The Fight Continues

As the students of Oxford pack their bags and head off for their summer break, supporters of the SPEAK campaign continue to maintain the pressure on Oxford university. Despite another attempt to silence us in the High court with yet another injunction, the campaign against the Oxford animal lab continues unabated.

Activists have been present on the streets of Oxford making sure that, despite its best efforts, Oxford University and its friends in the Government are not allowed to get away with trying to stamp on those who are prepared to speak out. It would appear that, not content with abusing and imprisoning non human animals, the vivisectors inside the university would like to restrict the freedoms of anti vivisection campaigners. In time Oxford University will come to learn that no matter how many injunctions they are able to get rubber stamped in the law courts, SPEAK is never going to be deterred from bringing to an end the barbaric practices taking place inside their vivisection laboratories. In fact, at SPEAK we view the injunctions as a positive action and one that only reinforces our will to fight the university whilst galvanising the animal rights movement in general. Lets face it, if they weren't hurting and they didn't fear our effectiveness, then they would not be trying to limit our rights to protest!

During one of the regular demonstrations that SPEAK organise on an almost daily basis, SPEAK supporters were approached by a female animal researcher who told them "how she loved the mice she used in her experiments", this individual went on to deny animals feel pain (she calls herself a scientist) but this is something we've heard before from animal abusers at Oxford and serves as a reminder as to just how detached from reality these people have become.

Activists have also been present in Oxford city centre with a very visual demo taking place at the Martyrs memorial. This demo drew a lot of attention from tourists and local people and we were joined by a Swedish person who happened to be passing by and felt so strongly that she grabbed a placard and stayed with us. Although Oxford University have been granted a ban on megaphones in the area around the lab site, campaigners made sure that they could be heard by employing a megaphone outside of the exclusion zone. A lot has been made by Oxford University about noise, but the simple truth is: it's not the noise they object to but the message and the fact that the university's dirty secrets can be heard by a greater number of people.

No amount of harassment from Oxford university employees is going to put off SPEAK and its supporters from standing up on behalf of the voiceless and we will be back again and again and again until the extremists at Oxford university have been stopped once and for all.

Don’t forget the demonstration on the 21st June. The Encaenia Ceremony is a showpiece event for the university. It's how the university wants to be seen by the world and a chance for them to hide the systematic abuse of animals behind a wall of pageantry. Let’s make sure that the university’s cloak of respectability is thrown aside in order to show the true face of Oxford University.

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