p dir=”ltr” style=”line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;”span style=”font-size:16px;”span style=”font-family:times new roman,times,serif;”span id=”docs-internal-guid-05ff2454-9de7-12e5-6093-e28ad4e87600″span style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”Friends of Animals is joining /spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”the International effort/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;” to put an end to the cruel and /spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”barbaric /spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”bullfighting in France. We are joining with/spanspan style=”text-decoration: none; color: rgb(55, 64, 78); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);” /spanspan style=”text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);”span style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”Carole Raphaelle Davis/span/spanspan style=”color: rgb(55, 64, 78); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”, /spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”West Coast/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;” Director of/spana href=”http://www.caps-web.org/” style=”text-decoration:none;”span style=”color: rgb(55, 64, 78); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;” /spanspan style=”color:#0000ff;”span style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”CAPS/span/span/aspan style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;” /spanspan style=”vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”/spana href=”https://www.facebook.com/pages/CRAC-Europe/213635508681829?directed_target_id=0″ style=”text-decoration:none;”span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;” /spanspan style=”color:#0000ff;”span style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”CRAC Europe/span/span/aspan style=”color: rgb(55, 64, 78); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”, /spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”to hold a large protest event in Rodilhan, located in Southern France, on October 27th at the bullfight arena/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;” on the day the bull massacre is happening./span/span/span/span/p
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p dir=”ltr” style=”line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;”span style=”font-size:16px;”span style=”font-family:times new roman,times,serif;”span id=”docs-internal-guid-05ff2454-9de7-12e5-6093-e28ad4e87600″span style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”FoA’s NY Director, Edita Birnkrant, will nbsp;be flying the Friends of Animals flag and reporting from the scene of the bullfight protest event. /spanspan style=”color: rgb(55, 64, 78); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”nbsp;/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”To learn more about this heinous tradition and the anti-bullfighting movement, you can read Carole’s ua href=”http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1046023″ target=”_blank”article on CNN iReport/a/u./spanspan style=”text-decoration: none; color: rgb(55, 64, 78); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”a href=”http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1046023″ style=”text-decoration:none;” /a/span/span/span/span/p
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p dir=”ltr” style=”line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;”span style=”font-size:16px;”span style=”font-family:times new roman,times,serif;”span id=”docs-internal-guid-05ff2454-9de7-12e5-6093-e28ad4e87600″span style=”font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”TAKE ACTION/span/span/span/span/p
p dir=”ltr” style=”line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;”span style=”font-size:16px;”span style=”font-family:times new roman,times,serif;”span id=”docs-internal-guid-05ff2454-9de7-12e5-6093-e28ad4e87600″span style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”We urge you to take action and help abolish bullfighting by contacting the office of the French tourist board, located in New York City, and telling them that/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;” /spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”you will not be visiting France until they abolish this /spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”form of animal torture portrayed as culture and art/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”. Please /spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”contact the board’s media relations manager, Katherine Johnstone, by calling 212-745-0967/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;” and you can also/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;” /spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”a href=”mailto:press.us@franceguide.com”email the French tourist board your thoughts/a./span/span/span/span/p
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span style=”font-family:times new roman,times,serif;”Please also consider taking our quick survey on bullfighting.nbsp;nbsp;/span/div