CANADIAN SEAL SLAUGHTER
****Cross Post Widely****
The Frontlines of the Seal Slaughter
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1808130/
ACTION AGAINST CANADIAN SEAL SLAUGHTER
Dr. Jerry Vlasak in prison and on hunger strike for Canadian Seals
PLEASE CALL THE COURT HOUSE TO VOICE YOUR OUTRAGE! PLEASE HELP JERRY VLASAK (see story below) GET OUT OF JAIL!
BACKGROUND:
Anti-Sealing Activist in Jail on Hunger Strike (since Monday, March 27, 2006)
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada - Dr. Jerry Vlasak, one of three press officers with the North American Animal Liberation Press Office (NAALPO) remains in jail on a hunger strike in Charlottetown, PEI. He was jailed Monday in protest of the unjust conviction stemming from last year's seal slaughter in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the egregious massacre of the seals that are right now being mercilessly killed for greed and profit. Arrested in March of last year, Dr. Jerry Vlasak and ten other anti-sealing activists were charged with and convicted of violating the blatantly inappropriately named "Canadian Seal Protection Act" after approaching within a half a nautical mile in an attempt to film a seal killer. They refused to pay the fine and were sentenced.
March 31st, 2005, eleven activists went out onto the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to attempt to film the futility and cruelty of killing baby seals killed, ostensibly for their negative impact on the codfish population- but in reality to pander to the European fur trade and the Asian market for aphrodisiacs; Dr. Vlasak was punched in the nose and 10 others were violently assaulted by the captain and crew of the Brady Mariner from Newfoundland. Despite extensive video documentation of the assault, none of the seal killers were ever arrested or charged.
A worldwide boycott of Atlantic Canadian seafood products supported by a number of conservationist groups has cost the Canadian economy tens of millions of dollars - far in excess of the value of the skins and penises sold to drape narcissistic Russian princesses or to facilitate the erections of impotent men in Asia. But the Canadian government continues to subsidize the slaughter by providing spotter planes and icebreakers, which cut the deadly swath through the floes directly to the baby seal nursery. This support continues despite the fact that the majority of Canadian citizens oppose the hunt and are embarrassed by the worldwide publicity engendered by the likes of Sir Paul and Lady Heather McCartney.
Dr. Vlasak said from Charlottetown before his incarceration on Monday: "Three-fourths of all newborn seals may have already perished in the Gulf of St. Lawrence due to record warm weather's melting the ice from beneath them. Meanwhile, the violent barbarians are bludgeoning the survivors to death at this very moment. The pathetic murderers of Newfoundland must be stopped.
For more information- to be added to the NAALPO list serve- or to obtain footage and photographs of the seal kill - please call or e-mail the North American Animal Liberation Press Office. 21044 Sherman Way #211 Canoga Park CA 91302 phone: 818.932-9997 fax: 818.932-9998 press@animalliberationpressoffice.org http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org
National Press Officers: Lindy Greene-Southwest
Camille Hankins-New York
Jerry Vlasak MD-Los Angeles
What you can do:
CALL THE JUDGE. The (Provincial Court) Judge Nancy Orr is at Phone: 902.368.6740 or 6741
Jail Phone: 902.368.4590 direct extension to the ward is x 5837 (Gary Trainer is the assistant warden.) The Provincial Court: 902.368.6741
CALL/CONTACT Prime Minister Stephen Harper Phone 613.992.4211 Fax 613.941.6900
(All numbers are in Canada)
1. Please call and voice your outrage at the jailing of someone who is simply trying to expose what really happens to those young seals on the Canadian ice floes.
2. Demand the court release him with time served and the REAL CRIMINALS be jailed instead!
PROTEST THE CANADIAN SEAL SLAUGHTER
Call/write/e-mail:
Ms. Pamela Wallin Canadian Consul General New York The Canadian Consulate General, 1251 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020-1175 <>Tel: 212-596-1628 Fax: 212-596-1790 e-mail: pamela.wallin@international.gc.ca
Pamela's Executive Assistant, Heather: heather.ursu@international.gc.ca
An interesting fact from their website, please consider referring to this in your correspondence:
"Annual trade between the three states (NY, NJ and Connecticut) and Canada has soared to almost $50 billion (U.S.). That's up almost 300 per cent over a 12-year period and would, if this region were a country, be enough to make it Canada's second-largest trading partner."
BOYCOTT ALL CANDIAN PRODUCTS:
Tell GNP (Great Northern Seafood Products), a U.S. Company, that specializes in the importation of Canadian Seafood that you are boycotting all Canadian products.
For more information about GNP (Great Northern Products) visit: http://www.northernproducts.com/
Great Northern Products Ltd. PO Box 7622 Warwick, Rhode Island USA 02887 Phone: 401-821-2400 Fax: 401-821-2419 e-mail: info@northernproducts.com
For more info contact Win Animal Rights at: centcom@war-online.org or visit our website at: http://war-online.org
Informant: Ima Vegan
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The Seal Hunt Has Begun - Now We Need Your Friends' Help!
Thank you for signing the petition telling Canada to speak the truth about the seal hunt.
But we still need more support!
Please send your friends this link to the petition to help even more: http://go.care2.com/e/JoI/Jt/n5lW
The seal hunt has begun - yet the Canadian government still hasn't come clean with the truth: that the hunt has little economic benefits and horrific cruelty to seals.
As reported in the BBC, the hunt's resurrection in recent years is mainly tied to fashion - where seal fur has become politically acceptable to wear again in countries like China, Russia and Norway.
Which is why we need as many voices as we can muster to get the truth out about the hunt. Consumers need to be informed about the horrific cost of life involved in purchasing a non-essential fashion item like seal fur. Send this link to your friends to demand that Canada come clean to the world about the true nature of the seal hunt: http://go.care2.com/e/JoI/Jt/n5lW
Thanks for your help saving baby seals today.
