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Spanish region says adios to bullfighting (*)

Spanish region says adios to bullfighting (*)

Lawmakers in Catalonia outlawed bullfighting Wednesday, making this Spain's first major region to do so after an impassioned debate that pitted the rights of animals against preserving a pillar of traditional culture.

Cheers broke out in the local 135-seat legislature after the speaker announced the ban had passed 68-to-55 with nine abstentions. The ban in the northeastern coastal region whose capital is Barcelona will take effect in 2012.

Catalonia is a powerful, wealthy region with its own language and culture and a large degree of self-rule. Many in Spain have seen the pressure here for a bullfighting ban as a further bid by Catalonia to stand out from the rest of the country.

The practical effect of the ban will be limited: Catalonia has only one functioning bullring, in Barcelona, while another disused one is being turned into a shopping mall. It stages 15 fights a year which are rarely sold out, out of a nationwide total of roughly 1,000 bouts per season.

Still, bullfighting buffs and Spanish conservatives have taken the drama very seriously, seeing a stinging anti-Spanish rebuke in the grass roots, anti-bullfighting drive which started last year.

But Joan Puigcercos, a lawmaker from a Catalan pro-independence party, insisted this was not about politics or national identity but rather "the suffering of the animal. That is the question, nothing more."

He added: "We have a responsibility that goes beyond the borders of Catalonia. It is a responsibility to civilization."

The result will energize animal rights groups bent on seeking bans in other regions of Spain.

"Today has been the day we were hoping for," said Leonardo Anselmi on behalf of PROU, the animal rights groups whose signature-collecting campaign late last year forced Catalonia's Parliament to debate and vote.

"The suffering of animals in the Catalan bullrings has been abolished once and for all. It has created a precedent we hope will be replicated by other democratic Parliaments internationally, in those regions and countries where such cruel bullfights are still allowed." Bullfighting is also popular in Mexico, parts of South America, southern France and Portugal.

The center-right Popular Party, which is fervent about the idea of Spain as a unified country run from Madrid -- and also supports bullfighting -- said it will fight back against the ban here.

It will press both chambers of the Spanish Parliament to pass a law giving bullfighting a protected status that will bar regions from outlawing it, said Alicia Sanchez-Camacho, president of the party's Catalan branch.




Katalanlar boğa güreşini yasakladı

 

İspanya’nın doğusundaki Katalonya bölgesinin özerk yönetim parlamentosu, İspanyolların ünlü boğa güreşlerinin bu bölgede yapılmasını 1 Ocak 2012 tarihinden itibaren yasakladı.

Bir sivil toplum örgütünün geçen yıl başlattığı boğa güreşlerinin Katalonya’da yasaklanması kampanyası çerçevesinde toplanan 180 bin imzanın ardından Aralık ayında Katalan parlamentosunda başlayan tartışma, bugün yapılan oylamayla sonuçlandı.

Katalonya’nın İspanya’dan ayrılmasını savunan Katalonya Cumhuriyetçi Solu (ERC)
ile Yeşiller partisinin destek verdiği yasa tasarısının oylaması sırasında, Katalonya’nın iki büyük partisi Yönelim ve Birleşik Koalisyonu (CİU) ile Katalonya Sosyalist Partisi (PSC) milletvekillerini serbest bırakırken, muhafazakar görüşlü Halk Partisi (PP) karşı oy kullandı. Oylama sonucunda 68 "evet"e karşı, 55 "hayır" ve 9 çekimser oyla Katalonya’da boğa güreşleri yasaklandı.

Oylama yapılırken,
parlamento dışında da boğa güreşlerine destek verenler ile karşı çıkan sivil toplum örgütleri karşılıklı gösteriler düzenledi.

İspanya’da boğa güreşlerini yasaklayan
ilk özerk yönetim 1991 yılında Kanarya Adaları olmasına rağmen, Katalonya’nın benzer karar almasının arkasında "siyasi sebeplerin" olduğu görüşü savunuluyor.

El Mundo, ABC ve La Razon gibi İspanya’nın sağ görüşlü gazetelerinde, Katalan parlamentosunun aldığı kararın "hayvan sevgisinden değil, İspanya’ya karşı olmaktan" kaynaklandığı iddialarına yer verildi.

Madrid’de geçen yıl 343, Barselona’da ise sadece 16 boğa güreşi düzenlendiği hatırlatılarak, Katalan parlamentosunun aldığı kararın "Demokrasiye geçiş sürecinden sonra İspanyol kültürüne yönelik yapılan en ciddi saldırı" olduğu iddia edildi.

Katalan milletvekillerini ikna edebilmek için arenalarda tepkilerini dile getiren bazı İspanyol matadorlar ise, bir daha Katalonya’da arenaya çıkamayacak olmalarının "tarihi bir utanç" olduğunu savundular.

Öte yandan boğa güreşlerinin yasaklanmasından dolayı Katalonya bölgesinin 300 ila 500 milyon avro arasında ekonomik bir kayba uğrayacağı bildirildi.

