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Those who condemn direct action must obviously welcome the opportunities inherent in this Petition to display their dedication... their worth... and their commitment (if any)... and I hope they will accept this challenge of one hundred thousand signatures to this Petition, through nice, easy, legal, conventional channels, for the burden of responsibility is now theirs!

To the New Zealand government which has consistently refused to heed all the glaring evidence that vivisection is directly responsible for many if not all today's health disasters:

To the New Zealand government which on the 28 May nineteen hundred and eightyfive refused pointblank to accept from this Society the submissions from medical and scientific professionals right around the world containing documented evidence that vivisection is scientific fraud:

To the New Zealand government which even at this late stage is turning a blind eye to the sickening vivisection-based drug tragedies and vaccine catastrophes which are occurring on a terrifying scale... both in New Zealand and overseas:

To the New Zealand government... The Society has included on this Petition the following quotation from the words of the late President

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible... will make violent revolution inevitable."
- John F. Kennedy

I would like to thank, for the seventh year the executive of the New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society for organising this march. You the public for supporting it... and especially those who have travelled long distances to do so.

I would also like to acknowledge and draw attention of this assembly to our abolitionist colleagues in the other centres of New Zealand who are at this very moment launching this Petition on behalf of the New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society.

Finally, it is my privilege and pleasure to invite you to this platform to sign this historic Petition to abolish for ever in New Zealand, the disgraceful, disgusting and despicable swindle of vivisection."

Some impressions of the march

(Photographs Colette McKenzie)

"Looking around the people who turned up to support our march made me think of the line:
'Children teach your parents well'
Since obviously the youth is leading the way in the abolition of vivisection."
- Simon Cottle

From my vantage point following in the van it was encouraging to see the lunch-hour crowds stop, stare, think...
and then join in the march.
- Maria Hammond

We walked together, chanted together, listened to the anti-vivisection speech together, signed the Petition together..
it was from everyone's hearts.
- Val Barnao

Vocal... enthusiastic!
Great to see so many young people on the march!
- Pam Manson

Despite cold blustery weather, with prediction of rain and hail, over 400 strong marched in Wellington on World Day for Laboratory Animals 1987. It warmed our hearts to see the predominance of young people marching under NZAVS banner to draw attention to animals' needless suffering and the dire effects of animal-based drugs on human beings.
- Margaret Gibbins

The NZAVS Executive have proven once again that to run a show like the 1987 WDLA march calls for great time and sacrifice. A big thanks to them... particularly the more youthful set.
- Lou Moss

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