Medical research using animals is scientifically flawed. The physiological differences between animals and humans are so great that it is not possible to accurately apply data gained from laboratory animals to people. Drugs tested on animals are often not applicable or safe for humans, as evidenced by drugs like Eraldin and Opren, which were safety tested and approved on animals but went on to cause serious illness and death in patients. Most human diseases are uniquely human. To develop the safest, most effective treatments requires the study of human cells, tissues and organs. Humane alternatives, without experimenting on animals are possible and get results. The Dr Hadwen Trust has been helping pioneer new medical techniques and treatments for 37 years, without using vivisection. Peter Tatchell interviews Dr Gill Langley, Scientific Director of the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research. 06.04.07
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The BNP's secret plan for apartheid in Britain
Ex-BNP activist turned anti-fascist campaigner, Matthew Collins, Director of Searchlight's Operation Wedge, reveals the inside truth about the BNP and how to defeat them. Collins warns that in order to win broader electoral appeal the BNP has, at least publicly, dumped its more extreme policies, such as the repatriation of non-white people. Now it has a more subtle, covert strategy to drive black people out of Britain - a secret plan for a regime of de facto apartheid, whereby non-white people will face gradually ever-increasing restrictions, exclusions and deprivations. The BNP's aim is to make life in Britain so unbearable for black people that they will want to return to the countries from which their forebears migrated. 26.04.07
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Sian Berry - Green Party candidate for London Mayor
Sian Berry , Green Party candidate for London Mayor, critiques Ken Livingstone's record and sets out her agenda for a green, affordable London . Sian is interviewed by Peter Tatchell on his weekly TV programme, Talking With Tatchell. Sian discusses river buses to transform the Thames River into the 14th 'tube' line; and cuts in public transport fares to encourage people to leave their cars at home. She also talks about more eco-friendly low-cost housing; and a massive tree-planting programme to soak up pollution and carbon, and to turn London into a garden city. 04.05.07
Julie Bindel, founder of Justice for Women, discusses the unfinished battle for women's emancipation with Peter Tatchell - on his weekly TV programme, Talking With Tatchell. Women's rights have been long ignored, frustrated and delayed. A century after the Suffragettes, women are still treated as the second sex. What are the key injustices holding back women? Among other things, shocking levels of domestic violence, sexual abuse and degrading imagery still blight the lives of millions of women. They also suffer fewer job opportunities, lower incomes and glass ceilings. Women's liberation remains an aspiration, not yet a reality. How do we ensure equal rights, dignity and liberation for the female half of humanity? 08.05.07
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John McDonnell MP - Labour leadership contender
John McDonnell is the left-wing MP challenging Gordon Brown for the leadership of the Labour Party. The Labour hierarchy want to see Gordon Brown crowned, not elected. John McDonnell believes Labour Party members deserve a choice of candidates, and that a leadership contest will generate a much needed, healthy debate on Labour's future direction. In this edition of Talking with Tatchell, McDonnell sets out his agenda to reposition Labour as a modern, forward-thinking, radical party of working people – based on the democratisation and redistribution of economic and political power. In Parliament, John McDonnell is the Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs. Within the Labour Party, he is the Chair of the Labour Representation Committee, a rank-and-file organisation of Labour Party members and trade unionists, which campaigns for left-wing policies, internal party democracy and the accountability of Labour's elected representatives. 18.05.07
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