Fellow activists:
Below is a media release which I ask you to kindly distribute far and
wide, within the movement as well as to media. Anti-sealing Western
Canada needs global support to counter-balance pro-sealing Eastern
Canada which has unfair geographical and political advantages. I ask
everyone reading this, who has a heart for the seals, to join the
Western Canada Anti-sealing Coalition. No fee is required. participation
will do.
Anthony Marr, founder of
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE, 1999 - www.HOPE-CARE.org)
Western Canada Anti-Sealing Coalition (WCASC, 2007 - website under
construction).
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Apr. 2, 2007
Today, in Eastern Canada,
the first of 270,000+ seals was clubbed to death
or skinned alive, and the
Western Canada Anti-Sealing Coalition
is born, with a vengeance
A tragedy of biblical proportions has
been unfolding in the Gulf of St. Lawrence over the last several
weeks. Untold thousands of baby seals have drowned as a result of
global warming. The polar ice cap is shrinking year by year closer
to zero, and the harp seal and polar bear seem destined for
extinction.
�Any compassionate, conscionable and
responsible government, one with any foresight at all, would abandon
the seal hunt at once, and further launch programs to protect the
seals from further decimation. Instead, ours has again heartlessly,
thoughtlessly and soullessly returned to what remains of the ice to
savage what remain of the seals,� says Anthony Marr, founder of the
newly formed Western Canada Anti-Sealing Coalition.
Why the Western Canada Anti-Sealing
Coalition? �Ask 100 people
in Newfoundland, and 80 will say that they are for the seal hunt.
Ask 100 people in British Columbia, and 80 will say that they are
against it. But the East has much more political clout because its
pro-sealing public is more unified and heated than its Western
anti-sealing counterpart. The Western Canada Anti-Sealing
Coalition is to forge the anti-sealing forces of the West into a
unified, passionate and dynamic power block that can outweigh the
power block of the East, and tip the scale in Central Canada,� said
Anthony Marr.
How will this be accomplished?
�We will build the Coalition by
waging its first campaign that will naturally require broad-based
participation to be successful. The Coalition will more than built
itself for action; it will build itself through
action,� said Anthony Marr.
What kind of action?
�Wage a passionate, unified and a
Western-Canada-wide campaign, and we can, for example, make many
Western MPs speak out against the seal hunt in Parliament,
regardless of party and their own personal leanings. This is just
one of the many momentous things WCASC can do,� said Anthony Marr.
How broad should the �broad-based
participation� be? �Global.
Canada, the U.S., Europe, Asia. The WCASC is not an exclusive club
for Western Canadians, but a global organization championing and
supporting the anti-sealing Western Canadian cause. Canadian,
American, European and Asian members all welcome,� said Anthony
Marr.
Contact: Anthony Marr, founder of
Heal Our Planet Earth
(HOPE -
www.HOPE-CARE.org)
and
Western Canadian Anti-Sealing Coalition
1-604-222-1169
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