Campaign: Lennon Bros Circus at Rockdale

Lennon Bros circus will be visiting Rockdale NSW between July 3rd and July 20th, 2008. We are asking Rockdale council to join many other councils, cities, and countries who have already banned circuses that use performing animals.

The first step of our campaign is to tell Rockdale that we do not approve of circuses that use animals. You can help by filling out the details below. We will use your details in a petition and send letters to the council registering our opposition to Lennon Bros circus being allowed to perform. Your privacy is important to us - These details will not be shared with any other group or organisation.

your first name:		your last name:
your street address:
suburb:		postcode:
country:
phone no:		email address:
Please select a SUBJECT for your email from the options below: (Different subjects will help all the emails get through to council)
Do you live in the Rockdale area?
If you live in the Sydney metro area or surrounding suburbs, would you like some information about a letterbox drop we are planning in the next few weeks? (If you could spare 2 or 3 hours at some point, we would appreciate your help).
The petition will read as follows: I am registering my protest at Rockdale Council's approval of a circus with performing animals at Cahill Park from 3 - 20 July. Animals forced to perform for human beings are kept in perpetual captivity and trained by cruel and punitive methods to perform unnatural and undignified acts. This is immoral and offensive and no civilised or humane community should tolerate it. It is particularly appalling that children should be exposed to this mistreatment of animals as if it were acceptable and amusing. Numerous Councils around Australia have banned circuses with animals from their land - most recently, Camden Council, in June. Overseas, whole nations have banned them. Rockdale Council is seriously out of step with progressive and enlightened opinion, worldwide, in continuing to approve performing animal circuses. I urge you to propose and support a motion to ban all performing animal circuses from Rockdale Council land in the future.

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