Mauritius day of Action in Belgium
Saturday it was time for another Thomas Cook action day.
8 brave activists from Respect voor Dieren Belgium started the day at TC Kortenberg
(Leuvensesteenweg 373). Weaponed only with our determination, confronting
posters, leaflets and a megaphone we started educating customers and passers
by about TC's dirty business with Mauritius. The TC shop was just next
to a very busy supermarket, so there were lots of interested people!
Like last time TC locked their doors immediately when they saw us, so that
nobody could get in or out. Brilliant, but we prefer to stay at the
outside anyhow, so that we can inform all your potential customers.
Second stop of the day was TC Haacht (Markt 10).
Same story as the one before, locked doors. At one time there were 6
customers who couldn't get in because "until those activists leave, we
can't let anyone in"...
After we politely informed those customers, all of them left looking
for another travel shop, really irritated with TC. Good on you dear
ex-customers of TC!
This didn't escape the notice of the shopmanager, who asked us in for a chat.
The guy "who himself was active in animal welfare" understood
why we were there. And he also understood that he was gonna see much
more of us in future if TC doesn't do the right thing and break their relationship
with Mauritius immediately.
Last stop of the day was simply brilliant. TC Leuven (Diestsestraat
99) lies in the middle of a very busy pedestrian shopping street. No
need to say that the doors were once again locked. No problem for us,
we like the idea of informing hundreds of people out on the street about TC's
dirty business. Lots (and we mean lots!) of people came to us asking
for more information and a leaflet. Through our megaphone we kept on
repeating TC's shamefull secret, again and again. So many people didn't
know about TC and were really disgusted.
Until TC drops Mauritius we will be informing everybody about their dirty
dealings with Mauritius. Is Mauritius so important to you TC to loose
customers over?
This action day was dedicated too 2 Dutch comrades who were imprisoned recently.
Their only "crime" is defending innocent animals, we salute you
good friends!

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