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A message from Jill: One Last Push to Show the World is Watching</h2><div><a href="http://stoptheeviction.info/latest-news/stop-the-eviction-jill-world-watching.html">http://stoptheeviction.info/latest-news/stop-the-eviction-jill-world-watching.html</a><br>
<br></div><div><font color="#006600" face="georgia, serif"><b>Dear supporters and friends of Animals Asia,</b></font></div><div><font color="#006600" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 13px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14px;line-height:18px">
<font face="georgia, serif">We have just been told the final report on the proposed eviction of our Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre is now with the Prime Minister, which suggests a decision about the future of the bears� home is imminent.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 13px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><font face="georgia, serif">If the report is accurate it is hard to believe he can come to any other conclusion than it is our right to keep the bears where they are, but we can take nothing for granted.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 13px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><font face="georgia, serif">In our 14 years of operation, we have never seen a fight like this. To our knowledge, no foreign NGO in Vietnam has ever faced such a battle, let alone carried it through � and most people, especially those who know Vietnam well, gave us little or no chance.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 13px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><font face="georgia, serif">Now all the feedback we are receiving is one of astonishment considering how far this has come. We could have quietly packed up and walked away but we didn�t. In fact we realised being �quiet� was the exact opposite of what we needed � the more noise we could make, the more people would notice.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 13px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><font face="georgia, serif">To date, the Vietnamese Prime Minister has received petitions totaling over 60,000 names.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 13px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><font face="georgia, serif">Thousands more letters have been sent or presented. Politicians from around the world, some 144 international NGOs, 10 Hanoi-based Embassies. Most touching of all, are letters and pictures from school children begging the Prime Minister to do the right thing. Week by week we have repeatedly made international and local headlines.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 13px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><font face="georgia, serif">This is the very opposite of quietly walking away and has seen a rising crescendo over the weeks until it can no longer be shut out by Vietnam�s decision makers. Now is the time to raise our voices further - to make more noise for the bears.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 13px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><font face="georgia, serif">Please, if you haven�t signed the petition then sign. If you haven�t written to the Prime Minister then write. If every single person you know isn�t already aware of this fight for the bears� future then I beg you to tell them. Add their awareness. Add their voice. Add to the noise.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 13px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><font face="georgia, serif">The battle is entering its final stages and a win is in the hands of the Prime Minister who can still be convinced with the support of people like you.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 13px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><font face="georgia, serif">So please, one last push, to show that the world is watching.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 13px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font face="georgia, serif">Jill Robinson, Founder, Animals Asia.</font></strong></p>
</div>-- <br><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font color="#888888"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap" cols="72"><font face="courier new, monospace">Trinh Thuy. Phan M.A.
Communications Officer Vietnam
Animals Asia Foundation
Tel: (+84-4) 392 89264
Mob: (+84) 914502998
<a href="http://www.animalsasia.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.animalsasia.org</a></font></pre></font></span><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<font color="#666666" face="Arial" size="3"><font color="#990000"><b>Animals Asia's Vietnam Bear Rescue
Centre faces eviction.</b><b><br>
</b><b>You can help by e-mailing the Prime Minister:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.animalsasia.org/StopTheEviction" target="_blank">http://www.animalsasia.org/StopTheEviction</a></b></font></font></div><br>
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<b style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Animals Asia's Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre faces eviction.</b><b style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>
</b><b style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You can help by e-mailing Vietnam's Prime Minister:<br>
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<a href="http://www.animalsasia.org/StopTheEviction" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.animalsasia.org/<WBR>StopTheEviction</a></b><font color="#666666" face="Arial" size="3"><font color="#990000"><b><a href="http://www.animalsasia.org/StopTheEviction" target="_blank"></a></b></font></font>