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Gateway to Hell demo in London
About a dozen activists ventured out onto the streets of London to make the public aware of the truth behind a few seemingly innocent airlines and airport authorities. We began with BAA plc, 130 Wilton Road, London. BAA don't make it a selling point of their company that their willing to put profits before life itself, so WE decided to let people know of BAA's unethical policies.
Our banner obviously caught people's
eyes, with passers by asking about BAA's nasty trade in live animals.
After a healthy session of honest education to the public, we moved just around
the corner to Air China, 41 Grosvenor Gardens, London.
Again we unfurled the banner which spread nicely over their window display.
With workers looking nosily yet reclusively out of a room at the back of their
office, we began leafletting a horrified public. After some deep thought,
Air China decided to try and get rid of us by sticking notes on their windows
stating that they don't import primates.
Nice try Air China but it's not just primates that pass through these hellish
gates we call airports.
Next stop was Air France, Colet Court, 100 Hammersmith Road, London. They
only occupied part of the building, however that didn't restrict our demo,
in fact it helped quite a lot with inquisitive people from neighboring offices
talking to us and taking literature into the building with them. Van's drove
by and through the gates including Air France van's, getting the full effect
of our demo.
Finally we moved to our last airline for the day, a russian airline, Aeroflot,
70 Piccadilly street, London. WOW, what a site! It was well situated on a
busy street with full glass doors and windows. So outside there were plenty
of people to discover the vicious horrors of Aeroflot's business and inside
the workers get to witness the whole of the demo with full view of all banners
and posters.
When we began the demo, the building
was busy, not long into the demo and the building was vacant and remained
that way for most of the day. With the embarrassment of having a demo outside
tour building and a few police 'heavies' guarding the door and scaring off
anyone twisted enough to want to go in, we couldn't go far wrong in having
a successful day.
I'm curious to know how far these airlines will go for an extra few bucks
to import live animals into the country, just so they can live a wasted life
in a cage and die a pointless death on a cold, hard table pumped full of deadly
drugs. NO animal deserves that fate and as long as we all do what we can,
we can make sure that animals won't have to receive that fate. THE ANIMALS
NEED US...