http://www.bullfightingfree.org/
ANIMAL Miguel Moutinho miguel.moutinho@animal.org.pt
Date: September 4, 2006
ANIMAL, in co-operation with the League Against Cruel Sports, has
launched the “Anti-Bullfighting City” campaign – the first campaign
ever in Portugal which aims to create the first Anti-Bullfighting
City in this country where bullfights still
exist
While Spain has already 32 cities which have already been declared
Anti-Bullfighting Cities, and while France has already at least one
city which has made that important step, Portugal does not yet have
any city that has made such a statement. With the support from
the
League Against Cruel Sports,
ANIMAL is now targeting
10 cities in the Algarve (Portimão, Lagos, Lagoa, Aljezur, Silves,
Albufeira, Loulé, Olhão, Tavira and Faro) and 1 city near Lisbon
(Sintra) with this campaign, which was launched together with the
new website
www.CidadeAntiTouradas.org, with an
English section with information on what kind of action foreign
people visiting Portugal or living outside Portugal can take to
help accomplish this campaign´s objectives.
The key-point of this campaign is to try to get the British
tourists visiting the Algarve every year (as well as all other
foreign tourists) to write to the presidents of the municipalities
addressed in this campaign urging them to officially declare the
cities that they govern Anti-Bullfighting Cities, by officially
committing to not allow bullfights again and to openly condemn
these cruel spectacles. By urging the municipalities to take this
step, foreign tourists are invited to say to these officials that
they are boycotting bullfighting towns – which hugely depend on the
money that they spend when visiting – and they would like to
visit anti-bullfighting towns instead. This will provide an
economic motivation – along with the ethical motivation – for the
local people and local companies to involve themselves in making
this change happen, to avoid risking being boycotted.
ANIMAL and the
League Against Cruel Sports expect that this
pressure will decisively help to make these municipalities commit
against bullfights in order to protect the public image and the
economy of these cities, having, at the same time, an excellent
opportunity to market tourism in their cities internationally as
ethically responsible cities.
This campaign is integrated in the
League´s new
anti-bullfighting campaign, headed in
www.BullfightingFree.org, which aims to
involve British tourists across the world to use their economic
influence as tourists to help to achieve local bans on bullfights
in cities and villages which are frequently visited by British
tourists and that tremendously need the money that these spend when
visiting. With this campaign, the
League has found a very
effective way to deal with a problem of extreme cruelty to animals
such as bullfights and its traditional and economic aspect: to use
the same elements that still keep bullfights alive – popularity and
money – but against these abhorrent spectacles. In Portugal, this
is strategy involving local bans is much more effective and
realistic than it would be to try to accomplish a nationwide ban
for now (although the entire campaign will obviously make it easier
for that to happen sooner than it would if it was not for this
campaign effort).
·
Please support the Anti-Bullfighting City campaign – please
click
here
to go to the campaign “Take Action” page (in English)
·
Please make a donation to support this campaign and help ANIMAL to
create the first Anti-Bullfighting City – please contact us
at
CidadeAntiTouradas@animal.org.pt
or donate through PayPal by clicking
here
·
Please support the League Against Cruel Sports
“Bullfighting Free”
campaign – please visit
www.BullfightingFree.org
and learn more about what you can do to help end bullfights by
simply using your influence as a tourist
Other
campaigns:
·
ANIMAL, with the support from CIWF – Compassion In World Farming,
has launched the first campaign in Portugal about farm animal
sentiency and the importance of recognising it – please visit our
new educational website:
www.AnimaisExcepcionais.org
·
ANIMAL, with the support of the Portuguese vegetarian restaurant
“Terra”, has launched the first campaign in Portugal about
vegetarianism and its benefits for animals, for human health and
for the plant – please visit our new vegetarian website:
www.SejaVegetariano.org
·
ANIMAL, with ADI – Animal Defenders International, continues its
“Stop Circus Suffering” campaign, now trying to get local bans on
animal circuses in the Algarve, urging holiday makers to boycott
animal circuses
Thank you so much for your attention.
For the animals in Portugal,
Miguel
Moutinho
Executive
Director
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E-mail: miguel.moutinho@animal.org.pt
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http://www.bullfightingfree.org/
ANIMAL
Miguel Moutinho pt
June 27, 2006
Please visit
BullfightingFree.org
and support the new campaign against bullfights by the League
Against Cruel Sports to get tourists from all over the world
boycotting the cities and villages across the world which have
permanent bullrings and an on-going bullfighting activity, and
which depend on the money generated by British tourists and other
foreign tourists
ANIMAL
has
been campaigning against bullfights in Portugal for 12 years, now.
As Portuguese anti-bullfighting campaigners, we firmly believe that
this outstanding campaign by the League may be dramatically helpful
to end bullfights, namely in Portugal. When you visit Portugal
(particularly, the Algarve, which is highly dependent on tourism),
whether on holiday or for professional reasons, please be sure to
boycott the Portuguese cities/villages mentioned by the League
at
http://www.bullfightingfree.org/portugal.html
and
be sure to write to the Mayor of the city/village you are
boycotting to tell her/him why you are not going there. Please
visit also the League´s anti-bullfighting campaign´s website
BullfightingFree.org and find out
what else you can do to help end bullfights, namely in
Portugal.
