March to Abolish Animal Testing Begins 207-Mile Journey to Marshall BioResources

An unstoppable force is rising across New York. Thousands of us are taking a stand, launching an unforgettable 207-mile march from the state capital in Albany straight to the gates of Marshall Bioresources. This hidden complex has operated in the shadows, mass breeding. innocent beagles ferrets pigs and cats for corporate profit sentencing helpless animals to a lifetime of torture but the silence is officially broken no industry is untouchable laws can be rewritten cruel licenses can be stripped away and when public consciousness shifts the old system crumble. History proves that what was once accepted can be completely changed the moment everyday people look at the cruelty and say, never again. The real question isn't whether we can change history.It's whether you will stand up and make history with us until every cage is empty.

If you are watching right now, which you are, you are part of animal rights history. This is the kickoff of an historic march to end animal testing and it is going global. We have our special guest, Tiffany Brunelli, a popular activist, former law enforcement investigator here in our studio. And now we're going to go straight out to Jamie Sassone, our reporter on the scene in Albany, New York.

Set the stage for us, Jamie. What's happening? Hi, Jane. We are here at the state capital in Albany for the kickoff of the March to Abolish Animal Testing.We are getting ready for some speakers who are going to go live here in just a moment.

We've got Jamie Logan here, the emcee. We've got Wayne Chung of the Simple Heart Initiative who's going to address the crowd and tell us why.

were marching here today. And this kicks off 15 days, 15 miles a day, 200 miles total to get to the gates of Marshall Bio Resources in North Rose, New York. So over here, we've got a line of tables. We've got PETA.

We've got the League of Humane Voters. We've got ferret rescue organizations.um we've got jamie logan right over here yeah let's go talk to jamie okay we're live with unchained tv jamie what do we have going on here jamie logan wow absolutely hi jane hi everybody we are here to raise awareness to end animal testing we are gathering together right here outside the Capitol and we are kicking off this 207 mile March and an

industry like animal testing thrives in secrecy and so by all of us being here today by kicking off this March we are making it impossible for this to be ignoredand how does this stack up in history for example they've based this on the famous salt march in india that gandhi took to end to try and end and ultimately did end british colonialism they've also compared it to

the selma marches the three civil rights and voting rights marches in

This is history right here in the making. I mean, really, I love that you brought up the other marches because this is something that is going to be in the history books. This is the start to the end, really.I mean, people have been working on trying to abolish this for years, but there is so much traction right now at this point in time from Ridgeland, now here to Marshall, and... If not now, when? So I'm so honored to be here and a part of this and to stand with other compassionate individuals that want to see science progress and move away from these old, cruel experiments that don't help anyone. So let's evolve. Let's innovate. Let's make the world a kinder place. I know you're part of history.

I'm very excited that you're one of the emcees along with Ashley Byrne from PETA. Ashley! Yeah, let's get Ashley. I was going to say, I hear Jane. Hi, Ashley. Wow, Ashley Byrne from PETA.You're the other emcee of this event. How big is this in terms of history, Ashley? You know what? we are part of an epic moment in history right now and this is a thread i mean i think the world really got a wake-up call about how people feel about animal testing when everyone was the whole world was cheering together when the beagles were being carried out of ridgeland And now here we are continuing this historic movement to end animal testing. And as Jamie said, it's not if, it's when.

The public is disgusted by animal testing, especially on innocent eagles who are just like the dogs that so many of us live with at home.So this is a moment in history and it's just the beginning. And as you look at these happy beagles, do you feel this is a turning point for the greater animal rights movement? Ashley, PETA has been at the forefront for almost half a decade of the animal rights movement looking for that breakthrough. I often say dogs are the gateway drug to animal rights in general. Is that the moment that we're seeing now? I think you make a great point, because PETA has actually, for over four decades, been exposing and fighting the racket of animal testing.

And I think what we've seen is that because so many people live with dogs at home, love them, know that they feel pain and fear and emotion and bonded with dogs, now that they're realizing...that so many other that all other animals share that capacity for pain for fear uh you know share share that capacity just to want to live their lives without being harmed i think that

circle of compassion for people is spreading that awareness is spreading but i think right that for so many people it starts with dogs or with cats because that's who they're cuddling with on the couch and they look at that beloved family member and they know they would never want to see them suffering in a cage, that nothing would be worth the kind of pain being inflicted on

them that's inflicted on these eagles.

And so I do think that is a catalyst for people realizing that animals are not ours to use, to abuse, to experiment on, or to exploit in any way. Well, I feel we're coming full circle because before I became an official nonprofit, Unchained TV, the first story that I covered, one of the very first, was you in a cage outside the Westminster dog show in nine degree weather. And it was absolutely. absolutely amazing to see your determination. And you gave me determination. And here we are a decade later, a decade after that first story that I shot, uh, for the animal rights news network. And we're now at a moment of global change of national change.So I hope that this is the breakthrough moment.

Ashley, it's so great to see you there emceeing and we're gonna cover every last word. So thank you so very much.- Thank you, Jane. That means the world. And we love fighting for the animals alongside you. So thank you. all right thank you we're gonna go back to jamie how far are we away from starting this and i want to also tell everybody unshamed tv has committed to going live every single day all 14 days so you can be part of history watch us And if you hear some of the loudspeaker in the background testing, that means they're getting ready to start. So that's not a mistake.That's the loudspeaker at the actual event in Albany, New York. And just just so you know, you can watch on Cheap Chain TV every single day.

We are going to be live, in fact, at their. First stop in Schenectady later today, which could be around 4 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Eastern.

We're going to go live again for their first stop. Jamie, what's happening now?so we have them setting up for the speakers we have a crowd behind us here of all these march participants we've got tables of people representing the league of humane voters we've got ween shung over here um we have let's say hi to wayne shung he's i mean if there's one person who has made this happen it's wayne shung and we'll go into that

a little bit more the attorney co-founder of direct action everywhere simple heart initiative founder he's he's the man of the hour for sure if we can talk to wayne Shung for a second, because he's the one who initiated the takedown of the Ridgeland Beagle facility in Wisconsin.

So let's see if we can talk to Wayne.All right, we've got him here. He's in the middle of a conversation, so I don't want to interrupt. No, no. As soon as he's done, we'll stay on him.

And you're doing a great job as a reporter. Jamie Sesson, an incredible activist who is our reporter and is going to be trekking this entire route, more than 207 miles. Now, while you're waiting, Tiffany. I know you, as a former law enforcement investigator, were doing some very deep animal rights work yesterday, but you roused yourself at 5 a.m.

to get here. How important does this seem to you, Tiffany?jane i think we're seeing a cultural shift in better science and compassion i'm so excited i think we're it's happening now we're here it's just i can't stand it it's so exciting well i agree with you entirely uh what what happens is that it gets to a point

where it it gets mainstream in other words the opposition to animal testing has gone mainstream, where people used to say, oh, no, for science, we've got to do whatever. And now people are questioning that. And they're saying, no, not torturing animals with no reliable outcomes. 95% of the drugs that showthat they're okay in dogs do not work in humans it's a scam i'm gonna say it right now it's a scam and we're in the 21st century where we have organs on a chip and ai and quantum computing and there's no need to be torturing these animals you know i think you could go and nudge, he may not be aware that we're live. Go give him a little nudge and tell him that we'd like to talk to him live right now.

Now you've got to learn how to be that aggressive reporter that I was for so many years where people would push me aside and tell me, get out of my way. I didn't let it stop me.I go in there and ask him, hey, we're live. Can we talk to you for a second? If he says no, then we'll come back. But while you're doing that, what I'm going to do is show a little bit of what happened leading up to this. And essentially what happened is Bridgeland, and there were 2,000 beagles approximately in Bridgeland. that Wayne Shung, the person we're trying to speak to right now, essentially said, we're going to get them out. He videotaped this, what we're looking at right now. And here he is.

Let's go straight out to Wayne Shung. Wayne, we were just showing the dogs that you investigated. at Ridgeland leading to all this.Can you give our viewers a sense of the trajectory of this movement that started with you at Ridgeland, refusing to forget those beagles in those cages to today? Back in 2017, when we walked in Ridgeland, I don't think anybody even knew what was going on. I didn't even exactly know what was going on. They were just. Rumors and inspection records that were very vague about potential abuses of animals. And from the moment we walked in, we knew the world needed to see this. Because I'd estimate that probably about 20 to 30 percent of the dogs were exhibiting some form of psychotic behavior.

The cages they were in were smaller than what's required under Wisconsin law.And many of the animals had injuries that indicated. that they were suffering some form of egregious abuse including many of the animals desperately trying to cry and they just couldn't cry because their vocal cords had been cut and when we first released this obviously the authorities did absolutely nothing they sat on it for four years and ultimately concluded that the ones they would charge would be the activists who actually shot the footage and took three dogs out i think a lot of people thought at the time you know This is deja vu all over again, because in the 2000s, there was a big campaign against animal experimentation that got shut down on very similar grounds that the government just basically called them terrorists.

They tried to put them in prison and the grassroots fell apart. But this time, obviously, things were very, very different. And the main reason is because not of me, but because of you and all the people here, because the viewers of Unchained TV, because. of the ordinary citizens across the nation, in some cases across the world, because people came from all the way from Canada to be at Ridgeland to say, we're not leaving a single dog behind. And so, you know, in the last few months, it's exactly what happened. We got all 2,000 dogs out, and now we're off to Marshall next.And I'm showing some footage of from your Instagram of the first rescue where I guess approximately two dozen beagles were rescued. There were really 31, but some were recaptured.

