Vigil on January 18 (Thursday)....Update on Monkeys Released from UCSF to Sanctuary

January 13, 2007

Dear Activists for Animals: The next monthly vigil at UCSF will be the third Thursday of the month, as usual, this time falling on January 18 - same time, same place: TIME: 4:30 PM (till 5:30 or 6 PM) PLACE: UCSF's Parnassus Campus, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco Hope you can make it! Note Regarding Public Transportation: If you would like to take public transportation to UCSF's Parnassus Campus, the San Francisco Muni buses #6 and #43 both go right by the Vigil's venue on Parnassus Avenue; also you can take the N-Judah streetcar, get off at Carl & Arguello streets, and take the elevator (going up) within the UCSF facility to get to Parnassus Avenue. If you are coming from the East Bay, you can take BART, get off at any stop between Embarcadero and Civic Center in San Francisco, and then take an N-Judah streetcar going outbound (and follow directions above regarding N-Judah streetcar). --------------- Monkeys from UCSF at

Mindy's Memory Primate Sanctuary The three monkeys (Eddie, Wyatt and Tiger Star) who were released from UCSF last year to Mindy's Memory Primate Sanctuary www.mindysmem.org/ in Oklahoma are doing fine, I am told by Shelly Ladd, president of the sanctuary. Their favorite foods, she said, are green peppers and bananas. I don't want to give the impression, however, that these monkeys are completely OK; they do carry scars (both mental and physical) from years of exploitation as laboratory subjects under protocols devised by the infamous Dr. Stephen Lisberger. His protocol called for the monkeys to be restrained, and their food or

fluid was restricted to coerce (or "train") them to behave as required under the protocol. During the course of the experiments in which they were used, they underwent a half dozen or more surgeries to implant devices in their skulls to allow electrodes to record mapping of their brains. Wyatt now moves kind of slow and has peculiar twitches that his vet has called the "weebley wobbleys." Another monkey, called Tiger Star, has what looks like scars on one of his arms - perhaps from past self-biting. Still they are survivors, and Mindy's is doing its best to care for them and the other approximately seventy monkeys at the sanctuary. Mindy's, of course, accepts donations, and I encourage you to contact the sanctuary if you would like to support the monkeys' care. Bob O'Brien

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