ANIMAL believes that
this is the campaign that the world´s anti-bullfighting movement
was missing and that in Portugal may very well work as a tremendous
economic blow against bullfights. Bullfights are a bloody business,
so, along with all the other strategies and campaigns that we need
to undertake to end them, we also need to make them a bad business
and the worst investment for any city, village or town. Please help
the League Against Cruel Sports to make this happen. Visit
BullfightingFree.org and share it
with all your contacts – the more people know about how they can
easily but effectively help to end bullfights, the sooner will
these actually end.
Animal.org.pt
:: Save the Bulls from the Bullies
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Encourage the politicians to
vote against bullfights !
Please scroll down for more info
From Anticorrida
France
June 15, 2006
Dear Friend,
Spain's three hundred year love with bullfights is on the wane,
none more
so than in the country's autonomous community of Catalonia, where
the bloody
spectacle could soon be banned. Later this month (June 22)
politicians from the
Catalan parliament are set to vote on changing their law on cruelty
to animals
that would abolish las corridas de toros in the autonomous
community.
The campaign to ban bullfights in Catalonia has intensified in
recent years.
Barcelona declared itself anti-bullfighting in 2004 and another 22
Catalan
municipalities have followed.
You can help in sending that letter and encourage them to vote
against bullfights (use the e-mail adresses below)
•
Señoras y Señores Diputados,
En los anales de la historia de España Ustedes pueden añadir una
nueva pagina, de su voto depende.
En el nuevo capitulo se inscribira : El 22 de junio del 2006
Cataluña voto por la abolicion de las corridas en toda su region.
Entrando asi en la norma Europea de respeto de los animales.
La eliminacion de tradiciones crueles, condenadas a desaparecer,
forma parte de la cultura del tercer milenario.
Gracias por tener el valor de dar este paso esencial en la vida de
una nacion que se proclama civilizada.
Les saluda con todos respeto.
Nombre y Apellido (name and surname) :
Ciudad (city) :
Pais (country) :
N° DNI (N° identity card) :
cgruppsc@parlament-cat.net ;
conselleramieras@gencat.net ;
info@socialistes.org ;
grupicv-a@parlament-cat.net ;
gruperc@parlament-cat.net ;
grupciu@parlament-cat.net ;
jordi.miralles@parlament-cat.net ;
joan.boada@parlament-cat.net ;
grupercportaveu@parlament-cat.net ;
icd.presidencia@gencat.net ;
portaveu.govern@gencat.net ;
premsa.consellerprimer@gencat.net ;
consellerprimer@gencat.net ;
conselleratura@gencat.net ;
itpg003@gencat.net;
comunicacio.interior@gencat.net ;
interior@gencat.net
Yours truly
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Claire Starozinski
Founder
http://www.anticorrida.org
http://www.petition-anticorrida.com
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LETTER TO UNESCO :
URGE UNESCO TO REJECT
PROPOSAL BULLFIGHTS AS AN INTANGIBLE HERITAGE OF
HUMANITY
URGE UNESCO TO REJECT THE PROPOSAL FOR BULLFIGHTS TO BE RECOGNISED
AS AN INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF HUMANITY
CAMPAIGNING TO END BULLFIGHTS IN PORTUGAL AND IN THE WORLD -
included example letter
From: Miguel Moutinho | ANIMAL miguel.moutinho@animal.org.pt www.animal.org.pt/
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 8:59 PM
Subject: Urge the UNESCO to reject the proposal for bullfights to
be recognised as an intangible cultural heritage of Humanity
Urge the UNESCO to reject the proposal for bullfights to be
recognised as an intangible cultural heritage of Humanity
Portuguese and Spanish breeders of bulls for bullfights want the
UNESCO, the United Nations organisation for education, science and
culture, to recognise and safeguard bullfights and bullfighting
activities as an intangible cultural heritage of Humanity
Two Portuguese and Spanish unions of breeders of bulls for
bullfights, with the support of the International Bullfighting
Association, have announced their intention to ask the UNESCO, the
United Nations organisation for education, science and culture, to
recognise and safeguard bullfights and bullfighting activities as
an intangible cultural heritage of Humanity. With this initiative,
the bullfighting industry will try to reinforce bullfighting
activities through the recognition of these as cultural heritage to
be praised, respected and protected, namely by Governments and
Parliaments, which could block any attempt to ban bullfights
wherever they exist. This is a situation in which your help and
participation is crucial. It is also a very important opportunity
to show to these industries that bullfights should become only a
dark part of the past.
