Animal Rights Activist Buried Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit The Guardian - November 17, 2001 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,596306,00.html source - hayduke@efmedia.org Animal rights activist buried by John Vidal Led by Kate, a pagan priestess, flanked by a lone policeman and followed by up to 700 people, the featherweight body of animal rights protester Barry Horne was carried through Northampton yesterday before his burial. Horne, 49, died in jail last week after his fourth hunger strike. He was serving 18 years for burning property, and he did not go quietly. At a rally before the procession, speakers encouraged the crowd to take over from the "bog-standard Northampton dustman" turned anti-vivisection activist. "I can't say break into the labs, burn the places down, because that's illegal. But don't be afraid. We are going to lose more people. They are going to kill us. The fight starts now," said Keith Mann, an activist who spent eight years in jail for animal rights extremism. Horne was remembered as "hard work", "a man with a temper" and a "lousy cook". "He wound you up." Despite the animal rights movement being progressively driven underground by legislation branding some of their activities as "terrorism", the turnout was higher than organisers expected. The police, who usually film animal rights demonstrations, kept a low profile. The procession around Northampton was watched by shoppers. "The problem is these people haven't been through a war. They could get their priorities right," said a 65-year-old woman. Those in the procession, with many people carrying animals, saw it differently. "Animal rights is a war. We are at war for the animals. We need to make sacrifices for the animals, too," said John Curtis, a seasoned activist. NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Brought to you by Hayduke Rocks!, an Earth First! Media and Action Network http://www.efmedia.org hayduke@efmedia.org Check out our news & discussion lists by visiting the Hayduke Rocks! list sign-up page at http://www.efmedia.org/elists.html NEW SEPT 11 lists: No More Victims * Osama bin Laden info * Why Others hate the U.S. Govt. EF! Alert * EF! Biotech * Climate Crisis Action * Colombia Vigil * EF! Talk Climate Crisis & Wilderness * EF! anti-Globalization * Energy Crisis Ripoff Retool NOW!* Strange Weather * ICE MELT! in Antarctica * Bush Coup 2000 Judi Bari Bombing * Julia Butterfly Net * Climate Activist * Sea Mammals Bad Oil * Stop Production of Oil * Arctic National Wildlife Refuge-NO OIL! Warrior Poets Society * EF! Music Please support these projects. Money, CD-R blank discs, cassettes and blank VHS tape really is needed. Please send to: Earth First! P.O. Box 324 Redway, CA 95560 Thanks! ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytenv-11.18.01-21:36:51-18214