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Anti-Corrida Alliance
The Alliance Anticorrida is a law association founded in May 1994 in Nîmes which works for the abolition of bullfights, the suppression of injuries and mutilations inflicted on animals used during bullfighting shows, and the protection of minors. Means of action The Anticorrida Alliance implements legal remedies against any bullfighting activity contrary to legislation in force. It creates informative work with the publication of four-monthly reviews and the edition of three works, ''La Mort donnée en spectacle'' (1998), ''On est toujours le taureau de quelqu'un'' (2003), and ''La Face cachée des corridas'' (2006). In the summer season, it conducts 4 × 3 poster campaigns in large cities and displays air-towed banners on the Mediterranean coast. The Anticorrida Alliance organized events bringing together between 1,800 and 3,000 participants in Nîmes in 2010 and between 2,000 and 3,000 people in 2012. It has supported legislative proposals aimed at restricting or prohibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Starozinski
Claire Starozinski is a French teacher, writer, and animal welfare advocate focusing on opposition to bullfighting. She is president of the ''Anti-Corrida Alliance'', which she founded in 1994, and author of several books and pamphlets on bullfighting, including ''On est toujours le taureau de quelqu'un'' (2003) and ''La Face cachée des corridas'' (2006). Michael Ogorzaly writes that Starozinski has taken part in several important legal battles in France to curtail bullfighting, including in July 2001 when the ''Alliance'' won a case in Toulouse that declared both that bullfighting was illegal, and that there was no continuous tradition of the practice there. The ruling was upheld in 2005 by the Supreme Court.Starozinski, see Michael Ogorzaly, ''When Bulls Cry: The Case Against Bullfighting'', AuthorHouse, 2006, pp. 3, 41–42, 165. See also *Women and animal advocacy Notes Further readingAlliance AntiCorrida accessed 24 May 2012."En France, l’abolition de la corrida peine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
