Stanford University: World Week for Animals in Labs

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Join Stanford University's Animal Rights on the Farm (ARF) and the Student

Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) for a week of advocacy on behalf of the

hundred thousand animals used in experiments at Stanford. Events include

several protests (Monday, Thursday, Saturday), a talk by Steven Best, and a

film screening.

 

Details on all events are listed below.

 

Our central demands in this campaign are fairly modest: accountability for

animal welfare violations, transparency of the procedures and animals used,

shifting funds toward alternative models of research, and stopping some of

the most gruesome experiments, such as the cocaine addiction studies on

juvenile monkeys.

 

We are also unveiling a new petition, urging the administration to implement

some of these reforms. Please consider signing it.

http://www.petitiononline.com/arf123/petition.html

 

If you have any questions, email me or arfstanford.

 

I hope to see you at these events.

 

-Matthew

 

Searchable Stanford Map:

http://campus-map.stanford.edu/

 

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Monday, April 24

Protest Stanford Animal Experiments

White Plaza, 12pm-1pm

Speak out against cruel and unnecessary research conducted on tens of

thousands of animals here on our campus, including dogs, rabbits, and

primates. Join us in demanding transparency, accountability, and a

commitment to developing and funding alternatives to animal research.

 

Monday, April 24 – Wednesday, April 26

Animal Liberation Exhibit

White Plaza, 11am-3pm

View this exhibit by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which

documents the common oppression of humans and animals. Suffering is unique,

but pain knows no species.

 

Wednesday, April 26

“Legally Blonde 2” film screening

Stanford Law School, Room 280B, 7pm-9pm

Join the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund for the screening of this comedy,

which features an animal rights message. Elle Woods heads to Washington

D.C. to join the staff of a congresswoman in order to pass a bill to ban

animal testing.

 

 

Thursday, April 27

Protest Stanford Animal Experiments

Research Animal Facility, 10am-11am

Put pressure on Stanford to reduce its use of animals at the Research Animal

Facility, home of cocaine addiction studies and maternal deprivation

experiments on infant and adolescent squirrel monkeys. Meet in White Plaza

at 9:45 to walk over to the RAF.

 

Friday, April 28

Prof. Steven Best: Animal Rights and the Left

Rm. 303, Bldg. 200 (History), 12pm-1:15pm

Learn why those who care about progressive politics should also care about

animal rights, and vice versa. Dr. Best will examine the liberatory

potential of a total critique of exploitation.

 

Saturday, April 29

Protest Stanford Animal Experiments

Research Animal Facility, 12:30pm-2pm

Bring World Week to a close with a final plea for compassion at the RAF.

Protesters are especially encouraged to bring their dogs to this protest,

in sympathy with the dogs tested on at Stanford. Meet in White Plaza at

11:45 to walk over to the RAF.