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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
12:26 am	Send emails to stop primate testing There are 2 professors at UMAss Amherst testing on Rhesus monkeys. We are trying to get folks to send them polite emails to get them to stop. For more information check out www.myspace.com/endtestingnow or www.endtestingnow.blogspot.com We wrote up some sample emails if you want to take just a little time to help our campaign.... ( Read more... ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
1:35 am	Number of animals tested on at UMass Amherst (2005) Sorry- here is the full list of animals tortured at UMass Amherst in 2005 Here are the numbers on the animals being tested on in UMass Amherst Labs. Right now the most up to date we have is 2005, but the rest is coming. If you would like to see this information in its original format, which includes more information about the types of experiments being done on the animals, check out this URL: http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/ma/res-fr-ma-uma-aphis-2005-1.html USDA - APHIS Report - 2005 Dogs - 0 Cats- 0 Guinea Pigs- 4 Hamsters - 506 Rabbits- 18 Non-Human Primates- 13 Sheep- 54 Pigs- 36 Cow- 27 Opossum- 3 Leopard- 2 Porcupine- 1 Star Nose Mole- 4 Horse- 3 Goat- 40 Mongolian Gazelle- 4 Wolf- 4 Lemur- 145 Masked Shrew- 144 Chipmunk-18 Redback Vole- 44 Deer Mouse- 183 Meadow Vole- 44 Short Tail Shrew- 381 Beaver- 31 Skunk- 33 Raccoon- 5 Bat- 20 Siberian Hamster- 84 Prairie Vole - 578 Gerbil- 53 Swamp Sparrow- 38 The 13 non-human primates being tested on at UMass AMherst in 2005 are reported as falling into category C of experimenting according to the USDA, because the experiments, teaching, research, surgery or tests were conducted involving accompanying pain or distress to the animals and for which appropriate anesthetic, anagesic, or tranquilizing drugs were used. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
3:38 pm	Stop Primate Testing at UMass Amherst Here is some info about primate experimentation at UMass Amherst and what is being done to stop it! Taken from the website- www.endtestingnow.blogspot.com URGENT: UMass Amherst Supports Primate Experimentation UMass Amherst supports primate torture. We are a group of concerned citizens working to end the primate experimentationat UMass Amherst who are looking for your help with our campaign. Why End Primate Testing at UMass Amherst? Ethically: Primates are biologically very close to humans, which makes them supposedly valuable for research. However this also means primates are able to suffer and feel pain just as humans do. It is immoral to inflict such pain and suffering on these sentient animals. Economically/Practicality: Hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not more), valuable time, and resources that could otherwise be spent bettering our communities and schools are wasted every year on primate testing at UMass Amherst alone. Scientifically: Animal-modeled biomedical research yields results that cannot be safely applied to humans. It diverts research funding that should instead be going to proven methods of curing human disease. Legally: There is potentential that the way animals at UMass Amherst facilities have been treated violates the Animal Welfare Act. This is where we can use your help. If you or someone you know has observed the mistreatment of primates at UMASS Amherst labs, please share this knowledge with us. Any information or evidence you have could be crucial to ending the torture. Call our anonymous hotline at (413)548-5803 or email us at EndTestingNow@gmail.com to report instances of animal abuse at UMass Amherst or to get involved. Information to Include in Report: * Complainant’s name (optional) * The nature of the concern(s) * Description of the event or charge (including dates of observation) of the alleged violation(s) * Copies of any written, photographic, or taped documentation to substantiate the complaint * Names of other contacts who may corroborate the complainant’s concerns If you are wondering if something you have seen being done to an animal is animal abuse, check to see if it is something on this list, or very similar to something on this list. If the incident you are talking about happened at UMASS Amherst call the number below: Call our anonymous hotline at (413)548-5803 or email us at EndTestingNow@gmail.com to report instances of animal abuse at UMass Amherst or to get involved If you have seen animal abuse in some other circumstance please call your local animal control officer, or shelter. Also, PETA has a phone number and email address that you can report abuses to animals in labs. Their hotline number is 757 962 8383 and email is whistleblower@peta.org What is Animal Abuse? Animal Abuse can include any of the following possible violations: * People hitting, screaming at, or