Please take a moment to add your name to this petition on behalf of ASANDA and circulate it to all your family and friends, asking them to do the same. It is about using animals in ‘Spanish Culture’ especially as Cordoba has been nominated as City of Culture 2016. HA!! We who have visited know better!!
Click on this link, scroll down the page to read the English translation. Then go to FIRMAR written in green. Click on this which will open boxes into which you need to put your personal details and any comment you wish to add. You will need to fill in all the boxes for the link to work. Type persona in the bottom box, as instructed, meaning you are a human and not a robot!
Thank you as always for your support.
‘The Andalusian city of Cordoba has been nominated for European Capital of Culture 2016.
The concept “European Capital of Culture” is a title awarded every year by the European Commission and Parliament to two European cities, one from the 13 core member states and one from the current 27 member states which during one year have the possibility to show their cultural life and to the rest of Europe and the world. The aim of the communal action called “European Capital of Culture” is to highlight the richness, diversity and common features of the European cultures, as well as to contribute to a better mutual understanding among citizens of the Union.
The candidate cities must have, among others, the following compulsory goals:
– Emphasize those cultural currents common to Europeans which the city has inspired or to which it has significantly contributed.
– Guarantee mobilization and participation of significant population groups and, thanks to that, guarantee the social repercussions of the action and its continuity in time beyond the year in which the event has taken place.
– Boost dialogue between the cultures of Europe and those of the rest of the world, and, furthermore, give understanding and openness towards the others the merit they rightly deserve as fundamental cultural values.
The Cordoba City Council created a Foundation in its day in order to organize everything concerning the candidature of Cordoba for European Capital of Culture. The members of the above-mentioned Foundation are: Cordoba City council, Cordoba Provincial Council, Andalusian Government (Junta) and University of Cordoba.
All the above-mentioned founding bodies are consistently and openly showing their conspicuous support to what the majority of European, Spanish, Andalusian an Cordobes citizens firmly believe that must me rejected as a cultural manifestation: bull fighting, a sordid, cruel custom which bears no relation to the true cultural purpose of the institution of European Capital of Culture promoted by the European Parliament and the European Union Council. Thus, to point out only a few of the countless existing examples:
– Cordoba City Council: In sessions held in September 2010, all political groups in the council (PP, IU y PSOE) passed a joint resolution to show “the most steadfast appreciation of the Cordoba City Council for the bullfighting fiesta which means so much for the culture, history, economy and employment“of the city.
– Cordoba Provincial Council: Also in sessions held in September 2010 unanimously passed a joint resolution of Socialist Government and opposition (IU y PP), to show “the most steadfast appreciation for the bullfighting fiesta which means so much for our culture, history, economy and employment“
– The Andalusian Government: in December 2004, The Andalusian Parliament passed a resolution urging their executive body (Consejo de Gobierno) to increase their support for bullfighting and its cultural and artistic values, to encourage knowledge of the activity in the field of education and the role of bullfighting schools as breeding ground for new stars, and to maintain and increase bullfighting programs in Andalusian television, going in depth into its values and its ability to generate artistic creation in the fields of plastic and audio-visual arts and literature.
-The University of Cordoba: the only Andalusian university to maintain a so-called Professorship of Taurology, which appears among the 16 public plans of Cordoba 2016 for participation and youth.
Documents:
– The concept “European Capital of Culture”
– Synthesis of “European Capital of Culture”
– Foundation Cordoba Cultural City
– Motion of the Cordoba City Council
– Motion of the Cordoba Provincial Council
– Motion of The Andalusian Parliament
– Professorship of Taurology
– Public plan
– Cordoba-promotion