civilized objects

http://bit.ly/siamak_mehr (short link)
Please sign this petition
Bitte unterzeichnen Sie diese Petition
مهرورزیده این درخواست‌ نامه را دستینه بفرمائید
Please sign this petition for the political prisoner Mohammadreza Pourshajari ( Siamak Mehr , the writers pseudonym ) – Iranian author
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cardinals, squirrel tails, animal rights, baseball, saint louis

Cardinals Rally Squirrel

People in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, are supposedly wearing real squirrel tails on their baseball hats to support their team, the Cardinals, or even to support charity alongside with that since the tails are marketed for that purpose too, ever since recently a squirrel ran over the play field and the idea came up for the crowd to have a or this squirrel as a mascot.

Obviously the hoard of fans are (like in many cases where animals are involved in such circumstances) unreasonable enough to not care about wildlife, nonhuman animal well being and nonhuman animal life. They seem to see squirrels as something like a “cute pest” which sounds oxymoronic, but that would explain why on one hand they like squirrels but on the other hand they like them dead too at the same time, so that they can stick the animals’ tails to their baseball hats?

A friend from STL says “On the Channel 2 news, Mandy Murphy, stressed : “… and those are *real* Squirrel tails !” While footage of a huge crowd at the stadium was being shown. As if that was something good. I’m not sure now if what Mandy Murphy said was accurate or not. I assumed they were fake before I heard her say that. I think the original Rally Squirrel was set free, if I heard correctly. I know that some people are eager to involve real dead Squirrels, see : Taxidermist Hops on Rally Squirrel Bandwagon.”

It’s more than a shame that Tony La Russa, the Cardinals manager, who is an avid animal welfare advocate, see his foundation: http://www.arf.net , is maybe something like a speciesist by not saying anything against the squirrel craze if it leads to using dead squirrel parts to promote his team and charity work connected with baseball.

* WHY was it possible to sneak dead animal parts into the craze if people were considerate about the actual animals? “When we heard the squirrel merchandise had sold out so quickly, we went to our backup supplier, ebay. Somebody was selling Rally Squirrel earrings, an RS Christmas ornament, and tee shirts. But one guy who is a taxidermist was selling a real stuffed squirrel on which he has mounted a little plastic red cap so that you can have your very own (stuffed) rally squirrel. Bidding already had reached $84.99 when we checked yesterday morning.” St. Louis gets squirrelly

* ALSO what does this suggest ? : ‘ [...] … customer’s request for “five-hundred squirrel tails”. Not full costumes, just the tails – apparently for use during the Cards’ upcoming home games against Milwaukee this week in the National League Championship Series. “We can help him out,” Brock quickly pointed out. “But it’s not an item that anybody manufactures. You can’t go out and find a squirrel tail company.” ” Johnnie Brock’s Sells Out Of Squirrel Costumes

Leaked – 20 new HLS suppliers

Below are 20 new suppliers who have been uncovered sneaking in and out of HLS in New Jersey (US) and Huntingdon (UK). Typically of HLS, they still can’t even afford to pay some of them – many of the suppliers from the US listed below are owed outstanding debts ranging from $1,000 to $6,000 and everything in between!

Clearly these companies will already be fed up with HLS, so please take a moment to send them a polite letter, e-mail or phone call to ask them to do the
sensible thing: DROP HLS!

Remember, that without the help of companies like these that keep HLS open by supplying essential services and products 70,000 animals would be being
experimented on as HLS would not have the equipment to do it!

Click: http://www.shac.net/SHAC/victories.html to see previous suppliers who have dumped HLS.

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==== UK SUPPLIERS ====

1 – StarLab (UK) Ltd
Unit 4 Tanners Drive
Blakelands
Milton Keynes, MK14 5NA
Tel.: +44 1908 283800
Fax: +44 1908 283802
e-mail: infoline@starlab.co.uk
web: www.starlab.co.uk

Medical equipment supplier.

2 – Softcat Limited
Thames Industrial Estate,
Fieldhouse Lane,
Marlow, Bucks, SL7 1TB
Tel: 01628 403 403
e-mail: sales@softcat.com
web: www.softcat.com

Software and IT equipment supplier (offices also in Manchester and London).

3 – Henderson Biomedical Ltd
Worsley Bridge Road
Lower Sydenham
London, SE26 5AZ
Tel: +44 (0)20 8663 4610
e-mail: info@henderson-biomedical.co.uk
web: henderson-biomedical.co.uk

Maintains lab equipment.

