UCLA has been pushing their pro-vivisection message for years, but last week they unveiled their new billboards around town as well as taking out an ad in the LA Times. UCLA’s Bruins For Animals is fighting back and holding 2 forums to address the claims in their latest campaign. This Wednesday, October 21st, PETA animal-experimentation specialist Dr. Alka Chandna will be speaking at Ackerman’s 2nd Floor Lounge and will address students at a UCLA forum aimed at exposing cruelty inside the school’s animal laboratories. Next Wednesday, October 28th, President and Co-Founder of Americans for Medical Advancement Dr. Rey Greek will be speaking at Humanities A51. He will be discussing the need for alternatives in animal testing on a purely scientific basis. Both events start at 7:00 PM. You can find out more on the Bruins For Animals events calendar here.

There have been a couple of mentions of the latest attacks on UCLA vivisectors by the ALF in The LA Times this past week. UCLA researcher Goran Lacan has been singled out by the ALF because of his horrific procedure of implanting invasive electrodes into monkey’s brains. They placed an incendiary device beneath an automobile belonging to him as well as a second vehicle. The interesting take on the story is UCLA is saying the ALF accidentally targeted the wrong address trying to make them sound like uninformed and idiotic. The Animal Liberation Press Office is obviously disputing the claim and point out that the same UCLA press release is also trying to portray Lacan as a “former” primate vivisector even though he has had papers published this year detailing his research. You can read the LA Times articles here and here as well as the Animal Liberation Press Office rebuttal which I have pasted below.

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This is a little last notice, but from 12:15 to 1:15 today, Shannon Keith and Peter Young will be giving a presentation on “Animal Liberation and the Law.” You can find all the details below.

When: Tuesday, November 18, 2008. 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.

Where: UCLA School of Law, Room 1347.

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