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>[ukanimalrights] Fw: Speak website demo

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>Christine Jowett

>David Pearson

>Cc: delphine ; Veronica ; hopblossom

>Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:02 AM

>Fw: Speak website demo

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>Tricia O'Neill

>z-christine

>Monday, January 17, 2005 2:30 PM

>Speak website

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>National Demo, Sat 29th January 2005

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>In the last week Oxford University have made statements to the effect that

>work will resume on the half-built animal lab on South Parks Rd in Febuary.

>Statements from the university hierarchy to the media insist that the

>animal torture lab will be completed by late 2005 and no one will stand in

>their way. Oxford University is an institution that is used to getting its

>own way even if that means misusing its power and influence to silence

>those with a legitimate right to question its motives.

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>What is also alarmingly true is the fact that those involved in abusing

>animals inside its labs are shielded from investigation by a culture that

>has grown in the rarified atmosphere of Oxford University. Oxford

>University repeatedly tells the outside world that it's an institution that

>upholds the principle of 'Free Speech', unless of course you are someone

>who dares to question the so-called scientists conducting experiments on

>animals inside the university labs, then you suddenly become an 'extremist'

>or 'terrorist'. During November 2004 Oxford University gained an injunction

>against SPEAK which restricts the campaign to one demonstration a week

>outside the building site and places severe restrictions on what can be

>placed on the website, if ever there was an attack on 'Free Speech' then

>Oxford University are at the vanguard and one must surely ask the question,

>who are the real extremists?

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>Oxford University scientists are daily subjecting animals to pain and

>suffering and the university's attempts to construct another animal lab are

>not as they have tried to tell the media " a rationalization of existing

>animal research facilities " but an expansion that will mean thousands more

>innocent animals becoming the " assets " that one Oxford professor recently

>described a monkey as being. These so-called assets are thinking feeling

>creatures with their own personalities and curiousity-driven approach to

>the world around them, but in the case of the animals inside Oxford

>University this will be denied by academics whose only interest lies in the

>publication of another useless research paper or pandering to the mighty

>pharmaceutical industry.

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>Oxford University have made claims that it is at the 'cutting edge' of

>medical research but a look at some examples of this research tells a very

>different story. The details of an experiment published in Nature in 2002

>decribes how ten five week old kittens had the eyelids of one eye sewn

>together, the kittens also had parts of their skulls removed in order to

>expose the brain. No conclusion was provided for this experiment other than

>to explain why this study appeared to contradict a similar experiment

>carried out on monkeys.

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>In another experiment published in the 'European Journal of Neuroscience,

>2004', Oxford University scientists carried out an experiment on two Rhesus

>monkeys. These sentient beings were fitted with head restraints and a

>recording chamber fitted over part of the brain that had been exposed to

>allow recording of brain cell activity. During the experiment the monkeys

>were positioned in a primate chair with their heads forcibly restrained.

>They were required to fixate their vision on different patterns, in

>addition, the monkeys had to press and release a lever in a very short

>period of time in exchange for water reward. Giving the monkeys small

>amounts of water as a 'reward' would suggest that they were deprived of

>water before the experiment. This pointless experiment conducted by

>academics at Oxford university and was part funded by the U.S. Air Force

>Office of scientific research and European office of aerospace research and

>development.

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>The half built concrete structure that stands only ten minutes from Oxford

>city centre is a monument to cruelty and blind predjudice. Oxford

>University believe they can ignore the voices of those who expose their

>lies and deceit but not any longer. The chance to stop this animal abuse

>lab becoming a reality lies in our hands and we must not fail the countless

>thousands of animals that could one day become the future 'assets' of the

>university vivisectors. Oxford University does not want its academic image

>tarnished by its unwillingness to stop the discredited practice of abusing

>animals in the name of science but no recourse to injunctions and bully boy

>tactics will stop us SPEAKING out for the voiceless. Please make every

>effort to join the demo on the 29th January, your support is vital if we

>are to prevent the new lab from ever being built.

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>STOP THE OXFORD ANIMAL LAB, meet 12.30pm, Broad St, outside Balliol

>college, Oxford, OX1 3BJ.

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