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Listing of Events - 2008

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Johannesburg

World Day for Animals in Laboratories
When: April 24th

Each year millions of animals, birds and fish are experimented on in the name of science and research, for industries as diverse as pharmaceutical, cosmetic and weapons development.

These creatures are burnt, scalded, drowned, subjected to emotional and physical deprivations, electrocuted, poisoned and have their limbs and brains damaged, often without the benefit of anaesthesia or analgesics. Aside from being morally wrong, such experiments are often misleading and the results cannot be applied to humans. Awareness of the suffering inflicted on helpless creatures has grown enormously in recent years and April 24th is earmarked as World Day for Laboratory Animals, an international day of protest against this abuse.

South African animal rights organisations and caring individuals will be gathering to protest the continuing abuse and the secrecy under which vivisectors operate, in various parts of Johannesburg on April 24th.

Programme of events:

1. The Star wall will be painted this weekend

2. Protests will take place in the morning between 7 and 9am at the following venues:

- In front of Wits University steps at the entrance in Jan Smuts Ave

- Outside Wits Research Labs just before the entrance to the Johannesburg General Hospital andoOn the corner of Empire and Yale roads

And again at these same venues between 4 and 6pm in the evening.

2. Street theatre will take place during the day - pls contact Anastasya for more information.

3. And a topless bus filled with protestors waving banners and shouting slogans will tour the area between 4pm and 6pm.

Please add your voice to the protest! Join us for a short while at any of these venues.

Contact: wwail@idausa.org or 415-388-9641, ext. 215