Lauren Alvarez Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team
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Please visit and send your friends this link to the petition to help even more: http://go.care2.com/e/JoH/Jt/DIXj
As you know, the seal hunt has begun - yet the Canadian government still hasn't come clean with the truth: that the hunt has little economic benefits and horrific cruelty to seals.
As reported in the BBC, the hunt's resurrection in recent years is mainly tied to fashion - where seal fur has become politically acceptable to wear again in countries like China, Russia and Norway.
Which is why we need as many voices as we can muster to get the truth out about the hunt. Consumers need to be informed about the horrific cost of life involved in purchasing a non-essential fashion item like seal fur. Send this link to your friends to demand that Canada come clean to the world about the true nature of the seal hunt: http://go.care2.com/e/JoH/Jt/DIXj
Thanks for your help saving baby seals today.
Lauren Alvarez
Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team.
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ProtectSeals update: HSUS teams harassed by sealers in Canada
http://community.hsus.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=3744274
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Latest on Canada's seal hunt
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11994476/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11995040/
Sign Pam Anderson's Canadian Seal Petition
http://getactive.peta.org/ct/k1SOQpp1mmbR/
Seal Slaughter: Canada, Tell the Truth!
http://www.omega-news.info/seal_slaughter_canada_tell_the_truth.htm
Right now on the sparkling ice floes of Eastern Canada, hundreds of thousands of baby seals are about to die.
In just a few short days, seals as young as 12 days of age will be clubbed and beaten. Others will be shot with a rifle in open water, fighting for their lives … many left to suffocate under the ice or be pulled onto boats with sharp metal hooks.
95% of the seals killed will be less than three months old. Some will even be skinned alive. But there’s still time to help.
If you were to witness the seal hunt personally, your heart would break.
There is no economic or environmental reason to justify Canada’s commercial seal hunt. This is a cruel and unnecessary hunt, opposed by the majority of Canadians. This government supported hunt isn’t designed to promote science or meaningful employment for Newfoundlanders, it’s designed to gain votes for politicians.
Most seal pups lay on the ice alone and helpless, crying in anguish before they are violently cut down. During the past 30 years, IFAW hunt observers have continued to witness and document severe cruelty at the hunt.
All this to produce less than one percent of the Newfoundland GDP and, by the government’s own calculations, about $1,000 per sealer per year. A hunt that is nationally and internationally offensive is of no use to today’s Newfoundland and a progressive Canada trying to build a reputation for first-class environmental tourism.
Canada’s government is counting on your silence
World-leading marine scientists agree that the current high quotas for killing seals are putting the harp seal population at serious risk of being depleted. As many seals are killed today as during the 1950’s and 60’s when commercial sealers significantly reduced the seal population.
You helped raise a global outcry that stopped the killing of whitecoat baby seals in the 1980’s. But baby seals as young as 12 days old are still being left to suffer a lingering death besides piles of seal bodies rotting on the bloody ice after their fur is removed.
Read further under:
http://www.stopthesealhunt.com/site/pp.asp?c=hmKYJeNVJtF&b=1469095&msource=DR060302001&tr=y&auid=1492294
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Take Action! Tell Canada to Put an End to the Seal Hunt
http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=89
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A message from Eleanor:
Has gone up from 56% to 59% for the vote to ban the slaughter in just the last while! So please sign and forward!!!!
Lots of love!
Eleanor
Original Message:
URGENT POLL FOR THE SEALS, PLEASE FORWARD ALSO TO YOUR FRIENDS. THANK YOU RIA S.
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/poll/poll.asp
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A message from Abid
ADD YOUR CANDLE AND SEND THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS - FOR THE SEALS, PRAYING SLAUGHTER WILL BE INTERRUPTED. LORD, MAKE HUMANS UNDERSTAND WE ARE NOT HERE FOR FUR. GOD, PLEASE PROTECT US, THE SEALS.
Original Message:
Subject: Candlelight Vigil for Seals TOMORROW!
Old friends and new friends:
Austin's animal advocacy group, ACTION FOR ANIMALS, will be holding a candlelight vigil on Wednesday, March 15, from 7-9 PM on the southside of the Capitol (11th and Congress) to protest the cruel and senseless Canadian seal hunt. ACTION FOR ANIMALS will be joining other animal and environmental protection groups all over the world for the International Day of Protest against the Canadian seal hunt.
Beginning March 29, sealers will take to the ice of the North Atlantic wielding clubs, hakapiks, and guns clubbing and shooting to death over 300,000 seals just days or weeks of age, skinning them alive and their corpses left to rot on the bloody ice of Canada.
Don't let this hunt happen! Join us for a peaceful candlelight vigil to mourn the seals who will be murdered solely for their fur/pelt to be sold in the European fashion industry.
The press release has been sent to the local media. Now, the effectiveness of this vigil will depend on a great attendance! If there is only one function you attend this year to make a huge impact in ending the senseless cruelty to defenseless animals, let ACTION FOR ANIMAL's candlelight vigil to protest the Canadian seal hunt be that one!
Please contact Timothy at tverret@earthlink.net or 719-4374 if you have any questions and/or to lend your support by responding "yes, I will attend this important vigil for the seals!" If you cannot make it, please make a decision to boycott Canadian seafood until this hunt is abolished.
Please forward this information to all your friends and colleagues!
The seals are counting on us!
http://www.protectseals.org
http://www.harpseals.org
http://www.seashepherd.org
Timothy J. Verret
The lives of animals are woven into our very being-closer than our own breathing-and our souls will suffer when they are gone. -Gary Kowalski http://www.actionforanimalsaustin.org
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The international campaign to stop the merciless killing of newborn seals has now reached a stage where there is a very good chance of success. Along with the huge support it has achieved across the globe, it has also drawn in two of the worlds best known people: Paul McCartney and his wife Heather.
