Further to the BBC’s promotion of the fight to bring the gambling on dogs back to Walthamstow being simply an issue of Heritage versus Housing - please write to the Walthamstow Councillors & Walthamstow Residents' Associations, raising their awareness of an industry dependent on the inherent abuse of greyhounds in order to sustain its existence.
Presentations will be made next week(week beginning 26th September)to leaders of Waltham Forest Council by the team(backed by businessman and greyhound racing enthusiast, Bob Morton)who wish for the return of racing to Walthamstow.
Please highlight, in your emails to Waltham Forest Council and Walthamstow Residents Associations, how more than 12,000 dogs bred for British greyhound racing go ‘unaccounted’ for every year - either culled as puppies because they fail to make the grade or destroyed because no retirement home can be found. Many more suffer injuries on the dangerously configured tracks and dogs sustaining even minor injuries are destroyed because the injury is deemed uneconomical treat.
Please include this campaign video
And this video, showing how those who demand the return of racing to Walthamstow are only thinking of their industry’s survival – with no regard to the needs of the Walthamstow community.
Please add how the Greyhound Board of Great Britain fails to protect racing greyhounds under the Animal Welfare Act and as a consequence greyhounds are repeatedly subjected to abuse and exploitataion whilst their abusers are afforded the freedoms to continue to train and race greyhounds in a self regulated gambling industry, thus sustaining the inherent abuse on which it is built.
Please enclose this Waltham Guardian article, which details the Dogs Trust and League Against cruel Sports opposition to the re-opening of the dog track.
Please copy and paste these email address(in block forms)to your 'send to email box'.
Please remember to remain polite in raising the awareness.
Block 1: Councilors of Walthamstow(Waltham Forest Council)
cllr.masood.ahmad@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.afzal.akram@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.liaquat.ali@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.nadeem.ali@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.raja.anwar@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.mohammad.asghar@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.naheed.asghar@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.peter.barnett@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.angie.bean@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.karen.bellamy@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.roy.berg@walthamforest.gov.uk; zc42@btconnect.com;
cllr.paul.braham@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.nick.buckmaster@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.clare.coghill@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.elisabeth.davies@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.tunde.davies@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.matt.davis@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.paul.douglas@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.kieran.falconer@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.marion.fitzgerald@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.thom.goddard@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.jenny.gray@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.geoff.hammond@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.jemma.hemsted@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.peter.herrington@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.shameen.highfield@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.mahmood.hussain@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.ahsan.khan@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.haroon.khan@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.michael.lewis@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.khevyn.limbajee@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.clyde.loakes@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.gerry.lyons@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.asim.mahmood@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.saima.mahmud@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.anna.mbachu@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.bernadette.mill@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.liz.phillips@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.marie.pye@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.shabana.qadir@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.farooq.qureshi@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.naheed.qureshi@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.sheree.rackham@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.geraldine.reardon@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.mark.rusling@walthamforest.gov.uk; leader@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.nicholas.russell@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.abu.samih@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.winnie.smith@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.bob.sullivan@walthamforest.gov.uk;
Cllr.Sunger@instantemail.t-mobile.co.uk; cllr.richard.sweden@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.ebony@gmail.com; cllr.geoff.walker@ntlworld.com; cllr.terry.wheeler@walthamforest.gov.uk;
cllr.laurance.wedderburn@walthamforest.gov.uk; richard.mcellistrum@walthamforest.gov.uk
Block 2: Walthamstow Residents Associations.
secretary@blackhorseactiongroup.org.uk; committee@bara-leytonstone.org.uk; info@fara-leytonstone.org.uk;
info.fora@hotmail.com; highamspark@ntlworld.com; sd-christian@hotmail.com; highamsra@me.com;
infowfcivicsociety@gmail.com
Please also visit this on-line email form to email Waltham Village Residents Association.
