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  • December 21, 2011

    The Institute of Medicine just released a report concluding that chimpanzee experiments are NOT necessary to advance human health. And now, the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act has more than 160 co-sponsors! But it needs more! Click here to see if your members of Congress have signed on. ... See More

    • Christiane Mattos Silva
    • Ann L Wilson
    • Alana Wigelsworth
    • Pam Arnold Peplow
    • Cosima Rizzo Hopper
    • Judy Digeorge
    • Piluca Rodríguez
    • Penelopa Tufis
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  • July 20, 2011

    Project Nim, one of the best-reviewed documentaries of 2011, charts the life of Nim, a chimpanzee who was raised like a human in a language experiment in the 70s. If you live near DC, we hope you'll come see the movie this Friday and hear our panel discussion. Nim's friend Bob Ingersoll who is feature... See More

    • Carrie Johnson Koon
    • Mary Pendergast
    • Lysiane Servais
    • Toni Malin-Vale
    • Sergio Quitadamo
    • Kaitlyn Maryann
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  • July 1, 2011

    Here's an opportunity to get free tickets to see Project Nim in 10 cities. It's a documentary about a chimpanzee named Nim who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that a chimpanzee could learn to communicate with language if raised like a human child. http://ussc... See More

    • María Metos
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  • March 7, 2011

    Last summer the National Institutes of Health shipped 14 chimpanzees to a controversial lab in Texas. They will be used in cruel, invasive experiments. These chimpanzees should not have been moved pending a national review of the use of chimpanzees in experimentation. Please urge NIH to return them to... See More

    • Bettye Zoller
    • Judy Spaulding
    • Darien Peters Stefani
    • Cheryl Braxton
    • María Metos
    • Jacquie Lamont
    • Kelly Hawtrey
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  • February 14, 2011

    With your help, we continue to fight to end chimpanzee experiments. The National Institutes of Health halted the transfer of 186 chimpanzees from Alamogordo, N.M., to a Texas facility where they would be used in invasive experiments. But 14 of their companions were already moved. Please ask Francis... See More

    • Mohammad Arsalan Khan
    • Pat Baker
    • Rita Stevenson
    • Vincent Homolka
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