Son Güncelleme ( Çarşamba, 28 Temmuz 2010 13:50 )

 

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Animal Rights Conference 2010

Animal Rights Conference 2010

Welcome to the Animal Rights 2010 National Conference, the world's largest and oldest animal rights gathering. The Conference will take place on July 15-19th at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center Hotel, an outstanding conference venue, near our nation's capital.


HIGHLIGHTS


- Concurrent tracks on animal abuse, organizing, tactics, ideology

- Eyewitness reports on the whale wars and other key campaigns

- Ninety speakers from 60 organizations

- All viewpoints on animal liberation featured

- Talks by other social justice leaders

- Awards to celebrities and activists

- Extensive learning and networking options

- 90 exhibits (free to visitors)

- 80 videos (including "Skin Trade" premiere)

- Highly discounted registration (through May)

- Highly discounted sleeping rooms

- Magnificent conference space

- Free shuttle to Metro and free parking


PROGRAM FEATURES

- Each day starting with a morning plenary

- Speed touting - one-minute slots to promote your project at a plenary

- Fewer speakers per session - more time for speakers & Q&A

- Several hands-on training workshops on street interactions, persuasion, negotiation, and more

- More exciting rap sessions



KEY SPEAKERS

Heidi Boghosian - National Lawyers Guild
Michael Budkie - Stop Animal Exploitation!
Karen Davis - United Poultry Concerns
Tom Devine - Gov’t Accountability Project
Debra Erenberg - Rainforest Action Network
Camille Hankins - Win Animal Rights
Alex Hershaft - Farm Animal Rights Mov't
Lorri Houston - Animal Acres
Shannon Keith - Skin Trade

Anthony Marr - HOPE-CARE Foundation "
Keith McHenry - Food Not Bombs!
Shirley McGreal - Int'l Primate Protect. League
Erica Meier - Compassion Over Killing
Peter Muller - League of Conservation Voters
Lauren Ornelas - Food Empowerment Project
Alex Pacheco - 600 Million Animals Need You
Becky Robinson - Alley Cat Allies
Nathan Runkle - Mercy For Animals


Invited:
Bob Barker Dennis Kucinich Peter Max

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

- Leaders of animal protection organizations

- Animal activists

- People who care about animals

- People who want to learn about animals

- Producers & retailers of animal-friendly products

Providers of animal-friendly services




http://www.arconference.org/




Son Güncelleme ( Çarşamba, 21 Nisan 2010 09:31 )


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Battı Ama Yaşattı !

Battı Ama Yaşattı !

Japon Balina Avcılarıyla Savaşan Doğayı Koruma Örgütü Sea Shepherd Zafere Ulaştı. Japon Balıkçılar Bu Yıl Normal'in Yarsısı Kadar Balina Avlayabildi.


507 TANE AVLAYABİLDİLER

Japon  balina gemileri, Kanadalı Kaptan Paul Watson’un kurduğu Sea Shepherd (Deniz Çobanı) doğayı koruma örgütünün mücadelesi sayesinde, bu yılki av mevsiminde normalin yarısı kadar balina avlayabildi. Japon balina avı filosunun en büyük gemisi Nisşin Maru’nun önceki gün Tokyo limanına girmesiyle Deniz Çobanı’nın başarısı ortaya çıktı. Antartika’da 935 balina avlamayı hedefleyen Japonya, 506 minke balinası ile bir çatal kuyruklu balina avlayabildi. Balina avını büyük çapta sürdüren tek ülke olan Japonya, “bilimsel araştırma” iddiasıyla et tüketimi için balina avlıyor.

SÜPER TEKNE BATMIŞTI
YÜKSEK desibelli ses dalgaları yaymak, gemilere boya topları fırlatmak gibi yöntemlerle avcılarla savaşan Sea Shepherd ise bu uğurda süper teknesi Ady Gil’i kaybetti. Ady Gil, ocakta avcılar tarafından batırıldı.

Ady Gil’in kaptanı Peter Bethune de tek başına Japon “Şonan Maru-2” balina teknesine gizlice çıktı ve bir bildiri okudu. “Gemimize 3 milyon dolarlık zarar verdiniz. İlk limana gidiniz ve teslim olunuz” diyen Bethune, 12 Mart’ta Tokyo limanına girişte tutuklandı. Bethune, Japon gemilerine gizlice girmekten muhtemelen 1 yıl hapis cezası talebiyle yargılanacak.



Son Güncelleme ( Perşembe, 15 Nisan 2010 19:15 )


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Story Without Words..

Story Without Words..














