Kinship Circle: LETTER/ Target: HLS Shareholder Wachovia
September 13th, 2007 10:13 am by Kelly Garbato———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Sep 11, 2007 7:34 PM
Subject: LETTER/ Target: HLS Shareholder Wachovia
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1. 9/11/07: Conscious When Cut: Horror On Deer Kill Floor
2. 9/11/07: Deliver Tina And Jewel From Lifelong Abuse
3. 9/11/07: Target: HLS Shareholder Wachovia
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9/11/07: Target: HLS Shareholder Wachovia
KINSHIP CIRCLE ACTION CAMPAIGN
SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
Close HLS
closehls [at] closehls.net * www.CloseHLS.net
Who Is Huntingdon Life Sciences?
www.kinshipcircle.org/fact_sheets/default.html#3
Bear Witness: Inside Huntingdon Life Sciences, 2005
www.kinshipcircle.org/columns_articles/hls05pg1.html
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Ken.Thompson [at] wachovia.com, Tom.Wurtz [at] wachovia.com, David.Carroll [at] wachovia.com, Ranjana.Clark [at] wachovia.com, Steve.Cummings [at] wachovia.com, Jerry.Enos [at] wachovia.com, Ben.Jenkins [at] wachovia.com, Stan.Kelly [at] wachovia.com, Shannon.McFayden [at] wachovia.com, Cece.Sutton [at] wachovia.com, Mark.Treanor [at] wachovia.com, Don.Truslow [at] wachovia.com, Ben.Williams [at] wachovia.com, John.Baker [at] wachovia.com, executive.services [at] wachovia.com, walter.dolhare [at] wachovia.com, sam.pearlstein [at] wachovia.com, todd.wickwire [at] wachovia.com, tom.dolphin [at] wachovia.com, dan.farrell [at] wachovia.com, randy.robertson [at] wachovia.com, tracy.evert [at] wachovia.com, bill.stevenson [at] wachovia.com, murphy.clark [at] wachovia.com, andrew.frawley [at] wachovia.com
eric.lloyd [at] wachovia.com, elton.vogel [at] wachovia.com, timothy.mullins [at] wachovia.com, rob.heffes [at] wachovia.com, randy.keatley [at] wachovia.com, jim.kelligrew [at] wachovia.com, bill.ingram [at] wachovia.com, andrew.gamble [at] wachovia.com, ted.swimmer [at] wachovia.com, michael.clawson [at] wachovia.com, philip.robinson [at] wachovia.com, rick.newton [at] wachovia.com, peter.cai [at] wachovia.com, tom.cambern [at] wachovia.com, bonnie.kemmler1 [at] wachovia.com, bruce.perrine [at] wachovia.com, pete.luxhoj [at] wachovia.com, doug.carman [at] wachovia.com, elena.bennett [at] wachovia.com, randy.tomsic [at] wachovia.com, richard.jones [at] wachovia.com, jerry.bowen [at] wachovia.com, pete.callahan [at] wachovia.com, tara.coffey [at] wachovia.com, rick.redden [at] wachovia.com
jeff.reeves [at] wachovia.com, greg.lapointe [at] wachovia.com, david.smith [at] wachovia.com, ralph.kelly [at] wachovia.com, chuck.beverly [at] wachovia.com, michael.betty [at] wachovia.com, john.watts [at] wachovia.com, jorge.gonzalez1 [at] wachovia.com, juan.castro [at] wachovia.com, david.paulson [at] wachovia.com, stephen.hudd [at] wachovia.com, mike.hanna [at] wachovia.com, mara.holley [at] wachovia.com, elysa.scharf [at] wachovia.com, page.allen [at] wachovia.com, donn.scott [at] wachovia.com, ann.gill [at] wachovia.com, andrew.deskins [at] wachovia.com, john.matson1 [at] wachovia.com, laurence.levy [at] wachovia.com, nina.lihn [at] wachovia.com, hunter.shull2 [at] wachovia.com, jeff.wymard [at] wachovia.com, mark.meyer [at] wachovia.com, jack.swire [at] wachovia.com
mark.lavelle [at] wachovia.com, francine.tabas [at] wachovia.com, anthony.conte [at] wachovia.com, frank.chatman [at] wachovia.com, patrick.hennessey [at] wachovia.com, marylyn.dost [at] wachovia.com,
