Comment Line:(202) 456-1111
Fax: (202) 456-2461

Write/fax and call your US Representatives and Senators: The Capitol switchboard is (202) 456-1414

Boycott Japan: Email the Japanese Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, and tell him you will not purchase any Japanese products or visit Japan until they stop their killing and capturing of dolphins and their slaughter of whales.

Campaign Letter Points to be Addressed to President Obama - Below are points that you can use in your letter to say what the whale sell out means to you. Customized letters are accorded much more respect than obviously cloned form letters. As such, the potential for your making a difference with your letter will be magnified significantly. Request that he honor his campaign promise to never resume commercial whaling if elected, wherein he stated on March 16, 2008: 'As President, I will ensure that the US provides leadership in enforcing international wildlife protection agreements, including strengthening the international moratorium on commercial whaling. Allowing Japan to continue commercial whaling is unacceptable.' In a drastic departure from this pledge, a US-backed plan was advanced at the March intersessional meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) that would reinstate commercial whaling if passed at the next IWC meeting. As written, Japan, Iceland, and Norway will be able to resume what the president characterized as unacceptable commercial whaling. This plan would sanction killing of whales in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary in Antarctica and in the North Pacific; perpetuated with the discredited ruse of Japan's lethal "scientific research" whaling. The IWC interssesional's proposal has tinkered its wording to avoid a direct depiction of a return to commercial whaling, yet the result of the proposal would be just that. One glaring example of complicity with Japan's agenda is the word change from Aboriginal to Indigenous whaling. This switch in language not only addresses Alaskan Inuits and Greenlanders and their quotas on threatened whales, but it also assisted a Japanese ploy, wherein Indigenous would also apply to all of Japan's coastal whalers to increase the unsustainable plunder of whales in the North Pacific. The president stated that he would 'ensure that the US provides leadership in enforcing international wildlife protection agreements.' This unfulfilled pledge can be remedied once he compels Japan to actually honor all the agreements it has broken with impunity. Japan has violated the Law of the Sea Convention, the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). As the President promised to enforce these agreements, Japan's breaking of these accords should be challenged by the US in the International Court of Justice, through the dispute resolution procedures of the Law of the Sea Convention, and with the conciliation procedures of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Request that the President, along with your Senators and Congressmen, deploy the powers of the Pelly Amendment to seek redress from the rogue whaling nations by having the US use its sanctioning powers against Japan, Norway, and Iceland until they stop whaling.