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Berlin 26.08.07 – 7.09.07 W niedziele, 26.sierpnia, rozpoczal sie w Berlinie projekt pkokjowy z udzialem mlodziezy z Niemiec, Polski, Palestyny i Izraela. Jednym z partnerow projektu jest viva-palestyna.pl. Projekt bedzie trwal dwa tygodnie i ma na celu zblizenie do siebie mlodych ofiar konfliktu na Bliskim Wschodzie. W pierwszym tygodniu odbywaja sie warsztaty, podczas ktorych uczestnicy nie tylko opowiadaja o sobie, ale przede wszystkim opracowuja na podstawie europejskiego procesu pojednania wspolne propozycje rozwiazania konfliktu w Ziemi Swietej. Warsztaty prowadzi trzyosobowy team, reprezentuacy trzy religie i kultury: Christian Weber- chrzescijanin, pastor ewangelicki, Jan Samson Altman-Schevitz- zyd z Izraela oraz Mohamed Ibrahim- muzulmanin, przedstawiciel niemiecko-palestynskiej organizacji Karame. Celami warsztatow jest: * Poznanie cierpienia innych ludzi * Poznanie wyobrazen i wizji innych ludzi * Poznanie madrosci religii innych ludzi Podczas warsztatow odbywaja sie tez dyskusje zarowno na tematy polityczne jak i czysto ludzkie. Kazdy z uczestnikow przywiozl ze soba zdjecia rodzinne, dzieki ktorym zaprezentuje pozostalym osobom uczestniczacym w spotkaniu historie swej rodziny, a takze opowie w jaki sposob kontlikt miedzy Palestyna i Izraelem wplynal na losy jego bliskich. W drugim tygodniu mlodziez bedzie podzielona na mniejsze grupy i odwiedzi rozne szkoly w Berline, gdzie opowie o swym zyciu, religii i oczywiscie zaprezentuje rezultaty warsztatow. Nasza delegacja pokojowa bedzie goscila w wielu waznych instytucjach w Berlinie, jak np. Bundestag, Ambasada Izraela, a takze spotka sie z takimi osobistosciami jak prof Rita Süssmuth, byla przewodniczaca Bundestagu; Stefan Reiche,posel SPD; Bashy Quraishy, przewodniczacy European Network Against Racism; Grapham Morris, przedstawiciel Centrum Simona Wiesenthala. Mamy nadzieje, ze spotkanie to doprowadzi do przezwyciezenia wszelkich form dyskryminacji w konflikcie palestynsko- izraelskim. Bardzo sie cieszymy, ze udalo nam sie zgromadzic na neutralnym gruncie i zaprosic do dialogu mlodziez bezposrednio dotknieta konfliktem. Wiecej informacji o projekcie znajdziecie na stronie internetowej projektu: http://www.peace-for-today.org

Wyślij nawet krótki list przeciw torturowaniu i mordowaniu zwierząt w imię pseudo-nauki!! Twój mały krok, to wielki krok dla godności zwierząt! "Wiwisekcja - to eksperymentowanie na żywych organizmach. Doświadczeniom wiwisekcyjnym rok rocznie poświęca się miliony zwierząt. W samych Stanach Zjednoczonych ich liczbę szacuje się w granicach między 17 a 70 milionami (1). Zakres jak widac ogromny - pytanie brzmi z kąd tak duży margines? Otóż w USA prawo The Animal Welfare Act wymaga od laboratoriów raportów co do ilości zwierząt, na którcyh przeprowadza się eksperymenty. Jednakże to samo prawo nie uwzględnia myszy, szczurów, ani też ptaków, a te właśnie gatunki wykorzystuje się w znaczącej częsci doświadczeń. Ponieważ The Animal Welfare Act zwierząt tych we wspomnianym wymogu nie uwzględnia, laboratoria nie muszą meldować o wykorzystywaniu ich do wiwisekcji, w skutek czego można jedynie domniemywać dokładnej liczby zwierząt składanych na ołtarzu nauki. Oprócz myszy i szczurow, do doświadczeń używa się również kolosalnych wręcz ilości chomików, świnek morskich, małp, żab, królików. Do eksperymentów wykorzystuje się również psy i koty. Niektóre ze zwierząt pochodzą z hodowli, inne do laboratoriów dostały się schwytane w pułapkę." cytat z Watahy Niżej wszystkie wymienione w opisach maile 'naukowcow' przeprowadzajacych eksperymenty na zwierzetach. napisz nawet krotki list do wszystkich (moze byc na raz)!!!! pleake@ohns.ucsf.edu, rsnyder@ohns.ucsf.edu, stryker@phy.ucsf.edu, ken@neurotheory.columbia.edu, starrp@neurosurg.ucsf.edu, hjr@phy.ucsf.edu, HortonJ@vision.ucsf.edu, chris@phy.ucsf.edu, sgl@phy.ucsf.edu, michael.dae@radiology.ucsf.edu, olgin@medicine.ucsf.edu np. Temat: STOP VIVISECTION! najlepiej w tresci napisac jakies swoje dane, chocby imie, miasto, kraj UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA S.F VIVISECTION! PLEASE TAKE ACTION Write, call, let your voice be heard about these disgusting and cruel experiments falsely labeled "science" at UCSF. DOG EXPERIMENTS: Dr. Jeffrey E. Olgin's latest projects would abuse 750 dogs in a three-year period. (The NIH has funded his dog experiments since 1992.) 