That was the first effort. But what about the impact of the second? attempted where the activists, approximately a thousand of them, were hit with tear gas and bullets. It seems to me you were arrested right at the start of that action, that that was when the nation woke up.

And it's sad that it takes that. But what impact did that have, Wayne? Yeah, I think it was monumental.The Harvard anthropologist Joseph Henrich has written about how social change happens when people put their money where their mouth is, where they show they're willing to sacrifice for some cause, and that's exactly what happened on April 18th. We had grandmothers, school teachers, lawyers, doctors, veterinarians, peacefully approaching a facility that was defended by the police.

A facility that had been implicated in hundreds of counts of felony animal use.

and get ruthlessly beaten, tear gassed, shot with rubber bullets, pepper sprayed in the face over the course of three hours outside of Ridgeland Farms. And to this day, there still has not been even an investigation by the government, its own court system.Its own state inspection agencies concluded that there was egregious felony animal abuse happening at Ridgeland Farms. They even bothered to investigate. And to this day, they still have on their website a false claim that Ridgeland is exempt from the animal cruelty laws. So at the end of the day, we've seen through history, there are times when systems are broken, where the powerful are not acting responsibly. And the only response to that is citizen direct action. And the thousand people on April 18th.

went out to rickson farms to try to get those dogs out did exactly that they put this issue on the agenda they show the government if you don't help the dogs we will we'll be back time and time again until the dogs are released and it culminated in the ultimate negotiation and release of all 2 000 dogs and the permanent shutdown of a facility that has been torturing dogs for over 50 I have one question for you. What's your strategy to get these 16,000 to 22,000 where you're headed, Marshall BioResources? is so much larger than Ridgeland. We understand that there was a deal to allow 10 retired beagles to be released by Marshall Bio Resources. What's that about?And what's your strategy for getting these 16 to 22,000 beagles out?

Yeah, the 10 released is... A demonstration that the pressure is working because Marshall has historically had a very antagonistic relationship with animal rescue groups. But, you know, bless Lori Simmons and her incredible team down in Florida. They've been negotiating so hard to get every single dog out. And obviously every dog out is a miracle because all these dogs would otherwise end up in experiments. They'd end up being killed at Marshall because there's oversupply. You know, we released evidence a couple weeks ago showing that dogs.being improperly injected with sodium pentobarbital to the point that many of them are thrashing for 5-10 minutes before they die in agony on the floor of the Marshall Beer Bioresearch's cage. But the strategy is quite simple.

We're going to say over and over again to everyone who will listen to us that we need to get the dogs out. And if the government won't get the dogs out, we will. Because we can't allow dogs to be burned alive from the inside. We can't allow dogs to be injected with leptospirosis and have their lungs and kidneys filled with blood and fluid as they agonizingly die over weeks and months. We can't have a dog even just trapped in a cage for an entire life.And even that is a cruelty that Americans don't want to see. We don't want dogs trapped in cages for their entire lives, denied all the basic freedoms of family. a soft place to lie down on once in a life, a chance to look up at the sky.

These are things that every animal, every dog deserves, and we're going to give it to them. And again, if the government doesn't do it, we will. So there are a lot of different strategies parallel to that fundamental narrative we'll be using. We'll be going after a lot of Merck's buyers, or Marshall's buyers, like Merck, the big pharmaceutical company.

We'll be seeking a criminal prosecution.We already sent a letter to Letitia James and the local county prosecutor. And we're also going to be pushing legislative efforts. So Nick Langworthy in New York is going to be probably announcing a bill to ban all federal funding on dog experimentation sometime in the next couple of weeks. That will cut the funding for Marshall.

But at the end of the day, there's still 16,000 dogs left there and they got to get out.

So, you know, our fundamental message is if the government won't help the dogs, we will. My plan is, on the anniversary of the first Ridgeland rescue, March 15th, we're going to set a deadline and say to the government, you've got to get these dogs out.One year after Ridgeland, you've got to get them out, and if you don't, we will. And that's the deadline. Wow.

I know you're getting ready to speak. You're one of the keynote speakers today. Last, last question. Compared to the Gandhi march, the salt march in India and the Selma marches in 1965 for voting rights and civil rights, where would you put this march today?a thousand people marching 207 miles to marshal bio resources something like this has never been done for animates as far as i know i mean i think there have been a couple instances of buddhist monks walking across the country for

compassion but something that has so much wide participation from all walks of life if you just scan the crowd here today

You've got young people, you've got old people, you've got people from all different professions, you've got people from all over the country. And also, I think this is a unique moment because there's so much national attention and so much bipartisan support for the effort to get dogs out of cages and labs.So I think this is going to be a tremendous event. I think we walk up to the doorsteps of Marshall.

I might not even be there myself because my wife's going on trial in the UK next week, so I've got to go back and rush to defend her. But for all the folks who will be there, including maybe me, if my wife's trial is resolved, we're going to go right up to the doorsteps at Marshall and for the first time in history have the entire movement present there just saying, these dogs need to get out now.

They need to get out. And we have the legal basis. We have the right moral narrative. The moment has come for the dogs to be released.The government has to do the right thing. If they don't, again, we will. I want to thank you for taking the time. I know you're very busy today. The man of the hour, Wayne Shung, co-founder of DXC, founder of The Simple Heart, an attorney, and one of the most effective activists, animal rights activists in history. Thank you so much, Wayne Shung, for talking to us today. Thank you. Very kind of you. Yes. Well, of course. I mean, every word. Jamie, you're doing a great job as a reporter there. I want to let everybody know you can watch our coverage. We are going to be live.

Every single day.And in fact, for those areas that are hard to reach, no cell service, we have a mini satellite dish that we're going to be using. So you're not going to miss any step of it. So what's happening there, Jamie? Like, I know this was, this is a kickoff that's getting ready to happen.

What's the latest? We have a big crowd gathering. More and more people are coming in. It looks like they're getting the equipment set up for the speakers to start soon.

It looks like we have Jamie and Ashley over there getting ready to emcee. So maybe we should head over. We also have some Ridgeland survivors here, some Envigo survivors. And you're talking beagles, right?

Beagles. Yes, some beagles here today.i would love to see that that would be absolutely amazing to see yeah yes um here we have a couple of them over here gabby came from invigo we also have uh ella here a march organizer with her oh

How are you? Are you ready to go? Say again? Are you ready to go? We are so ready. I got Jane here. Come say hi. Jane, say hi to Jane. We're about to kick things off. Are you ready? Are you excited? Is everything going to plan? Well, you know, there's always we got to roll with the punches here. This is a big, big task, but we are we're doing great. And we're about to start with the speakers.So thank you all for being here. All right. Thank you. That's yes. Ella Majors, the co-lead organization. She's the one who's made it happen. She's very busy right now. And Jamie, I have to say you're doing it.

incredible job uh a former reporter myself this is her first time being a really a reporter and she acts like she could be on cnn uh in a half an hour so well done uh bringing us you know the whole point is that so many people wanted to go to albany there's a thousand marching But there are many tens of thousands who said, wow, I wish I could, but I've got a job or I can't find a sitter for my dog or whatever the reason. And so Jamie is bringing it to us live. Tiffany, as a DXC volunteer, when you've covered so many protests and undercover investigations, et cetera, why is this different, Tiffany?We've just seen this ever since you were covering it there, the first rescue.

jane when they when wayne and team got the dogs out it just seemed like such a cultural shift everybody my parents friends were talking about it everybody was everybody knows who the ridgeland beagles are we've never as far as i've as long as i've been around we've never seen anything like this it's just really sparked public awareness part of the cultural shift and people are startingthere can be science without there is science that exists without animal suffering and we have more effective tools that work and as we're watching those rescued beagles we can show you the beagles that are here at the rally in albany these rescued beagles these are beagles who've gotten out of the cages and who would otherwise be tortured and experiment.

And I don't use the word torture lightly, but what happens to these animals is torture. I mean, you heard from Wayne Shung about burning, burning from the inside out. You know, that's torture. Look at this. It's all coming together. It looks like the march is going to start. The speakers that are leading up to the march are going to start any second.We're talking about, if you're just joining us, a thousand people at least who are going to be marching 207 miles from Albany, New York, all the way to Marshall. Bio Resources in North Rose, New York, a 207-mile march over two weeks, and we're going to cover it every single day. This is the kickoff, and it's called the March to Abolish Animal Testing. It is a follow-up.

in a sense to what happened at Ridgeland, because Ridgeland is a lot smaller than Marshall Bio Resources. sources or any company mentioned on any time to respond to anything said here today. Things are live. I have no way of predicting what anybody is going to say, but you can see right there.

Everybody. Good morning.Starting. let's get those in the back to come closer up ashley byrne does not bite just like the beagles that are in these cages so let's get closer come on you can get closer too right it is yeah we'll find out well maybe sometimes she does Thank you so much, all of you, for being here. We are beginning this march, this historic march here in Albany where laws are written.

And we are ending this historic march at Marshalls where laws are broken. But we're going to change that. Yes, we are.

and we should probably introduce ourselves we are your mcs for today i'm jamie from jamie's corner and i'm ashley byrne from peta and we will be introducing some incredible speakers legislators performers for you today and then we will direct where we are heading next Yeah, and actually, on that note, we have some logistics that we should probably go over before we get started. We should probably do that.

So first off, if you need any assistance or any help, there are people with yellow lanyards on their necks, so you can ask them any questions if you are confused at any point. Um, and... And then there's some booths and tables that you should check out as well.And we are going to be here hearing from a number of amazing speakers, making our voices heard, remembering the victims.

