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Christine McPherson
Development Manager
White Coat Waste Project
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FOIA TO FREEDOM: HOW WCW SAVED THE STOKES SISTERS
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Do you remember what happened on March 16, 2020?
The CDC issued its “15 Days to Slow the Spread” order. The COVID lockdowns
began.
U.S. coronavirus cases surged to a then-record level: 3,000.
The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to another record level: zero.
And the “STOKES SISTERS” were born:
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They’re called “blotched tabbies.” The name comes from the pretty swirl pattern
on their fur.
The Stokes VA Medical Center (VA) in Cleveland purchased these kittens for
experimentation. So, the ‘Stokes Sisters’ spent their lives in a government lab.
Well, MOST of their lives…
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Here at the White Coat Waste Project (WCW), we have a proven strategy to follow
the money, cut wasteful government spending, and end animal experiments.
THEN, we retire as many survivors as we can to the taxpayers who pay the bills.
It’s called FOIA to Freedom . Here’s how we did it for the Stokes Sisters.
CRUELTY IN CLEVELAND
WCW launched a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigation to find out how
white coats at the Stokes VA were wasting our tax money.
And what we found was terrible: a $3.4 million payout for experiments on kittens
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Severed spines. Crippled for life. Seizures. Bloody urine. Even depression.
Photos, videos, and lab documents we obtained revealed painful and mutilating
surgeries on kittens, with electrodes implanted to remotely stimulate their
bladders or colons.
Other kittens had artificial stool made from “bran, potato flour and saline”
inserted into their anuses.
Almost gives new meaning to government waste, doesn’t it?
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Some had already been killed and dissected, like Odie:
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WCW obtained this video filmed shortly before VA white coats killed Odie on May
7, 2019
And Copper:
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Here’s an actual video of Copper, filmed just before Stokes white coats killed
him on October 21, 2019
Once the checks cleared the bank and the experiments finished, the Stokes
protocol explicitly called for all kitten survivors to be destroyed.
The odds were against us .
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We campaigned hard to beat the clock and free the imprisoned Stokes Sisters
before it was too late.
Bottom line: the Stokes Sisters were P.O.W.s — prisoners of WASTE!
THE RESCUE MISSION
To free these federal hostages, we took a page from our own playbook: F.E.D.
Step 1: F ind Gov’t Waste . You’ve seen why FOIA is so important. Nobody knew what was happening at Stokes.
Step 2: E xpose Gov’t Waste . We launched an all-out media blitz
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We ran ads like this:
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We got celebrities, too:
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Step 3: D efund Gov’t Waste . We united powerful Republicans and Democrats in Congress to cut the federal
purse strings.
Heroes like this:
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And this:
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To WIN BIG like this:
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FROM LAB CATS TO LAP CATS
WCW’s grassroots army — 3 million animal lovers and liberty lovers — was now
fully mobilized for the War on Waste.
Taxpayers bought the Stokes Sisters. We demanded the government #GiveThemBack!
Following WCW’s campaign, VA white coats modified the protocol to let the Stokes
Sisters be adopted.
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WCW made the VA change policy to permit taxpayer adoption of the Stokes Sisters.
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WHY IT MATTERS
Every ‘FOIA to Freedom’ story is a tremendous victory — and tremendously rare.
Labs rarely shut down. Survivors rarely get out.
So, when we discover individual animals via FOIA, close their labs, and ALSO succeed at getting survivors retired… it’s a very BIG deal.
Yet we’ve done it time and time again. WCW has:
🐶 Ended the Los Angeles VA’s $XM experiments and turned our friend Bob from lab dog to lap dog
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😻 Ended USDA’s $22M ‘Kitten Slaughterhouse’
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🐵 Ended FDA’s $5.5M nicotine experiments and retired its baby monkeys to a sanctuary
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🐰 Ended EPA’s bunny experiments and secured pardons for the
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And now the Stokes Sisters.
Every FOIA to Freedom story shows why Violet’s Law
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WCW’s bipartisan, bicameral legislation — named after the most famous
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Please tell Congress to pass Violet’s Law (A.K.A., the AFTER Act) NOW!
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CONTACT CONGRESS
[[link removed]] To stop taxpayer-funded animal tests, we must first stop the $20 billion+ in
wasteful government spending.
We find, expose, and de-fund wasteful government spending on animal experiments.
To change public policy, we unite liberty lovers and animal lovers with
hard-hitting investigations and public policy campaigns.
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