[enviro-vlc] ACT: We just exposed the scandal that could end whaling

[Vern Weitzel]

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http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/harpooned-greenpeace-exposes
Vern

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	ACT: We just exposed the scandal that could end whaling
Date: 	Fri, 16 May 2008 08:57:51 +0700
From: 	Marco van Grinsven <marco at carswi.org.vn>


Dear,

Some follow up on the whale research/hunting of Japan.
Let's support the majority of the Japanese people who also want to make
this history!

Please sign the petition.

Sincerely,

Marco van Grinsven
Country Representative Caritas Switzerland
Country Office Vietnam
Rm 120 La Thanh Hotel
218 Doi Can Street
Ba Dinh - Hanoi
tel. +84 (0)4 8325943 /7623358  ext 102
fax +84 (0)4 7626277
marco at carswi.org.vn <mailto:marco at carswi.org.vn>
contact at carswi.org.vn <mailto:contact at carswi.org.vn>




Begin forwarded message:

> *From: *Greenpeace <staff at email.greenpeace.org 
> <mailto:staff at email.greenpeace.org>>
> *Date: *May 15, 2008 7:08:33 PM GMT+07:00
> *To: *"Marco" <marco at carswi.org.vn <mailto:marco at carswi.org.vn>>
> *Subject: **ACT: We just exposed the scandal that could end whaling*
> *Reply-To: *<bhhgghrguzzcgm at email.greenpeace.org 
> <mailto:bhhgghrguzzcgm at email.greenpeace.org>>
>
> 	
> * ACTION ALERT: Whaling Scandal *
> Help us win in Japan
>
> <http://www.email.greenpeace.org/dzhqlzjj_uppmmpbm.html>
> *Breaking news: stolen whale meat scandal*
> 1. *Send Japan a message 
> <http://www.email.greenpeace.org/hesbaekp_uppmmpbm.html>*
>
> Dear Friends
>
> We just released the results of a four-month *undercover 
> investigation*, and at this moment it's growing into the biggest 
> scandal to ever hit the whaling industry in Japan. It's on the *front 
> page of one of Japan's most influential newspapers today.* All six 
> Japanese television stations attended our press conference this 
> morning. We're demanding that the government revoke the permits of the 
> whalers as a result of the scandal, and WE NEED YOUR HELP.
>
> Please send this message to the Japanese government 
> <http://www.email.greenpeace.org/kvxilvbi_uppmmpbm.html> demanding a 
> full investigation, an end to government subsidies to the whaling 
> program, and immediate revocation of the whaling permits.
>
> We presented evidence today in Tokyo of decades-old, widespread 
> *embezzlement of whale meat* occuring under the noses of the public 
> officials who run the whaling programme.
>
> The best cuts of whale meat, used to make whale bacon, are smuggled 
> into crew cabins, preserved in salt, and then shipped home in boxes 
> marked "cardboard" or "salted stuff" to be sold on the black market. 
> We intercepted one such box -- worth up to US$3,000 -- and presented 
> it to the Tokyo Prosecutor's office as evidence this morning.
>
> We have evidence that more than a ton of such whale meat was snuck 
> from the whaling ship this year. One of our informants claims to have 
> heard a *crew member boast of building a house on the proceeds from 
> his illegal take.*
>
> Now is the time to rock the boat 
> <http://www.email.greenpeace.org/rlrzelge_uppmmpbm.html> in Japan. The 
> whaling programme has been an embarrassment to Japan's Foreign Affairs 
> department all year, as they dealt with pressure from allies to stop 
> the hunt of humpback whales. They cancelled the humpback hunt -- 
> surely on the back of this scandal, they must cancel the rest.
>
> The Prime Minister himself got dragged in, claiming that:
>
> ?The research whaling which our country is doing is a *lawful activity 
> carried out on the high seas under the International Convention for 
> the Regulation of Whaling.? --Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, 23 January 
> 2008*
>
> When a Prime Minister has egg on his face like that, somebody's in 
> trouble. And the more trouble the unprofitable, sham-scientific, 
> heavily subsidized whaling programme is in, the more likely it will 
> simply be shut down as more trouble than it's worth.
>
> Send a message 
> <http://www.email.greenpeace.org/gpljsptz_uppmmpbm.html> to the Prime 
> Minister asking him to end whaling.
>
> Best regards,
>
> The whale meat scandal team
>
> P.S. *Our office and activists in Japan have never attained such media 
> prominence* for the whale issue inside Japan --ever. Please help us to 
> help them by putting the pressure on their government. 
> <http://www.email.greenpeace.org/mlxsiluk_uppmmpbm.html>
>
> P.P.S. *Please *send this message to a friend.* Send the action alert 
> <http://www.email.greenpeace.org/xbzrkbcs_uppmmpbm.html> to five 
> friends. Ask them to send it to *their friends*. If you have a blog, 
> please blog this story 
> <http://www.email.greenpeace.org/cbneubob_uppmmpbm.html>. This is the 
> moment to put the pressure on hard.


-- 
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