July 14, 2011
Operation: Agitate to
Liberate 2011
Save the Lovelace Respiratory Research
Institute Lab Animals
Special Note: We know that everyone is busy and that there
are many campaigns competing for your attention. The lives of as many as 300
monkeys and an untold number of beagles are hanging in the balance here.
Please, we beg you, take some time to read about this desperate situation
and take action to save these precious, innocent lives. This is an
opportunity for everyone to agitate to liberate.
A year ago last
June, Win Animal Rights (WAR) launched the first Operation: Agitate to
Liberate and as a result 120 beagles and 55 monkeys were liberated from a
bankrupt lab in New Jersey. With your help we can do it again!
Background:
"Recently a whistleblower contacted SAEN revealing that
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI), as a result of financial
reverses, had plans to exterminate 300 monkeys and a colony of beagles whose
size we do not yet know. The whistleblower has told us that the monkey
slaughter began on Monday, July 11th. 30 monkeys are being killed every day.
When they have all been wiped out, the beagles are next."...Michael Budkie,
Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN)
Hundreds of Beagles & Monkeys
are depending on you!
We must take steps to let the LRRI management
team know that the animals in their care deserve to be released and given
sanctuary. They have already given enough of their lives and enough of their
freedom for human greed. We are asking that for the next 2 days, you make a
commitment to advocate for the lives of these innocent beings by demanding
that LRRI management open lines of communication to SAEN and/or WAR before
close of business on Friday, July 15, 2011.
DAY 1 & 2 - JUNE
14th & 15th
ACTION NEEDED TODAY & TOMORROW
Contact the
Management Team of: Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI)
Robert W. Rubin, PhD
President and CEO
(505) 348-9365
rwrubin@lrri.org
Richard C. McGivney, MS, CPA
Chief Financial
Officer
(505) 348-9430
rmcgivney@lrri.org
Cheryl N. DeVaul, BEd,
MBA
Chief Human Resources Officer
(505) 348-9191
cdevaul@lrri.org
Rachel M. Blea, MBA
Director of Information Services
(505)
348-9597
rblea@lrri.org
Ross D. LeClaire, DVM, PhD, MSS, DABT,
Fellow ATS
Director of Federal Programs
(505) 348-1795/9113
rleclaire@lrri.org
Jacob D. McDonald, PhD
Director, Chemistry and
Inhalation Exposure Program
Director, Environmental Respiratory Health
Program
(505) 348-9455
jmcdonal@lrri.org
Robert L. Sherwood,
PhD
Director of Applied Life Sciences and Toxicology
(505) 348-9459
rsherwood@lrri.org
Stephen A. Stemkowski, PhD
Director of Center
for Pharmacoeconomic and Outcomes Research
(704) 775-3515
sstemkowski@lrri.org
William E. Bechtold, PhD
Director of
Technology Transfer
(505) 348-9456
wbechtol@lrri.org
Matthew D.
Reed, PhD, DABT
Director of Preclinical Drug Development
(505)
348-4980
mreed@lrri.org
Cheryl D. DiCarlo, DVM, PhD, DACLAM
Director Comparative Medicine/Attending Vet
(505) 348-1935
cdicarlo@lrri.org
Chris Merriam-Leith, MS, PMP
Director of
Business Affairs
(505) 348-9650
cmerriam-leith@lrri.org
Penny
H. Holeman, MS, MPH
Director of Biosafety, Training & Biosecurity
Solutions
(505) 348-9415
pholeman@lrri.org
Bret Hendzel, BA,
MBA
Senior Director of Operations
(505) 348-9450
bhendzel@lrri.org
James Taylor
Federal Capture Manager
(505) 348-9518
jtaylor@lrri.org
Donii D. Fox, MSPH, CIH, CBSP
South Biological
Safety Officer
(505) 348-1953
dfox@lrri.org
David D. Griego,
BSME
Director of Facilities
(505) 348-9406
dgriego@lrri.org
Ricky L. Morrow
Consultant Director of Office of Research Contracts
(505) 348-9405
rmorrow@lrri.org
PHONE - E-MAIL - FAX
Ask Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute to open a dialogue with
animal advocates who can arrange for the LRRI 'surplus' animals to be taken
to safety and sanctuary. Please make your calls and send your e-mails and
faxes on Thursday & Friday, June 14th & 15th. If dialogue has not begun by
close of business on Friday, July 15, 2011, we will release contact
information on Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute's Board of Directors.
As a non-profit organization, their Board of Directors must be made aware of
what is happening there and how damaging it could be to their personal and
professional reputations.
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
(LRRI)
2425 Ridgecrest Dr. SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108-5127
Phone:
505-348-9400
Fax: 505-348-8567
Email: info@lrri.org
All e-mails
in this alert (cut & paste blocks into e-mail address space):
rwrubin@lrri.org, rmcgivney@lrri.org, cdevaul@lrri.org, rblea@lrri.org,
rleclaire@lrri.org,
jmcdonal@lrri.org, rsherwood@lrri.org,
sstemkowski@lrri.org, wbechtol@lrri.org, mreed@lrri.org,
cdicarlo@lrri.org, cmerriam-leith@lrri.org, pholeman@lrri.org,
bhendzel@lrri.org,
jtaylor@lrri.org, dfox@lrri.org, dgriego@lrri.org,
rmorrow@lrri.org, info@lrri.org
Please don't let the Lovelace
Respiratory Research Animals Down!
For more information contact:
Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN) at: saen@seanonline.org
phone:
1-513-575-5517 website: http://saenonline.org
or Win Animal Rights (WAR)
at: centcom@war-online.org
phone: 1-732-250-6066 website:
http://war-online.org