1st Dog Experiment by Jeffrey Olgin: Title: Remodeling in Atrial Fibrillation Claimed Purpose: “To study the stages of congestive heart failure." Procedures: 150 dogs would be surgically implanted with one pacemaker. Another 150 dogs would be implanted with two pacemakers. Yet another 150 dogs would be subjected to “mitral valve avulsion," a surgical procedure that tears a portion of the mitral valve of the dog's heart in order to cause “mitral regurgitation," or the blood to flow backwards. Another 100 dogs will be used as controls. The 450 dogs who undergo surgery are expected to survive 4 weeks to 6 months. However, “the only animals that would survive for up to 6 months are the RAP (rapid atrial pacing) dogs, and this is very rare." The dogs “will be monitored weekly, and daily if problems arise." Problems may be “infection in pacemaker pocket, signs of heart failure (i.e., ascites, lethargy), appearance of continued pain such as crying, flinching from touch, limping or in any way favoring incision area, or weight loss." Some dogs will be given “experimental drugs"; i.e., Ace inhibitor, PAI-1 inhibitor, TFG-B antagonist, and Pirfenidone. Thirty percent of the surgically impaired dogs are expected to die before the project ends. All 550 dogs, if they survive,SS Swill eventually undergo a terminal 8-hour-long electrophysiological study. While the dogs are under general anesthesia, their chests are cut open. “To support the heart, a pericardial cradle is made by suturing each corner of the cut pericardium to the skin. Recordings of the heart's internal blood pressure, EKG, PQRST intervals, and heart rates are taken for later analysis. Finally, the dogs will be euthanized and their hearts removed for optical mapping, cellular electrophysiology and histology analysis." 2nd Dog Experiment by Jeffrey Olgin: Title: Effects of Congestive Heart Failure on Electrophysiology and Remodeling Claimed Purpose: “To understand the mechanism by which heart failure causes atrial fibrillation [arrhythmia]." Procedures: Experimenters plan to implant pacemakers in 160 dogs. 40 dogs will be used as controls. Three to five days after surgery, the pacemakers will be programmed to rapidly pace at 200 to 250 beats per minute for 2-6 weeks and/or until the dogs show symptoms of heart failure. There is the potential for severe pain as "adverse effects" include "abdominal bloating from heart failure, pulmonary edema and coughing" and infection from the implantation of the pacemakers. The dogs will receive analgesics “on an as needed basis." Pain will be assessed by “whether the dog flinches when touched, cries out when touched or in any way favors the incision [from the surgery], or fails to eat and drink." It is planned for the dogs to live from 2-7 weeks after surgery. Five percent of dogs are expected to die due to heart failure during the course of the experiment. The dogs will undergo weekly EKG's “to assess the degree of heart failure and/or mitral regurgitation." All dogs, including those in the control group, will be euthanized in the end and their hearts cut out for “optical mapping, cellular electrophysiology and histology analysis" or autoradiography. Jeffrey E. Olgin 370 Madrone Ave. Larkspur, CA 94939 415-945-7848 Campus Info: Professor Jeffrey Olgin Box 1354 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA. 94143 E-mail: olgin@medicine.ucsf.edu Campus phone: 415-476-5706 Fax: 415-476-6260 Michael W. Dae's experiments Title: Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiac Adrenergic Function. Purpose: “To show that myocardial ischemia, infarction, or congetive heart failure lead to partial denervation of the heart (and) that increases in activity to the nerves of the heart from the central