Fwd: Please ask the Mayor of Espinho, in Portugal, to declare his city an Anti-Bullfighting City

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Please ask the Mayor of Espinho, in Portugal, to declare his city an Anti-Bullfighting City

 

The year of 2009 has been proving to be a very positive year

for animals in Portugal. Following ANIMAL’s

intensive campaigning and lobbying efforts to end bullfighting, since the beginning

of the year, the Mayor of Viana do Castelo

an important capital of the

North of Portugal – has decided to purchase the local bullring, demolish it and build a science and education centre in

its place, and has subsequently decided to proclaim Viana do Castelo Portugal’s

first anti-bullfighting city. A few weeks later, the Mayors of the important

cities of Braga (also in the North of Portugal) and Cascais (a highly touristic

coastal village located right next to Lisbon)

announced publicly that they would not

authorise bullfights in their towns – namely two bullfights that were

scheduled to take place in these towns in June. The Mayor of Cascais went

farther and announced that he would also not authorise any spectacle with

animals in mobile structures, such as animal circuses and rodeos. In the

meanwhile, the Municipality of

Sintra (another very important and also highly touristic town next to Lisbon) has also established

a municipal regulation to protect animals in this village, which has, as one of

its main consequences, the implication

that no spectacle which involves the infliction

of pain, suffering, lesions and / or death to animals will be authorised or

supported by the municipality, which

again means that not only bullfights but also animal circuses and rodeos will

cease to be authorised in Sintra.

 

It is very important to stress out that all these victories –

namely the end of bullfighting and other cruel spectacles in these towns –

would have not been possible if it was not for your participation. However, ANIMAL

is also in need of your financial support so that it can carry on its many and

diversified efforts to forward animal protection in Portugal, namely to achieve the abolition of bullfighting. Please make as generous a donation as you

can TODAY to help

ANIMAL help animals in Portugal: use PayPal to make a

safe and easy internet payment– please go to http://www.PayPal.com/ and make a donation to info – or contact us (at miguel.moutinho) to find out other ways by which you can

make a donation to ANIMAL.

 

In the meanwhile, two bullfights have been announced to take

place in the Northern city of Espinho,

which has been free from bullfighting activities in the recent years. ANIMAL

has called the Mayor of Espinho to not authorise these two bullfights and is

calling the Municipality of Espinho

to make this city an Anti-Bullfighting

City.

 

Please ask the Mayor of Espinho to free this

city from the sadistic torture of animals. Please send the suggested message

below – or write your own message, if you prefer – to expediente;

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Please also consider sending and posting a

written letter to the Mayor of Espinho, to reinforce your e-mail message, to:

 

Mr. José Barbosa Mota

Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Espinho

Câmara Municipal de Espinho

Praça

Dr. José Salvador

Apartado

700

4501-901

Espinho

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Suggested Message

 

Dear Mr. José Barbosa Mota

President of the Municipality of Espinho:

 

Excellency,

 

I have learned that two bullfights are being announced by

bullfighting promoters to take place in July in the beautiful city of Espinho.

 

I urge you to take steps to prevent the bloodshed of animals

in your city, keeping it free from the sadistic torture of animals in

bullfighting. I know that Espinho has been free from bullfighting in the recent

years and I call on you to keep it like

that.

 

The Mayors of Viana do Castelo, Braga, Cascais and Sintra have announced that

they would

no longer authorise bullfights in their towns. I ask you to please

make the same decision and to please consider making Espinho Portugal’s

second anti-bullfighting city.

 

Hoping that your response to my appeal may be a positive one

and that I may be congratulating you – like

many others in Portugal and all over the world will – for not authorising

the torture of animals in your town, I will be looking forward for a response from

you and I thank you in advance for your attention,

 

Yours, very respectfully,  

[Name]

[City, Country]

[E-mail address]

 

 

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may also care about the plight

of animals in Portugal

and who may also want to help

 

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