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Antiwhaling battle shifts from high seas to supermarket shelves
Dear Greenpeace Activists,
My name is Shane Rattenbury and I am the Southern Ocean Expedition
Leader on the Esperanza. As we leave the Southern Ocean and take the
battle against whaling from the high seas to the supermarket shelves,
it's been great to know that there are Ocean Defenders working with us
from around the world! Everywhere people are signing up to be an Ocean
Defender - please sign up now if you have not already - simply by
adding your name you can make a difference! Sign up now!
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We are now calling on everyone who cares about ending the whale hunts
to use their consumer power to send a strong message to the fishing
companies that finance the whaling industry
While we continue to pressure Gorton's
and Nissui, we're opening a new front with Sealord,
a New Zealand-based fishing company that is 50% owned by Nissui.
Sealord sells to seafood distributors all over the world, and we'll be
targeting products that whalers profit from wherever they're sold. If
you haven't already done so, please take
action now to tell Sealord to use their influence to help end
whaling and to persuade Nissui to end the hunting of whales. Stay tuned
to new opportunities for you to get more involved as campaign develops.
VICTORY IN ARGENTINA!
A popular seafood company in Argentina, Pesquera Santa Elena was using
Nissui fish in its products. In just 2 days, over
21,000 Argentine cyberactivists contacted the company and
downloaded stickers to place on Santa Elena products in super markets,
to highlight that the company was implicated in the killing of whales.
We now have a signed commitment from the president of Santa Elena not
to buy any more surimi from Nissui. The company even committed to
donate about US$60,000 to an organisation working on whale conservation
if they ever violate the agreement. Public support made all the
difference.
TAKING ON THE PIRATES
The Esperanza will continue on our year long journey to Defend Our
Oceans: please join us as we take
on the pirates illegally fishing in the Atlantic. Please spread the
word by sending this email to all your friends.
For the oceans,
Shane Rattenbury
Southern Ocean Expedition Leader
P.S. Want to do more to help us stop
whaling and defend our oceans? Make
a secure online contribution to support the campaign today! Thanks!
Download
an action kit - Promote the campaign by participating in a Flickr
group and find other Ocean Defenders worldwide.
Write
an anti-whaling haiku - we've thrown in a t-shirt for the best
entry!
Link
your site to ours - with a banner - There's a whole page of banners
for you to choose from, flash, animated gifs and jpg of all sorts of
shapes and sizes.
Click
here for more information on the campaign to defend the oceans.
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Change
Hewlett Packard
"Change"
is one of Hewlett Packard's expensive advertising slogans. But on
eliminating toxic chemicals HP refuses to change. Many of its
competitors have committed to phase out toxic chemicals in their
products. Electronics containing hazardous chemicals often end up as
toxic e-waste dumped in Asia and taken apart by hand in dangerously
polluting conditions.
HP claims to be an industry leader, so write
to HP boss Mark Hurd and ask him to ensure HP doesn't stand for
Hazardous Products! |
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