After educating yourself on the cruelties currently underway in our nation's primate vivisection laboratories, it is imperative that you take action to help end this abuse. We offer only two suggestions and ways we can help here, but there are surely countless other ways to help animals. Be creative. Read the history of social movements, and in particular the animal rights movement, to better understand what has worked and what hasn't and what lessons we should learn from the past. There are several examples that one can point to in the history of our movement where sustained campaigns have successfully stopped cruelties. Use education and pressure against individuals, companies, and institutions that are carrying atrocities against nonhuman primates.
Be creative. And most importantly, know your own strengths and weaknesses. If you are a skilled lawyer, perhaps the best you can do for animals is to offer local animal activists free defense if they face activism-related charges of disorderly conduct or to file a Section 1983 civil rights claim if their free speech rights are violated. If you're a doctor or medical professional, you can use your knowledge and social status to push forward the scientific arguments against vivisection more powerfully than a layperson can. If you are a punk rocker, perhaps your forte would be writing a song about animal rights or performing benefit shows for your local grassroots animal rights organization. Just find your strengths, and think creatively about how they can help achieve animal liberation.
Here are two ways this site can help you achieve your goals:
1. Help compile information for this site. This can take the form of doing internet research, submitting new information/photos to the site, leaking information from labs, or making FOIA/public records requests for information from research facilities. PrimateLabs.com will help you make public records requests and will upload any information you acquire into our archives. Please remember we'll help you every step of the way, just drop us an email at info@primatelabs.com.
For help doing internet research or making a public records request with a vivisection lab, please see these two guides written for the Let Live Conference in Portland, OR in June 2009:
2. Help start a local campaign against a lab or researcher(s) in your community. Sometimes, grassroots education and pressure have made a difference for animals in labs. We can help you research, put up websites, and write literature for any local campaign against vivisection. Just let us know if you are interested and need help starting or fueling a local campaign against vivisection. If you promise to do your part on the streets in your community, we will be sure to make the institution you're protesting a higher priority for our research and investigations.
To the streets!
August 18, 2009
Several news updates on our main page recently. Stay tuned for an extensive update coming by the end of this month with more detailed information on many labs and vivisectors.
Friday July 31, 2009
A new and improved photo & video gallery is now on our site. The new gallery features newer photos at higher res, more photos, and the ability for users to submit comments/questions. If you have any photos we don't, we'd love to add them to our collection. If you have any protest pictures, send those in too, as we're currently working on a "protests" photo collection as well to compliment our "vivisection" collection.
Sunday July 26, 2009
New/updated information for vivisectors in several states: CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, TX, TN, SD, SC, RI.
Monday July 20, 2009 Fact vs. Myth section now up. Stay tuned as we debunk more myths on other topics in the coming weeks and months.
Tuesday July 14, 2009
New/updated information for vivisectors in AL, AZ, UT, VA, WA, WI.
Monday July 13, 2009
New essay, "How Like Us Need They Be?," by Rick Bogle, added to the essays section.
Wednesday July 8, 2009
More information added for Emory University, home to Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
Monday July 6, 2009 Two news articles and commentary posted regarding court settlement entered by USDA that states they must post facility reports of vivisection online for public access.
