ALERT: Seattle area. From Amanda at Action for Animals. The agenda for THIS Thursdays University of Washington Board of Regents meeting includes Animal Research and Care Facility – Approve Site Selection, Adopt Project Budget, and Approve the Use of the Internal Lending Program. This agenda item is referring to approving a new animal research facility on the UW campus. This means that we have just 2 days left to tell the Board of Regents to NOT approve this animal lab expansion, which will allow the UW to double the number of primates, rabbits, and pigs who are tortured for research and subjected to the UWs history of animal abuse and neglect. This is the final countdown to the Boards vote on the new animal research facility. Lets show the Board that they must listen to opposition to the lab, and that it is time for the University of Washington to stop investing in the use of animals. What You Can Do TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY: Visit the online petition to the Board of Regents at change.org/petitions/university-of-washington-board-of-regents-do-not-approve-new-animal-research-and-care-facility. This petition will be printed out and presented to the Board during their meeting, so sign it, email it to friends, post it on Facebook -- promote it in whatever way you can! Call the office of the Board of Regents at 206-543-1633. Help make sure that this last whole day before the vote is filled with phone calls asking the Board to NOT approve the animal research facility. Send an email as well to the Board at [email protected]. Ask your friends and family to contact the Board! THURSDAY: Attend the meeting of the Board of Regents. When the Regents are considering their votes, lets make sure that they are in a room that is filled with people who they know want them to vote AGAINST the lab expansion! If you can attend the meeting, please meet outside the UW Tower at the corner of NE 45th St. and Brooklyn Ave. NE at 12:45pm SHARP. Well talk briefly and then walk together into the meeting, which is on the 22nd floor of the UW Tower. Please also help to encourage other people to attend the meeting so that we can fill up the room! You can use the Facebook page about the meeting to invite people: https://facebook/events/207612259423856/ We dont often have the chance to oppose labs before theyre even built, so please be a part of making a strong statement of opposition on behalf of the animals. You are welcome (and encouraged!) to forward this email as widely as you like. Let me know if you have any questions, and I hope to see you on Thursday! [Note from Green Vegans: Green Vegan’s Will Anderson was denied testimony at their last meeting due to unusual burdens the Regents impose (e.g., signing up the week before). We are contesting this with the Attorney General’s office. A letter-equivalent testimony was sent to all Regents in opposition. We stressed that cutting-edge research and technology is making animal research obsolete and science more accurate; regents should invest in a new center that specializes in these alternatives to animal testing.]
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:30:38 +0000
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