nervous system are delivered unevenly to the partially denervated myocardium." Procedures: German shepherd/mongrel puppies, one to three days old, undergo surgical removal of the right or left stellate ganglion (a mass of nerve cells located in the region between the neck and upper chest). Two weeks later, the puppies undergo general anesthesia to have their hearts cut out and "processed for autoradiography and in vitro studies." Other puppies will be injected with drugs to cause their nerves to malfunction. The puppies used as controls will also be killed and have their hearts taken out. Aside from the 64 German shepherd/mongrel pups, 64 pigs, 218 rabbits, 75 mice and 80 rats meet similar fates in related experiments. Michael W. Dae 1714 Notre Dame Ave. Belmont, CA 94002 (650) 595-8736 Campus Info: Professor Michael Dae Box 0946 , 185 Berry Sreet, Suite 350dg 365 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA. 94143 Email: michael.dae@radiology.ucsf.edu Campus Phone: 415-353-9473 Fax: 415-353-9421 Monkey Experiments conducted by Stephen G. Lisberger Claimed Purpose: To "discover the mechanisms of basic brain functions such as learning, memory, and the generation of motor activity" of the eye. Procedures: The monkeys have metal plates bolted onto their skulls; steel recording cylinders are drilled into their skulls and cemented into place. Their eyes are cut open with scalpels and metal coils are placed inside. Eyeglasses are bolted onto their faces to distort their vision for up to three months at a time. The monkeys are deprived of water in order to keep them thirsty and motivate them to “work” for a juice reward. The monkeys are strapped into restraint chairs and are forced to move their eyes in a certain pattern for a juice reward. These experiments last up to 8 hours a day. Experimenters drive electrodes deep into the brain to record brain activity in response to eye movements. Stephen G. Lisberger 848 Clayton St. San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 661-2071 Campus Info: Professor Steve Lisberger Box 0444 , Central Campus, HSE-812 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA. 94143 Email: sgl@phy.ucsf.edu Campus Phone: 415-476-1062 Campus Phone 2: 415-476-5123 Fax: 415-502-4848 Experiments by Christoph E. Schreiner Funding: Two Federal NIH Grants: $289,638 per year (since 1994) + $386,593 per year (since 1972) Schreiner has taken over this grant from former Michael Merzenech. Claiming to study learning disabilities, schizophrenia, depression, repetitive strain injury, stroke injury, etc., his team restrains the monkeys around the neck and waste in a chair that prevents their hands from reaching their heads. The monkeys are restrained up to five hours each day, five days per week. The monkeys undergo several surgeries to implant electrodes to record brain activity. Fluid and food restriction/reward is used to make them perform repetitive tasks beyond the point of injury. His team also puts microphone-headphones on the monkeys to see how they would react to a distorted play-back of their own vocalizations. Christoph E. Schreiner 1507 Perez Dr. Pacifica, CA 94044 650-355-9439 Campus Info: Professor Christoph Schreiner Box 0732 , Core Campus, HSE 824 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA. 94143 Email: chris@phy.ucsf.edu Campus phone: 415-476-2591 Fax: 415-476-1941 Experiments by Jonathan C Horton Claiming to study lazy eye and imbalance of eye muscles, he sutures one eyelid of each baby animal shut. He severs their eye muscles. He then paralyzes and restrains the infant monkeys and cats in brain-mapping experiments that last 24 hours a day for up to five days non-stop. Jonathan C Horton 2230 Sheraton Pl San Mateo, CA 94402 (650) 573-8855 Campus Info: Professor Jonathan Horton Box 0644 , 8 Koret Way 516 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA. 94143 Email: HortonJ@vision.ucsf.edu Campus Phone: 415-476-7176 Fax: 415-476-8309 Experiments by Henry J. Ralston III Title: Morphophysiology of Thalamic Nociceptive (Pain-sensing) Neurons Claimed Purpose: