Post by sweetnessandlight on Oct 1, 2006 10:30:15 GMT
Found this on the web - a blog of various animal charities and campaigns at the Labour Conference last week:
Good Week - NAVS (National Anti-Vivisection Society) - Friendly and busy stall with lots of information and good reports for MPs etc to take away.
Bad Week - BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) - Held a fringe meeting entitled 'Tackling Extremism Together [sic]' on the lunchtime just before Tony Blair made his farewell speech. About 25-30 people attended, most of which found the title of the meeting disagreeable. The Police speaker failed to show, The Muslim Council of Britain sent a replacement for their speaker, and the Labour MP who chaired the meeting was half an hour late. Small buffet - not very vegan - only samosas I think.
Good Week - LAWS (Labour Animal Welfare Society) - Busy stall and an excellent fringe meeting that had about 100 people in total, addressed by an MEP, 2 ministers, and a speaker from Respect (The animal group not Galloway!) plus Karaoke and a great buffet 99% vegan!
Bad Week - Lord 'not-involved with the cash-for-peerage row at all - no not me' Draysdon whose attempts to turn his speech on Defence Procurement into an attack on 'Animal Rights Extremists' backfired when he received the only heckles of the week according to the Manchester Evening News, who reported the speech under the headline 'Defence minister on the defensive over animal testing'.
Good Week - the anonymous heckler who got more press coverage for animal rights with half a dozen words than most speakers got for their entire 6 minutes speeches!
Bad Week - LACS (League Against Cruel Sports) - had a poorly attended fringe where nothing was vegan at all!
Good Week - LACS (League Against Cruel Sports) - had a brilliant stand about fox snares with a huge fluffy fox and stuff attracting a lot of interest and MPs signatures calling for a ban.
Good Week - NAVS (National Anti-Vivisection Society) - Friendly and busy stall with lots of information and good reports for MPs etc to take away.
Bad Week - BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) - Held a fringe meeting entitled 'Tackling Extremism Together [sic]' on the lunchtime just before Tony Blair made his farewell speech. About 25-30 people attended, most of which found the title of the meeting disagreeable. The Police speaker failed to show, The Muslim Council of Britain sent a replacement for their speaker, and the Labour MP who chaired the meeting was half an hour late. Small buffet - not very vegan - only samosas I think.
Good Week - LAWS (Labour Animal Welfare Society) - Busy stall and an excellent fringe meeting that had about 100 people in total, addressed by an MEP, 2 ministers, and a speaker from Respect (The animal group not Galloway!) plus Karaoke and a great buffet 99% vegan!
Bad Week - Lord 'not-involved with the cash-for-peerage row at all - no not me' Draysdon whose attempts to turn his speech on Defence Procurement into an attack on 'Animal Rights Extremists' backfired when he received the only heckles of the week according to the Manchester Evening News, who reported the speech under the headline 'Defence minister on the defensive over animal testing'.
Good Week - the anonymous heckler who got more press coverage for animal rights with half a dozen words than most speakers got for their entire 6 minutes speeches!
Bad Week - LACS (League Against Cruel Sports) - had a poorly attended fringe where nothing was vegan at all!
Good Week - LACS (League Against Cruel Sports) - had a brilliant stand about fox snares with a huge fluffy fox and stuff attracting a lot of interest and MPs signatures calling for a ban.