4 – Billy Bowie Special Projects Ltd
Moorfield Industrial Estate,
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, KA2 0BA
Tel: 01563 549 049
e-mail: info@billybowietankers.co.uk
web: www.billybowietankers.co.uk

Suppliers of waste management to HLS. (They also have additional sites in
Widness, Cheshire and Ecclesfield, Yorkshire).

5 – Sera Laboratories International
Unit 44, Bolney Grange Business Park,
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex, RH17 5PB
Tel: 01444 250010 and 01444 250066
e-mail: sales@seralab.co.uk
web: www.seralab.co.uk

Suppliers of animal and human serum to HLS.

6 – Carl Stuart Limited
Tallaght Business Park
Whitestown, Dublin 24, Ireland
Ph: 00353 1 4523432
Fax: 00353 1 4523967
e-mail: onlinestore@carlstuart.com
web: www.labunlimited.com

Suppliers of lab equipment to HLS. Also in Surrey and N Ireland.

7 – Samedan Ltd. Pharmaceutical Publishing
16 Hampden Gurney Street,
London, W1H 5AL
Tel: 0207 724 3456 and 0207 7242632
e-mail: info@samedanltd.com
web: www.samedanltd.com

Supplying advertising, editorial & online content to promote HLS.

8 – Parallabs Ltd (Operations)
268 Stockingstone Road,
Luton,
Bedfordshire,
LU2 7DE
Tel: 07701 078332
e-mail: office@parallabs.com
web: www.parallabs.com

Supplies lab equipment to HLS.

==== US SUPPLIERS ====

9 – BIO-SERV
1 8th Street, Suite 1
Frenchtown, NJ 08825
Tel: 908 996 2155
Fax: 908 996 4123
e-mail: sales@bio-serv.com
web: www.bio-serv.com

Suppliers of specialist ‘lab’ diets. Won’t accept credit account from HLS and they have to pay with credit card.

10 – Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Diagnostics Division Headquarters
250 South Kraemer Boulevard,
Brea, CA 92821-6232
Phone: 1-714-993-5321 or 1-800-526-3821
Fax: 1-800-232-3828
e-mail: mluthy@beckman.com
web: www.beckmancoulter.com

Lab equipment services and supplier to HLS, New Jersey.

11 – Culligan (Customer Services)
305 Clearview Road
Edison, NJ 08837-3709
Phone/Fax: 1-800 272 0079
e-mail: Derek.Driscoll@culligan.com
web: www.culligan.com

HLS are behind on payments of nearly $6,000, they supply water treatment equipment.

12 – EverBank Commercial Finance
10 Waterview Boulevard, Parsippany,
New Jersey,
NJ 07054, USA
Phone: 1 866-879-8795
web: www.everbankcommercialfinance.com

Supplies financial lease for office equipment to HLS in New Jersey.

13 – RAE Corporation
P.O. Box 1206, Pryor, OK 74362
Phone: 1-800-264-5329 (US Toll free) and 1-918-825-7222
e-mail: webmaster@rae-corp.com
web: www.rae-corp.com

Supplies cooling systems and HLS owe them $2,600.

14 – Tri-Dim Filter Corporation
Corp HQ, 93 Industrial Drive
Louisa, VA 23093, USA
Tel: 1-800-260-4070 (US Toll Free)
e-mail: info@tridim.com
web: www.tridim.com

Suppliers of filters to HLS NJ. Once again, HLS have been late with payments.

15 – Hubert Company
9555 Dry Fork Road
Harrison, Ohio 45030, USA
Tel: 1-800-543-7374 (US Toll Free)
e-mail: president@hubert.com
web: www.hubert.com

HLS NJ owes over $1000 from June, for catering equipment.

16 – United Business Systems
302 Rt. 46 East,
Fairfield,
New Jersey,
NJ 07004, USA
Phone: 1 908 451 6666
e-mail: RIC332@aol.com and Carlo@ubscopy.com
web: www.ubscopy.com

Supplies copiers to HLS New Jersey.

17 – PTC Therapeutics Inc.
100 Corporate Court,
South Plainfield, New Jersey,
NJ 07080-2449, USA
Phone: 1-908-222-7000
e-mail: info@ptcbio.com
web: www.ptcbio.com

Yes, HLS owe them money too!

18 – United Refrigeration, Inc.
5 Johnson Drive, Bldg 5, Raritan, New Jersey, NJ 08869-1662, USA
Phone: 1 908-927-1188
Fax: 1 908-927-1181
e-mail: branch419@uri.com
web: www.uri.com

Supplies commercial water heaters.

