[Animalrightscambridge] Fwd: Re: [ARevents] World Day of Action against Sweden's Fur Farms

[Raymond Britton]

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Subject: Re: [ARevents] World Day of Action against Sweden's Fur Farms
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:22:04 +0100

  Well done and thanks to everyone who turned up to the Swedish embassy  
demo, report below, the Swedish activists also send their gratitude. There  
were protests in 18 countries, and the London demo was featured on Swedish  
National TV news, which you can see at the link below.

  For pics from the various demos including London see  
http://sveketmotminkarna.se/protester-vid-svenska-ambassader

  For the ?Swedish TV news report of our demo see  
http://www.tv4play.se/nyheter/nyhetskanalen?videoId=1.1744541

  report from the demo with pictures on caft site  
http://www.caft.org.uk/Sweden/index1.htm

  Protestors from the UK joined a worldwide day of action calling for a ban  
on fur farms in Sweden, following the recent undercover investigation (see  
link below)

Over 30 protestors held a noisy and vibrant protest outside the Swedish  
Embassy in Montagu Place, Marylebone, London W1. We had placards and gave  
out leaflets calling on the Swedish government to ban fur farming, as of  
course it already is in the Uk. We also chanted slogans such as "Fur  
Trade, Death Trade, Shame on Sweden"

Two representatives from the Embassy came out to talk to the protestors.  
They said that they had been receiving protest letters and phone calls at  
their embassies all over the world, they even named quite a few of them!

And they said that the Swedish government was taking it very seriously,  
and that they were looking into the regulations. We handed them a leaflet,  
and told them that our message to the Swedish government was that  
regulation was pointless, and only an outright ban would stop the  
suffering. They listened carefully and said they would pass on this  
message to the government.

A reporter from Sweden's Channel 4 TV turned up and filmed the protest,  
and then interviewed one of the protestors. He also said that it was  
massive news in Sweden.

Short video clip (quality not good but gives you a flavour of the demo),  
plays on Realplayer
Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3
  For more information and see film from the investigation into the Swedish  
Fur farming


  On 12/08/2010 18:00, arevents at lists.rbgi.net wrote:
>
> By now many of you will have seen the awful footage from the undercover  
> investigation into Sweden's fur farms.  If not >go to the link for more  
> details.  
> http://www.sveketmotminkarna.se/horror-revealed-swedish-fur-farms
> Reminder that tomorrow Friday 13th August we are taking part in a  
> worldwide day of protest calling for a ban on fur >farms in Sweden
> We holding a protest at the Swedish Embassy in Marylebone, meeting 1pm  
> at the Embassy:11 Montagu PlaceLondon W1H 2ALW1H 2AL(or meet us at  
> Marble Arch tube at 12.30pm for a short walk up to the embassy)Contact  
> on the day 07899 775493
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