Join your fellow AALAS branch members in a half day of seminars from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM. on Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at the Pomona Valley Mining Company.

The cost for attending this meeting will be $20.00 per person. All registrations include lunch.  Parking is free.

The First Amendment does not shield animal rights activists from criminal liability when they use a Web site for harassment, cyberattacks, vandalism and property destruction, the 3rd Circuit has ruled, the first time a federal appeals court has heard challenges to the Animal Enterprise Protection Act.

The ruling upholds convictions and prison terms for six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, or SHAC, a group whose stated mission was to drive Huntingdon Life Sciences out of business.

Palms to Pines Branch will by hosting a Hands-on Suture Techniques Workshop to be held at Cal Poly Pomona on Wednesday, September 2, 2009.

This is the same workshop used to instruct medical students proper suture / instrument handling techniques including basic knot tying techniques, suture patterns, tissue handling, and healing concepts.