19 – Gem Limousine Worldwide
70 Amboy Avenue, Woodbridge, New Jersey, NJ 07095, USA
Phone: 1 732 596 0900
e-mail: bchirico@gemlimo.com
web: www.gemlimo.com

Transports clients and staff to / from HLS, New Jersey.

20 – Staffmark
1090 King George
Post Road
Edison, NJ 08837, USA
Phone: 732-985-4730
e-mail: sduran@staffmark.com
web: www.staffmark.com

Staffing company placing for HR dept at HLS, New Jersey.

Please keep your communications polite and informative – taking action is what counts. Remember every call, every email and every letter counts so what are
you waiting for? Get active for the animals trapped inside HLS – they are counting on you. Together, we CAN make a difference.

Until all are free!

Links to visit in the context:

http://www.shac7.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/untilallarefree

SOURCE: www.shac.net/2011supplierleak/index.html

animal rights porn – definition

A corporate advertisement that extols the company’s ethically motivated animal rights or animal protection measures taken, their record or policies – usually by a company known to rape and pillage nonhuman animal concerns as thoroughly as possible.

A: Have you seen those new campaign targets by the PETA, that show how easily “animal friendly” can become a swear word?

B: They are pure AR porn, man.

or rather

A: Have you seen PETAs recent campaign for animals?

B: Don’t fall for that! Check their policies on euthanasia.

ar-pornography animal rights pornography, considerate about nonhumanbeings interests washing

Ok maybe peta makes an animal rights porn site to try to ridiculously cover up that fact that they are animal rights porn.

You can’t call a lip service “help”, you can’t even call a an action “help”, when all the “help” you think you are giving is undone by the next steps you are taking. … And that even routinely in the case of peta and their active euthanasia of nonhuman animals. Also, their campaigns cater to an anti AR rethoric and only thus gain a lot of support from the people loyal to them, who helplessly “bark upon the wrong tree”.  If people don’t see that being for or against animal rights is not a matter of belonging to a certain group, but that it’s actually actions and opinions that matter, then those people can rightly be called ethically short sighted.

A mail I sent in support of Troy’s family:

Dear family of Troy Davis:

I would like to express my support for you. What happened to Troy is unbelievable, and it’s horrible that the life of a person becomes displayed so publicly. And what’s even worse is that an injustice like this was carried out in all public.

The people though showed where they stand and they stand on Troy’s side.

We all share his side, the one side of justice. And we will keep up his ideals and hopes for justice to be done in his case and in every case where humans rights are at steak.

The Mac Phail family made themselves guilty. Now they can never find any peace, because they are part of a murder case. They can’t escape the scales of a universal justice.

All my thoughts are with Troy – wherever a person goes when he passes away, we will stick to the ones we love, like, care about … . And I hope they will stick with us too … .

LOVE TO ALL OF YOU
Palang LY Arani-May Germany www.simorgh.de

This blog entry mirrors the feelings very good that millions of people shared last night with Troy. We all stand together.

Troy Davis: a life extinguished, a campaign that isn’t

I put this on our German blog last night. We had hundreds of accesses for Troy. People in Germany are totally into his case, and his case is of course not over and not over as long as injustice is happening in the name of whatsoever:

Visit: http://twitter.com/#!/amnesty and http://twitter.com/#!/naacp especially for updates.

Democracy might fail its test today, not because of the people, but because of the mighty.

Vigils and Demos take place on an international level. Still the White House hasn’t intervened yet.

I ask: Will the understanding of human rights as we knew it in the western hemisphere completely fail this time?

BACK TO SHAC

SHAC have had a busy couple of weeks targeting Astrazeneca, a major pharma company and Huntington Life Sciences customer.

Declaring a week of action against the company, SHAC held protests against their head offices in Luton on the 31st August, as well as a tour of demos against their shareholders in London: BlackRock, Invesco, Legal & General (who, incidentally, also invest in the manufacture of cluster bombs) and Axa on Friday 2nd. Worldwide,actions against Astrazeneca – and their subsidiaries and shareholders – have taken place in Atlanta, San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chile, Canada, Ireland, France and the Netherlands.

For more info see http://www.shac.net

source: SCHNEWS, Issue 787, Friday 9th September 2011

It expresses concern, I like Jah-I-Witness for doing just that, in a way that sounds positively dynamic. It’s intellectual and heartful hip hop I would say.

SAFE TO GO BACK IN THE WATER?

