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We received some info from GARP today, regarding some events coming up on Saturday May 3rd.
Here's the message:

This Saturday, May 3rd (11:30 am to 1:30 pm), please join us in a belated Lab Day to remember the animals being tortured and killed at Emory University and Yerkes Primate Center.
Where: We will meet at the Stone Gates in front of Emory. It is right across the street from Everybody’s Pizza. The address for EP is: 1593 N. Decatur Road Atlanta, GA 30322.
Why: This year we should not only remember Jerom and others who are tortured on a daily basis, but this year we have 2 very strong reasons to be there. One, the NIH, EPA and Toxicity Councils have agreed to end animal toxicity testing. And two, there is a movement in the House of Reps to end evasive testing on primates.
And remembering Jerom. This is from his former caregiver:

"Ten years ago I quit working at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta when a teenage research chimpanzee I cared for was euthanized. Jerom was almost 14 years old, and had been experimentally infected with several different strains of HIV beginning at the age of two. His early childhood was spent living with another chimpanzee named Roberta, in a tiny cage in a cinderblock building.

When I began caring for Jerom in 1995, he had been isolated from his two cage mates for a month because he'd gotten so ill. He looked like an AIDS patient before the age of protease inhibitors – so wasted he looked like a skeleton, and so weak he could barely hold his head up. On more than one occasion, I saw him cry. I never knew if it was because of the fear, the pain, or the loneliness. After watching him suffer through the illness for at least a year, the researchers ended his life and harvested his tissues for information that was meant to lead to a cure for AIDS. All they ever learned from Jerom's contribution was that HIV causes disease. I learned that chimpanzees deserve dignity and respect, not dart guns and biopsies".

After the protest on Saturday, come by the Adopt-A-Thon. Fulton County Animal Services is having an Adop-A-Thon from 10am to 5pm. They are located at 860 Marietta Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30318.
404 794-0358. Please forward this to any qualified person looking to adopt.