Actress hired to open Harrods Sale faces protests.
See
below for contact alert and protest details. See right for links to demos
from previous years.
Actress and TV personality Amanda Holden has been hired to open the Harrods Winter Sale on Saturday 26th December, Boxing Day. With the world's media also expected to be present, we will be there as usual with placards, banners and leaflets, to expose Harrods leading role in promoting and profiting from the bloody fur trade.
Whether or not you can make the protest on the day, please take a minute to contact Ms Holden and ask her not to promote Harrods while it continues to sell fur, see below for details.
(left) picture from last year's sale opening with opera singer Katherine
Jenkins
PROTEST:
Meet from 8.45am to 9.45am at Harrods, 87 Brompton Rd, SW1X
7XL (next to Knightsbridge Tube Station, head for tube exit marked Harrods).
The opening will be at 10am, and will only last a few minutes. Please make
an effort to attend the protest, it lasts less than an hour, but it is the
most important date in Harrods year. (This year the opening will take place
by door number 3, not 5, as in previous years, due to pedestrianisation)
This is Harrods' biggest event of the year, and the sale opening usually gets worldwide publicity. So as always it's an excellent chance for us to highlight Harrods' role as the only remaining department store in the UK which continues to sell real fur. In previous years our demo has been publicised around the world, see links right for details.
CONTACT ALERT
Please contact Amanda Holden and remind her about the horrors of
the fur trade and Harrods' leading role in promoting fur, that Harrods is
the ONLY UK department store which does not have a fur-free policy, even though
it is illegal to produce fur in the UK. And also as in previous years that
we intend to be there to protest on the day.
A great animal rights activist?
According to various sources, Ms Holden is a vegetarian and "a
great animal rights activist". Remind her about her about the terrible
sufffering of the animals killed in their millions for the fur trade. Ms Holden,
in addition to her role as an actress, is also a judge on the TV talent show
Britain's Got Talent. Ask her to show the same compassion and moral conscience
as another talent show winner turned international star Leona Lewis,
who turned down an offer of £1million to open the Harrods sale because
of its sale of fur.
Please contact Amanda Holden via her agency and mark all correspondence FAO Amanda Holden. Please keep all letters polite and informative, and please forward any replies you receive to us london@caft.org.uk.
Publicist
Alison Griffin Tel: 0207 836 1020
Email: alison@lakesmithgriffin.co.uk
Email: pat@lakesmithgriffin.co.uk
Agent & Booking
Sue Latimer
Artists Rights Group Limited
4 Great Portland Street
London W1W 8PA
T: +44 (0) 207 436 6400 fax 6700
argall@argtalent.com
American Agent
John Ferriter
William Morris
One William Morris Place
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
T: +1 310-859-4000
jfasst@wma.com
Links to earlier Sale Protests
Dec 2008 Boos as opera singer opens Harrods Sale
July 2nd 2007 Harrods Summer Sale Opens with
protests
Harrods calls itself the "world's most famous department store" and its store in Knightsbridge is Europe's largest department store. The last survey at Harrods revealed a wide range of real fur garments on sale on display throughout the store, and included items made from beaver, chinchilla, red fox, arctic fox, mink, musquash, rabbit, wolf, coyote and squirrel.
Harrods protests take place regularly at the store in London, see below for protest reports. You can take part whether you can spare an hour or the whole afternoon, to give out leaflets or hold placards etc. The store is on Brompton Rd, SW1, the tube is Knightsbridge, head for the exit marked Harrods/Brompton Rd. Contact for demos is 07899 775493 or email london@caft.org.uk. There are also whole weeks and weekends of protests on some occasions.
More and more shoppers and tourists are getting the message every week, tens of thousands have signed the petition, hundreds of thousands of leaflets have been given out, and hundreds of potential customers have been turned away. Please join the campaign. Whether or not you can make the protests, please contact Harrods and ask them to stop selling fur.
For the sake of the many thousands of animals tortured and killed on fur farms to supply Harrods, it's vital that we persuade Harrods to take the compassionate decision to stop selling real fur. Whether or not you can make the protests, please politely email, phone, fax, write to Harrods to request that it takes the compassionate decision to stop the sale of all real animal fur and adopt a fur-free policy. Remember to point out that fur farming is illegal in the UK, so they should come into line with the wishes of the British public and the democratic will of Parliament which has outlawed the production of fur in this country. .
If you get any replies please forward them to us.
Harrods Ltd 87-135 Brompton Road
Knightsbridge London SW1X 7XL
Telephone 020 7730 1234
Fax 020 7581 0470
customer.services@harrods.comHarrods Corporate Service
corporate.service@harrods
+44 (0)20 7225 5843Other
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