Protest for the 2000+ Harvard Primates! Oct 28th - Harvard Square

October 14, 2006

. "helenandsteve2003" <rayshickWed, 11 Oct 2006 18:44:31 -0000 Protest for the 2000+ Harvard Primates! Harvard Primate Labs: SHUT THEM DOWN!WHAT: A public protest for the thousands of primates enslaved andtortured by Harvard and to commemorate Primate Liberation Week.WHEN: Saturday, October 28, 1-3 pm. WHERE: Harvard Square, Massachusetts Ave, across from Au Bon Painand "The Pit" in Cambridge. After the protest, we will have dinner; all are welcome to join us.RSVP/INFO: RSVPs are very helpful. So if you can, please RSVP at: rayshick (AT) msn (DOT) com or just answer this email. (Event is weather permitting: check for postponement email or

call 978-257-7062 on morning of event. If you receive a Daily Digest, you won't get it in time to receive the weather-related Notice, so be sure to call or check homepage if the weather is iffy.) Signs & literature provided.WHY: Primate research is on the rise! NIH-funded primate researchrose 67% in the past ten years. 93% of primate experiments funded bythe NIH are not relevant to major diseases.Every day, animals are burned, cut, maimed, addicted to drugs,starved, and given fatal diseases, often with no anesthesia. Infact, no federal law regulates what happens to animals during actualexperiments. Even food, water, medical care, and infant access tomothers can be denied if it is deemed to be necessary for theexperimental conditions. Law enforcement is notoriously lax,and ethical decisions are made by industry insiders, often co-workers and friends of the researchers.Over 2100 primates are

currently enslaved and tortured at any given time in Southborough, MA--many have been the victims of cocaine and heroin studies (forced addiction), and some of these studies have been going on for 40 years! Plus they have endured horrible stressstudies, failed xenotransplantation experiments, and a variety of painful invasive procedures. And Harvard will say they are conductingimportant AIDS research on these animals, but the truth is that not asingle positive gain has actually ever happened. Except a lot ofanimals have died horribly.Called the New England Primate Research Center (NEPRC), thisfacility is part of the Harvard Medical School and is one of the 8Primate Research Centers in the nation. Harvard is the #2 mostfunded animal research lab in the nation, getting at least $294million per year! Harvard was very smart to locate NEPRC inSouthborough--very little foot and car traffic there--so we

willstand up for these animals at the very gates of Harvard U inCambridge! (For more info, go to the MARC public website: http://www.massanimalrights.org/home and click on Harvard Primate Labs under MARC Campaigns on the left of the homepage.One of our banners is a quote by Dr. Jane Goodall, world-renownedprimatologist, and reads, "Researchers find it very necessary tokeep their blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animalsthey are working with have feelings and personalities. That peoplecan go to work and allow such barbaric conditions to continue, is avery black mark against humanity."But, instead of even scaling back research on nonhuman primates,Harvard's Southborough facility is actually expanding. We know thatBU's application to NIAID for the BU Bioterror lab says that BU willpay $3.1 million to the NEPRC to construct a new breeding

andholding facility---for primates that will be sickened and killed bythe worst pathogens on the planet---anthrax, Ebola, Marburg, plague,SARS.Please help us get the truth about what is happening to these pooranimals out!Unseen they suffer but for our efforts.DIRECTIONS: http://maps.google.com/ or email us at the address abovefor directions to the protest.For the animals,Helen & StevePatricia Breen www.petstorecruelty.org

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