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Saturday

July 4

3 updates

Diana

4:54 PM CDT

They are all making history!

Wayne

9:35 AM CDT

The rest of my original message got accidentally cut off when I made an edit! Here’s the rest:
That includes my own little guy, James (pictured above), who now leaps through fields in joy after being freed from a Ridglan cage.

Many of you may ask what you can do to help.

The first thing you can do, if you have a defendant near you, is to reach out and offer support. We want to ensure every defendant has not just world class legal support but social support, too!

But the second thing we must all do, as these courageous activists in history did, is to harness this repression by sharing the story far and wide.

The vivisection industry will realize a few years from now that they made a serious mistake, much as Ridglan realized its error in charging me initially in 2024. They may have corrupt influence over certain arms of the government. But by charging so many activists, they are merely shining a light on this corruption. And, in the long run, the light will defeat the dark.

I’ll be blogging about this shortly, and we’ll likely have another meeting soon for the entire network (perhaps weekly) to discuss how we can make this repression backfire. Stay tuned!

Wayne

5:53 AM CDT

Here is the complaint that was filed yesterday. Note that all these charges relate to March 15. We have no word yet whether any charges will result from April 18. I’d say it’s perhaps 50-50 on that.
And here is the list of actual defendants:

1. Aditya V Aswani

2. Wayne H Hsiung

3. Michelle D Lunsky

4. Dean F Wyrzykowski

5. Emily V Anderson

6. Ingrid S Andersson

7. Madhubala C Anderson

8. John E Boland Jr

9. Abraham Brauner

10. Carla Cabral

11. Lisa S Castagnozzi

12. Sydney Christ

13. Aidan Cook

14. Donna J Davila

15. J Maxwell Duran

16. Adam C Durand

17. Kelly J Fredrickson

18. Douglas A Greif

19. Austin R Haller

20. Donya J Hnath

21. Christopher Z Hrones

22. Matthew A Johnson

23. Jean M Keplinger

24. Javier A King

25. Stacey A Landfield

26. Jeremy S Loeb

27. Yash A Mangalick

28. Erin J Marcus

29. Alexis J Miller

30. Jessica Miracola

31. Douglas S Moeller

32. David L Neuman

33. Amanda Olejarz

34. Alexandra E Paul

35. Briddget C Peroni

36. Derek J Ping

37. Katherine M Prange

38. Lincoln Quirk

39. Peter J Reimann

40. Ashley K Riddle

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