SHAC Demos Against Legg Mason, Barclays & AXA

Wednesday, 6th May

We met at Bank in the centre of London and went to Legg Mason at 75 King William Street to ask them to put pressure on the NYSE, as they own a large amount of their shares and have the ability to get the NYSE to ditch HLS. Especially when HLS's share price is low and they are probably still breaking the minimum listing standards for the NYSE. Do the NYSE still list HLS (LSR) on their Arca exchange because they are afraid of being sued by HLS or maybe it has something to do with the $1 million worth of shares the broker was given to secure the deal with NYSE?

Legg Mason

Barclays

Axa Investment Managers

Barclays Bank

This is a good place to get the passers-by as they go out for an early lunch and many flyers were giving out during our protest outside Legg Mason's offices.

The next port of call was Barclays on Kings Street, this is always a good spot with many people taking leaflets about Barclays being the largest shareholder of HLS (LSR) and two people closed their accounts while we were there. We informed passers-by about Barclay's dealings with HLS, their ethical track record and their refusal to give HLS a bank account years ago before the government stepped in to help HLS by arranging banking through the Bank of England.

Barclays know all about HLS's track record, yet they still continue to support a cruel company that falsifies test data. Its time to sell yours shares in this disgusting company Barclays.

Next stop was Axa Investment Managers at 7 Newgate Street where we asked why Axa had promised to get an ethical policy and stop dealing with HLS, only to break their own 'ethical policy' and invest again in HLS shares a month later? There are people wondering whether your ethical policy is worth the paper it is written on Axa. We know of a few ex-policy holders that weren't happy with your change of heart. You pretend to be 'ethical' Axa and then go back on your our policy, its time to ditch HLS shares once and for all and get a real ethical policy or we'll be back. Again flyers were given out to highlight the cruelty at HLS and explained to passers-by why we were outside Axa once again.

We had been told earlier in the day that the Bank of New York Mellon had sold the remainder of their shares, so we popped down to their offices to see them after leaving Axa to talk with someone from BNY Mellon, they had said that a security official was going to meet us and they said they sold their shares in LSR on Monday, but then they changed their minds and told the police to tell us! So we'll have to see, but if BNY Mellon are lying, we'll be back with demos outside their offices very soon...

We then went on to two Barclays, one on Fleet Street and ending the day at Barclays at Holborn where we continued to inform the public about Barclays' shareholdings in animal torture at HLS and again many flyers were handed out to interested passers-by.

All in all a good day with public support, while making companies' dealings with HLS public and informing the public about HLS and vivisection.

Links:

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)
Global Campaign To Close Down HLS

Contact email: info@shac.net