cecil.edwards [at] wachovia.com, bruce.brett [at] wachovia.com, glen.dooley [at] wachovia.com, michael.stitt [at] wachovia.com, glenn.cusick [at] wachovia.com, kirk.vogel [at] wachovia.com, domestic.tradecsu [at] wachovia.com, john.sapoch [at] wachovia.com, alison.price [at] wachovia.com, norman.pavlak [at] wachovia.com, brian.fulk [at] wachovia.com, fred.cecil [at] wachovia.com, john.carpenter [at] wachovia.com, daniel.cott [at] wachovia.com, railcustomersupport [at] wachovia.com, abl.inquiry [at] wachovia.com, stephen.sharp [at] wachovia.com, wayne.ehgoetz [at] wachovia.com, david.phillips [at] wachovia.com
michaell.taylor [at] wachovia.com, mark.trollinger [at] wachovia.com, dan.tyburski [at] wachovia.com, dennis.bolton [at] wachovia.com, dan.devries [at] wachovia.com, bob.healy [at] wachovia.com, ryan.sansavera1 [at] wachovia.com, michael.jester [at] wachovia.com, kim.kurkowski [at] wachovia.com, john.silvia [at] wachovia.com, mark.vitner [at] wachovia.com, jay.bryson [at] wachovia.com, sam.bullard [at] wachovia.com, gina.martin [at] wachovia.com, jason.schenker [at] wachovia.com, amy.pritchard [at] wachovia.com, huiwen.lai [at] wachovia.com, phillip.neuhart [at] wachovia.com, adam.york [at] wachovia.com, tim.quinlan [at] wachovia.com, michele.ross [at] wachovia.com, michel.smalley [at] wachovia.com, patrick.dixon [at] wachovia.com, terrance.ganser [at] wachovia.com, william.griesser [at] wachovia.com
peter.horowicz [at] wachovia.com, peter.abric [at] wachovia.com, russ.andrews [at] wachovia.com, thold.gill [at] wachovia.com, robert.popowski [at] wachovia.com, alex.wallace [at] wachovia.com, jobposting [at] wachovia.com, connie.e.smith [at] wachovia.com, bennie.boswell [at] wachovia.com, yvonne.calcagno [at] wachovia.com, liz.longley [at] wachovia.com, kevin.dow [at] wachovia.com, paula.beck [at] wachovia.com, tami.simmons [at] wachovia.com, yvonne.lopez [at] wachovia.com, juan.austin [at] wachovia.com, kathleen.martinez [at] wachovia.com, georgette.dixon [at] wachovia.com, josh.dunn [at] wachovia.com, ron.calhoun [at] wachovia.com, jim.pierpoint [at] wachovia.com, eileen.mijlin [at] wachovia.com, helen.wessling [at] wachovia.com, robert.wagner [at] wachovia.com, mark.evers [at] wachovia.com
craig.veazey [at] wachovia.com, treasurycontact [at] wachovia.com, david.weber [at] wachovia.com, doris.schulz [at] wachovia.com, capmark [at] wachovia.com, investor.relations [at] wachovia.com, sourcing.now [at] wachovia.com, supplierdiversity [at] wachovia.com, communityaffairs [at] wachovia.com, firstplace [at] wachovia.com, financialliteracy [at] wachovia.com, wef.customerassistance [at] wachovia.com, servicio [at] wachovia.com, onlineservices [at] wachovia.com, 1031.exchange [at] wachovia.com, assetbased.finance [at] wachovia.com, fusi.equity [at] wachovia.com, fusi.research [at] wachovia.com, gts.support [at] wachovia.com, commercial.reserves [at] wachovia.com, environmentalaffairsmailbox [at] wachovia.com, derivativescustomerservice [at] wachovia.com, tti [at] wachovia.com
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear Sir/Madam,
I write to express my concern about your firm’s 92,600 shares in LSRI (Life Science Research – Huntingdon Life Sciences). As a shareholder in LSRI, Wachovia supplies a financial lifeline to a research laboratory that kills an average 500 animals each day for experiments “only reliable 5-25% of the time,” one record contends.
