ALF Liberation at the University of Iowa
ALF Liberation At The University Of Iowa – Communique: The Animal Liberation Front is claiming responsibility for the liberation of 401 animals from the University of Iowa in the early hours of November 14th, 2004. All animals on the third floor of the UI psychology department — 88 mice and 313 rats — were removed, examined and treated by a sympathetic veterinarian, and placed in loving homes. Additionally, two animal labs and three vivisector’s offices were entered and all contents relating to animal research were destroyed. These are: 4th Floor – Spence Labs: Vivisector Ed Wasserman’s lab entered. Dozens of computers and devices used in experiments on live pigeons were destroyed. Basement – Spence Labs: Lab of vivisector Mark Blumburg and others entered. Surgical equipment and small animal stereotaxic devices, as well as “shock boxes” and other instruments of torture destroyed. 4th Floor – Seashore Hall Primate researcher Joshua Rodefer’s office entered. Computer discs, hard drives, paperwork and photos showing Rodefer’s work confining drug addicted primates in small glass boxes removed. The remaining paperwork detailing his monstrous work addicting primates and rats to narcotics was soaked in acid and the computer destroyed. 1st Floor – Seashore Hall Primate researcher Amy Poremba’s office entered. Computers destroyed, documents removed, and the remainder soaked in acid. This raid was carried out to halt the barbaric research of the UI Psychology Department’s 7 primary animal researchers: Professors Poremba …
Safe at home Feds, states take steps to prevent home-care crime
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Paul Greenwood, an assistant district attorney in San Diego and a nationally known expert on elder-abuse issues, says those tend to be the most common crimes against home-care patients. “If the suspect is a caregiver … the last thing that suspect …
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million hospital continues legacy of late Sioux City couple
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They created Gordon Chemical Dependency Center, the first alcohol and drug abuse treatment facility for young people in Iowa. Almost 40 years later, the mission is taking a major step forward. Construction is scheduled to start this spring on the …
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Iowa judge and Circle Pines native pens epistles on national meth war
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SIOUX CITY, IOWA – For U.S. District Court Judge Mark Bennett, some of the most qualified people to comment on the War on Drugs are those who do the sentencing. “(Judges) have … “These people need intensive drug treatment,” he said. “Most of the …
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