otherwise abusing animals * Animals who are sick, emaciated, bloody or otherwise obviously ill and injured and not receiving veterinary care * Animals showing signs of cage stress — such as self-mutilation — caused by deprivation * Animals caged in a manner that causes them to become aggressiveand attack one another * Animals confined to filthy or dangerous cages (broken wires, etc.) * Animals given insufficient pain relief during painful procedures or insufficient post-trauma or post-surgery pain relief * Animals denied sufficient food or water * Animals killed in painful ways (e.g. mice having their heads cut off with scissors, live animals being placed in freezers) * Primates given insufficiently varied diets or kept in barren cages * Animals marked for identification in cruel was (e.g. by amputation of toes) Here is a little bit of information about some of the primate tests going on at UMass Amherst and the people behind them… One example is the work of Professor Melinda Novak (UMass Amherst Psychology Department Chair) who is currently well into a 14 year research project investigating Self-Injurious Behavior (SIB) in primates. To do so, she is exposing primates to stressful environments which result in primates committing acts of self mutilation though biting and other such activity. Ask Melinda Novak to end her 14 year primate experiment early! As of this year, the grant for her SIB research passed $4.5 million. Think of what this $4.5 million could have otherwise been spent on! What has her research produced to date? We now know that primates who have been subjected to conditions that would never occur in nature and which we would not allow to be applied to prisoners because of the level of cruelty it invokes. This research does not make us more knowledgeable; it makes us more savage. (http://euryale.sbs.umass.edu/PsychWeb/People/MiniWebPages/novak.html). Jerrold Meyer, another UMass researcher is not only collaborating with Melinda Novak on researching Self-Injurious Behavior in primates, but he is working with Researcher Craig Ferris (UMass Medical School,Worcester) on a similarly unproductive study. Their project includes exposing primates to long term chronic use of MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy. If the objective of the research were to determine whether it is safe for Primates to drop ecstasy when they are clubbing, the research might easier for these scientists to justify. We already know that ecstasy and related drugs are harmful to humans and the research is not necessary to our further understanding of this socio-scientific issue. Accordingly, I demand that Jerrold Meyer sever his ties to the cruel and unnecessary experiments he is currently undertaking. Each year, Jerrold Meyer and his colleagues receive over $554,000 for their research on addicting primates to ecstasy. (http://euryale.sbs.umass.edu/PsychWeb/People/MiniWebPages/meyer.html). (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
11:22 am	Cuddle Puddles and Hot Pants # 2 For 3 dollars you can get yourself a brand spanking new copy of issue # 2 of Cuddle Puddles and Hot Pants, the anarchist zine. Included- Civil Rights history of Richmond Virginia, Coal issues and my friend cornbread's stories about coal and Kentucky , how I feel about elections and some sweet banner drops, recipes for vegan goodies, smash the state crush the cage conference recount, how to release your own album, on working out, on straight edge in the anarchist scene, on body odor, on freeegan, glue traps story.... Just a whole bunch of stuff and some neato pictures my friends drew. So yea, all money goes to Richmond, Virginia Food Not Bombs. If you mail me 3 dollars I'll mail you back a copy. Email goes to: approachingapocalypse@riseup.net Snail Mail goes to: Approaching Apocalypse Box 864 Hampshire College 893 West St. Amherst, MA 01002 Check out my zine distro at www.approachingapocalypse.wordpress.com (Comment on this)
Friday, October 12th, 2007
6:05 pm	Cuddle Puddles and Hot Pants # 1 I just got copies of my first zine back from the copiers- 32 pages with photos, drawings,civil rights RIchmond history, stories, music reviews,straight edge, recipes, medical advice, London trip journal, songs, and stuff about the zine distro I am opening. I'm selling it for 2 bucks by mail, 3 bucks if I have to 50/50 with a distro. All proceeds go to RIchmond Food Not Bombs. So if you want a copy, for now send 2 bucks to: Mo Karn Approaching Apocalypse Box 864 Hampshire College 893 West St. Amherst, MA 01002 You can look at a picture of the cover on my distro's myspace www.myspace.com/approachingapocalypse (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