Our online petition has now reached 78,000 signatures. It is easy to sign, hosted on the web by the Humane Society of the United States. Our target before the end of this month is 150,000 signatures. Please can you help us by forwarding this mail to as many of your friends as possible?
To make it easier for you the Humane Society of the United States has an online petition, which you can read and sign, spending only a few minutes of your time. Today, the 15th of March, 2006 we have reached over 78,000 signatures and our target is 150,000. Please, could you take the time to visit this site and read the petition and sign it if you agree with us?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/566342047?ltl=1141555333
Please visit this site to read more: http://www.hsus.org/
Sincerely, For All that is Good in the World, Keith Varady. (Founder) http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/EarthForceUnited "With Knowledge comes Power. With Power comes the Responsibility to use it Wisely." Keith Michael Varady.
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From Eleanor
Original Message:
HI DEAR FRIENDS, THIS IS A CTV CANADIAN POLL FOR THE SEALS,
PLEASE VOTE NO, BECAUSE A LOT OF CANADIANS SEEM TO VOTE TO BE IN FAVOR FOR THE SEALHUNT.
PLEASE PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, THANK YOU, Ria S.
http://www.ctv.ca/canadaam
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Seals are Crying
Dear Friends
I thought I had signed everything and done everything for the seals this year but I hadn't signed this particular petition and I hadn't e-mailed the PM. And I have still to contact the Canadian Embassy! So please check in case the same thing is with you! Thanks Altug for forwarding this!!
Eleanor
Please sign:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/263683224
Please contact Prime Minister Harper to put an end to this brutal hunt:
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/harper_protectseals?source=gaban5
Photos:
http://photos.signonsandiego.com/gallery1.5/seals
Canadian Embassies:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/canada-europa/mundi/country-en.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/world/menu-en.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/middle_east/countries-en.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/latin-america/latinamerica/country_info/default-en.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/asia/main/country/country-en.asp
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Thank you for signing the petition telling Canada to speak the truth about the seal hunt.
But we still need more support!
Please send your friends this link to the petition to help even more: http://go.care2.com/e/j4Y/ji/n5lW
The seal hunt is slated to begin in a matter of days and the Canadian government has still not come clean with with truth: that the hunt holds little economic benefit for Canada and demonstrates horrific cruelty towards seals.
Please forward this link to your friends to help stop the hunt before it's too late: http://go.care2.com/e/j4Y/ji/n5lW
Thanks for your help saving baby seals today.
Lauren Alvarez Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team
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TEARFUL BARDOT BEGS CANADA TO SCRAP SEAL HUNT
By David Ljunggren
With additional reporting by Deborah Gembara
Reuters
March 22, 2006
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=11616382&src=rss/scienceNews
OTTAWA - French film star turned animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot tearfully begged Canada on Wednesday to stop the annual harp seal hunt, during which about 325,000 young seal pups will be shot or beaten to death.
"Before I die I want to see this massacre ended," she told a news conference, sitting in front of a poster that showed a giant seal clubbing a blood-covered human baby.
The hunt, which takes place on ice floes off the coast of eastern Canada, is due to start on Friday or Saturday. Ottawa denies the hunt is cruel and says it helps the local economy while keeping the seal population healthy and in check.
To try to stop the hunt each year, activists release gory pictures of hunters crushing seal skulls with big clubs. Anti-hunt campaigners are calling on some major U.S. restaurant chains to boycott Canadian seafood until the hunt stops.
Bardot, who started campaigning against the hunt some 30 years ago, cried quietly as aides played a video showing graphic shots of young seals screaming in agony and drowning in their own blood after being attacked by hunters.
"Canada is a rich country. It doesn't need to sell skin, oil, fat and powdered seal penises to make aphrodisiacs for countries in Asia ... you cannot continue a genocide of animals like this," said the 71-year-old actress, who peppered her comments with expletives.
Harp seals can be legally hunted once they shed their white coats at about two weeks, though they are not usually hunted until at least a week later.
Canada says the seal population is almost six million, nearly triple the level of the 1970s.
"For outsiders to come and tell sealers that they don't need to participate in an activity that feeds their families shows a deep misunderstanding of the issues," said Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for Canada's federal fisheries ministry.
Earlier this month, former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife ventured out on to an ice floe and posed with young seals to try to persuade Prime Minister Stephen Harper to scrap the hunt.
Harper turned down a request to meet Bardot, who wrote him an open letter in which she said "Only imbeciles don't change their minds."
Officials and sealers say the ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is so poor this year that hunters will not be able to kill many seals with clubs and will have to shoot them instead.
"We are kind of worried because the ice is not too good and they are drifting outside the Gulf," said seal hunter Jean-Claude LaPierre.
"We flew over it in a helicopter and there are quite a few seals that went out on the Atlantic," he told Reuters Television in Prince Edward Island.
Informant: NHNE
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Re: "I am so disturbed by the upcoming Canadian Seal Hunt..." (TAKE ACTION NOW!!!)
ALL RIGHT LIZZY!!!!
WELCOME TO MY WORLD OF ACTIVISM. I WILL IMMEDIATELY PASS THIS ON TO ALL IN MY LISTS.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION...AND CONCERN.
Jack Topel
Elizabeth wrote:
Dear friends,
Although I don't usually send out these types of e-mails, I am so disturbed by the upcoming Canadian Seal Hunt, I can barely sleep at nights just thinking about those poor baby seals.
If you don't know much about this senseless massacre, please educate yourself now, join me and millions of others, in the fight against this slaughter.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, TAKE ACTION, SIGN THIS PLEDGE: https://community.hsus.org/campaign/protectseals/?qp_source=gabaoi
EDUCATE YOURSELF, CLICK HERE: https://community.hsus.org/campaign/protectseals/?qp_source=gabaoi
I hope that after reading through this material, you too, will be moved to do put an end to this cruelty.
Thank you for your support.
