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Post by Tiggerwoos on Apr 11, 2006 11:53:38 GMT
New event alert, new event alert! ;D AR2006 is to be held in Kent this year and is a 4 day camp which is free and is funded by donations only based on veganism, animal rights, animal rescue, anti vivisection, hunt sabbotaging and much more. There are workshops there from everything from yoga to football to photography to reiki, self defense, swimming, running and new skills workshops such as computing and vivisection. Apparantly for 3 vegan meals a day it cost around £5 per day....... couldn't eat for cheaper than that at home! ;D They also are trying to get people there from all over the world, even if its for one day or night or the full four. I will definitely be going at some point, not sure for how long, but looks like it will be brilliant! Apparantly dogs are welcome too! For more info about this event, take a look at the website. You've got no excuse not to go! ;D Maybe if we all go for one day or night if we can get enough people from the forum we can all meet up? www.ar2006.info
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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 20, 2006 11:11:23 GMT
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr, now the Telegraphy are giving this event bad press.
Animal rights camp to export terror
(Filed: 20/05/2006)
By Rosie Murray-West
Source: Telegraph UK
British animal rights activists are planning to use a training camp next month to export their violent tactics to Europe and beyond.
The AR2006 camp will be held in an undisclosed location on the weekend of June 23 and will feature classes in potentially lethal physical techniques that are described as "self-defence".
The police National Extremism Technical Co-ordination Unit (NETCU), which investigates animal rights extremism, is aware of the event.
The camp is advertised on animal activist websites but police say there is little they can do against a private meeting of individuals.
"The UK is the centre for this kind of activism," said a spokesman for the pressure group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC). "Everyone around the world looks to us for inspiration."
The group has held camps in Britain for the past two years but this is the first when the focus will be on attracting foreign activists who will carry the message of violence around the world.
The SHAC spokesman said that the group would pay to fly people from Russia and Eastern Europe to Britain to learn defence techniques that could be used against security guards at pharmaceutical companies and huntsmen.
At previous camps, activists were taught how to deliver punches to key areas of the body and to damage optic nerves by sticking their fingers into adversaries' eyes.
As well as "self-defence" classes, they are likely to discuss how to conduct mailing campaigns, including targeting shareholders, as in the recent letters sent to GlaxoSmithKline's investors. The NETCU spokesman said yesterday that the camp had not been a police matter in the past.
However, businessmen are concerned that Britain is becoming the centre of a violent, intimidatory movement that is beginning to spread overseas.
Richard Lay, the spokesman for the Association for the British Pharmaceutical Industry, said: "Although these classes are billed as being for self-defence, we are worried they will be used to terrorise and intimidate people connected with the pharmaceutical industry."
Brian Cass, the managing director of Huntingdon Life Sciences, the animal testing group, said activism is becoming a worldwide problem.
"It is disturbing that one of our significant exports at the moment seems to be animal rights activism," he said.
"It is important for there to be international co-operation on this issue."
Mr Cass's company has been the focus of much of the anti-vivisectionist movement's activities in the past few years. He has been threatened and attacked with a baseball bat.
His comments echoed those of Jean-Pierre Garnier, the chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, who said this week that inward investment to Britain was being marred by violent activists.
Mr Garnier said that anti-vivisectionists were far more active here than on the Continent or in America.
The SHAC spokesman said participants at the camp would not discuss anything illegal, although the media would be banned. "We have too much to get through to pander to the press," he said.
He expects up to 500 people to attend the gathering.
Recent campaigns have brought the animal rights issue to the political forefront, with Tony Blair pledging to sign the People's Petition against extremism, established by the Coalition for Medical Progress.
This would affirm his support for the right of scientists to conduct legitimate animal experiments. Mr Blair said he wants a new law that would allow the identity of shareholders in pharmaceutical companies to be concealed.
Huntingdon Life Sciences has been forced to move its share listing abroad after shareholders were targeted, while banks and insurers also refused to work with the company after repeated threats.
Oxford University, which is building a laboratory to house some research animals, was in the High Court yesterday to try to widen an injunction against protesters. This would bar them from the entire city instead of particular areas. A ruling is expected next week.
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Post by veggiesosage on May 20, 2006 11:25:05 GMT
All of the 'violence' described in the Torygraph article is standard self defence stuff taught on any simple course eg for social workers etc who have to work in vulnerable situsations. Sticking your fingers in someone's eyes is nothing to do with damaging the optic nerve, its about stopping someone hurting you. You'd really have to go for it to damage the optic nerve, ie virtually pulling someone's eye out.