8:32 pm	Div 3 and other goings ons So i forgot my livejournal password and was too lazy to change it for a while and didn't post. I passed Div 2 and had my Div 3 contract signed. I'm studying contemporary radical activism in RIchmond, Virginia, which means I'm studying a lot about Food Not Bombs, which is cool I might be a little in over my head, but mostly cause I've been hanging out too much lately. Get on the ball, self I finally got promoted to Super-B on the EMT squad and I'm super pysched and I signed up for an online EMT refresher course and an 8 hour con-ed so I can stay certified. My mod is really nice, my garbage house friends are good cuddle buddies, but I wish cuddling were more frequent in my life. I miss Micah I miss Richmond I love the band the Riot Before, probably because a) they are from Richmond and talk to me about it and have played at Hampshire 2 times this semester, reminding me of home and b) the bassist is wicked cute (but has a gf , alas) I'm skipping family xmas and spending Dec 18- Jan 7 in New Orleans, hopefully at Wiley's house even tho she won't be there. I'm hopin Tim and Janick and Johno will be my buddy pals I should do my homework now, but will probably watch the online version of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice and drink chocolate-bannana soy milk (my new fav) I woke up with a fever of 100.3 yesterday but through water and will power was rid of it by late last night, so I could hang out with the bands I finally relocated the Hampshire Zine Collective out of a filing cabinet and into a good display I get jealous but I try not to. I'll try harder. I'm helping organize an animal liberation conference on campus, and it is trickkkky. I'm really busy despite only taking 2 courses. I'm might hop a train this week to go to Boston to see Defiance Ohio and then also see them in Brattelboro. Depends on how irresponsible I am feeling. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
10:24 pm	Approaching Apocalypse Zine DIstro I'm just starting a zine distro called Apporaching Apocalypse, so if you like what it is all about please submit your zines to me so I can help you sell them!!! Mo Mo’s Zine Distro Approaching Apocalypse Distro The Approaching Apocalypse Distro is an independent zine distributor working out of Amherst, Massachusetts and Richmond, Virginia. We publish and distribute DIY zines and other products (patches, buttons, etc.) that inspire and inform. The purpose of this project is to help disseminate ‘propaganda’, connect people around the world, and make the zine community more accessible to people everywhere. Information, art, music, ideas and stories were meant to be shared and the Approaching Apocalypse Distro will do what it can to share them by selling most items at reasonable prices or at cost (or less). The name Approaching Apocalypse is not reflective of a gloom and doom attitude about a fiasco of biblical proportions, but rather of an understanding that the world is a mess, and will likely only get messier (hopefully not actually end-of-the-world type messy). Reading and learning and writing and creating and loving are all ways that we can ‘prepare’ for what is to come. Approaching Apocalypse is also about living out our beliefs as anarchists- finding ways to be a positive influence and remain true to our anarchist ideals. We can not (and don’t want to) count on the government, corporations or any other organization to take care of us. It is up to all of us to find ways to contribute to our communities. Autonomy and community will be the keys to making the world better, not worse. As Rising Tide North America puts it when discussing climate change and the mess the world is in, “Practical solutions exist; it’s time we start using them and making them more widely accessible. We must dismantle the systems of oppression that permeate our culture and ourselves, and work toward real solidarity across lines of race, class, gender and sexual orientation. When we begin to build a culture of mutual aid and community autonomy, we demonstrate that we don’t need the government, and certainly not giant corporations, to survive. We just need a livable planet.”. (www.risingtidenorthamerica.org). Lofty goals to work towards, but that is what makes us idealists. When some of my friends at Hampshire and I had the (completely informal and mostly unrealized) Apocalypse club, or just ran around talking about the apocalypse, it was with an energizing feeling. It helped us gain the momentum needed to make hot pants out of a sweater (etc.). I am pysched about projects and friends and community- and yelling ‘for the apocalypse’ helps get me even more excited. Like how excited I am about a zine distro. The zines published by the Approaching Apocalypse distro have a focus on political and social justice issues (animal liberation, straight edge, vegan, social movements, environmental and sustainability issues, anarchism, etc.) as well as DIY how to subjects, punk, art, travel and personal zines. We welcome any submissions along these lines, and probably