Protest opening celebration at UCSF's new Mission Bay campus this Friday 10/28

October 27, 2005

- Join IDA as we demonstrate against the celebration of the UCSF Mission Baycampus, where experiments on animals may soon take place, and demandaccountability for researchers' flagrant animal welfare violations. What: Demonstration at UCSF against animal experimentationWhen: Friday, October 28th from Noon to 1.30 p.m.Where: UCSF's new Mission Bay campus, 1675 Owens St. (between Genentech Hall and the Mission Bay), San Francisco (click here<http://pub.ucsf.edu/missionbay/directions> for directions)- IDA also holds weekly outreach events at UCSF's Parnassus Campus every Wednesday from noon to at 1:00 p.m. Please help us maintain an ongoing presence on campus to show UCSF officials that animal advocates' concerns cannot be

ignored. Please contact Karen Steele at (415) 388-9641 ext. 217 or karen to RSVP. Posters and leaflets will be provided. For more information on UCSF's animal welfare violations, please visitwww.vivisectioninfo.org/ucsf/index.html.

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recently paid $92,500 in fines to avoid hearings on 89 counts of animal welfare violations the USDA officially lodged against them. At least three primate protocols were involved in the charges: the invasive brain experiments of Henry Ralston, Kris Bankiewicz and Michael Merzenich. The USDA allegations included leaving monkeys unmonitored after surgery, performing a craniotomy on a monkey without providing post-operative pain relief, and subjecting at least one monkey to multiple injections of a brain-destroying chemical through thecarotid artery. Despite the recent public attention UCSF has earned for their serious and ongoing animal welfare violations, officials still refuse to address or even acknowledge the problem. They seem far more concerned with celebrating the building of the multi-million dollar, 43-acre UCSF campus in Mission Bay, which they will do later this week with much

self-congratulatory fanfare.

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