Events
Winter Anti-Vivisection Education Series:
January 18, February 15, March 15

Winter Anti Vivisection Education Series
Hosted by Ana M. Wolf and Valley Animal Liberation

See event's Facebook page. Please contact Ana Wolf at [email protected] for more info on this amazing lineup of eight internationally renowned speakers in the fight against animal experimentation!

And remember to join Valley Animal Liberation's new Facebook page if you haven't ready.

February 15, March 15 -- 3:00pm to 7:00pm

Cafe Evolution
22 Chestnut St, Florence, Massachusetts 01062
413-586-0200

Hear from EIGHT NATIONALLY and GLOBALLY recognized leaders in the field of Anti- Vivisection! (Scroll all the way down for workshop descriptions and speaker bios).

The lecture series is on 2 Sundays (February 15 and March 15) from 3-7 at Café Evolution in Florence, MA and will be a series of skyped presentations from the brightest and most dedicated activists around the world. One would normally have to travel to a national conference to get this kind of education! Enjoy locally!

PRICE: SLIDING SCALE $10-30 EACH DAY. NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. ALL PROFITS SPLIT BETWEEN HOST CAFE EVOLUTION AND EACH SPEAKER'S CHOICE OF NON PROFIT.

January 18, 2015 - 3:00pm to 7:00 PM

Michael Budkie from SAEN - Stop Animal Exploitation Now
COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO VIVISECTION

Friedrich Mulln from Soko Tierschutz (German animal rights investigation group famous for footage form Max Planck Institute) INTRODUCTION TO UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIONS IN VIVISECTION AND PRIMATE TRADE FOR VIVISECTION


February 15, 2015 -3:00pm to 7:00 PM

Anthony Bellotti from White Coat Waste Project
TAX PAYER FUNDED SCIENTIFIC FRAUD

Jodie Wiederkehr from the Center for Ethical Science
DISSECTION:CUTTING IT OUT OF EDUCATION

Amanda Schmekes from The Bunny Alliance
NO NEW ANIMAL LAB: STRATEGIC CAMPAIGNING FOR ANIMALS

Tino Verducci from London Animal Rights
OUR HISTORY: LOOKING BACK LOOKING FORWARD

March 15, 2015 - 3:00pm to 7:00 PM

Tino Verducci from London Animal Rights
"GREEN HILL CAMPAIGN: A CASE STUDY"

Robert Ingersoll from Mindy's Memory Primate Sanctuary, Center for Great Apes & Project Nim
A BREIF HISTORY OF PRIMATE SANCTUARIES IN THE US AND THIER FUTRUE

Theodora Capaldo, EdD, from the New England Anit-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) IN PERSON BEYOND HUMANE ETHICS: FIGHTING SCIENCE WITH SCIENCE

The words anti-vivisection relate simply to getting animals out of labs, product testing, and also covers the topics of Class A and B dealers as well as breeders, suppliers and transporters of animals for the purpose of lab animal experimentation.

LECTURE DESCRIPTIONS AND SPEAKER BIOS:

A BREIF HISTORY OF PRIMATE SANCTUARIES IN THE US AND THIER FUTURE

Bob Ingersoll has been a tireless champion of captive chimpanzees since the 1970s. Bob was introduced to the world of primates through the inter-species communication studies conducted at the University of Oklahoma. When the University cut funding and the Institute for Primate Studies was closed with the chimpanzee colony sold to an invasive-research laboratory, Bob went from being a student of chimpanzees to a defender of them.

Bob's involvement in the ape language studies and their aftermath has been the covered in the book Nim Chimpsky: The Ape Who Would Be Human by Elizabeth Hess, and the award-winning documentary Project Nim.

Bob currently splits his time between Mindy's Memory Primate Sanctuary in Newcastle, Oklahoma, the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Florida, and his home in San Francisco, CA.

THE ANITIVISECTION REPORT FROM UK AND ITALY, WHAT'S NEXT?

Tino Verducci was involved in campaigns that shut down breeders to vivisection labs such as Consort Beagles, Save the Hillgrove Cats, Shamrock Farm, Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs, Morini and Green Hill. Tino has attended rallies and gatherings across Europe, US and Canada. Today, I co-run a building in East London with other social movements, working on self-organized, non-hierarchical projects for radical social change.

COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW TO VIVISECTION IN THE US

Michael Budkie, A.H.T., is the co-founder & Executive Director of Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN), which works exclusively on the animal experimentation issue by successfully terminating research projects, forcing the USDA to take legal action against laboratories, & coordinating release of animals into sanctuaries. After witnessing the atrocities of animal experimentation during his education, he successfully ended a head injury experiment on cats at the Univ. of Cincinnati, which launched his career leading to positions with several national organizations before he co-founded SAEN in the mid-1990s. He has been published & travels extensively, appearing on TV & radio programs to expose the truth about animal experimentation.

