Programs & Campaigns Action Alert! NEAVS revisits PRIMATE film and inaugurates post card campaign to mark World Week for Animals in Laboratories (WWAIL) 2001 Photo: Zipporah Films Post card campaign There's still time for YOU to help! Every April, the attention of animal advocates around the world is focused on animals in laboratories. While at NEAVS this is our focus every day, we also used these April World Week efforts as an additional opportunity to highlight and educate about the plight of animals used in experimentation and product testing. To mark WWAIL 2001, NEAVS presented the Frederick Wiseman documentary PRIMATE - an opportunity to go inside a regional primate center and see and experience the deplorable day-to-day living conditions of animals held captive and used for painful, unnecessary and unethical research. The 1974 film was coupled with a presentation by the Laboratory Primate Advocacy Group, a support and advocacy group of former and current animal caregivers from research facilities everywhere. Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center employees in the recent past, Rachel Weiss and Jessica Ganas, offered moving accounts of what is happening in labs TODAY. Neither picture - past nor present - is a "pretty" one. The cruelties and insensitivities of the past continue despite the rhetoric of change we are fed. You can help NEAVS work for the REAL changes necessary to help captive primates: NEAVS works to GET THEM OUT. With the help of funding from NEAVS, the Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care has opened its doors to 21 chimpanzees "retired" from research - including offspring and companions of the U.S. government's so-called "space chimps." They are being welcomed to a state-of-the-art sanctuary-home. NEAVS works to KEEP THEM OUT. And NEAVS works to WATCH OVER THEM while they are held in laboratories. What YOU can do: (you must have Adobe Acrobat to view and print these pages) KEEP THEM OUT - Download ActionAlertLassarLetter.pdf, print, and sign the PDF file and mail: Help ensure prosecution of a Virginia company - LABS - that illegally imported unweaned baby monkeys from Indonesia - infants who should have remained with their mothers. WATCH OVER THEM - Download, sign and mail the 3 ActionAlertGordonLetter.pdf | ActionAlertRowellLetter.pdf | ActionAlertVandBergLetter.pdf PDF files: help keep public pressure on research facilities housing HIV- positive chimpanzees. Deliver the powerful message that we have not and will not abandon these chimpanzees. Please mail these letters TODAY! For copies of NEAVS' UPDATE newsletters discussing various primate issues, or for post cards to distribute, please contact us.

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