FW: EXTREMELY URGENT: CATCA needs your help! Pls. pass to others!

September 10, 2008

catca.orgSubject: EXTREMELY URGENT: CATCA needs your help! Pls. pass to others!Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:33:25 -0700

Dear all, I am sorry to bother you, but we need your help: as you may know CATCA and myself have been lobbying in person with European decission makers and politiciansfor three years for the Canadian seals. New week I am suppose to embark on my Third Tour in Europe for the seal ban. I have everything arranged with heads of the Ministries of Environment/Agriculture and some Secretaries of State in Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Poland and Rumania (This last country I will have to skip it for lack of funds!). I am suppose to start with these meetings next week and yesterday I was invited to participate at the biggest congress for conservation: the IUCN in Barcelona, but even if I got an organization registering me, I still have to pay for the registration fee and air tickets to Barcelona plus some additional expenses. This huge world congress would allow me to lobby with more EU countries about a upcoming Resolution proposed by the European Union and the European Council . The opinions of each one of these Ministries counts towards this decission that either will allow seal products to be sold freely at the EU and as consequence, this unnecesary cruelty of keep happening (not only in Canada, but in Namibia, Norway, Russia and Greenland), or their decissions on this Resolutions could end within few years the seal hunt, specially Canada which will be the country more affected by the ban on seal products at the European Union.As many of you know, I went this year twice to Europe to: Poland, Ireland, UK, Czeck Republic, Sweden and even had meetings at the European Commission and the European Parliament in Brussels regarding this ban and sponsor paid, but I still owe about $5,000 CDN dollars from the expenses, specially educational materials that I made in English to give to governments and for the Polish to give away to get support for the ban. I have no money currently to go on this Third Tour nor for airfare. I will get some money from a kind colleague at the end of this month, but that will just cover half of the expenses! I pleaded to big orgs to assist me on this but got not any good response. So I have no other choice now but ask for your help if you can, to help me to keep on lobbying before this Resolution is decided in November 2008. This could be the last chance for the seals! You can help in two ways: 1) Dianne of Harpseals.org, kindly offered her organization link to donate by PAYPAL some money urgently need it for this my final attempt to convince politicians to go for the seal trade ban at the EU. Harpseals link is: http://www.harpseals.org/help.html and very important WRITE: DONATION FOR ERICKA SEAL TOUR or CATCA Tour 2) Please send a cheque to: Ericka Ceballos P.O. Box 16021, 617 Belmont Street New Westmister BC V3M-6W6 Canada Remember that any amount you donate will help the seals and a 100% of your money will go for this campaign.Unfortunately time is running out so there is no time to spare. PLEASE DONATE TODAY TO SAVE THE CANADIAN SEALS! Thank you so much on behalf of our Canadian seals and seals worldwide! Best regards: Ericka CeballosCoordinator of the campaign for the seal products trade ban at the EUPresident of Campaigns Against The Cruelty to AnimalsDirector of the Western Canada Anti Sealing CoalitionE.P.C. of the Canadian Marine Enviroment Protection SocietyP.O. Box 16021, 617 Belmont Street New Westminster BC V3M-6W6 CanadaE-mail: catca.orgwww.catcahelpanimals.org

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