TAX PAYER FUNDD SCIENTIFIC FRAUD:Meet the White Coat Waste Movement

Who is the biggest funder of animal experimentation in the United States? Big cosmetic companies? Big pharmaceutical companies? Actually, it's YOU, the American taxpayer. In this presentation, we'll take a look at the government's secretive and out-of-control forced taxpayer-funded animal experimentation budget. Every year, the federal government wastes more than $12 billion tax dollars on painful, duplicative, and unnecessary animal experiments while forcing the American taxpayer to pay the bill. The answer? Meet the White Coat Waste Movement: a new campaign to expose, de-fund, and defeat forced taxpayer-funded animal experimentation. Effective strategies and tactics for animal advocates will be discussed, and new public opinion research will be presented. Get ready for an insider's look at a very different kind of anti-vivisection campaign!
Anthony Bellotti is the founder and National Campaign Manger of the White Coat Waste Movement: a new campaign to expose and eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse in the government’s $12 billion+ annualtaxpayer-funded animal experimentation budget. As a political consultant, Anthony specializes in strategic communications, issue advocacy, advertising, and fundraising for public affairs campaigns, ballot initiatives, and non-profit organizations. In 2010,Anthony was honored as one of fifteen national Republican "Rising Stars of Politics" byCampaigns and ElectionsMagazine.
Bellotti is a co-founding Director of the Humane Research Council and a board member of the National Council for Animal Protection. He's an in-demand speaker and trainer forCampaigns and ElectionsMagazine, the American Association of Political Consultants, HSUS' Taking Action for Animals, FARM's Animal Rights Conference, the Anti-Fur Society Animal Rights Conference, and SEAN's Effective Action Against Vivisection. Anthonyholds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (2000) and an M.A. from the George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, with concentrations in corporate public affairs and campaign management (2005).
Twitter: @whitecoatwaste
Email:[email protected]
URL:whitecoatwaste.com

NO NEW ANIMAL LAB: Strategic Campaigning for Animals

Amanda Schemkes will discuss the NO NEW ANIMAL LAB campaign as a model for organizing strategic, grassroots, animal liberation campaigns. NO NEW ANIMAL LAB is a campaign to stop the construction of a new animal research facility at the University of Washington. This lab would allow the UW to greatly increase the number of animals that it tortures and kills. However, this campaign is taking advantage of this rare moment to stop a lab before it’s even built, and activists have united to wage a high-pressure, fast-paced campaign against the contracted construction company, Skanska USA. Through the lens of the NO NEW ANIMAL LAB campaign, Amanda will address how grassroots activists can use regional and national networking, a variety of tactics, and dedication to being in solidarity with the animals to have powerful campaigns.

Amanda Schemkes is an organizer of the NO NEW ANIMAL LAB campaign and the Director of Don’t Expand UW Primate Testing, which started the campaign with Portland Animal Liberation. She is also the co-founder of The Bunny Alliance, a board member of Resistance Ecology, and a law clerk with the Civil Liberties Defense Center.

Learn more about NO NEW ANIMAL LAB and how you can be a part of it at: http://nonewanimallab.com/NEAVS’

BEYOND HUMANE ETHICS: FIGHTING SCIENCE WITH SCIENCE
Project R&R: Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees in U.S.

Laboratories campaign merged ethical and humane concerns over chimpanzees’ enormous suffering with the futility and dangers associated with using them to ask and answer questions about human health. This focus on chimpanzees for the past 10 years was a strategic and successful decision – the NIH announced in 2013 it was retiring nearly 90% of its chimpanzees from research and the remaining would only be used for “future potential research” if deemed necessary. As our closest genetic relative, proving how useless, even dangerous, chimpanzees are for studying human health fortifies scientific arguments against the use of all species.

DISSECTION: CUTTING IT OUT OF EDUCATION

What you should know about animal dissection, student choice laws and policies and how we can return biology to the life sciences.

Jodie Wiederkehr has worked professionally in animal protection for seventeen years, including at two anti-vivisection organizations.

Whether it’s educating and counseling students on alternatives to dissection and animal experimentation, helping homeless companion animals in Chicago, exposing the cruelty of agribusiness, rodeos, animal circuses, horse carriages, bullfighting or horse racing, it's been a driving force in her life.

She was the Signature Campaign Director and Statewide Volunteer Director on the successful campaign that ended greyhound racing in Massachusetts. The experience she gained is immeasurable and is the highlight of her career so far. However, animal experimentation is a cause that is near and dear to her and one that she feels needs to be exposed, so she founded the Center For Ethical Science (CFES) in Chicago. Her main goal is to educate the public on the egregious cruelty, huge tax dollar waste, misleading and dangerous results of animal experimentation and multiple violations of the Animal Welfare Act, so that one day, no more animals will be killed in the name of science.

Theodora Capaldo EdD

Theodora Capaldo, EdD is a Massachusetts-licensed psychologist. She has taught psychology at the college level, served as director of counseling at a liberal arts college, and has maintained a private psychotherapy practice for more than 30 years.

Dr. Capaldo is president and executive director of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society, its educational affiliate, the Ethical Science Education Coalition (ESEC), and spearheads NEAVS’ national campaign Project R&R: Release and Restitution for Chimpanzees in U.S. Laboratories. She is also trustee of the American Fund for Alternatives to Animal Research (AFAAR – founded by Dr. Ethel Thurston in 1977), which fosters the development and validation of alternatives to animals in research, testing, and education.