Action: Prevention of the massacre of abandoned animals- In the forthcoming days of huge sport event: “Belgrade Univesiade 2009.” (July 01. – 12. 2009.)

 Over the past years Belgrade was very busy City, many big events had happened in Belgrade like, Eurovision contest, EYOF... and now, the Sport Universiade 2009. Every event of this magnitude brings out the best and the worst sides of one City and (with it) of one Nation… Authorities and Citizens hopes are to show the quality and openness of their City in their best manners.. But sadly- many of those efforts fall under the expected norms simply because there is no chance to hide what it CANT be hidden (like poverty, city’s bad zones and dirt, homeless people and abandoned animals .. ) Abandoned animals were victims (sacrificed for the event), killed for the sake of “clean streets” !? This year- we tried a little bit different approach, we had a bad experience because the Authorities were repeating the massacre of unwanted animals year after year.. And this time we are trying to stop the massacre before it begins. 

June the 1^st 2009.  The meeting was held to reinforce the tactics to prevent the mass execution of unwanted/ street dogs -with the main purpose of “street cleaning” before the major event Universiade 2009. is to begin.. Streets are to be “cleaned” for the foreign sportiest and visitors of Belgrade (sadly- Belgrade citizens gets clean streets only in time of some major events like this one).

Meeting was held between people who care for streets dogs (activists and common citizens involved in the rescue of abandoned animals), one rescue organization from Belgrade (EI 17) and Leading man (chosen by Authorities for this occasion) Vlada Terzin from secretariat of communal services and his two people which he choose for this action.

 Our mutual goal is to preserve dogs on streets, not to remove them.

 The Conclusion of this meeting was NOT to remove dogs from their habitat (the Belgrade’s streets … ) but to move them from the itinerary route (the routes which are chosen to be routes used for the purposes of upcoming UNIVERSIADE 2009. )  This action is to be coordinated between Secretariat for communal services Team and the group of Dog care takers from Belgrade (from all areas which are in the Universiade itinerary).  

Care Takers assignment is to relocate “problematic categories” of dogs and to prepare them self’s for patrolling in their areas when Universiade begins (to play some kind of “tampon zone” role between foreign visitors, citizens and dogs on streets) .

Second meeting will be held between Vlado Terzin Team and Care Takers. > Coordinators that have been chosen on meeting held on June 1^st 2009. ,

Purpose of next meeting is to resolve the problem of “aggressive dogs” or other categories of dogs and other problems care takers could face in forthcoming action. Notorious Ovca kill pound is “on hold” - which means this facility will not be used for killing, but instead is now changed into open vet. Ambulance (which will be under our monitoring), veterinary station Belgrade is also “on hold” which means they too are restricted , no killing policy is now on power and this facility is to be used only for aiding needs.

We are not sure will this policy be on power trough all action, but we will be monitoring it and we hope that the word which Vlado Terzin gave to us- that NO DOG WILL BE KILLED FOR NO REASON- will have full effect. Caretakers will give their best- we will patrol and do all is asked from us…and  if there are aggressive dogs- we will relocate them somewhere (we hope to reserve “dog apartments” or similar /dog shelters are full- but we will try with tem too if first option fails ) .We are hoping that this will be the start of one new chapter- with the Animal Police Team which is to be formed in future, with our volunteers and other animal lovers involved- This is just one new page to be opened.. Varieties and new possibilities are in front of us, Belgrade activists will be involved deeply from now on…This time, we hope not to see dogs sacrificed in the name of sport, and to get more involved into decision making how to save dogs on Belgrade streets.

 

/ IARA S/ Belgrade Team/ Belgrade/ June 2009. www.Nezavisni-Aktivisti.bravehost.com, www.C4SAIN.bravehost.com

+ additional info. More about forthcoming event Universiade and the route they will be using: http://www.universiade-belgrade2009.org/

These are the "working horses" used by Gipsys..

