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Exploitation NOW!
S. A. E. N.
"Exposing the truth to wipe
out animal experimentation"
Events and
Campaigns
National Primate Liberation Week
Local Events
15 - 23 October 2005
International listings at bottom
Alabama
Birmingham
Alabama Voice for Animals
4029 10th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 352222
Phone: 205-591-CARE
We will be targeting UAB for NPLW 2005.
Arizona
Flagstaff
Tempe
The Animal Welfare Association (AWA) at
Arizona State University (ASU) will be tabling and leafleting about
Covance's recent purchase of land in Chandler, AZ.
Check out
www.fight4animals.org
California
Davis
SAEN News Conference
Los Angeles
When: Thursday, October 20th at 12:00 noon.
Where: La Conte and Westwood at the UCLA campus
What: Last Chance for Animals working with SAEN and UCLA
student activists will be staging a news conference at UCLA followed by a
protest of the UCLA primate research facilities. The time is NOW to send a
clear message to abusers of primates that their practices will not be
tolerated.
The population of primates in laboratories and dealers
is increasing, having reached an all-time high of 120,000. This means
that 120,000 individuals will be imprisoned and burnt, crushed, sliced,
electrocuted, poisoned with toxic chemicals, and psychologically
tormented in the name of scientific curiosity this year. As with all
non-human animal experimentation, experimentation on primates has only
taught humans that animal research is inherently unethical, inevitably
wasteful, and wholly unreliable.
Funding for primate experimentation is at an all time
high, with federal spending on primate experimentation at $1.6 billion.
This is a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. 93% of experimentation
funded by the National Institutes of Health is not even applicable to two
of the most common killers of people in the U.S., Heart Disease and
Cancer. Primates are subjected experiments time and time again as abusers
needlessly repeat their torture. The cumulative total cost of experiments
repeated on the two most commonly used primate species is $266 million per
year.
Given that the primate population held prisoner by
experimenters, and that federal funding of this torture are at all time
high levels, a sickening trend can be seen developing. This dangerous
trend issues a clear call to action for all who are opposed to unnecessary
suffering.
Last Chance for Animals
(310) 271-6096
www.lcanimal.org
San Diego
Sana Diego Animal Advocates
[email protected]
SAEN News Conference
San Francisco
Vigil for Animals
[email protected]
Dear Animal Advocates, Companions, Guardians, Vigilers,
Lovers and Liberators:
It's official - there will be 2 demonstrations - as
part of National Primate Liberation Week - at UCSF, 513 Parnassus Avenue
in San Francisco - on October 20 & 21 (Thursday & Friday), 11:30 AM to 1
PM both days.
Currently UCSF has about two hundred nonhuman primates
behind its walls - including rhesus monkeys, marmosets, owl monkeys, and
perhaps others (we don't have a full accounting of all species of
monkeys currently incarcerated at UCSF). On any given weekday you may
see (if UCSF allowed public access to its labs) from 25 to 40 monkeys in
various restraint devices, called "primate chairs" by researchers. The
experiments that call for restraint of monkeys often involve food or
fluid restriction. This type of so-called medical research is most
certainly cruel and unethical and thus calls for our protest. As
Lawrence A. Hansen, M.D., stated three years ago before the Public Works
and Public Protection Committee of the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors, "I doubt that most San Franciscans would want to watch
these monkeys with their electrode-implanted brains and bolted heads
performing their eye movements in exchange for water. Most San
Franciscans would feel sorry for the monkeys."
There will be other things you can do besides
demonstrate in case you can't make it to demo's - like writing letter(s)
- more info regarding to whom/what to write will follow in later e-mail.
IMPORTANT PS: Recently it was suggested by Valerie
Tulier, w/ state Senator Carole Migden's office, that we should network
with other movements/org's. I was thinking, since next week is National
Primate Liberation Week (NPLW), we should hook up with activists in the
prison reform movement - maybe we could extend NPLW and join others in
the next upcoming demo re prisons for human primates. Or maybe we could
take action in support of the release of Leonard Peltier, an American
Indian, wrongfully incarcerated in federal prison (check out
www.leonardpeltier.org/
for too many years. Anybody interested???
San Jose
SAEN News Conference
Connecticut
Storrs
Uconn Animal Rights
The Columbia speaker, Herbert Terrace, will be here
at UCONN on Friday October 14th at 4:00pm at the Bousfield Psychology
Building. We will be leafleting before and after the talk.
District of Columbia
Florida
Gainesville
AAA of Gainesville, FL
Gainesville, FL 32601
Hawaii
Honolulu
Primate Liberation Action
Kansas
Kansas City
Maryland
Baltimore
Baltimore Animal Rights
For NPLW BARC will do a demo at the National Institute
on Drug Abuse, followed by a march to JHU Bayview Medical Center, ending
with a demo there. It will be Sunday, October 23. The NIDA demo will
begin at 2pm; each demo will be about half an hour long.
NIDA: 5500 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224
JHU Bayview: 4940 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, MD 21224
March will be under a mile. I am the contact person
for this event.
[email protected]
or 443-756-7344
Massachusetts
Boston /
Southboro
Boston Animal Defense League
PO BOX 1143
ALLSTON Massachusetts 02134
Email: [email protected]
Website:
www.animaldefense.info/boston
New England Primate Center Harvard Square Protest
on October 29 from 2-5pm (tentative time)
Missouri
St. Louis
Kinship Circle
www.kinshipcircle.org
New York
New York
North Carolina
Chapel Hill
We will be coordinating SAEN events
in Chapel Hill.
Ohio
Columbus
Protect Our Earths' Treasures
www.poetwill.org
Demonstrations will be held on the campus of The Ohio
State University. Location will be Wiseman Hall where primates are
housed and used for experimentation.
Monday - October 17 from 8am to 9 am
Tuesday - October 18 from 11am to 1pm
Thursday - October 20 from 4pm to 5pm
Oregon
Portland
SAEN News Conference
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Texas
Dallas / Fort Worth
Animal Connection of Texas
www.animalconnectiontx.org
Mary Steffenhagen and Dr. John Pippin will be
co-chairing this event. Both of us are on the Board of Directors for
Animal Connection of Texas. The mailing information and phone number
provided are Mary's (me). I'll be preparing the event while John will be
the spokesperson. We are currently looking for primate laboratories in
or around Dallas/Fort Worth.
Houston
In Solidarity With Animals
www.insolidaritywithanimals.com
San Antonio
SAEN News Conference
Utah
Salt Lake City
Washington
Seattle
SAEN News Conference
Wisconsin
Madison
Australia
Queensland Group for Animal Rights
http://www.qgar.oceandrop.org
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