Maria Daines
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1/5/2007 11:35:18 AM
ARAN Newsletter
http://www.ARAN.ie
Dear ARAN Friends,
This email is our way of reaching those of you who have made the most
generous commitment to furthering ARAN's work for animals here in Ireland
and around the world, you the members of our activist network. I have put
together some snippets of our work over the last few months in 2006, I hope
what you see will prove to you that the trust you have in ARAN is well
placed and it will also address some many issues you all care so deeply
about.
ARAN's campaign work goes nationwide, we don't have boundaries. Whether it's
staging an exciting but high profile demonstration or an advertisement or
campaign, every single day we win another battle against animal abuse worst
enemy, silence. Please take a look:-
* Stop Circus Suffering - our joint campaign with Animal Defenders
International (ADI) certainly is the largest most effective campaign we have
ever coordinated across the country. ARAN has organized dozens of peaceful
protests wherever and whenever the circus arrived, we have rolled huge
mobile billboards through Northern and Southern Ireland, staged local Stop
Circus Suffering campaign meetings, organized huge media campaigns that have
resulted in our ADI circus investigation into Irish circuses being broadcast
on three TV stations whilst resulting in countless coverage on every single
Northern & Southern Irish newspaper, radio station, several magazines,
internet websites and much more. As we push into 2007 we now launch a new
phase of the campaign that we will be rolling out over the coming weeks and
months, including our ongoing work to urge the Arts Council of Ireland to
stop funding animal act circuses. Our campaign is really making a
difference, we are reaching an endless amount of potential circuses goers
with our evidence that circuses with animals are cruel, we also show people
the exciting alternatives that do exist. ARAN & ADI's campaign are having a
major impact and we know you'll also agree with us on this. We are pushing
ahead in 2007 with our political ban on animals in Irish circuses. In 2007
we will continue on with our hugely popular 'Shackled, Lonely and Beaten'
circus campaign tour of the country, already this campaign has visited 6
cities from Limerick to Belfast resulting in massive amounts of media
exposure including TV coverage three times showing behind the scenes inside
circuses and the cruelty involved.
* Stop Canada's Seal Slaughter - every year since our formation, ARAN
has being staging high profile demonstrations outside the Canadian embassy
based in Dublin, our demonstrations are always well supported by you. Our
campaign has resulted in widespread media coverage. This year we lobbied
Irish MEP's with HSUS for them to sign the European Declaration that would
ban seal products coming into Europe, though cutting of the supply chain,
supported by over 400 MEP's who did sign the declaration indeed. We also
contacted Irish supermarkets and restaurants who may be buying Canadian
seafood and urged them to stop buying it. Boycott specialists now suggest
that the seafood boycott may possibly be the only way that may now stop the
hunt, again hitting them where it hurts. ARAN would like if the world
stopped eating sea life altogether as there are alternatives that exist. We
helped generate hundreds if not thousands of emails, letters, faxes and
phone calls to the Irish Canadian Embassy, we have also met with the Irish
Canadian Ambassador to Ireland and of course to the Canadian Prime Minister
based in Canada and staged a huge 'Stop Canada Killing Seals' event outside
the Bank of Ireland on Dame Street in Dublin resulting in huge amounts of
further support for the campaign. ARAN liaises with our colleagues from Sea
Shepherd, HSUS and Harpseals on the Canadian seal hunt campaign.
* Fur Free Ireland - ARAN has being highlighting the fur trade also
since our beginning. In 2006 we educated v
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