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A NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM SPEAK

Posted on Friday January 01, 2010 1:18 pm As we enter 2010, SPEAK’s determination to fight for the rights of the voiceless victims of vivisection imprisoned inside the laboratories of Oxford University remains as strong as ever.

Another year of atrocities against laboratory animals

Posted on Thursday July 30, 2009 12:21 am

Newly released Home Office Statistics show a shocking increase in the numbers of animals used in experiments in the last year.

3.583 million animals suffered and died in British laboratories, and that is not including those used to give blood or those who died before reaching the labs, which, if included, would push this already disturbingly high figure through the roof.

A vet responds to the latest government figures on animal experiments

Posted on Thursday July 30, 2009 12:17 am

According to the Guardian newspaper of 21 July, the number of medical experiments involving animals has shown its largest rise since modern records began in 1986. The official government explanation for this massive increase in animal use, is an expansion in biomedical research and the development of new drugs. According to the Home Office, the 3.7 million experiments that took place in 2008 were all "ethically justified".

The truth is out

Posted on Friday June 26, 2009 11:15 pm

In July 2006, the BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) used the Freedom of Information Act to request that universities should disclose the number of primates they had used in experiments in two particular years and for a summary of their current primate research. A number of universities complied with the request but six, including Oxford, refused to do so. Oxford University proffered the ridiculous argument that disclosing the information would be likely to endanger the safety of the researchers and would prejudice their commercial interests.

World Month for Laboratory Animals

Posted on Friday June 26, 2009 11:04 pm World Month for Laboratory Animals

April is the month that has been dedicated to the fight against the use of animals in scientific research and experimentation. It culminates, on 24th, in World Day for animals in laboratories. Every year there are demonstrations throughout the UK and the world to commemorate this day aand to remember all those sentient beings who have suffered and died in the last year – and a reminder of why we fight to end it.

Oxford Business Alumni New Year Dinner 2010

Demo Report - Saturday 6 January 2010

Posted on Tuesday February 09, 2010 1:21 am

For two and a half hours SPEAK supporters were loud and highly visible outside the main entrance to the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall to welcome the Oxford Alumni to their New Year dinner.

Demo Report - Thursday 7 January 2010

Posted on Saturday January 09, 2010 6:55 pm Determined members of SPEAK stood in the snow in sub zero temperatures for the first Thursday demonstration of the New Year.

No Celebration for the Animals

CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY DEMO REPORTS

Posted on Saturday December 26, 2009 8:29 pm Christmas is no holiday or celebration for those animals held inside Oxford University’s laboratories, it is just another day of imprisonment and suffering

DAY OF ACTION FOR ANIMALS IN LONDON

Demo Report Saturday 12th December, 2009

Posted on Thursday December 17, 2009 4:44 am On Saturday 12^th December, the busiest shopping day of the year, animal rights campaigners descended upon London for a day of protest against animal abuse. Demos took place throughout the day against institutions involved in the exploitation of animals in various forms, including the fur trade, the circus and vivisection, with SPEAK holding a demo to encourage the public to boycott the city of Oxford while its university continues to imprison and abuse non-consenting, living beings in barbaric research projects.

International Animal Rights Day

Site Demo Report - Thursday 10 December 2009

Posted on Tuesday December 15, 2009 1:29 am This was the eleventh year that demos have been held all over the country and all over the world to commemorate International Animal Rights day, calling for fundamental rights to be bestowed upon non-human animals by 2048 - 100 years after the Declaration of Human Rights on this date.

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