  

 Action planed is:  to "buy out" horses, to be precise to exchange them for small "thomos moto bikes" (or something simmilar that is not expensive)...
These horses are "driven" into city center and are in danger-city centers are bussy and full of noise and dangerous fumes and gases... These horses live in poverty and work all day, they are in poor health stage and are deprived from medical attention (they never saw a vet.), They dont have proper living conditions and dont have proper food and water source. These Horses are starved and overused-They live one short and poor life- THEY NEED HELP!

  photo: Serbia / Belgrade / December 2008.        Please, contact us if You have any expirience in this kind of action, send us informations which can help us in this action, Thank You.  ndependent Animal Rights Activists serbia/ Belgrade team/ Nezavisni.Aktivisti@gmail.com , C4SAIN@gmail.com    

 ***Our campaign is supported by : Horses Without Carriages International  http://www.horseswithoutcarriages.org/ +  Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages *** June 6, 2009 is the second international action against the horse-drawn carriage trade. Events are being held in many cities. For more information, go to the city of your choice and send an e-mail to the contact.

  Belgrade Pigeons / February 2009.

Nikola Tesla was obsessed with pigeons, ordering special seeds for the pigeons he fed in the park. There was one white pigeon, the female, that was so precious to him. One day the white pigeon got sick. Nikola took very good care of it, but it died in his arms. Nikola was not a very religious man, as he believed that there must be a scientific explanation for everything. But when that white pigeon died, he saw a very bright light coming out of her eyes, so bright that he told his friends afterwards, that even he could not have managed to create so luminous a light. It made him believe that the white pigeon must have been a messenger of a great spirit... I read that story to my young daughter recently, while we were in the library. On another note, in my dreams I live in higher dimension, where everything is transparent, like a gel. I am able to see through people, walls, etc., if only I could find the words to share my experiences. Hopefully 2003 will be the year others can finally see their dreams, the pictures in their heads, exactly as we do, on the screen. That was the kind of machine Nikola Tesla hoped to create, or might or possibly did. He allegedly never drew a blueprint for any of his inventions. He saw them in his mind already complete, to the point he could turn them at different angles watching them work. It is said that his inventions were always perfect. Never were there miscalculations nor changes needed.

 Tesla's white pigeon  was evicted from the waldorf-astoria for having a room full of pigeons he was caring for, in his own words this is a story about a pigeon he loved; "i have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them, for years, but there was one pigeon, a beautiful bird, pure white with light gray tips on it's wings ..... i loved that pigeon. yes i loved her as a man loves a woman and she loved me"........one night as he was lying in bed the pigeon flew through the window and alighted on his desk. "as i looked at her i knew she wanted to tell me - she was dying, there came a light from her eyes_powerful beams of light, a blinding light more intense than i had ever produced in my laboratory. when that pigeon died i knew my lifes work was over "
 Nikola Tesla has cut himself off from the world in his New York hotel room, alone but for his thoughts and the homing pigeons he uses to study intuition....When he meets the intelligent and also pigeon-crazy chambermaid, Louisa, the two of them begin to develop into intellectual friends. The relationship is sweet but rather contrived... 
 1 ) Birdman is a Mensan; Tesla was also a decently smart guy:
"I have for a long time taken an interest in a man called Nikola Tesla and his incredible mind. You see he was a true genius, and other geniuses, like the American, Edison, could not hold a candle (light bulb?) to him. [He is] probably the greatest genius the world has ever known." -- http://www.silvio-co.com/pigeons/weather-warfare.htm   
2) Both Tesla and Birdman were pigeon-lovers: Tesla was obsessed with pigeons, ordering special seeds for the pigeons he fed in Central Park and even bringing some into his hotel room with him. Tesla was an animal-lover, often reflecting contentedly about a childhood cat, "The Magnificent Macak." Tesla never married. He was celibate and claimed that his chastity was very helpful to his scientific abilities.[24] Nonetheless there have been numerous accounts of women vying for Tesla's affection, even some madly in love with him....He was a good friend of Mark Twain (who also loved Animals) http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15821366.100-the-man-who-loved-pigeons.html, interesting: You’ve spent a lot of time inside Tesla’s head over the last five years. Have you ever felt like Nikola Tesla was communicating directly to you or through you? Have you ever felt you were a medium for Nikola Tesla?  I felt that the pigeons of New York City were giving me editorial advice that was coming from Tesla because he loved the pigeons. He fed the pigeons all his life. If I’d see a dead one after I’d done a lot of writing I would think oh, that’s not good writing. Whereas if I saw a really healthy one with nice bright pink feet I’d think that I had done a good job. http://friendsofwriters.org/newsletter/march/samhuntinterview.htm, http://www.homeofheroes.com/wings/part1/3b_cherami.html, http://www.homeofheroes.com/wings/part1/3_lostbattalion.html, http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/archive/index.php/f-23.html  THE REASON WHY PIGEONS ARE CALLED "THE FLYING RATS:
Cher Ami on display at the Smithsonian Institution    http://luciedove.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=2335098

