World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week

[Bowwowmeow]

World Laboratory Animal
Liberation Week
World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week is the week that surrounds April 24th every year - It's a national week of protests, media events, etc. at laboratories to stop testing and research on animals
How You Can Help
1. Learn the Truth

Educate yourself first, because if you don’t know the facts about animal experimentation, you cannot educate or influence anyone else. Use the information in the Articles (http://www.all-creatures.org/wlalw/articles.html) section and the Fact Sheets (http://www.all-creatures.org/wlalw/fact.html) section of this website as a start.

Then utilize other sources (i.e. other organizations such as the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine: http://www.pcrm.org/issues/Animal_Experimentation_Issues/animal_issues.html and Americans for Medical Advancement: http://www.curedisease.com/ ). These organizations have additional information about animal experiments.

Use our Resources (http://www.all-creatures.org/wlalw/resourses.html) page to investigate laboratories in your area.

2. Plan a World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week event in your area

On-Line Sign-Up Form for 2007 (http://www.all-creatures.org/wlalw/events-signup.html)

Our goal is to raise public awareness of the horrors of animal experimentation. The public must learn about the toll in terms of animal suffering, wasted tax dollars, and the danger to human health.

Together we can make all of this happen, but to change our nation, we must make a first step.
Check our Facilities List (http://www.all-creatures.org/wlalw/help-facilities.html) for laboratories which we have already investigated. We will be happy to send you all information in our possession to support your efforts during World Week. Please remember that the size of your event is not what determines its effectiveness. News conferences done by one person have achieved significant media attention, while protests with hundreds received barely a mention in the media. Successful events are measured in effectiveness, not in crowd size.
Plan an event which will be the beginning of a long-term campaign. Remember that for many people there every week is World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week. It is vital that our campaigns to oppose animal experimentation continue after WLALW ends. Animals suffer in laboratories 365 days a year; they never have a day off. We must not stop our efforts to obtain their freedom until the last cage is empty.
3. Support World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week financiallyWorking with local activists to support protests, news conferences, and tabling is costly. SAEN provides all support to local groups and activists free of charge. Our communication costs, travel costs (to work directly with local groups), and materials costs are covered by donations from people like you.
Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Please send all donations to:

Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!
PMB 280 1081-B State Route 28
Milford, Ohio 45150
Your support is sincerely appreciated.
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[Bowwowmeow]

In the UK:
World Day for Laboratory Animals

April 24th marks World Day for Laboratory Animals – a day to remember the millions who have been killed, and to redouble efforts to hasten the end of all animal experiments.

This year, Animal Aid is planning to deliver 10,000 leaflets to members of the public in memory of the 10,000 primates who are used in laboratories across Europe each year. This initiative is proving to be massively popular, with a record number of participants signing up.

Thousands of primates are poisoned to death every year inside British laboratories and hundreds more are subjected to appalling brain experiments. The Europe-wide campaign to end primate experiments has united animal protection groups as well as compassionate MPs and scientists across the continent. New EU legislation could mean an end to the use of primates – our closest evolutionary relatives – in laboratories. To achieve this, the public must see what really happens to animals inside testing facilities and understand why research using animals is so overwhelmingly unreliable. Delivering the leaflet – which contains no gruesome images – is a powerful way to garner support for this vital campaign.

If you would like to add your support to this initiative, please order leaflets (kate@animalaid.co.uk).
Around the world, events will take place to mark World Day for Laboratory Animals. In the UK, a day of meditation and reflection has been organised in Oxford on Saturday 28th April. The day will begin with speeches, followed by a period of reflection. A silent walk through the city centre will end at the site for the proposed new animal laboratory. The day will end with a vegan picnic. For more information, contact John on 0777 195 3465 or email jcdanimal@yahoo.co.uk.
Bad Ethics, Bad Science - our animal experimentation booklet (http://www.animalaid.org.uk/images/pdf/booklets/badscience.pdf)
Watch our one-minute video (http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/f/CAMPAIGNS/blog//4//?be_id=58)
Send for a free End Animal Experiments pack. (http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/ACTIVE/action/ALL/1126//)

[Gliondrach]

Thanks for posting them. BWM.

[Blueshark]

Cheers for the reminder, but dont think I will do anything.

Actually I saw a video posted about some company with monkeys and I dont want to see anymore. They had more soul than the humans - freaked me out.

[Bowwowmeow]

World Week for Animals in Laboratories a Success

World Week for Animals in Laboratories (WWAIL) is happening now through Saturday, April 28th, with events taking place around the world. As part of this global week of consciousness-raising activities, IDA, Vigil for Animals, and Animal Switchboard co-hosted a very successful demonstration at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on Tuesday, April 24th to protest the school's experiments on animals (http://www.vivisectioninfo.org/old/ucsf/lisbergerindex.html).

Thank you to all the Bay Area activists who attended this event and bravely stood up for the animals being tortured in UCSF's laboratories.

With about 20 animal advocates, we set up camp with signs, a video monitor, and an eight-by-ten-foot anti-vivisection banner outside of the Millberry Student Union, across the street from the Medical Sciences Building in the heart of UCSF's Parnassus campus, which is also home to one of the city's biggest hospitals. Activists lined the sidewalks on both sides of the street, handing out flyers describing UCSF's cruel animal experiments (http://www.wwail.org/pdfs/lisberger.pdf) to the students, doctors, researchers, and patients passing by this busy area between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Numerous individuals, including UCSF employees, thanked us for being there and creating awareness of the animal abuse UCSF tries to cover up.

Bob Linden, host of Go Vegan Radio (http://www.goveganradio.com/), acted as the emcee for the event, albeit using a bullhorn instead of a microphone and transmitter. As a media personality, Linden catches his listeners' attention by taking an irreverent attitude toward the hypocrisies of those who abuse animals. This same approach translated well to the protest setting, with even the police assigned to monitor the demonstration laughing appreciatively when he called UCSF "the University of Cruelty and Scientific Fraud" and referred to the campus as "a crime scene."

WWAIL events will continue to be held through the weekend, and it is not too late for you to organize your own event to expose the abuse taking place inside university labs or corporate testing facilities, even if it is just you and a couple of friends leafleting on a college campus. Visit www.wwail.org (http://www.wwail.org/) to learn how you can organize and register your own WWAIL event. Also visit www.vivisectioninfo.org (http://www.vivisectioninfo.org/) to learn more about the cruelty involved in animal experimentation.