Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Do you remember our global climate rally post of 17^th September ?

: https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/global-climate-rallies-1500-in-many-countries-read-on-links-to-nations-towns-and-cities-for-events/

Well below is the result of global action – a short video of the events and a message from the Avaaz team.  Congratulations to everyone who took time to get involved with this vital campaign.

Next stop, 12^th December – See below !

SAV

If things dont change, the shape of things to come ? ! ? !

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Click here to see the video of this amazing movement in action: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/sept21_hub

Dear all,

Wow. Monday’s Wake Up call was unbelievable – 2632 events in 134 countries, tens of thousands of phone calls crashing government lines, unbelievable creativity and diversity of events, directly reaching heads of state and cabinet ministers from Australia to Europe. Words can’t describe it, this video gets close:

Click here to watch the video.

The Wake Up call was covered by hundreds of major news outlets and made the evening news everywhere from Germany to New Zealand. Europe’s environment chief praised “the mobilisation of so many people by Avaaz.org”, the UK Prime Minister became the first major world leader to agree to our demand to go to Copenhagen and said that with “the pressure that can brought by organizations like yours…what people think is impossible can become possible”.

The Spanish environment minister called the action “extraordinary”.

World leaders have heard us. But as Tuesday’s UN summit showed, one day of action won’t be enough to get real progress on climate. We need to come back again and again, louder and louder, until we get a fair, ambitious and binding climate treaty.

We’ll keep the pressure high through the TCKTCKTCK campaign until Copenhagen, with another global day of action on October 24th, and start planning right now for the LARGEST CLIMATE MOBILIZATION IN HISTORY ON DECEMBER 12th, in the final days of the Copenhagen negotiations.

Avaaz is now 3.6 million members strong in 14 languages, in every country of the world. On Monday, our movement took a huge step forward — we showed that we can not only send millions of messages to leaders or donate millions to worthy causes, but that in just a few days we can flood the streets and crash phone lines from Mexico City to Mumbai.

If we stick together, anything is possible.

With hope and excitement for the future,

Ricken, Ben, Paul, Milena, Alice, Luis, Brett, Taren, Margaret, Iain, Pascal, Graziela, Paula, Benjamin, Rajeev, Veronique, Raluca, Julius, Yuri, Saravanan, Vladimir, Tihomir, Sam, Emma and the whole Avaaz team

PS – the video above was made from over 10,000 wake up call pictures and 600 videos uploaded to Avaaz in just 24 hours! There were many tears among people making the video as we saw the amazing dedication of everyone, from the Avaaz community to our TCKTCKTCK campaign partners to people joining the first climate action of their lives.

Click here to see the video of this amazing movement in action: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/sept21_hub

Check out some great global warming pictures – what could be !! – at:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funnypictures/ig/Funny-Global-Warming-Pictures/Statue-of-Liberty.htm

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Make it happen.

Support the Catalonian people and say ‘enough’!

Polls repeatedly show that this is NOT a tradition most Catalonians are proud of. This year, over 180,000 Catalonian citizens have united behind the Prou (‘enough’) campaign, demanding an end to the bloody cruelty of bullfighting in their region.

The Prou campaign calls for a modification to Catalonian animal protection law, which currently safeguards all animals except the bulls and horses used in bullfights.

Overwhelming public support has forced the Catalonian Parliament to schedule a vote on removing the exemption; it will take place later in 2009.

A ‘yes’ vote for animal welfare in this key region would be a groundbreaking step towards making bullfighting history across Spain.

Take ACTION

Access the following link and complete the few, simple details.

http://e-activist.com/eacampaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=24&ea.campaign.id=3861&ea.param.extras=Source:eaction&j=9778294&e=cvfa.uk@virgin.net&l=118347_HTML&u=81655722&mid=52985&jb=0

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SAV Comment:

SUPPORT IS NEEDED FROM ANIMAL WELFARE CAMPAIGNERS THE WORLD OVER TO SHOW THE CATALONIAN PEOPLE WE SUPPORT THEM. 

WHEREVER YOU LIVE, PLEASE TAKE ACTION via the above link.

Thanks – SAV

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Photo: IFAW

Great news!

Thanks to the immediate response of our supporters, the dog cull in Qinhuangdao has been averted.

The details are still coming in – but it’s clear that the government in Qinhuangdao felt the pressure from IFAW supporters around the world. Public notices and government web site postings announcing the cull have been taken down.

If you ever wondered whether one person can make a difference – well, this is proof that they can!

We will be keeping a close eye on the area until we are convinced that no dogs will be harmed in the future. Many locals sent their pets away to friends and family in order to protect them, and we want to make sure Qinhuangdao remains a safe place for them to return.

You see, local government officials often resort to dog culls because China has no rabies prevention program or animal welfare legislation. A single case of rabies can create a panic – leading to calls for a mass dog slaughter at anytime.

That’s why it’s so important for IFAW to establish vaccination and sterilization programs within China to control overpopulation and disease – before more culls are called for.

 I’m so proud of what we were able to achieve for these dogs. I want to thank all of our animal friends like you for helping to prevent such tragic and needless suffering, and for making today such a wonderful day for animals.

Sincerely,
Fred O’Regan
IFAW President

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SAV Comment:

Well done everyone who took part in this campaign.

As we have always said, just like the need for a programme in Serbia, China needs to adopt vaccination and sterilization programs to control overpopulation and disease.

We say a programme is required to reduce animal numbers; IFAW say the same; so why do governments not get the message and act ? ! ? !

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