Demo at Heathrow, Air Mauritius and Air France in London
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Today activists set out to Heathrow airport. Heathrow airport import animals into the UK for vivisection. We reached the airport and one group made their way to terminal 2 and began to spread leaflets among the public there, the second group made their way to the departures lounge.

Having leafleted the area, we got out the megaphone and began a vocal, angry demonstration. We had time to make a lap of the seating area, the public standing awe struck, before security swooped down, removed the megaphone and began to escort us from the building.

However you can't remove our voices and we have not yet met anyone who can out shout us or match the anger and compassion we feel for the animals.

So we shouted and leafleted out of terminal and onto the tube. We outran security, as vegan animal rights activists are fitter than fat, old, and meat eating security thugs. The Met then arrived and stopped the tube. Three women who had been with the megaphone were searched, another stayed in the building unnoticed and continued leafleting. The other group too got away unseen.

We were searched under section 44 of terrorism act, and under possession of offensive weapons and misuse of drugs acts, seemingly thrown in for good measure. The filth fussed all they could, but couldn't find something to arrest us for, so after some photos and using almost a roll of film trying to photograph a minor (what perverts) we waved goodbye and went on to Air France.

A group of activists began a demo outside, while two other activists entered the building to speak to staff, walking in behind someone we went upstairs. Past an oblivious security desk monitor, we entered the Air France offices, and passing the store room we placed leaflets in all their boxes. We then reached the offices themselves and started to hand out leaflets, and let all the staff there know about Air France’s involvement in transporting animals into the UK for animal torture.

We were escorted from the office and began a rowdy demo outside, letting everyone know about Air France’s importing animals for long slow painful torture in labs.

Next we went to Air Mauritius. Some activists entered the office, and some began a demo outside. Inside we were informed that the manager was in a meeting and couldn’t see us, although, moments later the managers came in, complaining that their meeting had been disrupted with the noise of the demo outside.
Megaphone diplomacy, at its finest, always produces instant results.

We were asked to leave, and were rushed out of the office. We had already left leaflets in strategic places all over their premises anyway. A noisy demo ensued that was effective despite attempts to stifle our right to protest by the police.

Our final stop of the day was Thomas Cook at Marble Arch. Megaphone, leaflets, banners came out and demo began. Travel agent demos are a really important and effective way to get the message out there that people need to boycott air Mauritius, boycott Mauritius itself, as long as Mauritius insist on importing primates into the UK for vivisection they will be a target.

We are telling people not to go there, not to spend their money there, not to support their industries, not to fly with their airlines and not to support the bloody vile trade in animal torture that Mauritius is steeped in.

These companies need to realize that Gateway to Hell has only just begun. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the pressure that is going to be put on these companies who are going to need to shape up and lock their doors a bit more securely in future.

For all the animals that spend hours cramped in tiny holds, many slowly suffocating to death, to those who have been torn away from their families and children, and sit there, in the cargo holds of planes, exhausted and lonely, we fight, for them. We will not stop fighting as to lose is not an option, we are going to do all we can to save those animals, and we are going to win.