Ireland Launches Anti-Fur Campaign.

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ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS HOUND DEALERS IN ANIMAL SKINS

 

Groups vow to pursue any companies promoting the

fur-trade.

 

 

For immediate release:

Wednesday 24th of January, 2001

 

Limerick, 23rd of Jan.: Having picketed Barnardo

Furriers and Rohu Furs

in Dublin city the previous day, members of the

recently established

Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT-Ireland)

teamed up with

activists from the Limerick-based Animal Rights Action

Network (ARAN)

yesterday, to protest against Ryan's Hotel and their

shameful

involvement in the fur trade.

Through research we discovered that Ryan's Hotel of

Limerick had

reserved rooms for Caroline Barnardo, the Company of Dublin's

Barnardo Furriers and Rohu Furs to model and promote

her clothing. With

little patience for either Barnardo's or Ryan's policy

on the slaughter

of 30 million fur-bearing animal every year, a dozen

or so activists

(from both groups) gathered outside the hotel to

demonstrate.

At 6:30, four activists entered the building, bearing

banners and

chanting " Fur is Dead " . Passing reception and small

crowds of idle

drink-sippers we marched about the display rooms while

unsuspecting

customers gaped in total shock. We were then

forcefully removed by

security, but managed to release stink-bombs into the

corridors.

Twenty minutes later, we entered again, shouting " Fur

Shame " until the

police arrived. By then, the pungent stink bombs still

remained heavy in

the air.

Throughout the day we also held a phone blockade of

both Barnardo's and

Ryan's establishments, with activists from Ireland and

England ringing-

in to express their disgust.

 

" Demonstrating outside fur shops is only a minute

aspect of our entire

campaign against the fur trade. We will hound down any

establishment

which profits from the furriers, and it now seems

unlikely that Ryan

Hotel will hold any more fur shows. If, however they -

or any others do

so - we shall be there with them, and with no shortage

of tactics. "

states CAFT Press Officer Robert O'Maoilbhreannan.

 

Another CAFT protest is planned for Friday outside

Bardnaro Furriers and

Rohu Furs.

Photographs and additional information available on

request.

 

 

CAFT

Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade

P.O. Box 21780

Washington, DC 20009

(202) 328-0736

(202) 328-0774 fax

banfurnow

www.banfur.com

 

 

 

 

 

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