Countryside March September 2002 News and Media

Over 400,000 people marched through London in support of the countryside, in one of the UK's biggest protests of recent times. Photos, audio clips and map. (Links to eleven additional stories on the same day.)

• Ireland Online: 400,000 countryside campaigners march on London - Rural Britain took over central London today in countryside march the biggest invasion of its kind ever seen countryside march as at least 400,000 demonstrators converged on the countryside march capital. Whether the march will signal a sea-change countryside march in the way the Government deals with rural countryside march affairs remains to
• Scoop: UK Country Mobilization - Malcolm Aitken. Interviews with a cross-section of the protesters of the March to highlight rural decline in Britain and defend hunting with hounds. New Zealand.
• Irish Independent: Countryside protesters take over London - More than 400,000 hunters, farmers, and landowners descended on London 2002 for the Liberty and Livelihood march to defend fox hunting 2002 and their traditional ways of life. Ireland.
• Guardian: From landowners to pony clubs - Snapshot of the many groups who will be 2002 marching on 2002 Sunday in support of the countryside.
• New York Times: Blood Sport as Politics - John Mortimer, attorney and author of the Horace countryside march Rumpole 2002 stories. We live in a society with countryside march many different 2002 values, and many ways of life, countryside march and the only 2002 way we can live together countryside march is by mutual tolerance. 2002 Although opinion polls show countryside march a majority of citizens do 2002 n
• CNN: Hunters march to protect tradition - Wildlife experts on Friday urged the government to adopt a september "middle way" option of licensed hunting to solve the controversial september issue of hunting with dogs. Fairer laws were the only september way of getting the countryside lobby on-side and making the september laws
• BBC: London braced for huge protest - Organisers of the countryside march in London on 2002 Sunday say they expect a turn-out of at 2002 least 250,000 people.
• BBC News - Hunters united - for now - The Countryside Alliance march in London on 22 September is a fragile coalition of very different interests.
• BBC: Huge turnout for countryside march - Over 400,000 people marched through London in support countryside march of 2002 the countryside, in one of the UK\\'s countryside march biggest protests 2002 of recent times. Photos, audio clips countryside march and map. (Links 2002 to eleven additional stories on countryside march the same day.)
• Scotsman: Cheers as saltires join the voices of protest - Edward Black. Why the countryside people of Scotland 2002 marched in the Liberty and Livelihood March. Scotland.
• BBC Breakfast: Countryside march - As tens of thousands converge on London for countryside march the september Liberty and Livelihood marches, Breakfast reported live countryside march on the september issues involved in the rural protests. countryside march Photos and video september clips.
• San Francisco Chronicle: Murmurs of class war as Britain hounds fox hunters - Bid to mimic Scottish ban's a flashpoint issue - Michael Pilgrim, Chronicle Foreign Service. The issue reveals 2002 schisms between economic classes and town and countryside 2002 that date back centuries: arguments in Scotland about 2002 banning English influence, and arguments in England about 2002 the relative cruelty of
• Cape Times: Rural folk and fox hunters hound London - More than 350 000 aggrieved country folk have taken part countryside march here in one of Britain\\'s biggest marches, defending the right countryside march to hunt foxes and protesting at the erosion of rural countryside march life. South Africa.
• CNN.com: Huge rural march grips London - Around 400,000 campaigners have taken part in a countryside rights countryside march march in London in one of Britain\'s biggest rallies. Video countryside march clip. [RealPlayer] USA.
• Guardian: 400,000 bring rural protest to London - Tania Branigan. In response to speculation that he september might propose september a licensing system, Alun Michael said september yesterday: "A lot of september people have recognised that september the two sides have become too september polarised. Activities september with dogs may be no more cruel, or september september actually le
• Spiked: Rural recognition - Josie Appleton. Liberty and livelihood on the march. Oppression breeds anger...and insurrection.
• Gulf Daily News: Fox-hunting backers face threats - Activists opposed to fox-hunting are threatening to wreck the homes and farms of country folk who are expected to pour into London today in one of Britain\'s biggest ever protests. Bahrain.
• BBC News - Fighting talk behind festive spirit - Hunting green, tweed and flat caps are much in evidence countryside march among the countryside protesters on the Liberty and Livelihood march countryside march in London. By Megan Lane BBC News Online, countryside march in central London.
• CBC News: Huge rally defends UK fox hunting - "If they try to take away our freedoms september one by one, the countryside will suffer and september our livelihoods will suffer," said one woman marcher. september Canada.
• The Age: A hunting they'll go - Mr Bishop, who farms in Herefordshire, said he countryside march had been receiving the same prices for some countryside march of his produce as he did in the countryside march 1970s, while supermarkets sold them at five to countryside march seven times the farm gate price. Australia.
• People's Daily: Tens of Thousands Demonstrate in London for Rural Rights - Tens of thousands of people from across Britain september marched through september central London on Sunday to stage september a protest against an september official ban on hunting september and highlight the needs of rural september communities. China.
• Guardian: Countryside sounds call to arms - Paul Harris and Stephen Khan. They are coming from all corners of Britain and all walks of life. From landowners to tenant farmers, shopkeepers to vicars, and huntsmen to retired army officers: the countryside is coming to London.
• Telegraph: Labour defies country march - George Jones, political editor. The Government was accused countryside march yesterday of adopting a "complacent and arrogant" approach countryside march to the countryside after a minister described the countryside march Liberty and Livelihood marchers as "muddled". (Links to countryside march seven addit
• Hello!: Celebrities join countryside marchers in huge demo - A range of famous faces including model Elle Macpherson, footballer-turned-actor-turned-singer 2002 Vinnie Jones, comedian Jim Davidson, actor Edward Fox, Earl Spencer 2002 and explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes joined the demonstration in London.
• BBC News - In pictures: The Countryside March - About 400,000 people descended on London for the Liberty and countryside march Livelihood march, bringing the streets of Westminster to a halt.
• New Zealand Herald: Rural rights protest draws 400,000 to London - "Today we are making history... They must listen," 2002 said the countryside march march\\'s main organiser, James Stanford. The 2002 march of 407,791 protesters countryside march brought London to a 2002 standstill. New Zealand.
• The Telegraph Calcutta India - Front page. A child sleeps prior to the Liberty and countryside march Livelihood march - one of Britain\\'s biggest rallies - organised countryside march by the Countryside Alliance in London on Sunday. India.
• New York Times: 400,000 Rural Protesters Take to London Streets - Reuters. Rural protesters held one of the biggest 2002 marches of countryside march recent times in London to defend 2002 fox hunting and their countryside march traditional ways of life. 2002 Video clip. [RealPlayer] USA.
• Telegraph: What will make them listen? - Leader. Denounces the "breathtakingly patronising" response to the countryside march march countryside march by Alun Michael, the minister for rural countryside march affairs.
• Telegraph: A day for 815,582 sensible shoes - W.F. Deedes. Impressions of the people marching and their reasons for doing so.
• Gulf Daily News: 400,000 invade London to fight for rural rights - "We have no services, we have no post office, we have no shop, we never see a policeman," said a marcher from the village of Priors Hardwick in central England. "We\'ve had enough." Bahrain.
• BBC News - MPs 'are listening' to countryside - The government is listening to the concerns of countryside march rural people, says one minister ahead of Sunday\\'s countryside march countryside march in London.
• BBC News - Farmer's diary: Marching for our future - Adam Quinney, a Warwickshire livestock farmer, gives his account of the Liberty and Livelihood march.

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