Documentation from six investigations has exposed Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) for multiple breaches of the U.S. Animal Welfare Act, the arrest of workers on animal cruelty charges, more than 520 infringements of Good Laboratory Practice in England, and a $50,000 payoff to the U.S. Agriculture Department for misstated records and animal welfare violations.
I respectfully ask you to join the global list of customers, suppliers, and financiers that severed ties with HLS after learning about the laboratory’s habitual falsification of data and animal cruelty.
As recently as late 2005, two former HLS employees from the Beagle Unit left their jobs distressed over the animal suffering witnessed daily for 12 months. According to their tape-recorded testimonial, animals are inadequately anesthetized before invasive procedures, such as painful extraction of bone marrow from the chest bone.
Careless workers transfer blood into the wrong tubes. “One license holder would go in and out about five times with the same needle, not hitting the vein,” the one-time employee maintains. “I saw co-workers grab [dogs] by the scruff, shout and swear at them, swing them by the scruff and slap them.”
I’ve viewed investigative footage of HLS technicians who kill dogs by flooding their lungs with toxic materials meant for the animals’ stomachs. In one video clip, a technician repeatedly punches a screaming 4-month-old beagle in the face. During a supposedly post-mortem dissection, another tech slices into the chest of a convulsing monkey.
I am haunted by the verifiable cruelty inside this laboratory. That is why I have taken the time to bring these disturbing images to your attention. Many labs now fulfill research criterion with sophisticated non-animal methods that (unlike animal testing) yield data applicable to human health and safety. HLS, on the other hand, abuses animals for invalid and redundant experiments.
You likely find deliberate animal cruelty as unconscionable as I do. I urge Wachovia to divest its shares in LSRI and refuse to support Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Thank you for your valuable time and consideration,
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HLS DROPOUT NEWS:
9/10/07, from closehls [at] closehls.net
1. ANOTHER CUSTOMER PULLS OUT: Unipharma cuts ties with HLS Yet another company has communicated that they will no longer be doing business with Huntingdon. With more and more customers no longer doing business, it’s only a matter of time until HLS is closed for good. With an upsurge of demonstrations after two major tours, there’s no stopping activists on the warpath to shut them down for good!
“We at Unipharma, s.a. didn’t know about HLS a year ago, we would like you to know that we or our collaborators have no intention of dealing with, now or in the future with HLS. Additionally Unipharma, s.a. condemns firmly the treatment that some firms and people could carry on with animals.”
2. SHAREHOLDER SHAKEDOWN: Four more sold, and more shareholders exposed!
www.closehls.net/current/shareholders/
In early July, Dresdner/Allianz sold all their shares in HLS, and four more institutional shareholders have sold all shares in Huntingdon after campaign pressure. LaGrange Capital, Deutsche Bank, Fairfield Greenwich Associates, and Robeco have all given in, but it’s not over yet — we’ve found four more! Wachovia, AXA, BNP Paribas, and Merrill Lynch have all been exposed for trading shares in death. They’ve already seen protests in Europe, and there’s no hiding in the U.S., either!
Check out www.closehls.net/current/shareholders/ for information on all of HLS’ shareholders.
3. AR2007 International Gathering Video!
Earlier this month the AR2007 International Gathering in the Netherlands concluded with a massive march through downtown Amsterdam! Check out the video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbBRP4-gvUA&eurl=
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