Elizabeth
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A message from Eleanor:
Ten mins ago - 56% Yes to 38% No - it's improving!!!!! Thanks to you Ria, for sending this on!
As I send this, the poll is showing 47% for us and 46% for the sealers from
4888 votes. Please take a moment to vote on this
http://news.sympatico.msn.ca/National/#PS
Please vote YES to ending the seal hunt. Please sign this and pass it along to all with whom you may be acquainted. Thanks.
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THE CRUEL SEAL HUNT
http://www.ProtectSeals.org
Canada's cruel seal slaughter begins today More than 300.000 animals to be killed for their fur.
"A sealer near us quickly clubbed every seal within a small radius, to immobilize each of the pups, and then dragged the bodies to the center of his circle. One by one he flipped a seal on its back and skinned it. If the seal flipped around or fought against the skinning he'd flip it back to its stomach, club it several more times and then finish the skinning."
IFAW Seal Hunt Monitor International Fund for Animal Welfare
Seal Hunt Photos: http://www.hsus2.org/slideshow-seal-hunt/sealhunt.html
HELP STOP THIS CRIME - TAKE ACTION
SEALS MASSACRE - VIDEOS AND PHOTOS:
http://www.hsus2.org/slideshow-seal-hunt/sealhunt.html http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=canada_seal_hunt http://stream.realimpact.net/?file=realimpact/hsus/e-community/seal-hunt-press-conference.wmv&type=wmv http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/a_time_to_mourn_and_to_fight.html
TAKE ACTION: http://www.ProtectSeals.org https://community.hsus.org/campaign/harper_protectseals_2/
Trouble with links or images? View this message online: http://hsus.ga4.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=3741739
The cruel hunt has begun.
At daylight this morning, the first baby seal was killed for her fur on Canadian ice. It was heartbreaking to watch, but bearing witness to this cruelty -- and exposing it to the world -- is essential if we are finally to end this slaughter.
I am now in Canada, leading a skilled team of experts from The Humane Society of United States to the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. We are here once again to document the horrifying abuses inflicted by sealers, abuses that violate Canada's own laws.
We are also here to bear witness to the brutality that is perfectly legal and acceptable in the eyes of the Canadian government: the bludgeoning, shooting, and skinning of hundreds of thousands of baby seals. Just two weeks ago, I was on the ice with Heather and Paul McCartney, watching these same seals nursing and playing with their mothers. Heather and Paul were so moved by their beauty and innocence that they made a public plea to the Canadian government to ban the hunt forever.
The hunt has begun. Take action today.
Help save the baby seals by contacting Canada's Prime Minister and urging him to put an end to the hunt. Your simple act could help end the seal hunt forever. Even if you've previously written to him, please email him again today.
We can make the Canadian government stop this hunt. But it will require unrelenting pressure from people like you and me, who constantly tell Canada that we will not stand idly by while hunters kill these baby seals. On this tragic day, I urge you to join me in stopping the seal hunt forever. Take action now.
Tell Prime Minister Harper to stop the seal hunt. Say that you will not buy Canadian seafood. Click here. With the recent election of Prime Minister Harper we have a new chance to convince the Canadian government that the price of continuing the seal hunt is too high to pay. Your message to the Prime Minister, urging him to stop the hunt and letting him know that your dollars will not support the slaughter of baby seals, is critical to the success of our fight to protect seals. Even if you've previously written to him, I ask you to write him again today.
Donate to put an end to the hunt for good. Your generous donation today will bring us closer to ending this hunt forever. It will exclusively support our ProtectSeals Campaign. With that support we can go head to head with the fishing industry and the Canadian government as we create a public outcry so loud -- and an international boycott so effective -- that Canada will no longer be able to ignore it. Simply click here to make a donation to our ProtectSeals campaign today.
I want to thank you so much for your commitment to saving the seals. Remember that you can stay in touch with the campaign with up-to-the-minute news, videos, and actions throughout the hunt at http://www.ProtectSeals.org.
Your action and donation today truly make a difference in our ongoing efforts to end the seal hunt.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Aldworth
Director of Canadian Wildlife Issues
The Humane Society of the United States
P.S. Please don't forget to tell all your friends and family about how they can help seals today. Simply click here to spread the word.
Copyright © 2006 The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) |
All Rights Reserved. The Humane Society of the United States | 2100 L Street, NW | Washington, DC 20037 Protect-Seals@hsus.org | 202-452-1100 | http://www.hsus.org
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Seal Hunt Ecologically Irresponsible
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0330-32.htm
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HELP!
http://www.savesandiegoseals.com
Hello friends,
I join Coreen and Agnes in raising my voice in this campaign. Request you too join, sign this and also cross post. Thanks.
Thanks Coreen.
Thanks Agnes.
Light and peace
Abid
Original Message:
fwd: PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE, COREEN HAS SENT THIS OFF AND I JOIN HER ASKING FOR HELP FOR THE SEALS... PLEASE DO HELP! NO DRILLING IS REQUIRED, NO REMOVAL OF OUR BABY SEALS, PLEASE DO CPOST AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, IN THE GROUPS, ACTIVISTS, EVERYWHERE! PLEASE! THANKS.
Original Message:
HELP! http://www.savesandiegoseals.com
DEAR FRIENDS, PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD THIS PETITION. HELP THESE SEALS OF LA JOLLA,CA. KEEP THEIR HOME TO RAISE THEIR YOUNG. THE GREEDY WANT TO DREDGE CASA BEACH. WE HAVE ENOUGH COASTLINE! PLEASE BE THEIR VOICE. THEY WILL THANKYOU WITH THEIR INNOCENCE AND BEAUTY AND JOY OF LIVING.
THANK YOU.
PLEASE SIGN
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/549405801
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Stop the Killing of Seals in Canada
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/236982184
Canadian Seal Hunt
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/263683224
From Linda H.
