Take Part in ARAN's 'Stop Circus Suffering in Ireland' Nationwide Week of Action

national | animal rights | event notice Wednesday July 11, 2007 21:18 by John Carmody - Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) arancampaigns at eircom dot net ARAN, Po Box 722 Kildare, Ireland 087-6275579

October 4th – 10th 2007 is world animal week. Here in Ireland, Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) will organize a nationwide week of action to support our joint ‘Stop Circus Suffering in Ireland’ campaign with our colleagues at Animal Defenders International (www.ad-international.org). Across the country there will be local campaigners gathering petitions, writing letters, contacting the media and staging peaceful protests outside of circuses that use animals. Never before has our campaign being so successful at highlighting the terrible conditions and the suffering animals endure in traveling circuses, people are refusing to support this cruelty, they are choosing different forms of ‘entertainment’, our message is simple – Ban Animal Act Circuses in Ireland.

ARAN & ADI Mobile Billboard Tours North & South of Ireland Exposing Circus Suffering

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On October 4th we are also staging a major demonstration outside the Department of Agriculture. We hope to have a huge inflatable elephant outside the doors of the department with a matching banner that reads ‘Stop Circus Suffering’, other members will hold similar posters that read ‘Stop Circus Suffering’ and we will also have ‘live’ video footage of circus cruelty and we are counting on you to be there with us on the day.

When: Thursday October 4th, 2007

Where: Department of Agriculture, Kildare Street

Time: 12noon – 2pm

Many of you are familiar with ARAN’s campaign to end the use of animals in Irish circuses. Our campaign continues to make headlines across the country exposing people to the suffering of animals in Irish circuses. We have ran huge mobile billboards across the country, continuing to stage highly creative demonstrations at various city’s across Ireland, lobbied the Irish Arts Council against their funding of Irish circuses, organize protests in many local towns and city’s, doing school talks, street theater, education and our local ‘Communities Against Animal Act Circuses’ initiative, local campaign meetings and much more.

It’s always so heartening when we put out appeals like this because you always continue to support our efforts, again please do you’re very best to make sure that you book the two hours off work to be there with us and many other caring people on October 4th to say Ireland does not want cruelty to animals and does not support circuses with animals.

We cannot overly state how thankful we are to you all for your ongoing determination to end cruelty to animals, because together we are all making the world of difference to those animals who count on each and everyone of us.