{"article":{"id":261453,"heading":"How An Animal Rights Activist Changed The World In 5 Hours \t","author":"S Shriver","created":"2013-08-28 17:21:06","modified":"2013-08-28 17:25:22","last_modified":"Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:25:22","article":"<p>The following is a description of Henry Spira's <br>  <br> action which in 5 hours changed the world. <br><br>  <br>  <br> Reachable Star Or Change The World In Five Hours <br><br> Henry went to hospital <br>  <br> Twas Bethesda Naval <br>  <br> and took a picture of an ape <br>  <br> in a restraining chair. <br>  <br> And took it to an international <br>  <br> picture wire <br>  <br> called Black Star <br>  <br> which sent it round the world.. <br>  <br> and Gandhi saw and knew <br>  <br> that the treaty had been violated <br>  <br> .. and cancelled monkey export <br>  <br> .. because Henry in 5 hours <br>  <br> .. saw and reached for <br>  <br> .. one bright and reachable... star! <br><br>  <br><br> * <br>  <br> Footnote: <br>  <br> Countless primates have been strapped <br>  <br> into restraining chairs... they sleep, eat, <br>  <br> pass waste in these chairs... their legs <br>  <br> cramp... they go crazy. <br>  <br> (dedicated to Henry Spira of Manhattan.. maritime <br>  <br> worker organizer, public school teacher, <br>  <br> effective animal rights worker whose <br>  <br> teacher Peter Singer, author of Animal <br>  <br> Liberation, wrote a biography of him.) <br><br> Countless primates have been researched <br>  <br> on at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Centers <br>  <br> For Disease Control, National Institutes Of Health, <br>  <br> Harvard, Yale, Cornell, University of Texas, <br>  <br> University of Wisconsin, Oregon schools, <br>  <br> Ohio State, Kent State, Princeton, Emory University, <br>  <br> Oxford, Cambridge and other UK universities <br>  <br> ad infinitum. The Chinese are now breeding <br>  <br> primates for Western research institutes. These <br>  <br> secret torture labs are often underground. <br>  <br> (50,000 underground dogs died at the University <br>  <br> of Texas in a flood.) <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/wwprimates.com\/?gclid=CIG6kPnEirkCFe1AMgodRl4A7Q\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/wwprimates.com\/?gclid=CIG6kPnEirkCFe1AMgodRl4A7Q<\/a> <br><br> Many senators have terrible animal rights <br>  <br> records. Perhaps the 5 worst are <br>  <br> Feinstein, Inhofe, Coburn, Chambliss, <br>  <br> Izakson... who pushed the Animal Enterprise <br>  <br> Terrorism Act which criminalizes the <br>  <br> first amendment. <br><br> It was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi <br>  <br> who cancelled export. <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/buav.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/buav.org<\/a> <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/neavs.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/neavs.org<\/a> <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/aavs.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/aavs.org<\/a> <br><br> Picture sources include <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/all-creatures.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/all-creatures.org<\/a> <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/faunafoundation.blogspot.com\/2010_07_01_archive.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/faunafoundation.blogspot.com\/2010_07_01_archive.html<\/a>\t <br>  <br> See also: <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/saenonline.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/saenonline.org<\/a> <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/stopanimaltests.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/stopanimaltests.com<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/saenonline.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"With only 5 hours of work, Henry Spira convinced\r\nPrime Minister Indira Gandhi to stop sending primates\r\nto the US.","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2013\/08\/emptyallcagesdotcom.jpg","filesize":"79.5 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2013\/08\/261453.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2013\/08\/emptyallcagesdotcom.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2013\/08\/emptyallcagesdotcom.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2013\/08\/emptyallcagesdotcom.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[{"id":261454,"heading":"Victim of National Inst. of Health","article":"","author":"S Shriver","parent_id":261453,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2013-08-28 17:21:06","modified":"2013-08-28 17:21:06","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2013\/08\/monkey-malish-02_smallallcreatures.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2013\/08\/monkey-malish-02_smallallcreatures.jpg"}},{"id":261455,"heading":"Another Victim","article":"","author":"S Shriver","parent_id":261453,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2013-08-28 17:21:06","modified":"2013-08-28 17:21:06","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2013\/08\/monkey-chair-10.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2013\/08\/monkey-chair-10.jpg"}}],"comments":[{"id":261457,"heading":"Senator Feinstein","article":"Senator Dianne Feinstein has greased the way for\r\nlaboratory animal torture profiteering. Besides illegally\r\nusing her Senate post to funnel over 1 billion military contracts to her husband Richard Blum,  she and he, as chairman of the\r\nUniversity of California's Board of Overseers, were instrumental in passing the Animal Enterprise Terrorism\r\nAct which criminalizes the first amendment in regards\r\nto nonviolent animal rights action to publicize laboratory\r\ntorturers.","author":"Observer","parent_id":261453,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2013-08-28 17:25:22","modified":"2013-08-28 17:25:22","fileurl":""}]}