World Week for Animals benefit show - 04/16/09
xposted to: animal_rights , animal_welfare , anti_cruelty , los_angeles
World Week for Animals Starts in LOS ANGELES, CA
between APRIL 18th - 25th, 2009
Each year, twenty-three million animals are pointlessly hurt and killed in the name of research. Dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, pigs, and birds are just a few of the victims who have screws driven into their skulls, their spinal columns severed, their eyes sewn shut, and their bodies filled with toxic chemicals. Frequently, these procedures are done without anesthetic, and almost invariably without concern for the animal’s pain and misery. Virtually every one of these animals suffers in lonely agony before it is finally killed.
The biological and cellular differences between species are often too great to extrapolate experimental results from test animals to humans. Medications, proven safe in animals, are frequently withdrawn after being found unsafe in people.
Regulation of animal research laboratories is minimal, at best. Federally operated labs are exempt from oversight. The USDA, the enforcement arm for Federal legislation, lacks the manpower to provide even cursory reviews of most labs. Even when their investigators find violations, labs often receive a simple reprimand.
World Week for Laboratory Animals is a global effort to bring awareness to the plight of animals in labs and promote alternatives to vivisection. The goal of our Los Angeles group is to educate the public about unnecessary animal research both in the University of California system and elsewhere, the gross waste of funds paid in support of dubious research, and to open dialogue between legitimate researchers and animal welfare groups in an effort to promote the humane treatment of all animals, reduce the number of animals used, and to eliminate and / or replace vivisection to the greatest extent possible.
official site: www.worldweekforanimals.com
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Benefit Concert at The Whisky with Silent Auction. Hosted by VH-1’s Ambre Lake, Melanie Martel (with Rikki Rocket of Poison and Robbie Crane of Ratt), Truth Movement featuring actor Corey Feldman, The Faded, and Nero Zero will perform. Doors open at 8 pm. Tickets are $10 and available from The Whisky Box Office (310-652-4202). Shannon Keith (documentary film maker of “Behind the Mask”, attorney and legislative consultant to the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services) and Peter Young (animal rights activist) will be present. HELP SPREAD THE WORD BY DISTRIBUTING THE FLYER!
APRIL 20, 2009 - Lecture with Michael Budkie (Founder and Director of Stop Animal Exploitation Now) at UCLA, hosted by the Animal Law Society. Screening and discussion with Shannon Keith's," Behind the Mask" at UCLA, hosted by the Animal Law Society. Both events will be held at UCLA Law School Room 1357 from 12:15-2:15pm "UCLA Law School is located near the intersection of Hilgard Avenue and Wyton. Immediately after entering the campus on Wyton, there will be a parking kiosk, which is directly north of the law school building. Kiosk attendants will direct you to the nearest available parking and direct you to the Law School .The public is welcome to attend this event free of charge, parking at UCLA is now $9 per vehicle."
APRIL 22, 2009 - Rally and press conference at UCLA and UCI. Rich McLellen, M.D (President of the California Chapter of the League of Humane Voters, Emergency Medical Consultant and Zoologist), Michael Budkie (Founder and Director of S.A.E.N) Shannon Keith (Documentary film maker of "Behind the Mask", attorney and legislative consultant to LA Dept of Animal Services) Peter Young (Animal Rights activist) will be speaking. Meet at 10:30am at UCLA, corner of Le Conte and Westwood, Westwood Village. 1:30pm / 2:00pm bus will be leaving UCLA for UCI and returning to LA. Public parking available on Le Conte (turn left on Le Conte for parking from Westwood)
April 23, 2009 - Protest/vigil at Cedars Sinai - 6:00 - 8:00pm. Meet at corner of Cedars Sinai, corner of Beverly Blvd and San Vicente. $2 parking is available for Cedars Sinai in the Beverly Center (entrance on San Vicente).