   ~PETITION AGAINST broadcasting of SHOWS DEDICATED TO HUNTERS.>>  http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/against-promotion-of-hunting

With this petition, we the undersigned are urging the director and editors of National Television «Radio Televizija Srbije» (RTS) to stop promoting and glorofiing the inhumane and sensless killing of Animals for hunters' pleasure and profit (or in the name of so called «sport» which hunting is NOT ) .

Serbian Citizens pleaded and pleaded, called editors in RTS and explained how emotionaly disturbed they become after seeing that «show» on TV (our children tears and emotional disstress CANT be ignored no more).  We- the citizens, asked for those TV shows dedicated to hunters to be scechuled (broadcasted) in some other time and NOT ( like now ) in prime time (in the afternoon when kids are watching) but our pleas were ignored. Why National Tv station treated Serbian citizens like they are someone who does not deserve to state oppinion and to voice concerns about innapropriate programe on RTS? On our pleas, to at least, move this morning show dedicated to hunters to some late night time we got same anwers from several editors: «change the channel if you dont like what you see!» or «there are so many hunters they want to see hunting shows on TV» (by that rude statement, does it mean that rapists and child abusers should also get their show on national TV channel %u2013 as Serbia is full of abusers too?! ) NOTE: Srbian citizens are paying fees to National TV, RTS claim that they are in service of citizens, therefore we are fully empowered to demand that shows dedicated to hunters be taken off the progam of National TV.

With this petition, we are urging the director and editors of Radio televizija Srbije (RTS) to take off  «shows» dedicated to glorify hunters and are stating that we will start BOYCOTING RTS - if  RTS dont take seriously our pleas, letters, calls and petition.
   

http://www.minrzs.gov.rs/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=25&Itemid=56, http://www.netvodic.com/institucije.htm#nauka , http://www.minrzs.gov.rs/portal/,

 

Interantional relations office: Branislav Dimitrijevic: b.dimitrijevic@min-cul.sr.gov.yu, borislav@min-cul.sr.gov.yu,ivana.zecevic@min-cul.sr.gov.yu,

Ministry of Culture:milica@min-cul.sr.gov.yu, jasmina@min-cul.sr.gov.yu, a.vucetic@min-cul.sr.gov.yu,

Informations of public importance: mladen.veskovic@min-cul.sr.gov.yu, Братски град Београда је

Environment protection: beoeko@beogradsg.org.yu   www.eko.bg.gov.yu

Belgrade International:

(Belgrades Brother City; Chichago) Чикаго (www.cityofchicago.org), са којим је потписана Повеља о братимљењу градова, јуна 2005.

Belgrade&Coventry www.coventry.gov.uk) су од 1957. Twin-Cities.

Friend cities; Са следећим градовима Београд је потписао документе о сарадњи и пријатељству:

Атина (www.cityofathens.gr) - Споразум о пријатељству и сарадњи, новембар 1966.

Рим (www.comune.roma.it) - Споразум о пријатељству и сарадњи, октобар 1971.

Берлин (www.berlin.de) - Споразум о сарадњи и пријатељству, новембар 1978.

Пекинг (www.ebeijing.gov.cn) - Споразум о сарадњи, октобар 1980.

Милано (www.comune.milano.it) - Прелиминарни договор, Програм "Град граду", новембар 2000.

Кијев (www.kyiv.org) - Протокол о сарадњи, мај 2002.

Москва (www.mos.ru) - Програм сарадње за период 2003-2004, децембар 2002.

Љубљана (www.ljubljana.si) и Загреб (www.zagreb.hr) - Писмо о намерама, октобар 2003.

Бања Лука (www.banjaluka.rs.ba) - Споразум о сарадњи, 2005.

