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Site Demo Report – Thursday 8 May
Demo Report – Wednesday 7 May Once again SPEAK supporters were out in Oxford City Centre talking and distributing information to the public concerning Oxford University and the barbaric experiments it carries out aon animals. There is always a fantastic response from passersby (posted Wednesday 14th May 2008) Read More... Degree Day Demo Report - Saturday 3rd May, 2008
Site Demo Report – Thursday 1 May The amount of support from passing motorists was huge as SPEAK supporters gathered for the regular Thursday demonstration - luckily it’s a clear case of ‘you can’t fool all the people all of the time’ which is exactly what Oxford University and its friends in high places have tried their best to do over since the building of their new animal torture lab came to light four years ago. (posted Thursday 1st May 2008) Read More... World Day for Laboratory Animals 24 April 2008 The formidable forces that have conspired to present the animal research debate to an unsuspecting public as ‘scientists versus terrorists’ have very nearly succeeded in their mission. This is despite the fact that the vast majority of protest against animal experiments is lawful and peaceful. However, animal researchers know full well that as long as the debate is seen in the public eye as a purely ethical one, they can rest assured that their work and their livelihood will continue to enjoy unwavering government support and public funding. (posted Sunday 27th April 2008) Read More... Marking World Day for Laboratory Animals
Demo Report – Wednesday 23 April
World Day for Laboratory Animals Demo – Saturday 19th April, 2008
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Around twenty SPEAK supporters stood in the sunshine that animals
imprisoned inside Oxford University’s labs will never see or feel.
Meanwhile, those helping to build this new torture centre that will
imprison and experiment on these sentient creatures continued to earn
their blood money building this abomination, fully aware of the
consequences to the animals from their actions. 
On Saturday 3rd May, over thirty SPEAK Campaign supporters visited
Oxford to demonstrate outside the Sheldonian Theatre on Broad Street
where the university‘s latest degree ceremony was being held. The
warm, sunny weather brought many sightseers and shoppers to the city,
as well as ceremony attendees, giving campaigners the ideal
opportunity to spread the message about the appalling atrocities
being carried out in the university’s laboratories against innocent
beings. 
On the day that is the World Day for Lab Animals SPEAK supporters gathered inside the designated protest area on South Parks Road to
make a number of things clear to Oxford University and the Government: That as long as there are sick and twisted individuals torturing
animals to death in the name of science, medicine or consumer products, that there will people like us fighting them every step of
the way. 
It has been reported in the local press that Oxford University and Thames Valley Police are both contributing towards the £120,000 a year cost of community support officers dedicated to patrolling university premises. This is an alarming development because if Oxford University is indeed paying their wages, then Thames Valley Police really are nothing more than a private police force working for, and in the pockets of the university - hardly impartial upholders of the law. 
On Saturday 19th April, 2008, around 700 dedicated SPEAK Campaign
supporters came to a very cold Oxford to commemorate World Day for
Laboratory Animals, a United Nations recognized day of remembrance
for the millions of innocent, sentient beings who are tortured killed
in laboratories throughout the world.