most other well-done zines. Contact us if you want to be distributed by Approaching Apocalypse, we are always looking for more titles. Certain books may also be distributed by Approaching Apocalypse, if they seem relevant to the previous mentioned topics. Hopefully a vast array of awesome things, such as t-shirts, patches, buttons, tapes, and CDs will become available as Approaching Apocalypse grows. Vegan snacks are a future attendee of tabling events. Approaching Apocalypse will operate mainly through the postal service, tabling at shows and conferences, and a website in the near future. Contact: Mo Karn Approachingapocalypse@riseup.net Mo Karn Approaching Apocalypse Box 864 Hampshire College 893 West St. Amherst, MA 01002 (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
11:36 pm	Mod 45- like the gun So we just had our first mod meeting, which was awesome and cool. Josh is the random guy who just got placed here, but I really dig on him and he seems enthused too. And Ada finally got here by plane. So it looks good and we are all gonna cook a lot and chill a lot and make a craft corner and can beans saturday and we got 2 CSA shares...yesssss. I'm pleased. I did most everything on my list today except get my room all decorated, but I had some surprise meetings pop up so its lucky I got what I did get done done. I'm happy, but perhaps anxious about missing out on fun. weird, yes? (Comment on this)
9:18 am	OOooo I haven't been on here in AGES!!! No internet in the summer makes life interesting anywho, I just moved back to hampshire, mod 45, my bed is much too large for my room, but my housemates seem fun. I have a LOT OF WORK to do, methinks. We shall see how I handle it...goal is DIV 2 done by the end of this week. Met some cute fun people already, not all of whom go here, but I'm pysched. Summer in RIchmond was good minus the junkie ex boyfriend. I'm gonna start drug testing everyone I meet. I really wanna be a tattoo artist, and hnopefully when I go back to Richmond I can get hooked up with an apprenticeship...I have 3 connections at different shops. My tattoo is infected right now, which sucks..got it worked on on Friday, but Idon't know if I hit it real hard or what, but it is pussy= not good, also heheheI said pussy Goals for today: Report burnt lights to Phys Plant Go work at bookstore Go for a run Get all boxes out of living room Get all kitchen stuff put away Have bookshelf fixed Decorate Room Finish unpacking room (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
12:29 pm	Also, period = chocolate = no sex damn. but in better news period= body functioning normally after stopping birth control and not pregnant= the sex! (Comment on this)
11:47 am	spring This semester is pretty great, hence the lack of angsty livejournal posts. I've been so happy I haven't been doing quite as much school work as I ought to. But lots of good things have been happening. I've been mostly positive. New Orleans fro spring break and an amazing squat and hot kids and awesomeness....free beignets, and 10 dollars cause I looked like a sad puppy. And last night there was bluegrass at the Redbarn that was great. And open relationship with Josh, I can't do monogamy. And I asked a boy to coffee this weekend and he says he doesn't have time which is a little suck, but I dressed up all hot and rednecky for the bluegrass. I just wish it was warm enough for daisy dukes everyday. I've been writing a lot of letters lately to people in Prison and other people. I wish I got more letters back though. I have a lot to do and not so much time to do it in. I need cuddling perhaps. I've been writing stuff at http://anarchymo.wordpress.com or some address similar to that. tis my new blog I can't wait for it to be warm out (Comment on this)
Friday, January 19th, 2007
8:12 pm	SO I am not doing so well on my independent study.... I still have a lot of reading and writing to do, and 1 week to do it in. I spent Tuesday Night through Wednesday night riding trains with Josh, who might just be my new favorite person, no offefnse to any other persons I know...and now I can't settle down to do work. It was cold as fuck, but I smiled a lot...and I don't know how I feel about the future now. I will try to get my ass in gear though...It has been an interesting break/Jan term...not entirely productive but not unproductive either. I am kinda wondering if when I get back I'll discover any of my stuff is missing from the break in at the beginning of January. I did secure a job this summer as a counselour at a Rock Climbing camp..so that should be awesome. I miss my mod and Hampshire. but I don't know how much I am gonna enjoy the spring...cause I might just wish I was traveling around. We shall seeeeee. But I also got the ball rolling on becoming a piercer...that could be good...I need one more catalog to come so I can get all the supplies I need to start gathering a portfolio. Oh yea, in case I didn't mention- the diner where I usually work got shut down...so I did not really make any money this break..mostly made enough to not go too far in debt. Which sucks HARRRD. I miss the diner. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
