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news release
 Whaling
menace highlights importance of Candlelit Procession for Animal Rights
With Japanese whalers setting off to persecute humpback whales, there
has never been a more important time for people across the globe to join
together to defend animals from such merciless brutality. At this crucial
time, Uncaged's Candlelit
Procession for Animal Rights in London on Sunday 9 December is providing
fresh impetus to the international movement. Please join us in speaking
out for animal rights.
The Candlelit Procession in London is the centrepiece of this year's International
Animal Rights Day (IARD), which is now commemorated annually
on or around 10th December. This innovative and positive event is inspiring
new activists in the UK as well as campaigners across the globe. Animal
advocates from Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Croatia
are showing amazing support by travelling to London for the Candlelit
Procession.
International Solidarity
Uncaged will also be promoting international animal rights solidarity
by broadcasting video messages of support from campaigners across the
globe via a giant TV screen. Canadian group Animal Liberties say:
"In support of International Animal Rights Day, and in solidarity
with Uncaged and all the participating animal rights groups around
the world, we'll be holding a candlelit vigil in downtown Montreal
to remember all the animals who have suffered and died at the hands
of humans."
Famous poet Benjamin Zephaniah, who is a patron of Uncaged, has also
recorded a message of support:
"Animals cannot speak for themselves, so we must speak for them.
Stand firm - think of the animals - remember why we do
this."
Putting Animals into Politics
Uncaged launched IARD back in 1998, with the aim of promoting informed
public debate and building global recognition of the Universal
Declaration of Animal Rights. In pursuit of that mission, the goals
of the Candlelit Procession in Central London on Sunday 9 December 2007
are:
- to remember the billions of innocent animals who have endured outrages
like factory farming and animal testing
- to peacefully demonstrate the strength of public support for animal
rights
- to call for deep political changes so that recognition of animals
interests' is institutionalised in government.
Event Details
We will be assembling at 2.30pm at Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn,
Central London (WC2) for speeches and testimonials from animal rights
activists around the world broadcast on a giant TV screen. (Click here for
a map for Lincoln's Inn Fields). We will then move off at 4pm through
Central London with the giant TV screen showing a positive animal rights
presentation bringing up the rear of the procession, finishing just beyond
the Houses of Parliament.
- Please bring candles and lanterns!
- We do not have permission to have
placards and banners, nor loud-hailers, drums etc., so please do
not bring any. It will be dark so they won't be seen well anyway,
and the Big TV at the rear of the procession will be a very powerful
tool for publicising our animal rights message.
If you can't get to the London Procession, please hold a vigil,
stall or protest in your local area. Click here for
details.
Uncaged Campaigns 23.11.07 |
