunt complaining that anti-hunt protestors were in the area.

The sabs were amazed by what happened next.  Instead of dealing with the obvious case of criminal damage by the hunt, evidenced by the smashed up van right in front of them,  the police proceeded to harass and illegally detain the group for the next 3 hours, searching people and vehicles and only finally allowing them to leave when the hunt had packed up for the day.  At no point did they enquire as to the welfare of the two people who had been in the van during the attack and they were completely disinterested in the attack itself.  They even refused to act when the perpetrators of the attack drove past laughing. During the afternoon there were over twelve police officers and four vehicles present. Members of Yorkshire Hunt Saboteurs have contacted solicitors to see what further action they can take against the police and the hunt, and have initiated complaints against West Yorkshire Police.

Lee Moon, spokesperson for the Hunt Saboteurs Association stated:  ”Hunt saboteurs are sadly aware of how biased the police are where hunting is concerned, almost always taking the side of illegal hunters. Sometimes however their behaviour is so poor and unprofessional that it surprises even us. West Yorkshire police should be ashamed of how they have behaved and we feel sure the people of the area would be disgusted if they knew that their taxes were being spent on protecting violent, pro-hunt criminals.”

Demo in Bradford

Following our expose of the University of Bradford's small
vivisection laboratory, we are calling a demo this week at the
campus.

Although the vivsection labs at Bradford are small, the amount of
suffering inflicted is huge and sickening. We can reveal that
animals are routinely starved to force them to perform procedures,
mutilated and generally abused.

In one experiment, nursing mothers were forced into cocaine
addiction in order to see what they found most attatched to - their
offspring or cocaine. Other research includes into the effects of
being wounded by a scalpel on scarring, whether animals lose weight
when given anti-psychotics and inducing schizophrenia onto rats.
www.academicabuse.wordpress.com

DEMO DETAILS:

FRIDAY 20TH NOVEMBER
MEET 2.30PM @ BRADFORD INTERCHANGE STATION

Christmas Campaigns…

Following a really good meeting in Newcastle tonight, we’ve come up with some good ideas for the next couple of months.

Details of leafletting sessions, etc. around the subject of being veggie at Christmas and buying only non-animal-tested products will be posted soon. Until then, check out VegNE (the North East Veggie and Vegan group) for upcoming events they have, including their Christmas without Cruelty fair:

“NE Christmas Without Cruelty 2009 takes place Sat 28th November 1 – 4pm.
St John the Baptist Church Hall, Newcastle City Centre.

Lots of stalls with ethical cruelty free gift ideas, food & food tasting, Information stalls & more

Free entry & everyone welcome.”

There will also be a candlelit vigil in memory of those animals that have died unecessarily over the year, held in Newcastle on the 10th December (International Animal Rights Day) so check back for details of this when we confirm them!

For leaflets and information, please email us narconline@hushmail.com so that you can do your leafletting sessions outside your local supermarket, in your town centre or do door-to-door leafletting.

Let’s look forward to a compassionate christmas!

Animal Rights Meeting – Newcastle 11th Nov

Hey guys.

Details for the meeting are as follows:

Meet at The Monument at 5:45pm on Wednesday
Travel expenses can be paid back
Contact number if you’re turning up late or want more information is 07948 328651

We’ll be discussing recent and current campaigns and events and talking about what to do in the future. Other possible topics include national campaigns and legal workshops.

Please email narconline@hushmail.com back or call the number if you’d like to know more and please try to get along to the meeting. Forward this on to anyone you know who may be interested in getting involved or is already active and who will be in the area on the day.

Thanks guys!! Blue xx

Hunt Sabs Workshop

Think hunting is a thing of the past?

Think again!

Every week North West Hunt Sabs go out to stop illegal hunting and protect our wildlife.

On SATURDAY 31st OCTOBER, 1-3pm, we are holding a workshop on hunting and sabbing tactics.

Everybody welcome!

Hope to see you there! Next To Nowhere (Basement) 96 Bold Street, Liverpool (Snacks and drinks available from the cafe)

Contact Daz 07931 521 690 for more information

National Anti-Fur March (This Saturday!!)