To "study the somatosensory thalamus of the monkey and how thalamic neural circuitry is changed following partial deafferentation, such as occurs with spinal cord injury." Procedures: Experimenters "study" pain by surgically damaging parts of the monkeys' spinal cord to see what happens to their brains as a result. History: On March 13, 2003, a USDA inspection report cited UCSF for Ralston’s failure to provide pain relief to a monkey who had his skull cut open. USDA also cited UCSF for Ralston’s failure to gain proper approval for a procedure in which he drilled four holes into a monkey‚s skull to gain access to his or her brain. Henry J. Ralston 136 Lunado Way San Francisco, CA 94127 Campus Info: Professor Henry Ralston Box 0452 , 513 Parnassus Ave, Med Sci 1334 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA. 94143 Email: hjr@phy.ucsf.edu Campus Phone: 415-476-1861 Campus Phone 2: 415-476-4400 Fax: 415-476-4845 Experiments conducted by Philip A. Starr Title: Basal Ganglia Physiology Claimed Purpose: "To determine the roles of the basal ganglia in the development of dystonia, a condition in which muscles are overactive, producing abnormal postures and/or twisting, writhing movements." Procedures: The monkeys are made to develop hand dystonia by a repetitive motion task. They are forced from the cage to the restraint chair using two capture poles. Two recording chambers and three head fixation bolts are surgically screwed to the skull. Wires are inserted to wind under the skin from the head to the muscles of the left and right arm. Recording sessions last up to 4 hours every weekday for 18 months. The monkeys are forced to repetitively open and close their hands to receive a semi-solid food reward through a tube by squeezing a computer-controlled hand grip. They will also be timed on a fruit-picking task. After 12-25 weeks of this, with 200-400 trials per day, the monkeys will develop hand dystonia characterized by posturing of the hand, and reduced ability to perform motor tasks. The experimenters then surgically destroy a part of the monkeys' brains (their basal ganglia) to see if the monkeys would improve. Philip A. Starr Possibly 40 or 49 Alma St. (needs confirmation!!) San Francisco, CA 94117 Campus Info: Professor Philip Starr Box 0112 , 505 Parnassus Ave, Moffitt 779 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA. 94143 Private Practice Address: Philip A. Starr, MD 400 Parnassus Ave., 8th Floor San Francisco, CA. 94143- 0350 Email: starrp@neurosurg.ucsf.edu Private Practice Phone: 415-353-7500 Campus phone: 415-353-3489 Fax: 415-353-3459 Cat experiments conducted by Kenneth D. Miller Title: Studies of Cortical and Lateral Geniculate Response Properties and Circuitry Using Simultaneous Many-Cellular Recording. Purpose: “To understand the functional organization of the visual cortex and more generally of the cerebral cortex…Simultaneous observation of multiple cells allows inference of intracellular relationships and circuitry not possible through observations of single cells.” Procedures: The cats are anesthetized, placed in a restraining device and hung by the lower spine with a wire. Muscles around the lower spine are cut away where the wire enters the body. This is to minimize breathing movements while recording brain activity. The scalp is cut open, an opening made on the skull and recording devices inserted. Then the cat is paralyzed with a neuromuscular blocking drug, which makes it essentially impossible to determine whether the cat is in pain or not. Furthermore, the lower the anesthetics used, the better the brain electrical recordings will be. To ensure absolutely no eye movement, the eyeballs are glued to metal pads that are attached to posts. For the glue to work, the outermost layer of the eyeball is removed. The cat’s brain is further cut open to expose the “visual cortex and subcortical structures (including lateral geniculate nucleus, superior colliculus, and optic nerves, tracts, and radiations)” into which electrodes would be inserted. Kenneth D. Miller 2153 Hayes St. San