We will be here until. 1130, at which point those of us who are marching today will march the 1.6 miles through the streets to Swinburne as a show of our dedication before sending off the long-haul marchers who will have a 207-mile journey ahead of them. and every step between here and marshall says we see you we haven't forgotten about you and we are coming that's right because vivisection flourishes in silence in secrecy and you are making that impossible this march is making that impossible you are dragging theirand their disgusting treatment of dogs and other animals into the spotlight where it can't be ignored and it can't continue.- So we will begin today with singer Vanessa Dawson. She is the founder of Penelope's Sanctuary in Buffalo, New York.

And she will be singing a song. She's a singer-songwriter, and she uses her platform to inspire change for animals. Vanessa Dawson. Jamie, get a little closer.

Get a little closer, Jamie. Thank you so much. This is amazing. Oh, my gosh.

This is so great. So.I also have a musical theater background and the song that I'm going to sing for you today is one of the songs is a classic and I've heard the song a million times and maybe you've heard it too but I never really understood the lyrics until I became an animal rights activist. so if you've heard this song before listen to it with new ears this is the impossible dream well sound check issue uh it's not connected yes hey jamie can you get a little closer perfect group yeah thank you better we can see their faces now thank you so much

check check perfect maybe a little louder and then just to the right just a stitch all right take two

To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go

right the unrightable wrong ♪ To love pure and chaste from afar ♪ ♪ To try when your arms are too weary ♪ ♪ To reach the unreachable star ♪ ♪ This is my quest ♪ To follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To fight for their rights, without question or pause. To be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. And I know... If I'll only be true to this glorious quest And my heart will be peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest And the world will be better for thisThat one man, scorned and covered with scars, still strove with his last ounce of courage, beyond all reach, to fall.

Amazing! Thank you so much, Vanessa Dawson! So next up, we are introducing the organizers, the founders of this march. Ella Mangers and Gretchen Prima. These incredible women have put together a powerful program for today and a march that is going to bring this issue straight to the steps, to the gates of Marshall Bio Resources, to drag their cruelty out into the open where it can't be ignored. We are so grateful to them for all the work that they've put into organizing this historic event. Yes. Thank you so much, Ella and Gretchen.

ella and gretchen and jane the bell all right what a long time coming today so first of all for those of you celebrating russia shawna today happy new year i cannot think of a better way to usher in a new year than by acting to make the world a kinder place yes and that's what we're doing so my father is a retired physician he began his career as a researcher at nih nih as we know is the largest funder public money to animal research in the world And when our website went live for the march to abolish animal testing, the very first person to make a donation was my father. Because science has changed.If there was ever a moment to make an excuse for testing on animals, that moment is long past.

So many people are here because we respect and care about other species too much to allow them to suffer in our names. And a lot of us are here because we respect and care about science too much to accept substandard and outdated. methodologies and whatever reason you are here welcome to the march to abolish animal testing which we will do so imagine another industry let's say a manufacturer of military planes who contracts with the government and their leadership goes to the heads of a government agency and says, thank you so much for funding us.

As you know, we build these airplanes. It's very painstaking.It takes us many years to build an airplane. And then we put it on the runway. And nine times out of 10, as you know, that airplane will fall apart as it taxis.

It will never get in the air. Now give us $10 billion of taxpayer money. And what's even more ridiculous than that would be that government agency saying, sure, here you go. That is the world of animal testing. When a drug is tested on animals and considered successful, it will then go to human trials. And 92% of the time, it will fail. Now, the difference between that and my hypothetical is, number one, that that's real.And number two, that millions of animals will suffer and be destroyed on the way to that failure. We are marching to a facility. that breeds the animals for this system. It is the beginning of the pipeline. And right now there are at least 16,000 dogs in cages, in sheds at that facility, and tens of thousands of cats.

pigs and ferrets in cages in that facility every single one of whom is an individual for me to give you the human mind cannot really comprehend these numbers but to give you an idea if we just take the most conservative estimate just of dogsAnd I open a wall calendar and I put an X in January 1st for a dog in a cage at Marshall Bio Resources. And then I put an X at January 2nd for the one next to him.

And I keep going every week, every month. I would have to fill 44 years of calendars to get to the minimum number. cages with a dog in it at Marshall Bioresources right now and every single one of them is waiting there to be transported, experimented upon, exploited and destroyed. For what?

This is why we march. Now non-marchers are allies, people who are here today who might go with us for that first mile and then are gonna have to go.You are with us every step of the way, pun intended. We need you and we need everyone you know because it will take all of us to tell the powers that be that they have the power to stop this.

So they should stop this. And until then, we march.

Good morning Albany! See this little girl? On May 5th of this year, Jane was loaded onto a bus leaving Ridgeland Farms, a place where she had spent her entire life in a tiny wire cage being bred for experimentation. She was unloaded from that bus into my arms. And before long, she fell asleep and started snoring loudly.She was safe for the first time in her life, and I knew in that moment that she was home. I had not planned on adopting one of the Beagles. We had fought so hard to free from that hellhole, but here we are. I named her Jane after one of my greatest heroes. Dr. Jane Goodall, who said, what you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

I made that decision when I was seven years old. That was when I realized that my purpose on earth was to give a voice to the animals whose voices are silenced, whose suffering is hidden. whose deaths are dismissed as the cost of doing business.And I have just dedicated my whole life to inspiring fierce compassion for all beings. For most of my life, my advocacy focused primarily on animals used for food, and for good reason. Nearly 10 billion land animals are slaughtered for food in this country every single year. 10 billion individuals.

And then this year, when my dear friends were arrested on March 15th for bravely carrying beagles to freedom from inside Ridgeland, I knew in my bones that we were standing at the edge of something extraordinary, and I became a Red Team lead for the April Rescue at Ridgeland. I truly believe we are at the tipping point in the fight to end animal experimentation.We do not have to choose between compassion and science any longer, and that is why we are here. That is why we are marching 207 miles. We are marching for the animals currently sitting inside laboratory cages who have never felt grass beneath their feet. We are marching for the animals being bred into existence for the sole purpose of becoming research tools.

We are marching for every animal whose suffering happens behind closed doors, conveniently hidden from the people whose tax dollars pay for it. And we're marching because we know change is possible. Just months ago, Jane was considered property. She was known by a number tattooed on her ear. Today, she's my family.She runs, she plays, she gets the zoomies, and every night she curls up next to me and sleeps, knowing she's safe. And Jane isn't special because she deserved to be saved more than the others. Jane is special because she reminds us that every single animal deserves the same. Every dog, every cat, every monkey, every rabbit, every fish, every pig, every cow, every chicken, every animal trapped in a cage right now.

So when our feet hurt over the next 200 miles, when we're tired, when it rains, when it feels hard, remember who has it harder. Remember who we're marching for. And remember something else Jane Goodall said in her final message to the world.Each and every one of you has a role to play. Every single person standing here today has chosen to play a role.

You chose to show up here today. You chose not to look away. You chose to use your voice for those whose voices have been ignored. And together, those individual choices become something much more powerful, a movement, a movement demanding better science, a movement demanding compassion, a movement demanding science without suffering.

Jane Goodall reminds us, every single day you live, you make a difference in the world and you get to choose the difference that you make.

Well, today, we have chosen. We choose a future where scientific progress does not depend on suffering.We choose a future where animals are not born into cages simply because someone can profit from their bodies. We choose a future where animals like Jane are known not by a number, but by a name. And over the next 207 miles, we're going to make damn sure that we are heard. We are not here to simply witness history. We're here to make it. So Albany, let's march today.

try to use this mic. I have another song for you guys. Just one moment, please.

All right. So this song goes out to not only the beagles that are trapped in animal testing labs, but all animals that are trapped, including the cats and the ferrets and the rabbits and the mice and the primates.This song is for you.

you are not hidden There's never been a moment that you were forgotten. You are not hopeless. Though you have been broken, your innocence stolen. I hear you whisper underneath your breath.

I hear your S.O.S. I will send out an army to find you in the middle of the darkest night, it's true. i will rescue you there is no distance that cannot be covered over and over you're not defenseless i'll be your shelter I'll be your honor. I hear you whisper underneath your breast.

I hear your S.O.S., your S.O.S.I will send out an army to fight in the middle of the darkest night, it's true, I will rescue you, I will never- stop marching to read you in the middle of the hardest fight it's true i will rescue you i hear you whisper underneath your breath i hear you whisper you have nothing left i will send out an army to find

you in the middle of the darkest night it's true I will rescue you. I am marching to reach you. In the middle of the hardest fight, it's true. I will rescue you.

♪ Oh, we will rescue you ♪

wow thank you so much vanessa beautiful how incredible um jamie yes ashley you know what i think we're looking at what a marshall executive's worst nightmare really upset that everybody didn't just decide to go to brunch this morning yeah that they're here with us yeah so thank you where is everybody coming in from can you shout out some of the cities new york athens greece wait what oh my god what about back here New York, Seattle, Bermuda, New Hampshire, Connecticut, all over, amazing, New York, also New York, yes, okay, well, it's been a wonderful morning so far. We have so much more for you today. We are going to be hearing from more incredible speakers.We'll be hearing from legislators who are supporting the march. We'll be hearing from actor Alison Pill.

Remember that we kick off the first mile and a half of the march that everyone who's participating today will be doing together at 11.30 a.m. And then until then, you have time to visit the booths, make connections. Be sure you are following the march on social media so that we can all follow along on this journey together and support everyone who is going the distance all the way to Marshall.