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Stars and seals
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1799784/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=seals
The Frontlines of the Seal Slaughter
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1808130/
ACTION AGAINST CANADIAN SEAL SLAUGHTER
Dr. Jerry Vlasak in prison and on hunger strike for Canadian Seals
PLEASE CALL THE COURT HOUSE TO VOICE YOUR OUTRAGE! PLEASE HELP JERRY VLASAK (see story below) GET OUT OF JAIL!
BACKGROUND:
Anti-Sealing Activist in Jail on Hunger Strike (since Monday, March 27, 2006)
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada - Dr. Jerry Vlasak, one of three press officers with the North American Animal Liberation Press Office (NAALPO) remains in jail on a hunger strike in Charlottetown, PEI. He was jailed Monday in protest of the unjust conviction stemming from last year's seal slaughter in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the egregious massacre of the seals that are right now being mercilessly killed for greed and profit. Arrested in March of last year, Dr. Jerry Vlasak and ten other anti-sealing activists were charged with and convicted of violating the blatantly inappropriately named "Canadian Seal Protection Act" after approaching within a half a nautical mile in an attempt to film a seal killer. They refused to pay the fine and were sentenced.
March 31st, 2005, eleven activists went out onto the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to attempt to film the futility and cruelty of killing baby seals killed, ostensibly for their negative impact on the codfish population- but in reality to pander to the European fur trade and the Asian market for aphrodisiacs; Dr. Vlasak was punched in the nose and 10 others were violently assaulted by the captain and crew of the Brady Mariner from Newfoundland. Despite extensive video documentation of the assault, none of the seal killers were ever arrested or charged.
A worldwide boycott of Atlantic Canadian seafood products supported by a number of conservationist groups has cost the Canadian economy tens of millions of dollars - far in excess of the value of the skins and penises sold to drape narcissistic Russian princesses or to facilitate the erections of impotent men in Asia. But the Canadian government continues to subsidize the slaughter by providing spotter planes and icebreakers, which cut the deadly swath through the floes directly to the baby seal nursery. This support continues despite the fact that the majority of Canadian citizens oppose the hunt and are embarrassed by the worldwide publicity engendered by the likes of Sir Paul and Lady Heather McCartney.
Dr. Vlasak said from Charlottetown before his incarceration on Monday: "Three-fourths of all newborn seals may have already perished in the Gulf of St. Lawrence due to record warm weather's melting the ice from beneath them. Meanwhile, the violent barbarians are bludgeoning the survivors to death at this very moment. The pathetic murderers of Newfoundland must be stopped.
For more information- to be added to the NAALPO list serve- or to obtain footage and photographs of the seal kill - please call or e-mail the North American Animal Liberation Press Office. 21044 Sherman Way #211 Canoga Park CA 91302 phone: 818.932-9997 fax: 818.932-9998 press@animalliberationpressoffice.org http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org
National Press Officers: Lindy Greene-Southwest
Camille Hankins-New York
Jerry Vlasak MD-Los Angeles
What you can do:
CALL THE JUDGE. The (Provincial Court) Judge Nancy Orr is at Phone: 902.368.6740 or 6741
Jail Phone: 902.368.4590 direct extension to the ward is x 5837 (Gary Trainer is the assistant warden.) The Provincial Court: 902.368.6741
CALL/CONTACT Prime Minister Stephen Harper Phone 613.992.4211 Fax 613.941.6900
(All numbers are in Canada)
1. Please call and voice your outrage at the jailing of someone who is simply trying to expose what really happens to those young seals on the Canadian ice floes.
2. Demand the court release him with time served and the REAL CRIMINALS be jailed instead!
PROTEST THE CANADIAN SEAL SLAUGHTER
Call/write/e-mail:
Ms. Pamela Wallin Canadian Consul General New York The Canadian Consulate General, 1251 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020-1175 <>Tel: 212-596-1628 Fax: 212-596-1790 e-mail: pamela.wallin@international.gc.ca
Pamela's Executive Assistant, Heather: heather.ursu@international.gc.ca
An interesting fact from their website, please consider referring to this in your correspondence:
"Annual trade between the three states (NY, NJ and Connecticut) and Canada has soared to almost $50 billion (U.S.). That's up almost 300 per cent over a 12-year period and would, if this region were a country, be enough to make it Canada's second-largest trading partner."
BOYCOTT ALL CANDIAN PRODUCTS:
Tell GNP (Great Northern Seafood Products), a U.S. Company, that specializes in the importation of Canadian Seafood that you are boycotting all Canadian products.
For more information about GNP (Great Northern Products) visit: http://www.northernproducts.com/
Great Northern Products Ltd. PO Box 7622 Warwick, Rhode Island USA 02887 Phone: 401-821-2400 Fax: 401-821-2419 e-mail: info@northernproducts.com
For more info contact Win Animal Rights at: centcom@war-online.org or visit our website at: http://war-online.org
Informant: Ima Vegan
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The Seal Hunt Has Begun - Now We Need Your Friends' Help!
Thank you for signing the petition telling Canada to speak the truth about the seal hunt.
But we still need more support!
Please send your friends this link to the petition to help even more: http://go.care2.com/e/JoI/Jt/n5lW
The seal hunt has begun - yet the Canadian government still hasn't come clean with the truth: that the hunt has little economic benefits and horrific cruelty to seals.
As reported in the BBC, the hunt's resurrection in recent years is mainly tied to fashion - where seal fur has become politically acceptable to wear again in countries like China, Russia and Norway.
Which is why we need as many voices as we can muster to get the truth out about the hunt. Consumers need to be informed about the horrific cost of life involved in purchasing a non-essential fashion item like seal fur. Send this link to your friends to demand that Canada come clean to the world about the true nature of the seal hunt: http://go.care2.com/e/JoI/Jt/n5lW
Thanks for your help saving baby seals today.
