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>Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:21:55 +0000
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>From: veggies <[log in to unmask]> (by way of genetics
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>Subject: VERY URGENT: BARRY HORNE Animals' Advocate Close To Death
>
>VERY URGENT: BARRY HORNE Animals' Advocate Close To Death
>
>BARRY HORNE NEAR TO DEATH
>
>Last rites read Sunday 22nd November.
>
>Barry Horne, gaoled for 18 years for taking non-violent direct action in
>defence of animals tortured in laboratories, began his third hunger strike
>on October 6th, exasperated by the failure of the UK Labour Governement to
>honour election pledges on animal issues.
>
>Sunday, November 22 '98 - 9:56 PM UK
>Barry is about to slip into a coma, from which he may not recover, he has
>had his last rights administered.
>
>Barry must not die in vain - A Call for Action.
>PROTEST AT THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT - Tuesday 24th November.
>Meet at Westminster Central Hall, London at 9.30 am, wearing smart casual
>dress.
>Protest at govenment offices throughout the UK and at UK Embassies Worldwide.
>
>Due to UK media blackout it is up to YOU to network this message far and
>wide, within and far beyond the Animal Rights movement.
>
>Barry has reduced his demands to the setting up of a Royal Commission on
>vivisection - a specific promise made by the Labour Party in its
>pre-election statement on animal issues - a promise now broken.
>
>What you also can and need to do:
>1. Phone, visit or write to your MP.
>
>2. Write, phone and fax the home office to give them your views:
>Ric Evans or Steve Wilkes, Room 977, 50 Queen Anne's Gate, London, England
>SW1H 9AT.
>Tel: 0171 273 2861; Fax: 0171 273 2029; Email: [log in to unmask] and/or
>[log in to unmask]
>
>3. Get involved with the campaign, contact "Animals Betrayed Coalition" on
>0181 208 3289.
>
>4. Demonstrate! Be Hillgrove Farm (breeds cats for torture) at 12 noon, 12th
>Dec, Dry Lane, Whitney, Nr Oxford.
>
>5. Send Barry letters of support at: Barry Horne VC2141, HMP Full Sutton,
>York YO4 1PS.
>
>6. Find out more - visit the following web site :
><http://www.animal-liberation.net/barry/>http://www.animal-liberation.net/ba
>rry/
>
>7. FORWARD THIS MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>
>Urgent Update
>
>Sunday, November 22 '98 - 9:56 PM UK
>
>Barry Horne Administered "Last Rights"
>
>Barry is about to slip into a coma, from which he may not recover, he has
>had his last rights administered.
>
>If you have been following the progress of his hunger strike you will be
>aware of why he has made this commitment for the animals, if you haven't
>details are on the Barry Horne Support site at
><http://www.animal-liberation.net/barry/>http://www.animal-liberation.net/ba
>rry/
>
>
>Barry has today reduced his demands to the setting up of a Royal Commission.
>
>There will be a demonstration on Tuesday 24th November at the Opening of
>Parliament, we will meet at Westminster Central Hall, London at 9.30 am and
>we will all be wearing smart casual dress.
>
>The following time that we may be getting together could well be for his
>funeral.
>
>Please attend as we do not want Barry's total commitment to the cause to go
>un-noticed.
>
>For all the suffering animals
>Barry Horne Support campaign
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>
>Barry Horne Hunger Strike Clock: 1 month and 17days. This is how long it's
>been since Barry has been on hunger strike as at 00.00 Monday 23rd November.
>
>At Midnight 6 October 1998, Barry began his third hunger strike. In the last
>couple of months, there have been two separate occasions where the Home
>Office have been contacted in an attempt to establish if the Govt. are to
>take any action on the issue if vivisection, given the pre-election pledges
>and the length of time Labour has now been in Office.
>
>The reply on the first occasion ignored the questions and issues put to
>them, in what is becoming the typically arrogant manner of the Home Office.
>The reply on the second occasion shows their contempt and disregard for the
>Animal Liberation movement, as shown in their final paragraph: The Home
>Office "will not allow this programme of work to be dictated (in timing or
>content) by the protest action of the Animal Liberation movement." This has
>left Barry with no option but to resume his hunger strike.
>
>Send a letter to the UK Government. It only takes one minute!
>
>Tell all your friends about Barry's Hunger Strike.
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>
>Barry Horne's message to the Movement at the commencement of this third
>hunger strike was "For these demands we fight and for the animals we will
>win."
>
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>
>Barry's demands were :
>1. An immediate end to the issuing of all new licences to vivisect.
>2. An immediate and final end to the renewing of all currently held licences
>to vivisect.
>3. An immediate and total ban on all vivisection carried out for non-medical
>purposes.
>4. A genuine and unconditional commitment to adopt and implement policies
>that will bring a final end to all vivisection, for what ever purposes, by a
>date to be no later than January 6, 2002.
>5. An immediate cessation of all animal testing and experimentation at
>Porton Down warfare research establishment, and a genuine commitment to make
>that cessation permanent.
>6. The immediate scrapping of the animal procedures committee, the
>government sponsored front for the vivisection industry.
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>
>WHAT YOU CAN & NEED TO DO
>
>1. Write, phone and fax the home office to give them your views.
>Contact: Ric Evans or Steve Wilkes
>Room 977, 50 Queen Anne's Gate, London, England SW1H 9AT
>Tel: 0171 273 2861 Fax: 0171 273 2029
>Email: [log in to unmask] and/or [log in to unmask]
>
>(Note: Email addresses are for the home office not the animal procedures
>committee.)
>
>2. Write to MP's (please forward your replies to Animals Betrayed Coalition).
>
>3. If you want to get involved with the campaign write or phone for details.
>
>4. Donations are desperately needed for this campaign, especially for
>mailouts to provide people with all the latest developments. (Please make
>cheques payable to Animals Betrayed Coalition).
>
>5. Support the actions/demos.
>
>6. Organise you own protests, etc. highlighting Barry's and the animals
>plights - inform ABC of proposed dates of actions so they can inform others.
>
>7. Contact local and national press/media about Barry's hunger strike and/or
>actions you have taken.
>
>8. A calendar is available for stalls/protests highlighting the number of
>days of Barry's hunger strike, etc. Contact ABC.
>
>9. Give Barry your support
>Barry Horne VC2141
>HMP Full Sutton, York, England YO4 1PS
>Email c/o: [log in to unmask]
>
>Animals Betrayed Coalition
>PO BOX 21339, London, England WCIX ONJ
>Tel: 0181 208 3289
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>Media Contact
>Robin Webb
>Tel/Fax: 01954 230 542
>Mobile: 0961 303 680
>
>"The fight is not for us, not for our personal wants and needs. It is for
>every animal that has ever suffered and died in the vivisection labs, and
>for every animal that will suffer and die in those same labs unless we end
>this evil business now! The souls of the tortured dead cry out for justice,
>the cry of the living is for freedom. We can create that justice and we can
>deliver that freedom.
>The animals have no-one but us, we will not fail them."
>- Barry Horne
>
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