And the march will be livestreamed on Unchained TV, so for those of you that won't be here throughout the two weeks, you can follow along on Unchained TV and on social media as well.Many people will be posting about it. And so next up, we'd like to introduce Wayne Shung, our personal hero. many of you know Wayne for his courageous actions for animals all across the spectrum of things but we also know him as the guy with the crowbar breaking through the window of these prisons carrying out beagles and leading the way wayne thank you so much for being here today

yeah i i get way too much credit for that because what you don't see in that clip is the 15 20 minutes of time of me just bashing a door and failing to get in whenever else was pointing at the window and saying just go in through the window wing and it was all all these guys and many other people on march 15th who made that happen you guys can come up so um So I'm going to try and keep my comments short because it's hot. We've got a lot of marching to do, and we're here not just for me, not just for the other defendants, but for all of us to make our voices heard. We've got Dean, Cam, Aditya, Jeremy, Adam.

Jamie was part of this action in so many ways, too, and it was really crucial in New York when we were building power, doing the trainings that led up to this action. But all these folks are facing very serious criminal charges, anywhere from 12 to 31 years in prison. And their alleged crime is taking a dog from a place where they're being criminally abused to a happy home. That's it. That's what they did. And I have to say, I think I've talked to all of you about this, and we're all not just okay with this. We're excited for this fight, and I'll tell you why. And this story goes back to stuff that was happening in Richland seven, eight years before.Because starting in 2018, 2019, we started getting leaked documents.

I'm going to tell you a story about Richland that broke a lot of our hearts. And they made clear to us, we need to be out there ourselves to get the dogs out. So starting in 2018, there is a secret protocol that we discovered by a pharmaceutical company called Merck. And Merck had spirited away 43 of these dogs into a highly secure, a biosecure facility that was so sealed off from the outside world, you couldn't even come in from the outside. You had to get washed down, you had to be in a biosuit to come in this facility. But they took these 43 dogs from religion farms.They had just been born, so they were taken from their families first.

They had no idea where they were going, they didn't know where their siblings were, they didn't know where their mom was. And they go into this cage. And they're in this cage in a biosecure facility. And all of us know, if you know puppies, especially beagle puppies, they don't like to be alone. If you leave a beagle puppy in a cage for three hours, she's going to get anxious. She's going to get scared. I know this myself. I've got one. Three days? You kidding me? Three months? I mean, that's just insanity. That's psychotic animal abuse. What Merck did... to these beagle puppies.They brought them to a biosecure facility, healed off from the sunlight, healed off from the world, healed off from anything good in life.

They threw these beagle puppies, 43 of them, into a cage in a biosecure facility for three years. Three years without sunlight, without their families. It's not a moment to look at the sky or touch something soft. And when I imagine my little guy, James, every day just waiting in that cage, asking, is somebody going to come today?

Am I going to get to go outside? Do I get to play?is anything going to be different i'm so scared i'm alone this is not the way dogs are meant to live for 10 000 years they have been our friends our family members they want to be around us they want to be loved and for three years these beagles waited for someone to come for them you know what happened after these three years you

know what murk They jabbed them in the face, the rabies virus, and watched after 30 days as these dogs descended into madness and died.

When I read this research study, it brought tears to my eyes because you read about the dogs suffering from, at first, anorexia. They stop eating. Then they start feeling apprehensive.Then they experienced partial paralysis, coma, and death. These are the words from Merck's own study about what they did to dozens of beagles. After three years of waiting for someone to come save them, they died a horrible death in a Richmond lab. And you know what the government did? We told them the most powerful corporations on this earth. are torturing the most defenseless beings on this earth. You know what they did? They charged us with crimes for excusing the abuse. It's a hard place to be at that point, right? And that's where we were in 2024. And we could have given up.

We could have given up. And frankly, there are a lot of people who told us to give up.They said, you know, just take Yale, go home. You're facing 15 years in prison. You've got a very powerful industry.

Merck is against you. Pfizer is against you. The U.S. government is against you.

And frankly, if it had just been me, I probably would have given up. But you know what happened? We showed up in court in March 2024. I bet a lot of you were actually there that day.

I know Jeremy was there.jeremy was sitting right next to me and jeremy had not been a part of a rescue at that point but he saw how corrupt and broken this system was he saw the images of the beagles shuddering in terror at richmond farms waiting for someone to say that and he said i am not going to let these people take the l I'm not going

to let my friends go to prison for taking dogs out of cages.

I'm going to be there with them. I'm going to fight with them and make sure this story is heard. And Richmond dropped the charges against us. They tried to go home, to disappear.And ultimately, we came back again on March 15th, 2025, 2026, and we got all those dogs out. And it was because of not me. It was not because of me. It wasn't because of the media. It wasn't because of the government. is because of people like jeremy and adam and dean and so many of you who stepped up and said i will not leave that dog in a cage and where we are again now today once again the reports of animal abuse from massive breeding facility this time in new york not wisconsin Once again, this cruelty has been reported to the authorities.

Many of you saw the letter.My very good friend, Bonnie Clapper, an experienced former federal prosecutor, sent to the Wayne County authorities saying that dogs are being injected with toxic chemicals and they're thrashing with agony for 10 minutes as if they're being burned alive from the inside. Once again, the government hasn't responded. And once again, if the government doesn't respond, if they don't get those dogs waiting for someone to come save them out of a cage, you know who's going to come for them? Us. You. Me. The people of this country are sick and tired of seeing the powerful get away with abuse. And we will take direct action to defend the vulnerable from these cruelties. And we will win. We will win.So I just want to end with this thought.

That I started this story about these dogs sitting in cages at Richland Farms. And frankly, when I read this study, one of the saddest things was I knew those dogs were already dead. I can tell you right now, we've received documents, even in the last few weeks, there are other studies, other experiments being performed by the exact same pharmaceutical company, Merck, where dogs are sitting in a cage for months, for years, waiting for the day when someone will come help them. There's a dog at Marshall Bioresource, at Merck, at Charles River, who's waiting to get out.And if we fight, if we march, if we donate, if we sacrifice in whatever way you can sacrifice to get that dog out, that dog will get out. Because I know this firsthand.

My dog James, six months ago was sitting in a cage at Graceland Farms, he is now with me and my wife in a happy family. He sees the sky, he goes outside to play in the park. This is the life every dog at Marshall will get if we march. So let us march! Let us speak, let us fight, and help. If we have to break into that facility and get them out ourselves, let's do that too. Because every single one of these dogs within one year will be free.I took a little too much time, but I want to offer any of my co-defendants a chance to share any thoughts. If you have any, if that's okay, we'll stay full on Gretchen and Ella. Thank you, Wayne.

I just want to take a moment and just look around. I mean, it's been a wild year. You feel that? It's been a wild, wild year. And I've just been overcome with emotion, frankly, over the past few months, right? I'm seeing so many familiar faces today. And I got to say, today is a particularly almost weird day for me. It's a kind of weird day that I've had over and over in the past few months, but especially this past week.Because for many of you, I have literally not seen your face since we were in a cloud of tear gas together on April 18th, right? It's weird. And it's amazing. Like, I just really, from the bottom of my heart, I want to express gratitude.

Like, if you were there on April 18th, just thank you so much. And I want to, like, shout you out. Thank you so much. Thank you for being there.

It's incredible. What we did together, and I think about the weirdness that I felt. I didn't get to debrief with a lot of folks after April 18th because, frankly, some of us were sitting in a jail cell for about four days.We didn't get to say hi or say goodbye, really. And then the whirlwinds after of the attention and the dogs getting out and the emotions, the highs and the lows, where the highs were high and the lows were low.

And I don't know, maybe I think a lot of us felt that too, right? The overwhelming emotion of the dogs getting free and the grassy plains where you see people are celebrating the dogs getting out playing in the grass. But we know where they came from. It wasn't all happy.

We know that those dogs had spent their entire lives in cages. That's where they were coming from. They'd never felt anything soft, never felt the warmth of a hug.

And so when I think about this year, I think of this one moment, actually, when we were there in April 18, I think we were getting tear gassed and pepper sprayed, and many of us were shot with rubber bullets. I think we all experience like if you know how it feels that pure gas burning your skin, you you know that experience. There's moments when I was staying on a hay bale with a megaphone with riot police looking at me saying they had a warrant for my arrest. And there were a bunch of activists around us trying to get in and failing to get into the facility. And I thought, I don't think we're going to get in.Why are we here? Why am I here?

Why am I doing this? And there was this one moment where someone said, hey, Dean, there's an activist. He made it through the fence, but he's not breathing. He's unresponsive. And I thought, I felt responsible. I didn't know what to do, right? He was okay. But the gravity of the situation dawned on me of what we're all doing together. And I wanted to, like, pull back or give up. I didn't know if we could keep going. But then I thought of who was on the other side of that fence. And I remember there was someone there, like the mothers who we saw on March 15th. And we knew.I knew that we couldn't give up because we wouldn't want someone to give up on us. And that's what we're doing here.

We are going through the highs and the lows and marching for 200 miles because at the end of this march is a facility called Marshall Bio Resources with not 1,000 pups. Not 2,000 beagle pups, but 16,000 beagle puppies. They have never gone outside. They have never felt softness or looked up at the sun. They are just like the original dogs who we know, who are part of our families, who we have seen. And I know that we are not giving up. Because when we get to that fence and marshal by our resources.There is going to be someone on the other side of that fence, on the other side of the barbed wire, on the other side of the police who I'm sure are going to be waiting for us that day.

And we're going to have to decide, are we going to keep on moving or are we going to stay? And I know we're not going to give up because someone on the other side of that fence needs our help. So whether it's felony charges. whether it's discomfort from our families, whether it's ridicule from people saying, oh, why are you doing this dog stuff?