Lauren Alvarez Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team
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Please visit and send your friends this link to the petition to help even more: http://go.care2.com/e/JoH/Jt/DIXj
As you know, the seal hunt has begun - yet the Canadian government still hasn't come clean with the truth: that the hunt has little economic benefits and horrific cruelty to seals.
As reported in the BBC, the hunt's resurrection in recent years is mainly tied to fashion - where seal fur has become politically acceptable to wear again in countries like China, Russia and Norway.
Which is why we need as many voices as we can muster to get the truth out about the hunt. Consumers need to be informed about the horrific cost of life involved in purchasing a non-essential fashion item like seal fur. Send this link to your friends to demand that Canada come clean to the world about the true nature of the seal hunt: http://go.care2.com/e/JoH/Jt/DIXj
Thanks for your help saving baby seals today.
Lauren Alvarez
Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team.
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ProtectSeals update: HSUS teams harassed by sealers in Canada
http://community.hsus.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=3744274
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Latest on Canada's seal hunt
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11994476/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11995040/
Sign Pam Anderson's Canadian Seal Petition
http://getactive.peta.org/ct/k1SOQpp1mmbR/
Seal Slaughter: Canada, Tell the Truth!
http://www.omega-news.info/seal_slaughter_canada_tell_the_truth.htm
Right now on the sparkling ice floes of Eastern Canada, hundreds of thousands of baby seals are about to die.
In just a few short days, seals as young as 12 days of age will be clubbed and beaten. Others will be shot with a rifle in open water, fighting for their lives … many left to suffocate under the ice or be pulled onto boats with sharp metal hooks.
95% of the seals killed will be less than three months old. Some will even be skinned alive. But there’s still time to help.
If you were to witness the seal hunt personally, your heart would break.
There is no economic or environmental reason to justify Canada’s commercial seal hunt. This is a cruel and unnecessary hunt, opposed by the majority of Canadians. This government supported hunt isn’t designed to promote science or meaningful employment for Newfoundlanders, it’s designed to gain votes for politicians.
Most seal pups lay on the ice alone and helpless, crying in anguish before they are violently cut down. During the past 30 years, IFAW hunt observers have continued to witness and document severe cruelty at the hunt.
All this to produce less than one percent of the Newfoundland GDP and, by the government’s own calculations, about $1,000 per sealer per year. A hunt that is nationally and internationally offensive is of no use to today’s Newfoundland and a progressive Canada trying to build a reputation for first-class environmental tourism.
Canada’s government is counting on your silence
World-leading marine scientists agree that the current high quotas for killing seals are putting the harp seal population at serious risk of being depleted. As many seals are killed today as during the 1950’s and 60’s when commercial sealers significantly reduced the seal population.
You helped raise a global outcry that stopped the killing of whitecoat baby seals in the 1980’s. But baby seals as young as 12 days old are still being left to suffer a lingering death besides piles of seal bodies rotting on the bloody ice after their fur is removed.
Read further under:
http://www.stopthesealhunt.com/site/pp.asp?c=hmKYJeNVJtF&b=1469095&msource=DR060302001&tr=y&auid=1492294
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Take Action! Tell Canada to Put an End to the Seal Hunt
http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=89
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A message from Eleanor:
Has gone up from 56% to 59% for the vote to ban the slaughter in just the last while! So please sign and forward!!!!
Lots of love!
Eleanor
Original Message:
URGENT POLL FOR THE SEALS, PLEASE FORWARD ALSO TO YOUR FRIENDS. THANK YOU RIA S.
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/poll/poll.asp
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A message from Abid
ADD YOUR CANDLE AND SEND THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS - FOR THE SEALS, PRAYING SLAUGHTER WILL BE INTERRUPTED. LORD, MAKE HUMANS UNDERSTAND WE ARE NOT HERE FOR FUR. GOD, PLEASE PROTECT US, THE SEALS.
Original Message:
Subject: Candlelight Vigil for Seals TOMORROW!
Old friends and new friends:
Austin's animal advocacy group, ACTION FOR ANIMALS, will be holding a candlelight vigil on Wednesday, March 15, from 7-9 PM on the southside of the Capitol (11th and Congress) to protest the cruel and senseless Canadian seal hunt. ACTION FOR ANIMALS will be joining other animal and environmental protection groups all over the world for the International Day of Protest against the Canadian seal hunt.
Beginning March 29, sealers will take to the ice of the North Atlantic wielding clubs, hakapiks, and guns clubbing and shooting to death over 300,000 seals just days or weeks of age, skinning them alive and their corpses left to rot on the bloody ice of Canada.
Don't let this hunt happen! Join us for a peaceful candlelight vigil to mourn the seals who will be murdered solely for their fur/pelt to be sold in the European fashion industry.
The press release has been sent to the local media. Now, the effectiveness of this vigil will depend on a great attendance! If there is only one function you attend this year to make a huge impact in ending the senseless cruelty to defenseless animals, let ACTION FOR ANIMAL's candlelight vigil to protest the Canadian seal hunt be that one!
Please contact Timothy at tverret@earthlink.net or 719-4374 if you have any questions and/or to lend your support by responding "yes, I will attend this important vigil for the seals!" If you cannot make it, please make a decision to boycott Canadian seafood until this hunt is abolished.
Please forward this information to all your friends and colleagues!
The seals are counting on us!
http://www.protectseals.org
http://www.harpseals.org
http://www.seashepherd.org
Timothy J. Verret
The lives of animals are woven into our very being-closer than our own breathing-and our souls will suffer when they are gone. -Gary Kowalski http://www.actionforanimalsaustin.org
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The international campaign to stop the merciless killing of newborn seals has now reached a stage where there is a very good chance of success. Along with the huge support it has achieved across the globe, it has also drawn in two of the worlds best known people: Paul McCartney and his wife Heather.