Firstly, is anyone heading down to the march and going past Nottingham who can pick up some food/people??

Unfortunately, again, we don’t have enough people going down from the Newcastle/Sunderland/Durham area to put on any transport. Advice can be given re: getting down to London and space is available for people to stay for a few nights in London if anyone needs to crash there.

Email for more info, etc.

Hope to see you there!!

Animal Equality

www.animalequality.net

Animal Equality is an international organization dedicated to raising awareness of the suffering and deaths of nonhuman animals as victims of speciesism and working towards the abolition of animal use.

Nonhuman animals are regarded as property. They are victims of a mentality that considers them objects or tools that exist for human benefit. Whether for food, clothes, in laboratories or as entertainment, millions of nonhuman animals are confined, forced to suffer or killed due to species prejudice. Animal Equality exists solely to help challenge this prejudice and uses all its resources to combat it and promote an ethical lifestyle: veganism.

Sean Kirtley found “not guilty”!!

Sean Kirtley was raided and arrested in 2006 along with a number of other activists for being involved with the campaign against Sequani animal testing laboratory.

After an 18-week trial, he was found guilty under a section of a law brought in in 2005 (SOCPA – Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act). His crime?? He was the person running the website for the campaign against Sequani. The police believed he organised the (lawful) demonstrations against the lab! The judge (whose hobbies included hunting and shooting) sentenced him to 4.5 years.

He was always confident about his appeal and just a few days ago, the appeal judge overturned the guilty verdict and Sean was released.

For more information, check out http://supportsean.wordpress.com/about/

West Yorks AR Group Update

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/437991.html

Victory

From: Gateway to Hell Campaign

After a campaign that lasted for six years (2003-2009), the Nepal government has decided to definitely halt the breeding of monkeys in Nepal for biomedical research taking place in the USA. It shows that it pays to have patience and that the good forces sometimes do win in the end!

It has been a long ride for many of us, with countless ups and downs. In the meantime four of five Ministers came and went, high level bureaucrats changed postitions, and the population of captive monkeys increased significantly. As Manoj Gautam points out: ‘It shows what can be achieved when one person takes his responsibility serious.’ Kudos to Minister Dipak Bohara, and to everyone who has been involved in the Stop Monkey Business Campaign.

Around three hundred monkeys that were to be exported to the United States of America from this week will be able to find their food in
freedom, in their own country. A letter from the Ministry of Forestry for the immediate their immediate release will be send to Pravesh Man Shrestha, who has been breeding monkeys for the past five years.

Forestry Minister Deepak Bohra said, “We have decided not to allow the monkeys to be exported. He further added, “We will ask Pravesh Man to release the monkeys within a week.”

After consulting the Department Heads of the Ministry Minster Bohara came to conclusion that it was illegal to export the monkeys. As a first step toward exporting monkeys Shrestha had planned to export 25 of the 300 monkeys to the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research Center.

Shrestha was breeding the monkeys under the auspices of Nepal Biomedical Research Center. American citizens had also financially supported this venture. They have now landed in Kathmandu looking for compensation. Shrestha had paid twenty five thousand rupees per monkey as tax to the Department of National Park and Wildlife Protection to procure 200 monkeys per the Forest animal breeding and research program Working Guidelines, 2060.

“The law does not permit the export of any wild animals, thus, giving approval to export the monkeys would contravene the law,” said an Under Secretary of the Ministry. “The Ministry has come to the conclusion that the monkeys should be released to their natural environment.”

Red monkey [Rhesus monkeys] are listed in the Appendix 2 of the CITES Convention. CITES has banned the export of wildlife in this list.

Dr. Shirley McGreal, OBE, Chairwoman
International Primate Protection League
PO Box 766, Summerville, SC 29484, USA
Phone – 843-871-2280, Fax- 843-871-7988

E-mail – smcgreal@ippl.org
Web - www.ippl.org
Working to Protect All Primates Since 1973.