12:05 am	will it all turn out badly just because i am currently more interested in a committed relationship than sihf is? or might it work out in the long run. I have a reasonable plan for all of this, and I am actually ok with it...I can handle waiting, and I believe that if it is meant to be it will happen despite a few setbacks, and regardless I want sihf as a friend but right now I need a warm body, reassurance that someone gives a shit (2 Comments |Comment on this)
12:01 am	I really reall want to be held, but not in the friendly way, and not in the someone is interested inme but I'm not in them way either. i want someone I like who gives a shit to cuddle with me. I want to be with Sihf, but I don't think it makes sense to wait for him to want me?? and i need something now, I can't concentrate on my homework (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
6:48 pm	AHHH So everything was going well until Sihf basically broke up with me over email today. shitty. And his message was confusing so I'm not sure if he wants to just slow down or like take things back a step and start over or if he honestly wants to be friends or if he doesnt want to see me again. I just really want someone, and apparently now I cant have someone. and the one time when I want commitment, have been monogamous, and haven't wanted out of the relationship cause I thought the other person was annoying, it blows up in my face. from now on i break hearts but i dont even feel like being with anyone else right now but sihf hopefully he and i can work this out. but he says he does not want to be committed with a long term relationship. and i do. but noone does with me shitty shitty homework also is eating my face but now my face is sad i need to cuddle, but onyl with sihf i'm gonna punch him when i see him, then make him hug me (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
12:01 am	AAAAAAAAH today was lame nobody understood my presentation in Hawaii class, shalin took back his TV but didn't give us the money he owes us. why is everyone fucking racist against white people and why is that ok...its fucking dumb. you are all fucking dumb i have such a headache just from the stupidity of otehrs. NO ONE LISTENS. I AM SO FREAKING ANNOYED. And my teacher in one class still hasn't returned the first paper of the semesters and the final paper is due next week???? I think the fuck not! i'm going to bed but I bet I just get an EMT call at frikkin 4 in the morning to brighten my day. I want snow and I want my boyfriend and I want this semester to be over so I can leave the land of the fakey idiot liberal. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 18th, 2006
1:17 am	i just went and played guitar hero 2 with blackheart and cabot and it was soooo much fun....finally a videogame I enjoy. I hope I get to play it more, and spend more time with that gang..I'd really like to live with them next year. only a little bit of work to do before going home. and I decided to go see reel big fish and streetlight manifesto on Monday night...no one else seems to be going but I think it will be fun, I never get to shows (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
2:46 pm	I am really stresed out and grumpy. I was going to skip a class today for this protest and then the people told me the wrong time for the protest and it is during a class i can't skip and i wasted a ton of time planning for it and it is really disappointing not to do it. and i feel all depressed and shit worried about my work and the rain isnt helping and it sucks and work at the school store today sucked for some reason i just want to hit people. just need to get work done so i can go home and see sihf...worried about getting it done by then shit shit shit (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, November 3rd, 2006
4:32 pm	EEEEE I am sooo happy. Today I called SIHF and we talked for a while, but then he had to go do stuff at the tattoo shop. And I also talked to Germ cause he was there. And he'll give me more tattoos soon. And SIHF and I were soooo excited that we get to see eachother in just 3 weeks! I reallly like him and hope this works out. And I just saw Joel and it was awesome and we are gonna go get coffee tommorrow and catch up, cause even tho we aren't dating I miss being his friend more. SO wahoooooo friends!!! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
12:07 pm	New Year! Happy Samhain everyone! I love this holiday, it makes me take a break from all the work and bother and reflect on the past and the future. Enjoy the day! (1 Comment |Comment on this)