You're also taught about grabbing someone by the plums (the trainer on a course I went on some years ago, ex police, told us an eye watering story about a woman who 'detached' a part of her assailant's anatomy), kneeing people in the groin as well as the eye poking thing. You're also shown how to get out of various grips etc.
Perhaps that fake sheikh guy from NOTW will turn up ;D
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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 20, 2006 11:32:44 GMT
Sounds like fun!
I'll be going at some point........ Anyone else from here gonna pop along and play Happy Camping?!
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Post by veggiesosage on May 20, 2006 11:35:58 GMT
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Post by saucyvegan on May 20, 2006 12:23:16 GMT
I shall be the one on the gate giving out those £5 vouchers for ur food. If its anything like last year and the year before that....us lot on the gate letting u all in (along with the undercover cops/reporters) will have been up all night drinking vodka, so excuse us in advance for acting like thingys/pooheads/grumpy old bints etc.........
Cant wait....cos this is my yearly summer holiday!! Whoooo hoooooo!!
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Post by veggiesosage on May 20, 2006 12:57:25 GMT
LOL at vodka'd up Saucy on the door 'Ya names not down so yer not comin in! (hic)' ;D
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Post by saucyvegan on May 20, 2006 14:46:54 GMT
Cant wait to meet all u lot!! We just have the best nights on the door. The 1st year I went, I booked a posh b&b but ended up kipping in my car at 5am. Last year, I just turned up without any sleeping arrangments and shared a tent with 6 of my friends. Gotta tell u somit....u had to be there to appreciate this but the 1st year...about 3am, we were all sat at the gate in the welcome tent, getting drunk and having a bbq, when I quietly mentioned we should do somit really silly. Away in the distance there were a load of people sat around a camp fire. So......about 6 of us snuck up on them and in TOTAL silence (apart from very stifled giggles) we approached them and did a war dance around their camp fire and then just walked away. They were so stunned, they didnt say a word to us rofl! I laughed so much that I actually wet myself. It was running down my leg....I lost total control of my bladder hahahahha!! This year, we have a fridge/bbq/booze/glitter ball/music etc, so if ur staying over, ul know where we all are.
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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 21, 2006 10:15:46 GMT
ROFL at thought of Saucy doing a war dance.
Tabster........... Are we gonna be able to drag you along to this one?......... Go on. You know you wanna!
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Post by alisont on May 21, 2006 19:50:56 GMT
Im working the Fri and Mon its my students last week at college so lots on. Afraid I wouldnt be able to make it but sounds a great event
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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 21, 2006 21:53:58 GMT
That's a shame you can't make it Ali. Think you can pop down for just the day if you wanted. Sounds like it will be a laff.
Tell your boss, I told you it was an emergency!
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Post by veggiewoman on May 23, 2006 22:36:08 GMT
I am gutted, I cannot go as I have never been to one yet and would have been great , my friends are going. But that Saturday I am off to a concert ,can't miss that lol. Hope all going have a wonderful time , despite what was in the papers last week about it been a terrorist training camp!!!
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Post by tabitha on May 24, 2006 18:34:20 GMT
ROFL at thought of Saucy doing a war dance. Tabster........... Are we gonna be able to drag you along to this one?......... Go on. You know you wanna! When is it? I couldnt get that link up? I like Kent.
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Post by veggiewoman on May 24, 2006 20:26:58 GMT
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Post by saucyvegan on May 27, 2006 17:45:05 GMT
Did I read here that someone said you are allowed to take dogs this year?
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Post by tabitha on May 27, 2006 17:58:49 GMT
Did I read here that someone said you are allowed to take dogs this year? Dont worry Saucy. Im sure theyll let you in! *legs it*
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Post by saucyvegan on May 27, 2006 18:14:30 GMT
HAH Im a smite pregnant dog today!!! Thats two down....whos next??
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Post by tabitha on May 27, 2006 18:19:03 GMT
You hag! I'll kick your a*se if I catch you
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Post by kevster on May 27, 2006 20:28:51 GMT
Sauce,
If i go will you let me in? Or will i have to go in disguise?
K
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Post by Pob on Jun 7, 2006 19:48:35 GMT
If I can get the days off I will be there for all 4 days. Gonna try and book them tomorrow. Will almost make up for not running naked in Spain. Maybe I can run naked around Kent
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