With everything going on in the world, I know that this work is profoundly important because people are looking for hope nowadays.People are looking for a reason to believe that there is something good in this world. And us, here together, we are creating that hope. Because if you are willing to withstand tear gas, to shell with pepper spray, 90% of us had never met each other in person in our lives prior to April 18.

And we met that day with smiles, gratitude, and determination. Because no matter what we have dividing us, whatever we have... that we don't have in common, what we know is that we are standing together for those dogs.Those dogs need our help and we are going to stop at nothing until they are safe, until the cold cages that they are in right now at Marshall Bioresources are replaced with a warm hug that every one of them will get to experience. So thank you from the bottom of my heart, from the support that you've given, for being part of this movement. And so let's keep on saving those dogs. And thank you all for being here. Let's do it.

Thank you all for being here. I was up until 2 a.m. last night thinking about all the emotions that one can go through thinking about these living beings here trapped in cages.And so I wrote a little something to help me get through it. 20,000.

That is how many dogs Marshall Bioresources sells to laboratories every single year. Right here in New York, right now, while I'm talking, there are 23,000 dogs, maybe more, inside those sheds who have never once seen the sun. 2,000. That's how many beagles walked free this year.

when ridgeland farms fell 22 that's how many puppies came out that day that i was there with my friends here one that's how many puppies i carried out of a cage in my own arms her name is alice And right now, Alice is in her wonderland, asleep on someone's couch.

And for her, for that one life, I'm facing 12 and a half years in prison. 20,000 tortured, legal. One rescued, felony. If torturing them is not a crime.

then how can saving them be? When the math stops making sense, it means that somebody's lying to you. There are 200 miles between this Capitol and Marshall Bio Resources, 200 miles between where the laws get written and where the beagles get born. And everything that industry does depends on keeping that distance.

Out of sight. out of mind. They don't fear protests. They've handled protests for over 50 years.

They fear being seen.In 1789, William Wilberforce showed the British Parliament the shackles and the ledgers of the slave trade ships and said, you may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say you did not know.

That's what this march is. 200 miles of never again saying we do not know. So know this. Marshall Bioresources is the largest breeder of dogs for experimentation in the United States and very likely the largest on the planet. Tens of thousands of beagles born in cages, sold to be dosed, cut open, and thrown away. And why beagles? Because they're gentle. Because they're trusting. Because a beagle will love the hand that holds her, no matter how much it hurts.And the mothers that those barns hold that give birth to litter after litter watch every single one of their puppies get taken away from them and bred again over and over until their bodies give out. I know something about what that kind of violence does to a family.

I lost my little brother Dayton to violence on his 16th birthday. He loved animals. He had rescue dogs of his own. And after I sat in that courtroom and watched what one act of violence did to my mother, to my family, to me, I couldn't unsee those mothers in those barns anymore. Violence against the innocent is violence against the innocent. Grief is grief, but silence. is another kind of violence. So I stopped being silent.In the middle of my brother's trial, I went to Ridgeland Farms and I knew the only way a brother can know that Dayton would have wanted me there. I went to document to let the footage do the fighting for itself because I believed if people could see that they would care. I believe people are good.

And when I saw Oh, man. Dogs spinning in circles, driven out of their mind in cages, a facility that cuts their vocal cords so they can't even scream through the surgical procedures being done on them without anesthesia. And when I saw those frightened puppy dog eyes staring back at me, my lifelong mantra stopped being a question.and became an answer what would jesus do exactly what he did 2 000 years ago when he declared mercy not sacrifice and drove the animals out of the temple slaughterhouse the big pharma of his day profiting off the backs of god's creatures in the name of healing he would

set them free and today every cage at richland farms is empty we showed up wisconsin shut it down and the head veterinarian lost his license millions of people around the world saw what was inside that building and the moment they thought it was finished And I'll tell you, watching this country wake up to the Richland Farm issue made me proud to be an American.

Because everybody came.Conservatives, liberals, the right, the left, believers, atheists, grandmas, and Gen Alpha. Even my own mother came. We can't seem to agree on anything in this country anymore except... this.

Animal cruelty is wrong. We hold that truth to be self-evident. So maybe this is where we start finding our way back to each other. But hear me first.

We cannot cry out against the elites who want to track us and surveil us, experiment on our food. and pump us full of pharmaceuticals while we do that exact same thing to the most vulnerable beings in our care our pledge of allegiance says liberty and justice for all until all means all really all all living beings every soul we stay in our own bondageNow, some of you may not know this about me, but I'm actually an ordained pastor.

So forgive me for just a minute longer, I'm going to preach. This is bigger than just these dogs. Everybody standing here knows it. The most influential book in the Western world says on its very first page that our role towards the animals, our relationship, is dominion. A word mistranslated for centuries to mean domination, when it really means to come down low, to serve, to steward. And the very next verse describes creatures made for paradise, not for profit. And Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, in Ecclesiastes 3.19, says that man and animal share the same spirit, the same soul. As one dies, so dies the other.Man has no advantage, and Marshall knows it. That's why they don't stop at dogs in that place. They breed pigs, too.

Animals that outscore dogs on every measure of a mind that we have. Because when it comes to suffering, we all suffer as equals. That's the golden rule. Maybe with a little fur on it.

We reap what we sow and look around at what we've sown. The violence, the wars, the cruelty that we can't seem to outrun. Thoreau said there are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil for every one striking at the root. The branches are everywhere, but the root is how we treat the most defenseless among us.

And today we strike that root. But if that root.that truth is so self-evident why can't the whole world see it because as the book of revelation says it warned us by the pharmakia the nation will be deceived and we have been Drugs that pass animal tests fail in human beings more than 90% of the time.

And even the FDA is walking away. The science has left the building. Only the money is still inside. The drug lords have doped us up on the lie that torturing puppies is just business as usual. The deception ends when we start seeing. As the prophet Isaiah saw, he saw the ending. The wolf shall lay with the lamb and a little child shall lead them. We made peace with the wolf 10,000 years ago.and she became the dog asleep at your kid's feet and ever since they've guarded our doors guided our blind found our lost children followed us into floods and wars and burning buildings and loved us without one single condition

Jesus said in John 15, greater has no love than this, that he lay his life down for his friends. Dogs are man's best friend, and they've been laying it down for us ever since the beginning. Now it's our turn. So hear me. This is the beginning of the end of animal exploitation.when this domino falls the testing the lying the whole beast system that profits off innocent blood it does not stand back up i watched the jury convict the man who took my little brother and i've seen justice serve with my own eyes and i promise you it will be served again the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice and it does not bend on its own. It bends because ordinary people like you pull it.

Everyone on this road and everyone this message reaches, you get to be a part of it. We're not radicals. We're just the most reasonable people in America. And we're not asking whether these dogs will go free.

2,000 beagles already answered that question.And when those 20,000 cages open, 20,000 couches are already waiting. So walk with your chin up, with your heart open, and your cameras on. Because the only thing that cannot survive is being seen. And now we've seen.

We have something to say. And it's the oldest demand, the one that Moses carried into Pharaoh's palace. You know the words. Let my puppies go.

Close enough. And that's where we are. Close enough. 200 miles from those gates, but 200 miles is not a distance anymore.

It's a countdown. Because freedom for those dogs is no longer a question of if, but when. And when gets closer with every step we take. So today we march and we tell Marshall, let them go.

Thank you.

And to get this really brief, we've gone a little long, so I just want to say first, thank you to all my friends, all of you, and especially Wayne. I really want to give a thank you to Wayne, because when that special prosecutor looked into this for a year and came back with a deal that Richmond would be giving up its breeder's license, a lot of people would have taken that as a win. But Wayne did not give up on the 2,000 dogs that were still at Ridgeland. And the reason why we are here is so evident in the dogs that people have brought in. Thank you so much for the people who have brought dogs.And I just want to share a couple stories of, like, I just met a dog that...

has no eye from invigo they lost their eye and i want to share this other story and i i always think that i'm going to get to the bottom of the animal torture that we witnessed but this is something i've never heard before she has a beagle i think it was from marshall or maybe invigo who three years to this day when she lifts this beagle up the dog still leans back and opens their mouthbecause they think they're going to be receiving oral gavage it's horrific and last point uh we had a whistleblower in the richland case named scotty gilbertson who had worked at richland for a long time and he shared with me that the most

common injury that he witnessed at Richland Farms was the sores that the dogs were getting on their feet because they're living on wire cages now 207 miles we're gonna walk we're all gonna be hurting no matter like how much you're walking you're gonna be getting blisters your feet are gonna be hurting so just remember those dogs and what they were suffering and what the dogs Marshall Bioresas are suffering right now.And just remember that if they knew that you are marching and that you're on your way to Marshall, that they'd be happy about it. And they want you to keep going. So thank you so much.

Hi, I'm one of the co-defendants in this Ridgeland case. I'm just a girl from Texas, one of the youngest co-defendants, and I was doom-scrolling on Instagram whenever I saw a video that Wayne had posted about the story of these dogs and that they needed people to come rescue them. And I knew I wasn't going to be able to live with myself looking at my dog next to me if I didn't.do something about it so if you're watching these videos on instagram on the news if you're walking past on the sidewalk don't just hear the story and know that it's happening get up and do something about it

Thank you so much to all these wonderful speakers. We are going to watch a short video in just a few minutes while they set that up and really just looking into how, what are the next steps that we can take? And when we look at what those next steps are, we are targeting legislation. We are calling upon the federal government to no longer use our tax dollars to fund these cruel experiments.Also, everyone, by the way, that was Sydney, because she didn't introduce herself, but we're really grateful that she spoke. So, speaking of calling on the government, there are wonderful legislators who are supporting this march and this fight. And now we are going to hear from some of them in a video.

