{"id":471141,"date":"2022-01-12T01:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T01:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/?p=1020547"},"modified":"2022-01-12T01:30:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T01:30:27","slug":"this-student-helped-peta-thwart-funding-for-texas-primate-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/12\/this-student-helped-peta-thwart-funding-for-texas-primate-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"This Student Helped PETA Thwart Funding for Texas Primate Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"1020547\"\/><p><strong>It takes a village to raise hell against powerful institutions.<\/strong> Just ask Mariah Smith, a Students Opposing Speciesism (SOS) organizer who helped PETA and local residents achieve a major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/action\/action-alerts\/san-antonio-city-committee-no-money-torturing-monkeys\/\">victory<\/a> against Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed)\u2014home of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/features\/inside-primate-laboratories\/southwest-national-primate-research-center\/\">Southwest National Primate Research Center<\/a>\u2014through grassroots organizing in her community.<\/p>\n<p>For her resilient work in keeping pressure on Texas Biomed\u2014which led to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/action\/action-alerts\/san-antonio-city-committee-no-money-torturing-monkeys\/\">withdrawal<\/a> of its request for local public funding to support the cruel monkey laboratory\u2014<strong>PETA is awarding Mariah with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/misc\/hero-to-animals-awards\/\">Hero to Animals<\/a> Award.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-71.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1020550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-71.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-71.png 689w, https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-71-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-71-602x500.png 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To stand up for the animals suffering in Texas Biomed\u2019s laboratories, Mariah spoke during public comment sessions during two bond committee meetings and rallied San Antonio residents to contact their city council members to oppose funding Texas Biomed.<\/p>\n<noscript class=\"loading-lazy\"><iframe allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CXOfSzsJ_Ph\/embed\/captioned\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"5a2a69bdc6573455ef4080f25d118130\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Mariah also pressured city council members on social media to state their position, and District 2 Council Member Jalen McKee-Rodriguez even publicly posted his opposition on Instagram Stories. Mariah also organized a protest with local animal rights group Texas Animal Freedom Fighters outside a bond committee meeting.<\/p>\n<noscript class=\"loading-lazy\"><iframe allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CXTmXvureOm\/embed\/captioned\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"95b12466f4d0b3810ed31af753f8349c\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>And thanks to her hard work\u2014along with support from San Antonio residents\u2014<strong>Texas Biomed withdrew its request for $11 million from the taxpayer-funded San Antonio bond program.<\/strong> It sends a strong message to all the national primate research centers that <strong>residents don\u2019t want their tax dollars to be used for cruel and useless experiments<\/strong> on our fellow animals.<\/p>\n<h3>Here\u2019s How <em>You<\/em> Can Be a Hero to Animals<\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019re a young activist inspired by Mariah&#8217;s story, join SOS and help PETA win more victories like this one:<\/p>\n<input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"1020547\"\/><p><a class=\"bright-blue text-button button small\"  href=\"https:\/\/sos.peta.org\/\">Join SOS<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>You can also help by urging the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to shut down all of its primate research centers:<\/p>\n<input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"1020547\"\/><p><a class=\"bright-blue text-button button small\"  href=\"https:\/\/headlines.peta.org\/national-primate-research-centers\/\">Urge NIH to Shut Down Primate Research Centers<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/blog\/student-against-speciesism-organizer-receives-peta-hero-to-animals-award\/\">This Student Helped PETA Thwart Funding for Texas Primate Lab<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/\">PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/blog\/student-against-speciesism-organizer-receives-peta-hero-to-animals-award\/\">Blog \u2013 PETA<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For her work against the Southwest National Primate Research Center, this Texas student is receiving PETA\u2019s Hero to Animals Award. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/blog\/student-against-speciesism-organizer-receives-peta-hero-to-animals-award\/\">This Student Helped PETA Thwart Funding for Texas Primate Lab<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/\">PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,2150,1520,37678,21458,2703],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471142,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471141\/revisions\/471142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}