Monday, Oct. 13 - UC Berkeley National Primate Liberation Week Demonstration

When: Monday, Oct. 13, 4PM

Where: Meet at the corner of University Ave. and Oxford Way (in front of the Li Ka-Shing Center Construction Site, which would lead to a seventy percent expansion of the existing Northwest Animal Facility come it's completion in March 2010)

Why: It's National Primate Liberation Week, with demonstrations and press conferences happening across the country. At least 15 primates are exploited in highly invasive research at UC Berkeley.

For more information on Primate Liberation Week, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/event-nplw-announce.html

To download the 2007 USDA report for UC Berkeley, which lists the number of Animal Welfare Act-covered animals and details Professor Jack Gallant's horrifying experiments on macaque monkeys, visit:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/08/18543508.php

Also attached is Jack Gallant's grant information. Check out the $$ info (experimentation is big money), and scroll to pages 22-24, the methods and vertebrate animals section, detailing the methods used on these primates.