And please come a little bit closer because the screen is up here, so we want you all to be able to see it. And also, Wayne would just like to say a few more words.Yeah, I mean, I just want to clarify to everyone that the purpose of this march, while we heard some stories about rescue and direct action, is there's so many avenues and so many mechanisms for us to raise attention to this cause. and help these dogs. This march is fundamentally about the march and the awareness. So, just to be 100% clear, there is no rescue plan at the end of the march. This is about the march and the attention that's going to be generated.

The march organizers have done an incredible job of mobilizing people, making sure everyone understands what risks they're taking, what risks they're not taking, and working with the state police to ensure everyone is kept safe throughout the march.So, let me just say, 100% certain there's no rescue happening at any point during this march or after the march and if you're thinking about or planning to do something like that please take that outside of the march okay all right thank you everyone let's watch this video to hear about some legislators who are doing some tremendous tremendous things help dogs

The lives of countless dogs and cats since he was passed.

Next time we'll have to get a bat signal.

I'm sure you're already on this, but we've also got requests to make the volume as loud as possible.

This is as good as it goes, I guess. Alright, I guess we'll play it.

Okay, alright.

I'm Geese, the Democratic candidate for Congress in New York District 23, running against Nick Langworthy. And unlike Mr. Langworthy, I promise to make animal protection a priority. And that's why I'm proud to be endorsed by the League of Humane Voters to fight alongside them for a future that's free of animal cruelty. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal, and I represent the 67th Assembly District, which includes the Upper West Side and parts of Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan. Over the years, I've worked with so many of you to pass dozens of animal protection laws in New York State, and I applaud all of you who are marching to abolish animal testing today and over the next two weeks.

In 2016, we worked together to pass my law requiring that beagles or any other dog or cat can be placed up for adoption to a loving home when their time in a research facility is over. This law has saved the lives of countless dogs and cats since it was passed, but we must keep fighting until cruel animal testing is a thing of the past. In 2022, my legislation banning the sale of cosmetics tested on animals was signed into law, adding New York State to the growing list of states that refuse to sell cosmetic products that rely on animal tests. And next session, I'll be working to pass my new legislation to also prohibit the sale of household cleaning products that were created.with animal testing. New York State has long been a leader in animal welfare.

In 1866, New York State became the first state in the nation to pass an anti-cruelty law, and we must continue to protect animals and uphold that legacy. Animals are not our own personal science experiment. There are sentient beings that deserve our protection. The use of human tissue, cell cultures, and newly developed computer models has given scientists the ability to understand how particular ingredients and medications will work without ever needing an animal to test it on. With each passing year, these technologies improve, making animal testing possible. The goal of this march is to finally bring more compassion into research and to achieve scientific feats without unnecessary suffering of animals.I am proud that you're all helping to lead the charge, and I wish you luck over these next 207 miles.

Hi there, it's Kate Connolly from out here in New York 17, and I just want to say a huge thank you for all that you are doing, and I'm so proud to stand with this march against animal testing and animal cruelty. We need to be setting the example here in New York, and right now what's going on at Marshall, the cruelty towards animals, we can't let it continue. It's 2026. We must be better. We must do better. So thank you for leading the charge. Thank you for your heart. Thank you for all you are doing. I'm proud to stand with this cause.For decades, animal testing has been treated as a necessary part of medical research. But science is changing and Congress needs to change with it.

More than 41,000 dogs were held or used in U.S. laboratories in 2025. Yet dogs are not miniature humans. Their metabolism, immune responses, genetics, receptors, and drug processing can differ significantly from ours. And today, we have something better and more humane. Scientists can use human organoids, organs on chips, patient-derived tissues, advanced human cell systems, computational biology, and AI to study human biology directly, not through animals. The goal isn't to stop medical research. The goal is to make medical research better by relieving animals of pain and stress.We should be moving towards a system built around human biology, not relying on animal biology. And that's why I support the march to abolish animal testing. It's time for Congress to accelerate the transition to modern human-relevant science and to end cruel animal testing.

right well thank you to all of those incredible legislators for being on the right side of history This is about the time of the morning when I think we would usually be on our third coffee, Jamie. So, I don't know. What do you think? I think we have a better idea this morning, though, about how to get really, really, really excited and worked up and ready for this march.

Who's ready to hear some chanting?first i'm going to introduce a few of these call and responses and then we can try it out together okay all right there is no excuse there is never an excuse for animal abuse there is no excuse for animal abuse there is never an excuse for animal abuse. Good job. One more time. There is no excuse for animal abuse.

There is never an excuse for animal abuse. Not ours. Not ours!

Great, okay, so let's do one more. How many animals suffer in pain? MDR is to blame! How many animals suffer in pain? MDR is to blame! How many animals suffer in pain? MDR is to blame! Rachel is going to continue with this chant. Take it away, Rachel.Take it away, girl. So let's get loud. We want everybody to hear you. We want MBR to hear you. And let's rock this. As loud as you can, please. You gotta be louder than me, alright? There's no excuse for animal abuse! THERE'S NO EXCUSE! FOR ANIMAL ABUSE! THERE'LL BE NO ABUSER! ANIMAL ABUSER! THERE'LL BE NO ABUSER! We're animal abusers, not ours, not ours.

Not ours! Stop animal testing now! Just like us! Because animals feel pain!Just like us! Because animals feel pain! Just like us! How many animals are suffering in pain? NPR is to blame! How many animals are suffering in pain? NPR is to blame! How many animals are suffering in pain? NPR is to blame! How many animals are suffering in pain? NPR is to blame! How many animals are suffering in pain? NPR is to blame! How many animals are suffering in pain? NPR is to blame! How many animals are suffering in pain? MBR is to blame! So we're going to switch it up. We're going to do a couple of them, right? We're calling out a couple of them.

How many animals are suffering in pain? And we are!It's too late! Okay, so we're gonna do"N-H-S" next, okay? It's not science! It's violence! It's never science! It's violence! Because it's not science! It's violence, it's not science, it's violence! The need for animal testing is a lie! Animals do not want to die! The need for animal testing is a lie! Animals do not want to die! The need for animal suffering is too... The need for animal testing is a lie. Animals do not want to die. The need for animal testing is a lie. Animals do not want to die. Because there's no excuse for animal abuse. There'll be no rest for animal abusers. There'll never be any rest.

There's no excuse for animal abuse! There'll be no rest for animal abusers! They're ours! They're not ours! Thank you, Rachel! And we are ready to continue with those chants all day and all the way to the gates of Marshall. If you want to come in, you can take a picture of the chants on your phone. Good call. Okay, and now someone who is no stranger to leading chants. My wonderful colleague. Matthew Brott is a senior grassroots activism strategist for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. He has been the driving force behind much of PETA's work with grassroots organizers across the U.S.and Canada by offering free advice, outreach materials, and help promoting local events to PETA members and supporters.

Matthew lives in Denver with his partner and two Ridgeland rescues. And Matthew can often be found leading and attending protests for animal liberation. Welcome, Matthew. Thank you, Ashley.

Thank you to the organizers. And thank you to the activists. You are what makes this movement a force to be reckoned with. So I'm from right here in the Capital Region.

I was born and raised in Schenectady. And this is where I went to school, and this is where I learned compassion. And about 20 years ago, I was in a diner just a few miles away.when I decided that if I considered myself a friend to animals, that I was going to have to stop eating them. So I went vegan on April 6, 2006, and I didn't stay in New York, but I did keep the promise that I made to the animals that day.

So it's fitting that 20 years later, I'm back where I began my journey. to help begin this journey, the March to Abolish Animal Testing. And that's my story, but we all have one. Every single person here today had a moment where they saw something they couldn't unsee. They heard screams and cries they couldn't unhear. They learned something they couldn't unlearn. they decided that doing nothing was not an option.So we may have gathered here as a movement, but we all have immense power as individuals too. In 2016, it was an individual who filmed what was happening inside of a Texas A&M laboratory and sent the footage to PETA. The footage revealed that dogs were being deliberately bred to have canine muscular dystrophy.

It was painful for them to walk and stand, painful for them to breathe and eat. We took this footage and we launched a campaign. We, PETA, paid for ads. PETA filed grievances with national agencies, federal agencies, and PETA, sorry, we paid for ads, we filed grievances, and we even sued Texas A&M.

And then more people got involved. People attended protests. People crashed Texas A&M's events.People who were living with muscular dystrophy stood up and defiantly declared, not in my name, not in my name. And by the end of the campaign, more than 6 million letters had been sent to Texas A&M urging them to shut down the lab.

And they released 50 dogs for adoption, 50 dogs who were spared the agony, the misery, the torment that Texas A&M had planned for them since the moment they were born. And then in 2021, there was another investigation. PETA went undercover at Envigo, at their Beagle breeding compound in Virginia. This time we saw thousands of beagles living in barren cages and kennels.Mothers treated like breeding machines, forced to produce litter after litter of puppies just to be sold into experiments.

We launched a national multi-organization campaign and we shut that place down and 4,000 beagles were released for adoption.

Today, that breeding compound is a desolate, wind-blown field. And Wayne and friends already told us about Ridgeland. When the charges were dropped against those activists, they could have called it a day, but they didn't. They used a template drawn up by PETA's lawyers to request a special prosecutor. And the following charges... are what led to Ridgeland relinquishing their breeding license.And each of the 2,137 beagles who were released this year is a testament to what our movement can accomplish when we work together.

