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Naked Woman - Chained and 'beaten’ protests the Arrival Of Animal Act Circuses

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Sunday April 10, 2005 20:38

by Amanda K - Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN)

arancampaigns at eircom dot net

Po Boxs 722, Kildare, Ireland.

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Embargoed For Release:
13 April 2005

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John Carmody 087-6275579

NAKED WOMAN-CHAINED AND 'BEATEN’PROTESTS THE ARRIVAL OF ANIMAL ACT CIRCUSES

Dublin – Wearing nothing but shackles and covered in "scars” and "bruises”as a result of violent "beatings”an everyday for animals in circuses, a curvy brunette will protest the arrival of animal act circuses into Dublin with a banner that reads “shackled, lonely, beaten” and directs onlookers and potential circus goers to a website www.captiveanimals.org whilst others hold signs reading – "the slave trade is alive and kicking” and chanting "boycott animal act circuses".

Date: Wednesday, 13 April
Time: 12.20pm
Place: Outside Main Entrance to St Stephens Green

In order to force wild animals to perform stressful and often painful acts, trainers use metal bullhooks, whips, muzzles and electric prods. These horribly cruel training methods are commonly used in Irish circuses all over the country. This is part of ARAN’s ongoing campaign around the country to show the misguided public that, animals in circuses have being taken from the wild at some stage in their life for a lifetime of boredom, misery, cheap tricks and cruelty. Animals in circuses really are not volunteers, they are slaves, confined to their ‘beast’ wagons for some 22 hours a day with no room to exercise compared to that of their homes in the wild. Animals in circuses regardless of them being 'born' in the circus, still have the instincts of their fellow companions in the wild, they like to roam for miles, go hunting for food and vegetation and raise their young.

“This cruelty, these beatings are what the circus is desperate to hide from the public,” says ARAN’s stripper for a cause Georgina Wallace. “These animals are not volunteers, they have been deprived of their precious freedom and beaten for a lifetime of cheap tricks, be an ele-friend boycott animal act circuses.”

ARAN’s ‘Naked’ circus campaign will also be visiting Cork, Galway, Belfast.

ENDS