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 It takes a rare kind of courage in a person to break free from the institutional indoctrination of a system which has people believing that there is no other valid way to further knowledge than to continue clinging to a 100-year old (plus) bad science.
-SPEAK Campaigns
Monday 19th March
Meet 12 noon at the edge of the exclusion zone, opposite the Chemistry lab on South Parks Road.
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Tuesday 20th March
Meet 12 noon Eros Piccadilly Circus.
London demo against those organisations funding horrific and fraudulent primate experiments at Oxford University. Click here to see examples.
Wednesday 21st March
Banner Day of Action - a visually impressive display of action across Oxford City.
Meet 12 noon at Carfax Tower
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For those who work and can’t make the earlier time there will be a second meeting time of 5.30pm at Carfax Tower when existing groups that have been in the city throughout the day will come together for a finale to the day.
Thursday 22nd March
Site Demo - Our weekly site demos will be an opportunity to let the workers know about Felix and the suffering they are helping to perpetuate by building the animal research lab.
Saturday 24th March
Meet 12 noon Martyrs Memorial, St Giles, Oxford City
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A week of action culminating in a day of action to highlight to the people of Oxford Felix’s plight.
For more details on demos please contact us:
Tel: 0845 330 7985 Mob: 07986 559012
The word 'Felix' in Latin translates into English as meaning 'Happy'. We believe this was a deliberate naming of a monkey that will be imprisoned and systematically tortured by Oxford University vivisectors.
To start off our 'Fighting for Felix' campaign SPEAK have organised a week of action in order to highlight the plight of Felix to the British public. SPEAK have been in communications with national animal rights organisations who have pledged not just their support but their practical help in saving Felix from years of abuse and torture. More information on these initiatives will be posted in the near future.
What’s important now is that we make sure Felix is not forgotten. For the first time a vivisection establishment has given us the name, photographs and videos of the non human animal they intend to abuse over a period of several years. They have also told us what form that abuse will take.
Felix during 'training' to teach him to cooperate with the very same people who will soon (if they haven't yet started) inflict unthinkable cruelty and horrible death upon him if we don't stop them.
For 3 years now SPEAK have been fighting Oxford University's plans to build a new animal lab. Thus far what we had been fighting was a concept, bricks and mortar if you like. Felix brings the individual living being into this fight. We are, after all, not fighting against a building but against the uses that this building will be put to and the non human animals that will be imprisoned, abused and ultimately killed in the building now being constructed on South Parks Rd; non human animals like Felix who will be killed in their thousands in this new research centre.
Over the last 3 years SPEAK have been able to highlight the plight of many animals that have suffered unimaginable horrors inside Oxford University, despite the best attempts by Oxford University to muzzle us in the Courts. They have even tried to imprison us for speaking out!
Remember the 'Oxford Two', two macaques who were surgically brain damaged and forced to endure 15 years of abuse, incarcerated inside Oxford University’s laboratories. Then there was George, blinded by and mocked by an Oxford vivisector; the same vivisector who had been investigated by the police for cruelty to a macaque called Jez. Remember Bjee, another victim of Oxford University’s vivisectors.
Let's not let Felix become just another memory like George, Jez, Bjee, and the Oxford Two!
Unfortunately, we can’t help the Oxford Two, George, Jez or Bjee: they are dead. They suffered and died at the hands of their tormentors. However, Felix is alive and is being abused now and will continue to be abused for the next couple of years at the very least. Please help us fight for Felix. Everyone who really cares about the plight of Felix must join us in 'Fighting for Felix'. Let's send a loud and clear cry to Oxford University that they have a hell of a fight on their hands if they think they can abuse Felix over several years before finally killing him!
At SPEAK we have a message for Oxford University:
We know you intend to experiment on Felix for at least two years, probably longer. If for any reason you feel it’s in your best interest to kill Felix before you had intended to, then think again. Or if Felix mysteriously dies, then we urge you to think very seriously about this course of action. The British public will take a very dim view on this course of action, should you choose to take it and at SPEAK we will never forget such conduct.
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