anti-bullfighting appeal

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"Patricia Tricker" <vegananti-bullfighting appeal Please take action and forward widely. This decision is said to be imminent and we need as much international attention as possible.================Appeal by Movimento Anti-Touradas de Portugalhttp://www.matp-online.org/-------------Please ask the Portuguese Government to drop the creation of abullfighting department in the future National Council of CultureSaturday 6 FebruaryThe MATP – The Portuguese Anti-Bullfighting Movement is aware that theMinistry of Culture is planning to create a bullfighting department inthe future National Council of Culture.The purpose of this Council and its departments is to be a consultingbody to issue opinions on the investment of public funds in the field ofculture, so we must oppose that our money, which is used for promotingPortuguese culture, may also be used for encouraging this businessfocused upon humiliating and exploiting animals.According to a recent Note, dated 3 Feb. 2010 from the Ministry ofCulture: “The National Council of Culture is a consulting collegial bodyto support the Ministry of Culture as well as its different organismsand services, and shall function both as a plenary body and inspecialized departments as well. Its legal basis foresees thepossibility of creating new specialized departments, which prerogativeshall be used in order to create the arts and the bullfighting departments.”So we are before something very, very serious, which is the use ofpublic funds for supporting an activity which is largely condemned bythe majority of the Portuguese population and of the internationalcommunity.Time has come for us all to say NO, IT’S ENOUGH ! We do not want thiscruelty and animal abuse business, namely bullfighting, to be fundedwith our money coming from our taxes!We do not want to be accomplices in this dirty move!Please sent an e-mail to the Portuguese Prime Minister; to theChief Minister of the Council of Ministers; to the Minister of Culture;with Cc to the Parliamentary Leaders of the 6 main political parties inthe Portuguese Parliament, requesting them to do something in order toavoid this going forward.Please send your e-mails direct to the Portuguese Government throughthe following addresses:pm;gab.mp;gmcwith cc to the various political parties in the Portuguese parliament:gp;gp_ps;gp_psd;gp_pp;bloco.esquerda;gp_pcp;pev.correio;and with Cc to the Portuguese Anti-Bullfighting Movement:matp Checked by AVG - www.avg.comVersion: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2691 - Release 02/16/10 07:35:00