The Contra Costa Times ran an article in late August profiling the harassment that employees of Chiron Corp. have faced over the past few months as Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty has focused on that company which contracts with Huntingdon Life Sciences for animal testing.
According to the Contra Costa Times,
Protesters have left fake tombstones on executives’ lawns and awakened employees and their families at 3 a.m., police said. No permanent damage has been inflicted, but some employees have changed their phone number and called police several times.
SHAC claims that such actions are not part of its campaign against Chiron, but of course SHAC’s web site lists the names and addresses of numerous Chiron employees along with messages referring to them as “sick animal-killing sum” and “Until you do [sever ties with HLS], we will be watching you. We will invite ourselves over to your homes and into your private lives.”
And SHAC spokeswoman Danielle Matthews says that the group supports and encourages such acts, up to and including arson and other illegal acts. Matthews told the Contra Costa Times,
We support any action that aids the closure of Huntingdon. You are actually protesting the company by protesting the executives.
Source:
Protests target firm’s execs. Matt Krupnick, Contra Costa Times, August 23, 2003.