Son Güncelleme ( Pazartesi, 29 Mart 2010 17:36 )


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The Cove’s Richard O’Barry on Secret Dolphin Slaughter — and Flipper’s Suicide

The Cove’s Richard O’Barry on Secret Dolphin Slaughter — and Flipper’s Suicide

The Cove’s Richard O’Barry on Secret Dolphin Slaughter — and Flipper’s Suicide

Sure to be one of the most talked-about documentaries at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Louie Psihoyos’s The Cove is part heist movie, part environmental exposé. The cove in question is a secluded and naturally fortified lagoon in the small Japanese town of Taiji, where every year for six months thousands of dolphins are brutally slaughtered. The film is in part about the efforts of a group of activists to infiltrate the cove and to actually film what goes on there. Leading the charge is Richard O’Barry, a longtime activist who was responsible for training the dolphins on the sixties TV show Flipper. Indeed, The Cove is also the story of O’Barry’s journey, documenting how he came to be a self-described “abolitionist” for dolphins. He spoke to Vulture about his new film, watching TV with Flipper, and the increasingly elaborate disguises he has to wear when he goes to Taiji.

You know, when I was a kid, I always wanted to live in the Flipper house.
I used to live in that house! It was right in the Miami Seaquarium there. I have such wonderful halcyon memories of those days. There wasn’t even a fence around the Seaquarium. It was like magic. Until the wheels fell off.

You had captured the dolphins on Flipper, right?
I captured the five dolphins that collectively played the part of Flipper. I trained all of them, from the very beginning of the first show to the last show. I lived with all five of them in the Seaquarium. And on Friday nights, at 7:30, I would take the TV set, with a long extension cord, out to the end of the dock, so Flipper could watch Flipper on television. And that’s when I knew they were self-aware. I could tell when the dolphins recognized themselves and each other. Cathy, for example, would recognize the shots she was in, Suzy would recognize her shots, and so on. Dolphins are hard to read, because you have to look at body language. Almost all other animals you can read by looking at their faces. But dolphins have this built-in “smile” that makes it look like they’re always happy.

How did your ideas about captivity turn around?
Cathy died in my arms, of suicide. It was just before Earth Day, 1970. The next day, I found myself in a Bimini jail, trying to free a dolphin for the first time. I completely lost it.

How do you know it was suicide?
You have to understand, dolphins are not automatic air breathers like we are. Every breath for them is a conscious effort. She looked me right in the eye, took a breath, held it — and she didn’t take another one. She just sank to the bottom of the water. That had a profound effect on me.

The footage of the dolphin slaughter you filmed in The Cove is pretty staggering. Has anyone else seen it yet?
The world will see it Sunday, at Sundance. Even the Japanese don’t know about this. I went onto the street in Tokyo, and I showed the footage to a hundred people walking down the sidewalk, and none of them knew this was happening. That’s the only hope, to expose this to the world. It won’t be easy. The film will probably be banned in Japan. I’m hoping Jim Clark, who is our partner on this, can figure out a way to get it seen there. If he can invent Netscape, he can figure that out, as well. In the meantime, we also have our website,
SaveJapanDolphins.org, where people can learn more about this issue.

But killing dolphins is actually legal in Japan.
Yes, but let’s not forget that the place in question here is a national park. They’re killing the wildlife in a national park. They don’t have jurisdiction there. They’re just a bunch of thugs. As for the broader issue of legality: One percent of the Japanese population eats whale meat, and a very small percentage of that one percent eats dolphin or even knows that people eat dolphin. That’s one of the reasons I’m opposed to a boycott of Japan. In the seventies and eighties, there was a big effort to stop whaling by taking out full-page ads in newspapers that said, “Save the Whales. Boycott Japan.” Japanese people are not guilty of this. They don’t know it’s happening. Japanese papers and networks do not cover this story.

So if nobody is eating dolphin meat, why is this slaughter happening?
I think it’s really about over-fishing. It’s a worldwide problem. Basically, they’re killing the competition, because each of those dolphins eats 25 to 30 pounds of fish. As for the dolphin meat, nobody really knows where it goes. They kill 23,000 dolphins a year: I have no idea where that meat goes. You can’t really even buy it in Taiji. I’m thinking it might be exported to places that have a protein shortage. We had this meat tested, and the mercury levels on it is through the roof. It’s contaminated.

Have you been back to Taiji since you shot this footage?
I go five or six times a year, during the killing season, which is six months. I’m constantly there. I’ll go anytime anybody will go with me — CNN, BBC, you name it. It’s gotten so dangerous now that I have to wear disguises when I first get there. The last time, I was wearing a long black wig, sunglasses, my Michael Jackson mask over my mouth, a dress, and lipstick. I had to dress as a woman because they’re looking for a man.

What will they do if they catch you?
The biggest danger is not so much the fishermen, although they are angry and some of the younger ones have said they would kill us if they could get away with it. But it’s really the yakuza, who are very connected to the whaling and fishing industries. In Japan, that’s how problems like me are solved, how people who cause trouble are often dealt with. Especially in a lot of these small towns, you don’t call the police, you call the yakuza.

What about people who say that, while the footage in The Cove is quite grisly, a regular slaughterhouse would also look pretty horrific to people if they could see it?
They’re absolutely correct. The one difference is that the dolphins are terrorized for days, as the fishermen intrude on their migration patterns and then chase them into the lagoon with loud noises. But yes, the slaughterhouse is an absolute horror show. It’s a separate issue, and some of us are working on that as well. But that doesn’t justify what they’re doing to the dolphins.


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