Our online petition has now reached 78,000 signatures. It is easy to sign, hosted on the web by the Humane Society of the United States. Our target before the end of this month is 150,000 signatures. Please can you help us by forwarding this mail to as many of your friends as possible?
To make it easier for you the Humane Society of the United States has an online petition, which you can read and sign, spending only a few minutes of your time. Today, the 15th of March, 2006 we have reached over 78,000 signatures and our target is 150,000. Please, could you take the time to visit this site and read the petition and sign it if you agree with us?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/566342047?ltl=1141555333
Please visit this site to read more: http://www.hsus.org/
Sincerely, For All that is Good in the World, Keith Varady. (Founder) http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/EarthForceUnited "With Knowledge comes Power. With Power comes the Responsibility to use it Wisely." Keith Michael Varady.
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From Eleanor
Original Message:
HI DEAR FRIENDS, THIS IS A CTV CANADIAN POLL FOR THE SEALS,
PLEASE VOTE NO, BECAUSE A LOT OF CANADIANS SEEM TO VOTE TO BE IN FAVOR FOR THE SEALHUNT.
PLEASE PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, THANK YOU, Ria S.
http://www.ctv.ca/canadaam
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Seals are Crying
Dear Friends
I thought I had signed everything and done everything for the seals this year but I hadn't signed this particular petition and I hadn't e-mailed the PM. And I have still to contact the Canadian Embassy! So please check in case the same thing is with you! Thanks Altug for forwarding this!!
Eleanor
Please sign:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/263683224
Please contact Prime Minister Harper to put an end to this brutal hunt:
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/harper_protectseals?source=gaban5
Photos:
http://photos.signonsandiego.com/gallery1.5/seals
Canadian Embassies:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/canada-europa/mundi/country-en.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/world/menu-en.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/middle_east/countries-en.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/latin-america/latinamerica/country_info/default-en.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/asia/main/country/country-en.asp
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Thank you for signing the petition telling Canada to speak the truth about the seal hunt.
But we still need more support!
Please send your friends this link to the petition to help even more: http://go.care2.com/e/j4Y/ji/n5lW
The seal hunt is slated to begin in a matter of days and the Canadian government has still not come clean with with truth: that the hunt holds little economic benefit for Canada and demonstrates horrific cruelty towards seals.
Please forward this link to your friends to help stop the hunt before it's too late: http://go.care2.com/e/j4Y/ji/n5lW
Thanks for your help saving baby seals today.
Lauren Alvarez Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team
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TEARFUL BARDOT BEGS CANADA TO SCRAP SEAL HUNT
By David Ljunggren
With additional reporting by Deborah Gembara
Reuters
March 22, 2006
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=11616382&src=rss/scienceNews
OTTAWA - French film star turned animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot tearfully begged Canada on Wednesday to stop the annual harp seal hunt, during which about 325,000 young seal pups will be shot or beaten to death.
"Before I die I want to see this massacre ended," she told a news conference, sitting in front of a poster that showed a giant seal clubbing a blood-covered human baby.
The hunt, which takes place on ice floes off the coast of eastern Canada, is due to start on Friday or Saturday. Ottawa denies the hunt is cruel and says it helps the local economy while keeping the seal population healthy and in check.
To try to stop the hunt each year, activists release gory pictures of hunters crushing seal skulls with big clubs. Anti-hunt campaigners are calling on some major U.S. restaurant chains to boycott Canadian seafood until the hunt stops.
Bardot, who started campaigning against the hunt some 30 years ago, cried quietly as aides played a video showing graphic shots of young seals screaming in agony and drowning in their own blood after being attacked by hunters.
"Canada is a rich country. It doesn't need to sell skin, oil, fat and powdered seal penises to make aphrodisiacs for countries in Asia ... you cannot continue a genocide of animals like this," said the 71-year-old actress, who peppered her comments with expletives.
Harp seals can be legally hunted once they shed their white coats at about two weeks, though they are not usually hunted until at least a week later.
Canada says the seal population is almost six million, nearly triple the level of the 1970s.
"For outsiders to come and tell sealers that they don't need to participate in an activity that feeds their families shows a deep misunderstanding of the issues," said Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for Canada's federal fisheries ministry.
Earlier this month, former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife ventured out on to an ice floe and posed with young seals to try to persuade Prime Minister Stephen Harper to scrap the hunt.
Harper turned down a request to meet Bardot, who wrote him an open letter in which she said "Only imbeciles don't change their minds."
Officials and sealers say the ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is so poor this year that hunters will not be able to kill many seals with clubs and will have to shoot them instead.
"We are kind of worried because the ice is not too good and they are drifting outside the Gulf," said seal hunter Jean-Claude LaPierre.
"We flew over it in a helicopter and there are quite a few seals that went out on the Atlantic," he told Reuters Television in Prince Edward Island.
Informant: NHNE
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Re: "I am so disturbed by the upcoming Canadian Seal Hunt..." (TAKE ACTION NOW!!!)
ALL RIGHT LIZZY!!!!
WELCOME TO MY WORLD OF ACTIVISM. I WILL IMMEDIATELY PASS THIS ON TO ALL IN MY LISTS.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION...AND CONCERN.
Jack Topel
Elizabeth wrote:
Dear friends,
Although I don't usually send out these types of e-mails, I am so disturbed by the upcoming Canadian Seal Hunt, I can barely sleep at nights just thinking about those poor baby seals.
If you don't know much about this senseless massacre, please educate yourself now, join me and millions of others, in the fight against this slaughter.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, TAKE ACTION, SIGN THIS PLEDGE: https://community.hsus.org/campaign/protectseals/?qp_source=gabaoi
EDUCATE YOURSELF, CLICK HERE: https://community.hsus.org/campaign/protectseals/?qp_source=gabaoi
I hope that after reading through this material, you too, will be moved to do put an end to this cruelty.
Thank you for your support.
