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October 18th, 2008
The night was cool as activists gathered to participate in vigils on behalf of the primates being tortured and killed inside the labs of UCLA. The first stop was Baldwin Way's neighborhood. Way is a graduate student at UCLA who is experimenting on primates. A flyer has been circulating over the internet describing what perversions Baldwin Way engages in-- the text of the leaflet says it all:

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DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR NEIGHBOR DOES TO INNOCENT MONKEYS FOR A LIVING?
Baldwin Way, living at 901 Princeton Street in Santa Monica, is a graduate student at UCLA who does gruesome experiments on non- human primates, along with others like Lynn Fairbanks and William Melega. Way imprisons, experiments on and then kills monkeys like the one shown above, all just to enhance his NIH resume.

Baldwin Way addicts these poor, innocent primates to crystal methamphetamines in order to compile and publish worthless academic papers about his activities. Neither Baldwin Way, Lynn Fairbanks nor William Melega are medical doctors, and none of these perverts would know how to treat a sick human if their lives depended on it.

In July 2007, Way co-authored a paper with Fairbanks and Melega titled "Long-Term Methamphetamine Administration in the Vervet Monkey Models Aspects of a Human Exposure: Brain Neurotoxicity and Behavioral Profiles." This horrific experiment involved addicting vervet monkeys to methamphetamines and then observing the enormous stress and anxiety they exhibited.

Substance abuse is an area of inquiry that should lend itself admirably to clinical studies. But instead of evaluating the psychosocial and demographic parameters of a uniquely human problem, Way and his smarmy co-workers elect to torture and abuse innocent primates to examine the effects of addiction in a species that does not naturally engage in drug abuse, cannot communicate their experiences, and from whom test results cannot be extrapolated to people.

Way is forcing monkeys to become “tweakers” while legitimate drug rehabilitation centers flounder for lack of funds.

Way also co-authored a paper with Melega that entailed brain mapping of vervet monkeys in 2007. In this study, vervet monkeys were injected with methamphetamines intramuscularly every 6 hours! Then these poor primates had their brain tissue biopsied 1 month and 18 months later, meanwhile spending their entire, miserable lives in steel cages only taken out to be held down against their will and injected with crystal methamphetamines. None of these primate vivisectors ever suggest how this could possibly help addiction in humans. But it sure must look good on their resumes.

In their natural environment, monkeys would travel almost ten miles a day and can run 35 miles per hour. But instead, Way imprisons them in small, barren, stainless-steel cages where they will be experimented on and killed.

A UCLA Press Release claims Way has not experimented on animals in 4 years; that is a lie. Even were it true, and its not, Way is a vivisector who exploits, imprisons and murders primates for his own personal advantage, and deserves to be known far and wide for just who he is.

For more information please visit:
www.UCLAPrimateFreedom.org
and
www.CureDisease.com
(End of leaflet material)

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Of note, Baldwin Way had allegedly been hit by the underground a few weeks earlier having cars in his driveway paint stripped. It seems that above-ground animals rights activists weren't aware of Baldwin Way's perverted activities prior to the underground action. After the communiqué was circulated, several anti-vivisection organizations began doing research on this individual and found some papers of his that were published in 2008 and more information about this primate murderer.

Many of Way's neighbors came out of their homes to see the vigil and to ask questions; most were very sympathetic to the primates plight and walked right up to activists to look at the posters illuminated in the darkness by flash lights. Of course the po po were out in force, about eight cop cars screeched up and an "spitting mad" Sergeant Thomas ordered all the activists to remain 150 feet from the dwelling (an illegal and unlawful order.) But the fact remains that Thomas and the rest of the police made such a spectacle out of a peaceful Vigil that no matter how far the activists stood from the dwelling, the entire neighborhood was alerted and all eyes were on the activists and their message to Baldwin on behalf of the primates who are going crazy in their steel cages as you read this.

A good time was had by all the activists and after awhile, they moved on to Edythe London's neighborhood. As you most likely know, London also addicts primates to crystal meth and nicotine. She lives at the end of a cul-de-sac which made it perfect for activists to stand at the top of the street and maintain a Vigil with candles on behalf of the primates inside UCLA. Some of the neighbors came out with wine glasses and spoke to activists while sipping their cocktails, others were shocked and had no idea what their neighbor did for a living. Of course again, thanks to the cops making a big spectacle out of the vigil, a lot more neighbors came out to see what all the fuss was about. The police had powerful lights focused on the activists most likely to harass them, but as activists always do, they turned lemons into lemonade and used the bright lights to show off their posters and banner which were lit up in stark contrast against the dark night sky.

Activists remained at the Vigil until at least 11pm when they departed, confident that they did the right thing for the animals to close out National Primate Liberation Week.

On a victorious note (which a couple of animal protection organizations are attempting to get confirmation on currently,) it appears as if Arthur Rosenbaum has NOT RENEWED a grant to continue his experiments on non-human primates. Rosenbaum was doing ghastly vision experiments on primates, injecting their lateral eye muscles with Botox and then gluing metal coils to their eyes. Activists will continue to picket his neighborhood until they get confirmation that Rosenbaum did indeed drop his grant to continue doing primate research.

Thanks again for coming out for the non-human primates, whose lives are hell on earth inside the dungeons of UCLA's filthy business of primate experimentation.