Oxford University's Exploitation Knows No Boundaries

Oxford University are not only involved in the exploitation of animals, but now it would seem, also of people.They are currently involved in a highly criticised project that is building a controversial new city in India. Two years ago the University signed up to a new facility for its Said Business School in this new city complex that is funded by private investment. In return Oxford University got a substantial endowment of £7.5 million.

A NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM SPEAK

Another year of atrocities against laboratory animals

Newly released Home Office Statistics show a shocking increase in the numbers of animals used in experiments in the last year.

3.583 million animals suffered and died in British laboratories, and that is not including those used to give blood or those who died before reaching the labs, which, if included, would push this already disturbingly high figure through the roof.

A vet responds to the latest government figures on animal experiments

According to the Guardian newspaper of 21 July, the number of medical experiments involving animals has shown its largest rise since modern records began in 1986. The official government explanation for this massive increase in animal use, is an expansion in biomedical research and the development of new drugs. According to the Home Office, the 3.7 million experiments that took place in 2008 were all "ethically justified".

The truth is out

In July 2006, the BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) used the Freedom of Information Act to request that universities should disclose the number of primates they had used in experiments in two particular years and for a summary of their current primate research. A number of universities complied with the request but six, including Oxford, refused to do so. Oxford University proffered the ridiculous argument that disclosing the information would be likely to endanger the safety of the researchers and would prejudice their commercial interests.

DEMO REPORT - OXFORD UNIVERSITY VICE CHANCELLOR'S CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION

17th February, 2010

On Wednesday 17^th February 2010, SPEAK Campaign supporters held a demo outside the Royal Society in Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 inside which a reception was being held for Oxford University’s new Vice Chancellor, Andrew Hamilton.  Campaigners arrived outside the UK’s national academy of science, the fellowship of which includes prominent vivisectors, late in the afternoon, in order to highlight the fact to Hamilton and his guests that while they were enjoying sipping their champagne over 16,000 innocent, non-consenting beings were imprisoned inside Oxford’s labs, destined to be maimed, tormented and killed in barbaric research projects.

Oxford Business Alumni New Year Dinner 2010

Demo Report - Saturday 6 January 2010

For two and a half hours SPEAK supporters were loud and highly visible outside the main entrance to the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall to welcome the Oxford Alumni  to their New Year dinner.

Demo Report - Thursday 7 January 2010

No Celebration for the Animals

CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY DEMO REPORTS

DAY OF ACTION FOR ANIMALS IN LONDON

Demo Report Saturday 12th December, 2009