Elizabeth
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A message from Eleanor:
Ten mins ago - 56% Yes to 38% No - it's improving!!!!! Thanks to you Ria, for sending this on!
As I send this, the poll is showing 47% for us and 46% for the sealers from
4888 votes. Please take a moment to vote on this
http://news.sympatico.msn.ca/National/#PS
Please vote YES to ending the seal hunt. Please sign this and pass it along to all with whom you may be acquainted. Thanks.
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THE CRUEL SEAL HUNT
http://www.ProtectSeals.org
Canada's cruel seal slaughter begins today More than 300.000 animals to be killed for their fur.
"A sealer near us quickly clubbed every seal within a small radius, to immobilize each of the pups, and then dragged the bodies to the center of his circle. One by one he flipped a seal on its back and skinned it. If the seal flipped around or fought against the skinning he'd flip it back to its stomach, club it several more times and then finish the skinning."
IFAW Seal Hunt Monitor International Fund for Animal Welfare
Seal Hunt Photos: http://www.hsus2.org/slideshow-seal-hunt/sealhunt.html
HELP STOP THIS CRIME - TAKE ACTION
SEALS MASSACRE - VIDEOS AND PHOTOS:
http://www.hsus2.org/slideshow-seal-hunt/sealhunt.html http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=canada_seal_hunt http://stream.realimpact.net/?file=realimpact/hsus/e-community/seal-hunt-press-conference.wmv&type=wmv http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/a_time_to_mourn_and_to_fight.html
TAKE ACTION: http://www.ProtectSeals.org https://community.hsus.org/campaign/harper_protectseals_2/
Trouble with links or images? View this message online: http://hsus.ga4.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=3741739
The cruel hunt has begun.
At daylight this morning, the first baby seal was killed for her fur on Canadian ice. It was heartbreaking to watch, but bearing witness to this cruelty -- and exposing it to the world -- is essential if we are finally to end this slaughter.
I am now in Canada, leading a skilled team of experts from The Humane Society of United States to the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. We are here once again to document the horrifying abuses inflicted by sealers, abuses that violate Canada's own laws.
We are also here to bear witness to the brutality that is perfectly legal and acceptable in the eyes of the Canadian government: the bludgeoning, shooting, and skinning of hundreds of thousands of baby seals. Just two weeks ago, I was on the ice with Heather and Paul McCartney, watching these same seals nursing and playing with their mothers. Heather and Paul were so moved by their beauty and innocence that they made a public plea to the Canadian government to ban the hunt forever.
The hunt has begun. Take action today.
Help save the baby seals by contacting Canada's Prime Minister and urging him to put an end to the hunt. Your simple act could help end the seal hunt forever. Even if you've previously written to him, please email him again today.
We can make the Canadian government stop this hunt. But it will require unrelenting pressure from people like you and me, who constantly tell Canada that we will not stand idly by while hunters kill these baby seals. On this tragic day, I urge you to join me in stopping the seal hunt forever. Take action now.
Tell Prime Minister Harper to stop the seal hunt. Say that you will not buy Canadian seafood. Click here. With the recent election of Prime Minister Harper we have a new chance to convince the Canadian government that the price of continuing the seal hunt is too high to pay. Your message to the Prime Minister, urging him to stop the hunt and letting him know that your dollars will not support the slaughter of baby seals, is critical to the success of our fight to protect seals. Even if you've previously written to him, I ask you to write him again today.
Donate to put an end to the hunt for good. Your generous donation today will bring us closer to ending this hunt forever. It will exclusively support our ProtectSeals Campaign. With that support we can go head to head with the fishing industry and the Canadian government as we create a public outcry so loud -- and an international boycott so effective -- that Canada will no longer be able to ignore it. Simply click here to make a donation to our ProtectSeals campaign today.
I want to thank you so much for your commitment to saving the seals. Remember that you can stay in touch with the campaign with up-to-the-minute news, videos, and actions throughout the hunt at http://www.ProtectSeals.org.
Your action and donation today truly make a difference in our ongoing efforts to end the seal hunt.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Aldworth
Director of Canadian Wildlife Issues
The Humane Society of the United States
P.S. Please don't forget to tell all your friends and family about how they can help seals today. Simply click here to spread the word.
Copyright © 2006 The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) |
All Rights Reserved. The Humane Society of the United States | 2100 L Street, NW | Washington, DC 20037 Protect-Seals@hsus.org | 202-452-1100 | http://www.hsus.org
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Seal Hunt Ecologically Irresponsible
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0330-32.htm
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HELP!
http://www.savesandiegoseals.com
Hello friends,
I join Coreen and Agnes in raising my voice in this campaign. Request you too join, sign this and also cross post. Thanks.
Thanks Coreen.
Thanks Agnes.
Light and peace
Abid
Original Message:
fwd: PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE, COREEN HAS SENT THIS OFF AND I JOIN HER ASKING FOR HELP FOR THE SEALS... PLEASE DO HELP! NO DRILLING IS REQUIRED, NO REMOVAL OF OUR BABY SEALS, PLEASE DO CPOST AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, IN THE GROUPS, ACTIVISTS, EVERYWHERE! PLEASE! THANKS.
Original Message:
HELP! http://www.savesandiegoseals.com
DEAR FRIENDS, PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD THIS PETITION. HELP THESE SEALS OF LA JOLLA,CA. KEEP THEIR HOME TO RAISE THEIR YOUNG. THE GREEDY WANT TO DREDGE CASA BEACH. WE HAVE ENOUGH COASTLINE! PLEASE BE THEIR VOICE. THEY WILL THANKYOU WITH THEIR INNOCENCE AND BEAUTY AND JOY OF LIVING.
THANK YOU.
PLEASE SIGN
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/549405801
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Stop the Killing of Seals in Canada
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/236982184
Canadian Seal Hunt
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/263683224
From Linda H.
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Stars and seals
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1799784/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=seals
rudkla - 14. Mär, 22:29
