Cáceres, Extremadura. – After Seville withdrew its candidacy, it will be the Extremaduran city of Cáceres, which, following procedure, will host the 7th world bullfighting congress on the 7th, 8th and 9th April, 2011. The congress will be open to veterinarians, scientists and experts among others. There will be a special call to Portugese [...]
Barcelona. – British actor Ricky Gervais, has added his support to the initiative to prohibit bullfighting in Catalonia via a one minute Youtube video, where he clearly affirms that there are thousands of people across the world watching the Catalonian vote and hoping that it will result in a ban on bullfighting. In the [...]
Madrid. – the Parliamentary Association for Defence of the Rights of Animals, ADDA, describes the initiative of the Community of Madrid to declare bullfighting spectacles as events of Cultural Interest as a kind of “tantrum of the bullfighting lobby.” They propose instead initiatives that focus on actual cultural events, rather than encouraging interest [...]
Paris. – With just one month to go until the Catalan Parlament votes definitively on the Popular vote against the bullfights, in France, the socialistic deputy Geneviève Gaillard and the Conservative Muriel Marland-Militello, presented last June 8 in Paris the first proposal for a law to bring about the abolition of bullfights in France with [...]
Arévalo, Ávila.- In the town of Arévalo, in Ávila, the Municipal Socialist Group has presented a contentious administrative proposal to annul government approved agreements for the contracting out of bullfighting events. According to the Group, procedural irregularities were found in the contracts. “There were government subsidies of more than 600,000 euros over three years [...]
Paris, France. – deputies Muriel Marland Militello and Geneviève Gaillard, president and vice-president of the Parliamentary Study Group for animal protection, presented, on June 9, a proposal for a law for the abolition of bullfights and cock fights at the Paris National Assembly. In the same action the French collective of vetenarians attended to speak [...]
México.- The Mexican Association for the Rights Of Animals, AMEDEA, continues its antibullfighting campaign having hung another poster in the city of Mexico. The billboard, which measures a gigantic 13 X 8 meters, will remain on display for a period of two months and shows a toreador opposite a bull stuck with banderillas and the [...]
Nimes, Francia. – The members of the commercial center Carrefour-Nimes-Etoile have attempted to publicise bullfights by raffling a suit of lights (traditional bullfighter costume) and tickets to bullfights in order to promote the Nimes Fair. The companies Yves Rocher and Frank Provost disassociated themselves from this initiative as soon as they heard about the theme [...]
Barcelona. – Last Sunday, 16th of May, the well-known musical group Ojos de Brujo gave a free concert at the ‘Bikini’ party venue in Barcelona. The event, organized by the Federation to fight for the abolition of bullfights, FLAC, was a great success, with more than 600 people attending. Among them was the spokesman [...]
Madrid, España. -Following the shameful absence of coverage in the media of the March 28th demonstration against bullfights in Madrid, an antibullfighting collective met the Head of the Office of the Presidency of RTVE, Francisco Javier Pérez, to demand of him the withdrawal of the program, Tendido Cero (a programme about bullfighting) broadcast within the [...]
