Read Animal Voice: June-July 2009


A round-up of all the latest Irish Council Against Blood Sports campaign news and updates. Please respond to this month’s featured action alerts and forward to all your friends.

Please visit www.banbloodsports.com for more news and action alerts.

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to our textline on 00353 86 0386617 (this is free service). To unsubscribe at any stage, simply text the word STOP to the same number.

Thank you for your help.

“Ban Bullfighting News” Magazine

The Summer 2009 Edition of “Ban Bullfighting News”, an Irish Council Against Blood Sports magazine.

Please download, distribute and respond to the action alerts. Thank you.

Download Now
(pdf, 3.8 Mb)

For more info on our campaign, visit:

Website: www.banbloodsports.com

ICABS on YouTube: www.youtube.com/icabs

ICABS on Bebo: www.bebo.com/banbloodsports

ICABS on MySpace: www.myspace.com/banbloodsports

ICABS on your mobile: www.banbloodsports.com/wap

ICABS on Twitter: www.twitter.com/banbloodsports

Thank you.

New Campaign Posters – Please display

Please print and display these new campaign posters and help encourage others to protect wildlife from the cruelty of hunting. Thank you.

Foxes – man’s best friend

Friend Not Foe – Help protect foxes

The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable

Wildlife – No Life

Farm Invastion – Keep hunters off your land

Stop the bullfighting in Manzanares el Real

Please download and display our new Action Alert Poster.
Stop the bullfighting in Manzanares el Real

Help the bulls in Manzanares el Real. Send the following letter to the local council.

ACTION ALERT – SAMPLE LETTER

Oscar Cerezal, Mayor
City Hall
Plaza del Pueblo, 1 -28410
Manzanares el Real
SPAIN

Tel: 00 34 91 853 00 09
Fax: 00 34 91 853 98 25
Email: ayuntamiento@manzanareselreal.info
(With a copy to cartas@manzanareselreal.info)

Dear Mayor Cerezal,

I understand that bullfighting forms a part of your town’s annual fiesta.

As one of the millions of people across Europe and the world opposed to this cruel and barbaric activity, I implore you to exclude bullfighting from the 2009 fiesta and from all future fiestas.

Manzanares el Real has many positive attractions for tourists but, as long as bullfighting is permitted to take place there, myself and my family will be avoiding your town in favour of the locations in Spain that have declared themselves anti-bullfighting.

I hope that Manzanares el Real will show compassion and choose to stop hosting bullfighting.

Thank you. I look forward to your positive response.

Yours sincerely,

[* * * Name / Location * * *]

en Español

Apreciado Alcalde Cerezal,

Entendemos que las corridas de toros forman parte de las fiestas anuales de su localidad. Como uno de los millones de ciudadanos europeos contrarios a esta actividad cruel y bárbara, le ruego que excluyan las corridas de toros de sus fiestas de 2009 y de las futuras.

Manzanares el Real goza de numerosas atracciones positivas para los turistas pero, mientras se permitan allí las corridas de toros, mi familia y yo evitaremos visitar su localidad en favor de aquellas que en España se han declarado contrarias a las corridas de toros.

Espero que Manzanares el Real muestre compasión y escoja poner fin a las corridas de toros.

Gracias.

[ Nombre / Dirección ]

Anti-bullfighting leaflet (Dutch) – Mooie Vakantieherinneringen! Boycot Deze Zomer De Stierengevechten

Have happy holiday memories! This Summer, Boycott Bullfighting
(Mooie Vakantieherinneringen! Boycot Deze Zomer De Stierengevechten)

Download Now (3Mb pdf)

Please download and distribute this anti-bullfighting leaflet to all your Dutch-speaking friends and encourage them to boycott bullrings while on holidays. Thanks!

Also available in English!
Download English version

Ask Spanish town to exclude bullfighting from fiesta

Ask Spanish town to exclude bullfighting from fiesta

Please join our appeal to the council in Spanish town, Manzanares el Real, to exclude bullfighting from its annual fiesta. Watch our video and respond now to this important action alert.

1-CLICK ACTION ALERT
(With thanks to Maria Lopes – www.iwab.org)
Click Here to Send Email to Manzanares el Real
or copy and paste the sample letter below. Thanks for helping!

Oscar Cerezal, Mayor
City Hall
Plaza del Pueblo, 1 -28410
Manzanares el Real
SPAIN

Tel: 00 34 91 853 00 09
Fax: 00 34 91 853 98 25
Email: ayuntamiento@manzanareselreal.info
(With a copy to cartas@manzanareselreal.info)

Dear Mayor Cerezal,

I understand that bullfighting forms a part of your town’s annual fiesta.

As one of the millions of people across Europe and the world opposed to this cruel and barbaric activity, I implore you to exclude bullfighting from the 2009 fiesta and from all future fiestas.

Manzanares el Real has many positive attractions for tourists but, as long as bullfighting is permitted to take place there, myself and my family will be avoiding your town in favour of the locations in Spain that have declared themselves anti-bullfighting.

I hope that Manzanares el Real will show compassion and choose to stop hosting bullfighting.

Thank you. I look forward to your positive response.

Yours sincerely,

[* * * Name / Location * * *]


New Campaign Video: Ban Coursing in Ireland

Check out our new “Ban Coursing in Ireland” campaign video and respond to the related action alert. We would be grateful if you could display the video and action alert on your website. Thank you.

Despite a majority of Irish people wanting hare coursing banned, the cruel blood sport remains legal. Thanks to a licence from the Environment Minister, thousands of hares are netted from the wild and forced to run for their lives in front of muzzled greyhounds. The Irish Council Against Blood Sports is campaigning for a ban on this and other blood sports.


ACTION ALERT

Please ask Minister John Gormley (Green Party) to stop licensing coursing. Email “STOP LICENSING COURSING” to minister@environ.ie

For more information on our campaigns and how you can help, please visit www.banbloodsports.com. To join our Animal Voice Action Alerts mailing list, send “Subscribe” to info@banbloodsports.com.

Thank you for your support.

Video produced by Philip Kiernan
Irish Council Against Blood Sports

Music Kevin MacLeod
incompetech.com

New Action Alert Poster (Buy & Sell)

New Action Alert Poster
26 March 2009

Please download and display our new action alert poster. This new poster features an appeal to Buy and Sell newspaper to stop listing Patterdales terriers. More posters will be available in the coming weeks. We would be grateful if you could display them at gigs, youth clubs, animal welfare stands, veterinary surgery waiting areas, etc. Thank you.

Please download and display now

Protest Poster: Please print and display

Please help highlight our peaceful protest against hare coursing on Wednesday, 4th February 2009. Download a protest poster now and display it for others to see. Also available: Protest Video and Protest Banner – visit www.banbloodsports.com for the display codes. Thank you for your support.

We look forward to seeing out at the protest which will be held outside Powerstown Park (coursing finals venue) in Clonmel, County Tipperary from 12 noon to 2pm.

Download the Poster – A3 Size

Download the Poster – A4 Size

Tributes to Tony Gregory, TD (1947-2009)

Tributes to Tony Gregory, TD, who sadly died on 2nd January 2009 at the age of 61. Tony was the Vice-president of the Irish Council Against Blood Sports and his death is a great loss to our campaign. He will be sorely missed by all of us. Ar dheis De go raibh a anam dilis.

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