The idea behind the Northwest Animal Facility (NAF) was to place nearly all of the Universitys animal experimentation laboratories under one roofactually, under one plot of ground. The NAF allowed Todd Patterson to add crane climbing to his list of structural ascendences, as well as his arrest record. Things were not good for lab animals at UC-Berkeley before plans were announced for the NAF not that they ever are but Berkeley had acquired an especially reprehensible reputation for poorly run facilities. The Berkeley group called itself the Coalition against Militarism and Animal Research. They took two months to plan the action, during which time they observed the construction site from adjacent buildings to assess which would be the likely problem spots and how to gain entrance. In the spring of 1988 seven activists occupied a construction derrick at an animal experimentation laboratory under construction at the University of California campus in Santa Cruz.