Скопље (www.skopje.mk) - Писмо о намерама, јун 2006.

Belgrade (Capitol) contacts: city@beograd.org.yu , http://www.beograd.rs

Belgrade city hall:  (president) Branislav_Belic@beograd.org.yu, (secretary) Irena_Ljubomirovic@beograd.org.yu,

Agency for Non governmental Organisations  and European harmonization agencija.nvo@beogradsg.org.yu

                       ~The Absolute power, lies, manipulations and worthless lives~
The degradation of moral issues, which all of us may witness each day in one way or another, is fully accompanied by lack of value for life itself – be it human or animal. Life has never been so worthless and all of us should eventually be able to figure that out during our usual everyday activities. Treating victims as numbers, that simple increasing and decreasing of dead body counter, has a single purpose of building emotional distance which prevents us having empathy and feeling sorry for victims. Numbers are just numbers and nothing more – they have no name, no face and no personality. Thus, they carry no emotional value.
The organization that represents itself as an organization that care for and have respect for animals – Orca – has recently abandoned their own brainchild project “Info center for animal protection”, thus trying to wash out the dirt and get rid of responsibility for failure of (as they like to call it) “Strategy for solving the problems of abandoned dogs”. They have informed worldwide known organizations like WSPA and RSCPCA about that and stated that the reason for abandoning this project is the pressure that came from other animal protection organizations and individuals. Although many may suspect that the lack of fundings from government institutions for this year might have caused them to cease this project, the true hidden message in that statement is that they were not allowed to work in isolation from any form of criticism or revealing the project files and documentations to general publicity. The truth is that the actions of Orca's info center have shown no improvement since the beginning as their approach to the problem was not correct.
With this Orca's acts, a full freedom has been given to Belgrade city authorities to solve the problem of abandoned animals in even less humane way. The situation in other parts of Serbia is even more dramatic. Although criminal law is precise, also as a farriery low - animal killing facilities (which usually employ mental defuncts or complex healers) are functioning instead of NO KILL shelter (which are legal obligation of local authorities), and no one can prevent that. Many of humans should understand that there is no such problem that can be labeled as “problem of abandoned animals” but that the true label should be “the problem of inappropriate care about animals”. The animals are not guilty that they are thrown away from their homes, but their previous keepers that threw them away on the street for various “justified” reasons are and these are the one that should be punished.
The responsibility for conducting (or non-conducting) the Strategy is now in hands of “Beokom” service – a service that deals with the communication and coordinates relation with citizens. Beokom is run by Snežana Voštinarov who got her degrees on “Environment protection – abandoned dogs” and “Canine cardiopaty diagnosis” courses. She is also a coauthor of “Creosan poisoning” scientific study, works as journalist for ZOV magazine and popularizes the environment protection and methods of proper taking care of raising and keeping dogs. Her helping hand is Vesna Josić, deputy secretary of city secreteriat for enviromental protection, who could not hide her hatred toward animals in numerous public appearances.
The role that non-government organizations should have is to observe and control the work of this institutions and to act as a proxy between citizens and these institutions. Citizens pay their taxes, which are used to fund these institutions and they expect them to work according to the law and ethics, which they all unfortunately try to ignore. This rude acts create an impression that citizens are here to fund and serve these institutions and not vice-versa as it should be. For example, Orca has never played the role as it should have – even when they were in position to inform publicity of major malfunctions and improper actions taken and conducted in state services like Ovča dog pound or Belgrade's veterinary station, they have decided to remain silent for reasons that only they might be familiar with, thus covering up ones who are committing a crime and practically committing another crime themselves.
One of the last, tragic events is a puppy that has recently been saved from Ovča dog pound. N.S who lives on Zvezdara, Belgrade and takes care of dogs on the streets, has been a witness of inhumane treatment of animals in Ovča dog pound and sadistic acts of employed veterinarians.
Due to a report issued by “Patris Lubumba” students internat manager, who has stated that dogs in that area attack students, dog pound service has came and collected all puppies that live there. All dogs were harmless, there was not even one aggressive dog, yet, they were all described ant treated as dangerous. How can a four month old puppy be a dangerous dog and a security threat to a human? All puppies have been given vaccines, they have been sterilized, marked with microchips ID and after unnecessary prolonged procedure (which many of them might cost a life) returned places where they have been found. Dogs have been returned ill, exhausted due to lack of food and water in dog pound and wounds that have not been threatened properly, with potential diseases that they might have been infected with as they have not been put in a quarantine.
A puppy named Peggy, four months old has been brought into a private vet ambulance with a febrile seizure with body temperature reaching over 40degrees, exhausted, dehidrated, kahectic. The puppy (as her keepers say) has been collected by Ovča dog pound employees and she has spent there over 10 days. She has been sterilized, a vaccine was given to her and a microchip was implanted. After releasing, she endorses serious health problems that have to be healed with medicaments and symptomatic therapy. The X-ray registered pneumonia (on both sides of the lungs) which have caused some additional problems with the heart. This is all followed with constant diarehia and vomiting. Peggy's body was unfortunately not strong enough to fight with the disease and, despite good will and all actions that vets have took to heel her, she has passed away just 5 days later in severe pains and horror. How many Peggies are out there that none of us know of? They are just numbers, additive factors to an someone's statistic calculation.
The lack of capability and knowledge to solve the problem of abandoned animals in Serbia usually leads to a final solution – the mass murder of abandoned animals. Eurovision Song contest is at hand and many of us who respect and love animals, frightened with the worst possible outcome. This outcome has been eye-witnessed by many of us during previous sport manifestations – abandoned animals have been mass poisoned and ones who comited this crime have never been found and brought to a court of law. Unresolved situations like these leads us all to a suspicion that the one who is behind the scene of all this inhumane solutions is either a city or a government institution which have wanted to get rid of these innocent beings as quickly as possible in order to accomplish a goal by fulfilling one more condition necessary to organize that sport's or cultural's event.
Hidden behind political situation which is unstable on daily basis, a huge amount of character dirt rises up to the surface and poisons our daily activities, communication and life in general. The desire of absolute power, corruption, greed and lies are so dominant these days that something humane such as honesty, compassion, truth and justice are almost undesirable and unacceptable. To which society we are heading to and who shall be the role model to our children? The same who lays an oath to upholding a low and upholds a crime instead without guilt feeding and legal consequences? Where is justice and does it applies to all of us? Where is the punishment for the guilty ones?

