URGENT! Update and ACTION REQUESTED! Coast Guard injures activist, allows hunt to continue!

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FROM WASHINGTON CITIZEN'S COASTAL ALLIANCE

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INJURED ACTIVIST EVACUATED BY HELICOPTER VIA HELICOPTER

Erin Abbott taken away with serious shoulder injury

 

The hunt continues. Even as an injured ODI activist is rushed by helicopter

to a Port Angeles hospital, the Coast Guard INSISTS on allowing the hunt to

continue. Videotape clearly shows a U.S. Coast Guard vessel running at great

speed directly over ODI activist Erin Abbott.

 

Ocean Defense International, the World Whale Police and the Washington

Citizen's Coastal Alliance are calling for an IMMEDIATE HALT to this illegal

hunt until an investigation

can be launched into the shameful tactics currently being employed by the

U.S. Coast Guard, whose aggression is being funded by massive amounts of

taxpayer dollars. CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN, SENATOR and Governor Gary Locke,

DEMANDING that they stop this hunt!

 

You can find contact information at http://www.stopwhalekill.org

 

Especially important: Call Rep. Jack Metcalf's office and POLITELY ask him

to halt the hunt until an investigation can be launched. THANK him for his

ongoing efforts on behalf of the whales.

 

Rep. Metcalf's office: (425) 252-3188

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COAST GUARD: PERSONAL " HUNTING GUIDES " IN ILLEGAL HUNT

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The Coast Guard needs to know how outraged we are over their numerous

rammings of the World Whale Police vessel and running down an activist on

her jet ski. You can call the Commander of the Coast Guard - Neah Bay

station, Commander Coster (you may remember he received an award last year

from the Makah for his help in the hunt)

 

His phone number: (360) 645-2236 ext. 37

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