Francisco, CA 94117 415-751-6131 Campus Info: Professor Ken Miller Box 0444 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA. 94143 Emai: ken@neurotheory.columbia.edu Experiments conducted by Michael P. Stryker Title 1: The Role of Sleep in Developmental Plasticity Title 2: Development and Plasticity of the Visual System (Stryker has been torturing kittens, ferrets and other animals since 1977. No useful information has ever been obtained from his work that would help humans by depriving animals of sight and sleep, then cutting their brains open to look at so-called “re-wiring." The experimenters were only able to brag of one conclusion from their work: sleep and sight deprivation affects brain development – which anyone with common sense should already know.) Michael P. Stryker 3 Pine Ct. Kentfield, CA 415-488-5299 Campus Info: Professor Michael Stryker Box 0444 , 513 Parnassus Ave. HSE 802 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA. 94143 Email: stryker@phy.ucsf.edu Campus phone: 415-476-5443 Fax: 415-502-4848 Experiments conducted by Russell L. Snyder Title: Plasticity in the Auditory Nervous System Purpose: To “examine physiological and anatomical consequences” of destroying parts of the cats’ spiral ganglion (hearing nerves). Procedures: In a nutshell, the cats’ (and guinea pigs’) heads are cut open and their brains mapped invasively by removing parts of the brain and by destroying nerves. All subjects are eventually euthanized. Russell L. Snyder 4125 Sequoia DR. Oakley, CA 94561 (925) 625-0668 Campus Info: Professor Russell Snyder Box 0526 , 533 Parnassus Ave, UC Hall U490j University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA. 94143 Email: rsnyder@ohns.ucsf.edu Campus phone: 415-514-3848 Fax: 415-476-2169 Experiments conducted by Patricia A. Leake Title: Development and Connections of the Cochlear Spiral Ganglion. Purpose: To “improve our understanding of…normal development of the auditory system and will help to define the critical and sensitive periods of postnatal maturation in mammals." Procedures: Kittens removed via Caesarian sections from their mothers at 58 days of gestation are injected with tracers immediately or 1-3 days later. Kittens removed via C-sections at 60 days of gestation have part of their hearing nerves destroyed using laser or micropipette, and then are killed at 12 weeks in terminal procedures described below. The mothers will be “retired" as breeders and/or used in subsequent terminal experiments. One-day to one-month-old kittens are deafened by 16-25 daily injections of the antibiotic neomycin sulfate. The deafened kittens will be studied at various ages up to 12 months to “evaluate the effect on the central projections of the auditory nerve." They will undergo terminal surgery when both ears will be cut open and tracers injected into the inner ears. They are maintained under “light anesthesia” with sodium pentobarbital for another 4-10 hours to allow the tracer to work through the nerves. After another round of injections into the inner ears, they are euthanized. Another group of deafened kittens, 6-7 weeks old, will receive a cochlear prosthetic device implant for later chronic electrical stimulation. To prevent the kittens from scratching and damaging their implants, their hind feet are declawed. Chronic electrical stimulation is administered 4 hours per day, 5 days per week for 12-45 weeks. They will then undergo terminal surgery. The outer part of their brains will be suctioned away to expose the inside. Electrical responses to stimulation are then recorded within the brain continuously for a period of 2-3 days, with a team of experimenters working in shifts around the clock. Finally, a tracer is injected and they are euthanized Patricia A. Leake 124 Wilshire Ave. Daly City, Ca 94015 650-992-4410 Campus Info: Professor Patricia Leake Box 0526 , 533 Parnassus Ave, UC Hall 490 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA. 94143 Email: pleake@ohns.ucsf.edu Campus Phone: 415-476-5958 Campus Phone 2: 415-476-2511 Fax: 415-476-2169 pl.autor: reactionmx