Sustaining a grassroot movement to end animal research: Updates from No New Animal Lab & NYC Animal Defense League

Sustaining a grassroot movement to end animal research: Updates from No New Animal Lab & NYC Animal Defense League

In February 2015 we interviewed No New Animal Lab about their campaign to stop the expansion of the University of Washington’s research lab while pressuring the private construction firm, SKANSKA into terminating their contract with the university. U of W has been a long time animal research facility, using thousands of animals as research tools. Activists, … Continue reading

Failing Grade in Transparency: Queen’s Animal Defence Audits University Animal Testing Practices

Failing Grade in Transparency: Queen’s Animal Defence Audits University Animal Testing Practices

Many of us are aware that research on non-consenting animals takes place behind the closed doors of universities all over the world. Animals are subject to captivity, restraint, and invasive procedures in the name of science, but the explicit details of these experiments are often well-hidden, both physically out of the public’s eye, but also … Continue reading

Pressure, Resistance, Liberation: No New Animal Lab Discusses their Fight in Ending Vivisection.

Pressure, Resistance, Liberation: No New Animal Lab Discusses their Fight in Ending Vivisection.

We discuss how the University of Washington’s research lab currently operates and why the campaign is pressuring the private construction firm, SKANSKA. “If they decide that they’re going to ignore public pressure and concern over animals, and start building the lab, we’re going to be there every step of the way, to try to make … Continue reading