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GLOBAL
ACTION AGAINST BULLFIGHTS IN PORTUGAL
19 Cities, 13 Countries, 3 Continents - a Worldwide
Anti-Bullfighting Protest
For Immediate
Release, August 27th, 2002
Contact:
ANIMAL's Campaign Coordinator
Miguel Moutinho (+351 962 358 183).
After
the Portuguese animal rights organisation ANIMAL, along with the Portuguese
Anti-Bullfighting Movement of Portugal, having called for the Global
Action Against Bullfights in Portugal, a growing group of several
other organisations from different countries has been joining this
international movement opposing every sort of bullfights in this country,
where death bullfights were recently legalised, when a 1928 law that
forbade bullfights was revoked.
Presently,
19 cities all over the world, in three different continents, have
already joined the protest, that will happen on the 29th August, which
will be the first day since 1928 when bulls will be lawfully tortured
and killed in a bullfight in Portugal.
On the
29th August, in front of Portuguese Embassies and Consulates, mostly
between 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. (GMT - Greenwich Mean Time), demonstrations
will be held in Lisbon (Portugal), Madrid (Spain), Rome and Milan
(Italy), London (England), Paris (France), Brussels (Belgium), The
Hague (Holland), Vienna (Austria), Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich
(Germany), Athens (Greece), Washington, D.C., and New York City (USA),
Tel Aviv (Israel), and in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Fortaleza
(Brazil).
In front
of Portuguese diplomatic representations, activists from all countries
will display posters and banners reading, "The World says NO
to the barbaric killing of bulls in Portugal! ", and "A
President that Promotes Death? NO, thanks!", referring to the
Portuguese President, Mr. Jorge Sampaio, who was the main responsible
for the legalisation of death bullfights in Portugal, as if it was
not already bad enough to have Portuguese bullfights still legal in
this country.
"Since
ANIMAL started denouncing the legalisation of bullfights in Portugal,
asking organisations and people all over the world to protest against
this and to demand the total ban of bullfights in this country, an
international movement emerged and the Portuguese President's e-mail
and postal mail are collapsing with so many protest letters and messages",
says ANIMAL´s Campaign Co-ordinator Miguel Moutinho, who is
organising this global action. "On 29th August, the day when,
after 74 years and due to the intervention of Mr. Jorge Sampaio, Portugal
goes back to the middle ages in which concerns the respect for animals,
the world will denounce this and force the Portuguese politicians
to end bullfights in Portugal immediately".
For more
information, please contact
Miguel Moutinho (+351 962 358 183), ANIMAL
Associação ANIMAL | Tv. Figueiroa, nº 24 -S1 4050-257
Porto PORTUGAL.
Fax: + 351 22 203 86 39
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GLOBAL
ACTION AGAINST BULLFIGHTS IN PORTUGAL
For Immediate
Release, August 21st, 2002
Contact:
"ANIMAL's" Campaign Coordinator
Miguel Moutinho (+351 962 358 183).
After
the legalisation of death bullfights in Portugal (which were forbidden
since 1928), the Portuguese animal rights organisation ANIMAL called
for an international action of protest, not only against death bullfights
in Portugal, but also to demand the end of all sorts of bullfighting
in this country.
On the
29th August, when the first bulls will be legally tortured and killed
in a bullfight in Portugal, since 1928, demonstrations will be held
in front of Portuguese Embassies and Consulates all over the world.
In co-operation with several animal rights and animal protection organisations
and groups from several countries, "ANIMAL" has already
assured simultaneous demonstrations to be held on that day (besides,
of course, in Lisbon), in: Madrid (Spain), Vienna (Austria), Berlin
and Düsseldorf (Germany), The Hague (Netherlands), Rome and Milan
(Italy), Athens (Greece), New York City and Washington, D.C. (USA),
and Tel Aviv (Israel).
All these
demonstrations will occur almost simultaneously (some will totally
coincide and some will only partially coincide) throughout the world,
from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. (GMT - Greenwich Meaning Time), on 29th August.
In front
of Portuguese diplomatic representations, activists from all countries
will display posters and banners reading, "The World says NO
to the barbaric killing of bulls in Portugal! ", among others.
This slogan will of course be extensive to all the countries in the
world where bullfights still happen.
According
to a recent survey carried out by the most reliable and the most renowned
Portuguese survey company together with one of the main Portuguese
daily newspapers, 83.1% of the Portuguese people are against death-bullfights
and 74.5% don't like any type of bullfights (DN/Marktest survey, 25/7/2002).
"If
the President of Portugal, the Portuguese Government and the Portuguese
Members of Parliament choose to ignore the opinion of the great majority
of the Portuguese people and choose to ignore the animal rights organisations,
both firmly opposed to all sorts of bullfights, it is time for the
world to know that Portugal is a living hell, not only for the bulls
but for all animals in general", says Miguel Moutinho, from "ANIMAL",
who is coordinating this international action. "After five actions
won in court, having resulted in five court decisions that strengthened
the law that forbade death bullfights, not only did the former Government
dismissed itself from enforcing the law, but also the new elected
Government has gone through an even more scandalous way, revoking
it, allowing for death bullfights to happen lawfully in Portugal.
It was a setback of almost eighty years, considering that these cruel
spectacles were first forbidden in 1928", says "ANIMAL´s"
Campaign Coordinator.
For more
information, please contact
Miguel Moutinho (+351 962 358 183), ANIMAL
Associação ANIMAL | Tv. Figueiroa, nº 24 -S1 4050-257
Porto PORTUGAL.
Fax: + 351 22 203 86 39
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