Persecution of Animal Rights Activists

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PERSECUTION OF ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS Forwarded from Marek in the Czech Republic. Dear friends,As many of you will have heard, we have launched a big internationalcampaign against the persecution of animal protection activists inAustria. The campaign has a website on which the background of the humanrights scandal is exposed in 22 different languages and readers areencouraged to send a protest letter to the Austrian politicians. We havealso launched a chain campaign, as part of which there is at least onepublic protest in one country taking place every week.There are two ways in which you can support the campaign:1. Please spread the website www.shameonaustria.org (or your languageversion, which you will get by selecting your language in the top menu)wherever you can - emails, blogs, websites, social network sites etc.Please help us achieve the target of 100,000 visitors and 10,000 emailssent!2. If you can, take part in the chain campaign by organizing a creativeprotest action in your country. Write an email toenglish (AT) shameonaustria (DOT) org so that we can work out the details.This campaign is extremely important not only for the persecuted activistsbut also for the future of the animal protection movement. We need to beable to defend our colleagues against illegitimate state attacks,otherwise it will be a signal to other states that we are weak and thatthey can do whatever they want.Thanks for your support,Marek VorsilkaCampaign Coordinator .