Description: This Memorial Day Weekend, we remember and honor the animals that suffer and die in research laboratories. A vigil will be staged in front of the University of Washington's South Lake Union biomedical research campus, the site of numerous experiments conducted on animals, including pigs and dogs. UW Medicine has received numerous citations in violation of animal welfare standards, and animals routinely die under their care. Despite their track record, they have received funding from the National Institute of Health to expand their South Lake Union facilities, so this vigil is also to protest the increase of the future torture and killing there.

As this is a vigil and memorial, please dress in black to maximize the solemness of this event. Signs and fliers will be provided.

Description: We will be taking advantage of the large numbers of people that come to attend the UW Graduation on June 13th, by having a demo right before the ceremony starts. We want to bring attention to the kinds of torture going on at the University of Washington in the name of science.

The Primate Center at the UW, isn't working on cures for cancer or any other disease, they stick metal coils into the eyes of monkeys, then strap them into chairs to watch their eye movement. Groundbreaking stuff, right? And it's been going on for 30 years, so they must really be learning something, huh? We are going to let the public know just what their money is paying for at the UW's Primate Center and at the other UW animal labs.

We will have signs, but please feel free to make your own.

Ask the University of Washington (UW) to prohibit new hire Susan Stern from conducting experiments on animals, including brain injury and massive bleeding experiments on live pigs using a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Defense.

Before accepting a position at UW, Stern worked at the University of Michigan (U-M), where she chaired the animal experimentation oversight committee from 2006 to 2008. On Stern's watch, animals in the university's laboratories died of starvation and dehydration. When a fire broke out in a lab, trapped animals died of smoke inhalation or drowned as their cages filled with water from the sprinkler system, and others were so severely injured that they had to be euthanized. UW is already under fire for violations in its laboratories. Acting on evidence provided by PETA in 2007, federal investigators found that UW experimenters performed dozens of surgeries on monkeys without approval from the university's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Given UW's own record, Susan Stern's proven record of disregard for animal welfare guidelines is the last thing that UW and animals need.

Please contact University of Washington President Mark Emmert and urge him to prohibit Susan Stern from conducting experiments on animals in UW's laboratories. Check out PETA's Action Alert to see a sample letter.

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