I'm lucky enough to share my home with two of these beagles. margot and freya and there are thousands of dogs including margot and freya who were once doomed but instead they're laying on couches they're sleeping in bed they're playing with tennis balls they're stealing food off coffee tables and they're chewing things they probably shouldn't be chewing on but they are loved And that is because people like us decided that cruelty is not inevitable.

So now we set our sights on Marshall Bio Resources, the largest supplier of animals to laboratories in the United States.And maybe you know, maybe you don't, but we already have our first victory in this campaign. Pet supply company Chewy. has agreed to not sell any Marshall pet products, taking a clear stance that companies that claim to care about dogs cannot, cannot be involved with companies that breed dogs and sell them to laboratories.

So are we going to shut down Marshall? You're damn right we are. But how fast we do this depends on how relentless each and every one of you can be. So write the letters. Make the calls. Attend the protests. Free the dogs. Texas A&M looks impossible. But it wasn't. And Vigo looked impossible. But it wasn't. Ridgeline looked impossible. But it wasn't.So Marshall may look impossible today. But I know that one day those gates will close as the last animal is liberated. and when that happens it will not be because a rich and powerful person decided to make a change it'll be because of thousands of ordinary people who decided that doing nothing is not an option that's who we are that's why we're here and that's how we win Thank you all for joining together.

Let's do this. Thank you, Matt. What do you say, Ashley? What do you say we take a call to action right now?

Yeah, I think we should take some of Matthew's advice right now.call the Attorney General Letitia James so everybody you got a cell phone let's take it out and listen carefully dial one eight zero zero seven seven one seven seven five five again that number is one eight hundred seven seven one seven seven five five and we are calling leticia jane when it answers just press zero don't

bother with the menu we're going to be pressing zero when we call and the app is to investigate marshall bio resources for violations and animal cruelty so again the apps we're reaching out to the attorney general of new york leticiaand we're pressing zero after we dial the number and we are asking to investigate marshall bio resources for violations and animal cruelty one more time the number is

1-800-771-7755

pressing zero and asking to investigate Marshall for violations and animal cruelty. Let's take a few minutes. Hi, my name is Ashley Byrne. I am a resident of the state of New York and this is a message for Attorney General Letitia James.

I would like to see Marshall Bioresources investigated for violations of animal cruelty laws. We are we we everything they've done is available online, widely documented, and they're breaking the law. We want it enforced. So.

Please have Marshall Bioresources investigated for their breaking animal cruelty laws. Goodbye. That was easy.It doesn't have to be perfect. They will hear you.

They'll hear you if you stumble. They'll hear you if you repeat yourself, if you say the wrong thing. All that matters is that they hear you. These calls matter.

So everybody, call away. Bring your own personality into it, you know? In a few minutes, I'm going to call this one.

Hello, my name is Jamie Logan, and I'm in Palomar, and I would please request that you investigate martial bioresources for violations of animal cruelty. This is unacceptable and cannot continue happening. It is extremely concerning, and we are asking that this is looked into and taken seriously. And we will keep calling until something is done about it. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

all right guys so let's gather back together for anybody that's still on the phone finish up your message and we'll meet back over here don't hang up they can hear what we have to say next yes they would we want them to hear this so april the event coordinator of today is going to lead us in a few more chants and hey if marshall hears us in the background that's great like let's just keep calling and let's play these chants like we want them to know who's coming for them okay so let's take it away april There's no excuse for animal testing. There's never an excuse for animal testing.There is never an excuse. There is no good excuse.

Their body. their bodies, their lives, their skin, their time, their lives, their bodies. Stop animal testing now! Animals feel pain! Just like us! Because animals feel pain! Just like us! Animals feel pain. Just like us! Animals want to live. Just like us! Animals want to touch grass. Just like us! Animals want to see the sun. just like us. Animals want to see the sun, just like us. How many animals are suffering in pain?NBR is to blame. How many animals are suffering in pain? NBR is to blame.

How many animals are suffering in pain? MDR is to blame! How many animals are suffering in pain? MDR is to blame!

Thousands of animals are suffering in pain. MDR is to blame! And now we're going to switch it up to HHS is to blame. How many animals are suffering in pain?

HHS is to blame! How many animals are suffering in pain? HHS is to blame! Agent, hear us!

How many animals are suffering in pain? HHS is to blame! How many animals are suffering in pain? HHS is to blame!

And now we're also going to blame NIH. How many animals are suffering in pain? NIH is to blame!How many animals are suffering in pain? NIH is to blame!

Thousands of animals are suffering in pain! NIH is to blame! Millions of animals are suffering in pain! NIH is to blame!

It's not silent science, it's violence! It's not science! It's violence!

The need for animal testing is a lie! Animals do not want to die!

Animals do not want to die! The need for animals has to end the lie! Animals do not want to die! All they do is lie, lie, lie! Animals do not want to die! Because all they do is lie, lie, lie! Animals do not want to die! Because there's no excuse! For animal abuse! There's never an excuse! For animal abuse!

We must keep up that energy for what we take to the street. And we only have a few more speakers, so stay tuned. Well, it is my pleasure to announce our next speaker, Dr. Allison Pill. And yes. And you may have seen her on shows on Apple TV, HBO, CBS, FX, but today she's here as an animal lover and activist, Alison Pill.

thank you all thanks everybody for being here um i am here because of my friend gretchen primack who, when she got back from Ridgeland Farms, said this was life changing. The community built, the number of people from all backgrounds coming together to save these beagles was life changing. And then she said, I'm going to do something crazy.We're going to march 207 miles to save some more. um and when she asked me to speak today i knew what i wanted to speak about i know a lot of people are here for the dogs i also love well henry's under the dais but i do love dogs i love cats but today i am here to speak about some folks that don't get a lot of attention Two years ago, we started taking care of rats.

We are a rat family. Our first rats were named Feta and Bree. Those were the names they came with, and they stuck. Feta was incredibly cuddly, happy to sit in a sweatshirt pocket or shirt.

She's very curious.But if you offered food of any kind, of any manner... she would attempt to remove your finger. Brie was incredibly clever, mischievous, and kind. She was the one to figure out how to make entrances into every single craft bin.

She would nestle silently and be impossible to find, to sometimes a terrifying degree. Keeping rats happy is not a full-time job.but it is a heavy part-time affair they need time to explore which because they're smart means they need supervision the craft bins were only the beginning uh we just recently learned they had secretly chewed through a part of the sewing machine uh they're smart they're very very curious the place we adopted from mainly rat rescue had specific requirements for the

cage size the

whining, the amount of outdoor time, outside time, play time, enrichment, because these are incredibly smart creatures and they grow bored easily. And if they're bored, they get stressed. They have their own moods, desires, favorite things, energy levels, just in every way.And when I think of a place like Marshall Bio Resources, I am struck by how little any of that matters. The animals kept in cages without fleece lining, without a daily switch out of toys, without anything to look at or interact with. I think because we're bigger than them and we need something from them, that's all that matters. But the need bit is a falsehood, isn't it? Human ingenuity and technology can teach us a whole lot more. And listen, I love rats, but humans are not rats.

I don't have mammary glands from armpit to groin, thankfully. I don't consume as many Timothy Hay treats because my digestion is quite different. I am a big believer in science. I love facts.And while the apparent ease of working with rats might make certain things more accessible in study, I think that's just because of the hard work required to make them just things, which they aren't.

once you spend any length of time with them. Look, some rats are probably jerks. I won't claim they are all angels. What I will claim is they deserve to be treated as individuals with tastes and turnoffs as any of us deserve.

and i just want to close with a quote from dick gregory the amazing civil rights and animal rights activists who so clearly saw the connection between human rights and animal rights and the moral injury that happens to all of us when we let any of this unfairness standAnimals and humans suffer and die alike.

Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel, and brutal taking of life. we don't have to be a part of it and to everyone here today you are taking a stand to say we will not be part of it we do not let this happen in our name and i thank you all for being here and i hope we free all of the pigs the ferrets and the beagles and the cats and the rats and the miceanyone being used

in our name thank you would you like to say any word we want to just say thank you so so very much i think that is so true it doesn't matter if the rats you know are nice to us it doesn't maybe some of them are super cuddly maybe some of them are not but either way it doesn't give us the right to test on them to

use them and to kill them

And so there's people that I, you know, that find challenging. It doesn't mean I'm like, hey, I'm going to pour shampoo in your eyeballs, you know? Ashley, you can just read. Okay, fine, you copy.

Okay, so, thank you. All right.Well, so we've made some noise today. We've made a lot of noise today. But now we are going to get quiet for a minute.

We are going to hold a brief vigil for all of the animals who have been tortured and lost to the animal testing industry. We're going to see the sky for them. Imagine the path you will take.to help them come to freedom and after this minute of silence we will follow uh drew we will look for somebody in the yellow lanyards drew and dawn okay in the green shirt and in the beige cap we will follow them to the steps over there and place flowers um in memory of the animals that

are still at marshall that have died at marshall and really just taking a moment to remember the victims uh and then we will safely cross the street place the flowers down while vanessa sings a beautiful song and and we'll gather for a photo that too okay and then after that we will be meeting back here for our final speaker wayneAnd then we are going to kick off the march. Okay. All right. So we'll count to three and have a moment of silence. Picture the sky that the animals never get to see. Picture them running free in the grass.

Picture them in loving families.

