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7:00am Saturday 24th March 2007

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ANIMAL rights campaigners have been demonstrating this week to highlight the case of a monkey being used for medical research.

The Fighting for Felix campaign began on Monday and will culminate with a demonstration today.

Protest group Speak is demanding the release of Felix, who was featured in a BBC2 documentary called Monkeys, Rats and Me. Campaigners will meet at noon today, at the Martyrs' Memorial, in St Giles.

Demonstrations have been taking place every day this week near the site of Oxford University's new animal lab in South Parks Road.


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Joachim Kuebart, Oxford says...
10:49pm Sat 24 Mar 07

I thought it was very poor style of your SPEAK Campaign group on Bonn square today to have to resort to stealing attention directed at the Sugar Creek Trio which they deserve for their effort of playing music. Also, I think this approach can only hurt whatever goal SPEAK are trying to achieve.

You cannot get your own attention because you have nothing revealing to say that people would be interested to hear. It is a good idea to do your homework and research some new facts and proof to back them before campaigning. Then you could even find more support among your listeners for whatever cause you are pursuing.

Of course, this means SPEAK might actually have to work hard instead of just annoying people by shouting repeated phrases at the expense of others.

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