Many shall argue about animal rights activism with the arguments that we have many problems with the humans and that the rights of humans are more important then the rights of animals. But, that is not correct. Protection of human rights accompanies animal rights protection perfectly. All beings whose rights are violated – be it a right of men, women, children, gay population, animals – just want justice that is equal to all and law that can be upholded accordingly. That might lead to a better and more humane society in which no one should feel isolated but equal. That day might be near or far away – time is relative. But we can only get to that day by trying to achieve higher ethical codes, which could become a standard once we are ready to understand the purpose of existence, to respect any form of life and relations that we have with other beings. That day will come, it is just a question of time when... and it can only be encouraging and inspirational to fight for a proper cause.
      

Belgian singing groupe- “Ishtar” visited BELGRADE ZOO and lend the name of their song “O Julissi” to the newborn crocodile??

Belgian group came to compete on “Eurovision” and end up in Belgrade most uglier prison-the Belgrade ZOO. Director of zoo apparently called them to be guests on the day of naming the new born crocodile by their song (this song  is to be preformed on Eurovision). Belgian singers were happy to visit Belgrade Zoo and they happily uncovered a small board (positioned on crocodile’s cage) with crocodiles new name on it. After it Belgian singers sang their song- in ZOO!

It was unnecessary and totally wrong to visit Belgrades ugliest prison-the ZOO, animals in Belgrade zoo are victims and are living in catastrophic conditions.If You do not remember how Animals in Belgrade ZOO look like, see this page: www.action4animals.bravehost.com ,www.kampanja.bravehost.com 

P.S. As we later heard from our friends/BITE BACK/Belgium, the music group-ISHTAR gave donation to Belgrade zoo/ donation was in money- to secure food for crocodile (for next 3 years)  ~~~~~~~~~~~ report by:C4SAIN Team/Belgrade ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ by SAV> Belgian ‘Eurovision’ Group Visit Belgrade Zoo - 14th May 08,