Thank you so much for holding that moment of silence. And if we can make, if we can all stand up and make a narrow row of people, that would be great. And we will follow the two leaders right here standing on stage with their hands up. We'll walk over to the stairs and place flowers down in memory of the victims.

Peace to all, joy to all. To our home, Shanti Loka, Samastasukino Bantu Loka.Samastabha sukhino bhavanti blokha

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Thank you.

so i wanted to bring in tiffany you've been watching this with me we're gonna mute uh the live sound so that we can get a sense of the enormity of what's happening right now, Tiffany. I'm just so grateful for all the folks that are there and took time out of their lives to go and show up for these dogs. It's like, I can't even get my mind around 20,000 beagles at MBR. How 20,000? Not 10,000, not 2,000, 20,000. This is March as a push to free the dogs.Yeah, what I thought was there were so many incredible speeches, but Cam Waters, who is the filmmaker, along with Kip Anderson of Christ Spiracy, now I believe called What Would Jesus Do, talked about how this.

marks the beginning of the end of animal exploitation and again this was this march is based on and in honor of previous social justice marches particularly Gandhi's march the salt march in 1930 against uh the British colonialist system uh and that use mark salt as leverage uh and than the civil rights and voting rights marches in Selma in 1965. There were three of those, and they're obviously very famous.

So this is the animal rights movement Selma moment. This is the animal rights movement's salt march moment.that is monumental. And so by watching, you are part of it. The people who are watching this, you are by extension part of this moment.

So do you have hope, Tiffany, that this is the beginning of the end of animal exploitation as somebody who's a former law enforcement investigator turned investigator for animals?

Yes, I know that this is, this is the start to the end. We can just feel it. We can just see it. I see children marching today, all these people out there and just these rescues and politicians getting on board. Yeah, we're going to see it. I feel confident to see the end of animal testing and we're going to see these dogs free.And Tracy Michelle says, I wish I was there. So happy. It's a great turnout and I can watch remotely. Been sharing as much as I can on social media and happy to wear my March for the Animals shirt. So, yes, if you're watching on social media, share this out. If you're watching on Unshade TV, you can also text this.

If you've got the phone app, you can text this video to others. The idea is to spread it out as far and wide as possible. This is going to be a grueling march. And there you see some of the look at that's one of the beagles. It's so incredible to see those animals.One of the things that I noticed about this is that there are people of all ages, all backgrounds. It's, you know, I think there's a desire to stereotype our movement as sort of like young radicals. And these are a lot of these people are old ladies in tennis shoes, you know, who are going to be suffering quite a bit to march 207 miles. And look at this queen or king. in this beautiful chariot.

I think that it's so wonderful to see this turnout. And the speeches were incredible. Wayne Shung, who, and I'll just put him up just in case for those who might not know him, he started this whole thing really when he went into Ridgeland.This is a picture of him in Ridgeland years ago. First thing he did was document these animals, took a couple of them out, and then he was arrested and charged. And at the eleventh hour, just before the trial was supposed to start, they dropped the charges against him, hoping he would just go away. And he didn't. He stayed and he demanded hearings. And eventually a special prosecutor was appointed to investigate the goings on at Ridgeland.

And there was testimony and Unchained TV was very proud to be the live camera covering the hearing when a whistleblower testified that non-veterinarians were performing painful surgeries on beagles. without anesthesia at Ridgeland. Something Ridgeland has denied, but a whistleblower said it in open court.And then a special prosecutor was appointed who made a deal with the Ridgeland facility that they would stop breeding for export to labs, but that they could still keep the beagles they had and continue experimenting. And the activists said, no, that's not good enough. And that's when they went in there and rescued the beagles themselves. And this what you're looking at is video of the first rescue. I believe it was in March of this past year. And they got 31 beagles out. We were alive.

Several were recaptured by law enforcement. that was the first. Then the second one was in April, I believe. And we covered it live with five reporters on the ground. And it was a melee.Wayne was arrested right at the start. And the Sheriff's Department, as you can see, they're very, very confrontational, hitting people with tear gas, that's the orange spray you see, and rubber bullets. Hundreds were injured. And it was after that that this became a national story. I always say it's sad that people have to get brutalized. uh arrested beaten up for the media to show up i wanna go to jamie jamie can you hear us Yes, I can hear you, Jane.

I was wondering about mainstream media coverage of this, because one of the sad facts of our movement is that it often requires people getting beaten up, getting arrested, getting hit with rubber bullets to get mainstream coverage.Are there cameras there from the media? Yes, Jane. I don't know exactly which news platforms are here, but we see people with cameras. It looks like we're getting a lot of media coverage here today.

That's excellent, because, you know, it shouldn't take people getting beaten up to get news media coverage. first broke, it didn't get a lot of coverage. It was really when the law enforcement hit the activists with tear gas and rubber bullets that it became a national story. I want to make it very clear that the organizers here say there's not going to be any open rescues.

Nobody is being in this march. This is simply a march that will get started in a little while. 14 days.We're going live at every stop. What's the mood there? I think it's hopeful, empowered. There's so many of us here coming together for this cause. We heard Wayne speak and it was so powerful and passionate. and what he shared about the dogs at these other facilities that have been shut down. I think it inspires anger, rightfully so. for what's being done to these dogs now at Marshall and at the places who are buying these dogs from Marshall. But I think it also inspires hope that we can see an outcome like we did at Ridgeland and like we did at Ambego at Marshall when all of us come together for something like this.

- Yeah.You know, what I think is so interesting is that this is a very quiet and peaceful march. And yet we're often or animal activists out there in the field are often described as radical, as confrontational. No. individual human or animal has ever died or even been hurt as a result of an animal rights action and that's such an important thing to emphasize because often even the mainstream media tries to portray activists as uh engaged in confrontation and speaking truth to power in a peaceful way is not conflict, is not violence. Silence is violence, as Cam Waters put it. So I think it's very important to characterize what's happening here as incredibly nonviolent and incredibly peaceful.

yeah absolutely yes um everyone here is peaceful we just took a moment of silence visualizing the dogs being free having the lives that they deserve the lives that everyone wants for their own dog so this is nothing radical this is wanting dogs to be able to feel grass under their feet to see the sky and we have peaceful people here today they're laying down flowers on the steps to honor the dogs that we hope to see freed and doing so very peacefully so Yeah, and I think it's really amazing, Tiffany, that this is based on these famous social justice marches, Gandhi's salt march, and the Selma, the three Selma marches for civil rights and voting rights in 1965 in the United States.Your thoughts?

Yes, I just there's going to be, I believe, over a thousand folks marching in this march for over 200 miles. I think Selma was four days, maybe 40 miles. So this is really it's great to see the media out there, the dogs, folks of all different ages. I don't see anyone in this.there that looks radical or confrontational and it's going to be non-violent history in the making we are non-violent and you know what's interesting somebody wants to know is Wayne Pacelli speaking today he's going to be speaking right after this Wayne Pacelli He's the head of the Center for a Humane Economy, as well as another organization, Animal Wellness, and he was very much involved in the negotiations that resulted in the release of all the Beagles from Ridgeland.

And Tracy Michael says, that's the crazy part. I never understood that. This is why people are afraid to take a stand. Yes, Tracy.

Yes.activists are characterized as radical and confrontational because we're speaking truth to power, because people are saying the system as it currently stands is unfair and cruel. And there's a very big difference between that and violence. The violence is being committed on animals. Animals are the ones that are.

the victims of violence. I don't think you could see a more peaceful crowd than this group right here. And so, you know, that's part of us changing the narrative, changing the narrative that tries to paint us a certain way. This is peace.peacefulness and lindsey baker says what's radical is that animal testing continues even though 90 of drugs that succeed in animal studies fail in clinical trials exactly and and one of the things that i've noticed is that we're seeing a convergence here a picture and i know the picture is happening

Everybody's moving in for the photo right now. This is a group photo before the start of the march. Wayne Pacelli, I believe, is going to be the final speaker before the march gets underway. And he was very involved in getting the release of the Ridgeland beagles, along with Big Dog Ranch Rescue, which has now gotten 10 beagles out of Marshall Bio Resources. So that's a start right there.16 to 20,000 to go. If you have a dog, if you have a beagle, if you could come forward and see the front of the beagle in our picture, they all like you.

We have folks quoting Martin Luther King here.

we're ready one two three we're gonna say unity and freedom so first one two three will be unity our second will be freedom one two three unity one two three freedom

All right. We're going to work. We want to get the march started as quickly as possible. So we're going to head back over. Wayne's got some last words for us. And after that, we're going to start the march.So if we can kind of return it back to the podium as quickly as possible.

Now folks are walking back to the area where the speakers are and Jamie Sasson doing an incredible job there. It's not that that easy to follow all this. Great job, Jamie. You're probably going to get snapped up by a network.

So I hope they don't snap you up before the end of our. 207 mile mark. So incredible speakers. Now we're going to hear from Wayne Pacelli, the head of the Center for a Humane Economy, and he was very involved, along with Big Dog Ranch Rescue, in getting the 2000uh, approximate beagles out of Ridgeland, uh, 10 beagles have already been negotiated out of, uh, Marshall bio resources is my understanding.

And I'm not really sure exactly how that happened, but you know what, however they get them out, that's, that's good news for the animals who've yes you know there's speculation about the reasons why marshall decided to do that when they did in the way that they did um you know who can say for certain but i think it's a good sign yes it is a hopeful sign

and so now we are you're marching back to the area where you're going speak and then you're going to march. I have a question to ask you, Jamie, because you've got equipment.We got you a mini satellite dish that you're going to be using so that you can go live from the most remote areas. During that 14-day march, there's going to be some stops in wooded