URGENT, STOP RMS NOW IN IWC !!!!!!

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URGENT, STOP RMS NOW IN IWC !!!!!!!

 

 

Dear Caring Friend,

 

The US Delegation will negotiate " Revised Management Scheme "

this week in IWC meeting despite public and Congressional condemnation

 

" While remaining opposed to commercial whaling, we are committed to

ensuring that the new management scheme for whaling developed by the

IWC is as strong as possible. " - Jennifer Barnes, Marine Resources

Officer, U.S. Department of State, Nov. 13, 2000

 

Now, while they are having the IWC meeting right now in London,

We must urgent send this most important message to US Secretary of

Commerce Donald Evans right now. Please CALL, CALL, CALL !!!

 

 

KEY POINTS TO MAKE :

 

1: PLEASE OPPOSE THE RMS(Revised Management Scheme)

If it passes now and goes on to ratification next year, there will

soon be no more ban to defy. Approval of the RMS

would be an irreversible step toward the return of an industry that

has all but destroyed the world's whales. Please see the following

site : http://www.seashepherd.org/campaigns/rms/rms1.html

 

or simply click : http://www.seashepherd.org/ , then click

" RMS, the plot to kill the Whaling Ban " .

 

2: Please DO NOT LISTEN TO WWF(World Wildlife Fund) and

IFAW on the RMS issue :

These are the only two biggest organizations endorsing

the RMS. Especially the WWF has been becoming the

Politically motivated one. They are the biggest and the most easy

bribing targets for Japanese whaling industry. Japan has bribed

numerous countries to achieve its Commercial whaling. They just

recently admitted it too. It is no doubt that Japan could do the

same thing to some of the biggest Animal welfare organizations in

the world too. The US Government should listen to millions of

Amerians public opinions instead of ignorantly listening to and

consult with these highly suspecious biggest organizations like WWF .

The whaling situation is worse and worse every year .

Part of it is really coming from these biggest animal orgainzations

being so silent and no actions against Japanese whaling and now

even endorsing the dangerous RMS, a plot to legally gradually

resume the World Commercial Whaling.

However, Green Peace is against RMS.

 

 

PLEASE CALL NOW . Thanks for your urgent action right now !

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CONTACT IMMIDIATELY :

 

1: Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans :

 

Address:

The Honorable Secretary Donald Evans

Office of the Secretary

Room 5854

U.S. Department of Commerce

14th & Constitution Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20230

U.S.A.

 

PLEASE CALL , CALL, CALL NOW TO

STOP RMS !!!

 

Tel: 202-482-2112 (in U.S.A. )

Fax: 202-482-2741 (in U.S.A. )

Email : DEvans (@doc.gov )

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2: The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20500

 

U.S.A.

Tel: 202-456-1414 ( 9am-5pm, please stay on the line to talk to

the Operator. )

Fax: 202-456-2461 (in U.S.A.)

E-mail :

president (@whitehouse.gov )

 

Please also CC to First Lady Laura Bush and

Vice President Dick Cheney and Mrs. Cheney and

cabinet members :

(copy the following address and paste to CC field. ) :

Note: must have comma between addresses.

The following first three addresses has @whitehouse.gov

 

first.lady ,

vice.president ,

mrs.cheney ,

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3: White House Council on Environmental Quality :

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/contact.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/index.html

 

Council on Environmental Quality

722 Jackson Place, N.W.

Washington, DC 20503

 

Please CALL, CALL , CALL NOW TO STOP RMS :

Tel. (202) 395-5750

fax: (202) 456-6546

 

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Sea Shepherd urgent Press Release :

 

 

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Monday, July 23, 2001 2:24 PM

SEA SHEPHERD URGES U.S. NOT TO

LEGALIZE COMMERCIAL WHALING

 

 

SEA SHEPHERD URGES U.S. NOT TO LEGALIZE

COMMERCIAL WHALING

Delegation will negotiate " Revised Management Scheme "

this week despite public and Congressional condemnation

 

" While remaining opposed to commercial whaling, we are committed

to ensuring that the new management scheme for whaling developed

by the IWC is as strong as possible. "

 

- Jennifer Barnes, Marine Resources Officer

U.S. Department of State, Nov. 13, 2000

 

Despite the fact that a recent public opinion poll found that 83% of

Americans are totally opposed to commercial whaling under any

circumstances, the U.S. Administration this week is quietly preparing

to enter negotiations that will eventually legalize the banned practice.

 

The International Whaling Commission agreed to halt commercial

whaling in 1982. On the table at the meeting of this week's IWC meeting

in London is the " Revised Management Scheme, " the terms of agreement

for a program that, once ratified, will legitimize Norway and Japan's

whale hunts and invite former whaling nations like Russia and Iceland

back into the business by paving the way for re-opened international

trade in whale meat. The RMS is a set of guidelines, without

provisions for effective enforcement.

 

" The U.S. Administration, instead of unequivocally opposing commercial

whaling -- the position they are telling U.S. citizens they are taking --

has been bending like a reed in the wind, " said Paul Watson, president of

the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. " The U.S. has had an unfortunate

history of appeasement on this issue for the last seven years. Unless

Americans tell the Administration to get some steel in its spine and say

'No ' to commercial whale hunting under any circumstances, a compromise

deal will be struck this week that will set back marine conservation

efforts 20 years. "

 

Via their toll-free 1-800-4WHALES number, Sea Shepherd is providing

callers with background on the issue and contact information for U.S.

Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans, who presides over the National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency that sets

U.S. policy on whale conservation.

 

" We appreciate the Congressional resolutions seeking sanctions against

Norway and Japan for continuing to hunt whales in defiance of the ban, "

said Watson, " but at this moment, that's a distraction from the bigger

issue: Those countries know the RMS is the brass ring. If it passes now

and goes on to ratification next year, there will soon be no more ban to

defy. "

 

 

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

22774 Pacific Coast Hwy.

Malibu, CA 90265

Tel.(310) 456-1141

Fax.(310) 456-2488

 

Important References :

 

http://www.seashepherd.org

seashepherd

http://www.seashepherd.org/campaigns/rms/rms1.html

http://biz./bw/010723/0574.html

 

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Thanks so much for your kindness, compassion and urgent help for

Whales plight now.