Please, write to the UNESCO (through bpi@unesco.org ich@unesco.org
cnu@unesco.pt ) and ask this organisation to reject any proposal
for bullfights and bullfighting activities to be accepted,
recognised or safeguarded as intangible cultural heritage of
Humanity. Please ask all your supporters or your friends to
participate in this initiative. If you would like to know how to
help end bullfights in Portugal, please contact ANIMAL through
info@animal.org.pt
www.animal.org.pt/ : Campaigning to end
bullfights in Portugal and in the world
Letter to UNESCO :
Sent by: Action Against Poisoning
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:00:52 +0100
To: cnu@unesco.pt , ich@unesco.org ,
bpi@unesco.org
Cc: ANIMAL miguel.moutinho@animal.org.pt
Subject: UNESCO to reject the proposal for bullfights to be
recognised as cultural heritage
:: Action Against Poisoning :: UNESCO :: BULLFIGHTS ::
LETTER TO UNESCO - ARGUMENT AGAINST BULLFIGHTS ETC
From: ActionAgainstPoisoning
To: UNESCO
To the members of the UNESCO
Subject: Arguments against bullfights
Ladies and gentlemen,
Action Against Poisoning fights animal poisoning in particular and
supports animal protection in general.
We have been informed by ANIMAL in Portugal that UNESCO will be
approached again to include bullfights in the Cultural Heritage
list. So we repeat our arguments as these are still valid.
As we understand such a listing protects or sponsors the cultural
object or tradition involved.
We are curious what bullfight-jewels are in need of UNESCO
protection.
If any bullring in the world would match the Coliseum we will
understand the recognition of a monument, although we wonder why
that did not happen before. So we surmise it is about the
traditional display of the bullfight. This tradition involves the
deliberate torture and subsequent killing of bulls either inside
the arena (Spain) or outside the arena (Portugal).
If a mere tradition is the measure we might as well have supported
and sponsored crucifixion, witch burning and scalping. History
abolished such publicly celebrated violent traditions as very bad
habits and not as cultural heritage of humanity. Which is
understandable as civilized society regards violence as a public
order risk. More advanced societies understand that animal abuse is
a potential public (mental) health threat as well.
We are amazed that so few people realize that festivals based on
animal cruelty create a joyful atmosphere of "having fun",
influencing children in their moral concepts on the value of
life.
Witnessing a bullfight either creates disgust and depression, or
admiration for perpetrators of animal cruelty.
The nature and sequence of the human acts in bullfights can be
defined as sadistic. Sadism is a certified if not contagious mental
illness that we do not want to spread.
On the analogy of Indian or African tribal war dances we have no
objections to the museological preservation of weapons and costumes
and the theatrical display of the artful music, dancing and
stabbing. But leave the bulls out of it as they - like any other
animal - have never asked to play a role in an animal abusing human
game.
We have no objection against the preservation of whatever beautiful
or silly traditions as far as they are harmless to people and
animals alike. Consequently we are totally against any support of
the bullfight, let alone an addition of this traditional game to a
cultural heritage list.
With kind regards,
Action Against Poisoning
www.actionagainstpoisoning.com
*.*.*.*.*
From: ActionAgainstPoisoning
Date: Monday, 07 Mar 2005
To: UNESCO - bpiweb@unesco.org
Fax number: +33 (0)1 45 67 16 90
To the members of the UNESCO
Subject: Arguments against bullfights
Ladies and gentlemen,
Action Against Poisoning fights animal poisoning in particular and
supports animal protection in general.
We have been informed by FLAC that UNESCO is approached to include
bullfights in the Cultural Heritage list. As we understand such a
listing protects the cultural object or tradition involved.
We are curious what bullfight-jewels are in need of UNESCO
protection.
If any bullring in the world matches the Coliseum we will
understand, although we wonder why that did not happen before. So
we surmise it is about the tradition. This tradition involves the
deliberate torture and subsequent killing of bulls either inside or
outside the arena.
If a mere tradition is the measure we might as well have supported
and sponsored crucifixion, witch burning and scalping. History
abolished such publicly celebrated violent traditions as very bad
habits.
It should be noted that festivals based on animal cruelty create a
joyful atmosphere of "having fun", influencing children in their
moral concepts on the value of life. Witnessing a bullfight either
creates disgust and depression, or admiration for the perpetrators
of animal cruelty.
The nature and sequence of acts in bullfights can be defined as
sadistic.
Sadism is a certified if not contagious mental illness that we do
not want to spread.
On the analogy of Indian or African tribal war dances we have no
objections to the museological preservation of weapons and costumes
and the theatrical display of the artful music, dancing and
stabbing. But leave the bulls out of it.
So we ask you to decide if the bullfight, i.e. a bad habit forming
a mental health threat is a worthy addition to the list of cultural
heritage.
With kind regards,
Action
Against Poisoning.com
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http://www.flac-anticorrida.org/
MATP
– Movimento Anti-Touradas de Portugal : www.matp-online.org
GAIA
– Grupo de acção e intervenção ambiental: www.gaia.org
ACÇÃO
ANIMAL – Movimento pelo direito à vida animal: www.accaoanimal.com
MIDAS
– Movimento internacional defesa animais: www.associacaomidas.com
APAAC – Ass.
Protecção animais abandonados Cartaxo: www.apaac.zapto.org
LPDA
– Liga portuguesa dos direitos do animal: www.lpda.pt
INFONATURE.ORG
– www.infonature.org
IZQC –
Instituto zoófilo quinta carbone: www.izqc.com
GLA – Grupo
de libertação Animal: www.glanimal.com