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Barcelona.– On the request of NGO ADDA the prestigious painter and essayist, Antoni Tàpies, signed on April 19, 2010 the declaration against bullfights in which he attests that he believes that bulls are animals possessing physical and mental sensibility and that bullfights inflict on these animals an atrocious suffering. The artist requests the Catalonian Parlament [...]
Lisbon (Portugal).-On April 10, 2010, a demonstration took place against the recently created department dedicated to promoting bullfihting in the Department of Culture. The demonstration was organized by several animal defence affiliations headed by ANIMAL and the Anti bullfighting Movement who represented the largest group of demonstrators, estimated at approximately 4.000. The marchers congregated in [...]
Madrid. – Fearing fall out from the proposed prohibition of bullfighting in Catalonia, Esperanza Aguirre (Madrid People’s Party) announced a few weeks ago his intention of declaring bullfights a ‘“Bien de Interés Cultural” (‘In the Interest of Culture) or “BIC”, a decision supported also by the Valencian Community and that of Murcia, both of the [...]
México.– On the occasion of the celebration of the month of the child, the “Mexican Antibullfighting Association”, has placed another spectacular advertisement in one of the busiest avenues of the city of Mexico, directed this time to children. The gigantic advertising board, which measures 13 by 7 meters will be displayed in the avenue for [...]
Nimes, Francia. -The French affiliation CRAC Europe, (Committee Radicalement Anticorrida), is gathering signatures across their web page against the pretension that the UNESCO, with its head office in Paris, declares that bullfights qualify as “Non material Patrimony of Humanity”. To date, the affiliation has gathered more than 6.500 signatures, which will be sent to the [...]
Nimes, Francia. – Next September 11th, 2010, the antibullfighting affiliation Alliance Anticorrida, organises, as it does every year in Nîmes, a big march in the city to raise awareness and sensitize public opinion about the cruelty of bullfights. The demonstration is timed to take place five days before the ” Feria de la Vendimia (the [...]
Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain. – On April 11th, 2010, two hundred people demonstrated in Palma against bullfights and the torture that the animal suffers during the fight. Taking part were Animanaturis, the Animal and Plants Protection Society of of Majorca and animal defence organisations BALDEA and PACMA. The demonstration departed from the Plaza Juan Carlos [...]
Lisbon.- Next April 10, Portugese animal welfare affiliations, headed by ANIMAL and the Anti bullfighting Movement of Portugal, have organized a declaration to protest against the recent creation of a department dedicated to bullfighting in the Department of Culture, driven the current minister, the pro-bullfighting Gabriela Canavilhas. The demonstrators will meet in front of the [...]
Seville. March 2010.-Last March 26th King Don Juan Carlos delivered the 2009 University Awards and Bullfighting Trophies, granted by the Royal Arsenal of Knighthood of Seville. He has only been present at this event on two occasions in his 32 years of reign, and his presence this year ‘happens’ to coincide with the debate in [...]
Barcelona. – The consequences continue of the political manoeuvres of bullfight supporters on the debate begun in Parliament immediately after the presentation of the ILP (Popular Legislative Initiative) against bullfights in Catalonia. In issue 1,449 of the magazine ‘Tiempo’ (Time): an article entitled ‘Bulls yes, politics no’ raises the question whether the debate is about [...]
