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

Animal Aid School Speakers Workshops

Please help us make the future a brighter one for animals by coming along to one of our speakers’ workshops and learn how to give talks to school pupils. We are holding a workshop on speaking in secondary schools in Manchester on Saturday, February 13th, and one for primary schools in Birmingham on Saturday, February 20th. Please come along and see if school speaking is for you. Hurry – limited spaces available!

Contact Karin for more details or to book spaces:

karin@animalaid.co.uk

Bradford Uni pull out of Meeting and Talks with Activists

Two representatives from Stop Animal Experiments at Bradford (SAEAB) attended the University of Bradford this morning, ready to have a pre-planned meeting with Deputy Vice Chancellor, Jeff Lucas, regarding the ongoing animal testing at the institution and hand in a 1,400 signature petition.

However, upon arrival we were greeted by the police and the Head of Security, who accepted the petition but informed us that there was going to be no meeting, despite all earlier confirmations it was still going ahead. From this, it seems that the University of Bradford are too cowardish to even discuss their vivisection and do not care that the public opinion sways away from them. A letter and pathetic standard 3R’s PR leaflet was also given to us.

We are therefore immediately calling for all demonstrations and stunts nationwide to continue against UoB, their funders and the Leeds College of Music who they plan to merge with. It is extremely important that as many people come to the National March & Rally on February 13th and show Bradford University that they cannot simply shun us away and we will fight for the animals incarcerated inside their walls.

Please also contact Prof. Jeff Lucas and Mark Cleary and discuss the issues at hand with them, if they are willing to even answer the telephone that is!

Professor Mark C Cleary (Vice-Chancellor & Principal)
Tel: 01274 2333011
M.C.Cleary@bradford.ac.uk

Prof Jeff Lucas (Deputy Vice Chancellor)
Tel: 01274 236305
Fax: 01274 235720
J.Lucas@bradford.ac.uk

National Demo Against Bradford Uni

When?   Saturday 13th February 2010
Where?   12noon at Centenary Square, Bradford, BD1 9ST
Why?   The University of Bradford have been exposed for horrific animal abuse inside their laboratories, such as purposely starving animals to make them perform procedures, conducting drug addiction experiments on nursing animals and cutting them open with scalpels to see the effects of scarring. All experiments happening could be replaced with non-animal methods.

On Saturday 13th February 2010, campaigners from across the country will be decending on Bradford so as to call for the university to end all animal experiments. A rally, stalls and speeches are being held in Centenary Square (next to the Town Hall) before marching through Bradford town centre and up to the university laboratories. Please join us on this important day and speak up for the closure of Bradford’s animal torture laboratory.

SPEAKERS:

Luke Steele – Spokesperson for the Stop Animal Experiments at Bradford (SAEAB) campaign.

Debbie Vincent – Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty have brought one of the world’s largest animal laboratories, HLS, to its knees and on the brink of closure through grassroots campaigning.

Amanda Richards – SPEAK Campaigns successfully stopped the construction of Europe’s largest primate testing laboratory in Cambridge and are now fighting to end vivisection at the University of Oxford.

Sean Kirtley – Activist who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 2years under SOCPA following a legal protest campaign against Sequani laboratories. Sean faught his conviction and won a victory for free speech.

FOOD: Vegan catering and drinks will be provided on the day for a small cost by Veggies Catering.

TRANSPORT: Please begin organising transport now for the national, parking details will be released nearer the time.

LEAFLET >>> http://academicabuse.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/uob.gif

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West Yorkshire Animal Rights Group(WYARG)
Tel: 0113 2787444
westyorksanimalrights@hushmail.com
www.westyorkshireanimalrights.wordpress.com

INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS DAY!

Thursday 10th December 2009 is International Animal Rights Day.

There will be a silent, peaceful candlelit vigil on the north side of Grey’s Monument in Newcastle (http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=54.973876,-1.613172&spn=0.001546,0.005284&t=h&z=18) from 7pm-8pm to remember the animals that have died in the various exploitative industries this year (e.g. factory farming, vivisection, the fur industry etc) and to call for the recognition of the Declaration of Animal Rights.

We will have an information stall with vegan recipes and factsheets, posters, people in animal costumes handing out leaflets, and lots and lots of candles!

If you are interested in coming along, please if you can bring your own tealights and any empty jam jars you can find.

Also please note that this is a *peaceful* event because we believe that striking a respectful, even mournful, tone will be very effective, so we will not be using megaphones or shouting at passers-by. The purpose is to raise awareness of the number of animals that have died this year and to remind the public of the extent of animal suffering.

Please let us know if you intend to come so we have a rough idea of numbers, and spread the word to anyone who might be interested in coming along.

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!!