The ship they can’t kill: Sea Shepherd’s notorious Steve Irwin vessel was detained on July 15th – with a little help from the British judiciary system (see SchNEWS 781) – but just over a fortnight later, on Tuesday (2nd), the sea-faring group amazingly managed to raise the £520,000 bond needed to get the ship back in the water.

The battle has been won but the war between Sea Shepherd and the Maltese company Fish and Fish is not over. A court date is imminent, but not yet set, for a confrontation on land between the marine wildlife conservationists and the bluefin tuna poachers. [...]

Meanwhile next on the agenda are the Faroes Islands and the protection of the endangered Pilot Whales. The slaughter of around 950 whales per annum is known as the Grindadrap, or Grind for short. For more info and updates check www.seashepherd.org

source: Schnews Issue 782, Thursday 4th August 2011

Imprisoned Iranian activist Siamak Mehr faces death penalty. (see : The imprisoned Iranian blogger Siamak Mehr is threatened with the death penalty )

July 21th, 2011

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to draw your attention to the human rights violations against jailed Iranian blogger, Mr. Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, who faces inhumane prison conditions, torture, and the imminent threat of execution.
Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, known in his blog as Siamak Mehr (his blog may be viewed at: http://khakeiran.blogspot.com), wrote about the Islamic Republic’s suppression of human rights. In particular, his blog highlighted the imprisonment and torture of Iranian women and minorities. Mr. Pourshajari’s critique of the Islamic government in articles such as “Secularism Means Death to Islam” led to his arrest in September of 2010. He has been labeled an infidel by Islamic authorities, an accusation that warrants no less than a death sentence.
Since his arrest, officials of the Islamic regime have brought Mr. Pourshajari into two closed-session court hearings, denying him access to lawyers, witnesses, and juries. He has been unofficially warned by court and prison representatives to expect his execution, and has been kept under solitary confinement in Karaj’s Rajayi Shahr Prison for the past several months. Furthermore, Mr. Pourshajari has been psychologically tortured by means of mock executions staged by the Islamic court in order to encourage a confession of regret and infidelity.
Mr. Pourshajari’s conditions have so far driven him to attempt suicide using the sharp rims of his eyeglasses. The authorities reacted by confiscating his glasses to prevent any future suicide attempts, which has put him in a state of impaired vision. In addition, Mr. Pourshajari’s diabetes requires regular medical attention, which he has been denied as a prisoner.
Government officials have threatened to arrest Mr. Pourshajari’s daughter. Out of strong concern for her father’s fate, Ms. Mitra Pourshajari contacted, Iranian-American blogger Reza Irani, asking for any possible assistance in this urgent situation. I am now calling directly upon your organization to promote and protect human rights on a global scale by taking action in support of Mr. Pourshajari’s safe release as well as the safety of his family. Please keep in mind that the Islamic regime needs to be put under tremendous pressure if Mr. Pourshajari’s life is to be spared.
I am requesting your prompt attention to this time-sensitive matter, as this man’s life is in immediate danger.
Sincerely,

(your signature goes here)

1.

Secretariat of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
UNOG-OHCHR
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 917 93 32
Fax: +41 22 917 90 22
E-mail: opcat@ohchr.org
Internet: http://www.ohchr.org
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/opcat/index.htm

2.

Civil Society Section of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights -UNHCHR
Telephone: +41 22 917 9656
E-mail: civilsociety@ohchr.org
http://www.ohchr.org/en/aboutus/pages/contactus.aspx

3.

The General Inquiries Section of the UNHCHR
Telephone: +41 22 917 9220
E-mail: InfoDesk@ohchr.org

4. Other organisation to contact are of course Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/contactand Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/en/contact-us

Source: http://www.schnews.org.uk Issue 779, Friday 15th July 2011

C’MON BUNNY LIGHT MY FIRE

CAMPAIGN AND DIRECT ACTION SITE:
www.closehighgatefarm.com
The campaign against Highgate Farm, the Lincolnshire vivisection breeders, was ratcheted up a notch last Tuesday. A van on site was torched and the conservatory of the farmhouse set on fire.

Activists left the following threat “We will continue to watch you and you will never know when we will strike next. Rest assured, while you profit from this disgusting genocide, we will be there to make you experience just a tiny amount of the fear that you help to cause to those innocent, beautiful creatures. .. We will get more serious, we promise to make it our goal to stop you once and for all, don’t make the mistake of under-estimating us, we will not back down. Until the next visit… “ – The Provisional RSPCA.

Highgate Farm, which breeds ferrets and rabbits for the vivisection industry, has been the target of a sustained campaign since 2008 (see SchNEWS 735)