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• Irish Independent: Countryside protesters take over London - More than 400,000 hunters, farmers, and landowners descended on London for the Liberty and Livelihood march to defend fox hunting and their traditional ways of life. Ireland.

• 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. (September 26, 2002)
• New York Times: Blood Sport as Politics - John Mortimer, attorney and author of the Horace Rumpole stories. We live in a society with many different values, and many ways of life, and the only way we can live together is by mutual tolerance. Although opinion polls show a majority of citizens do not care for hunting, far fewer think it should be made a crime. (September 24, 2002)
• Spiked: Rural recognition - Josie Appleton. Liberty and livelihood on the march. Oppression breeds anger...and insurrection. (September 24, 2002)
• Telegraph: A day for 815,582 sensible shoes - W.F. Deedes. Impressions of the people marching and their reasons for doing so. (September 24, 2002)
• Telegraph: Labour defies country march - George Jones, political editor. The Government was accused yesterday of adopting a "complacent and arrogant" approach to the countryside after a minister described the Liberty and Livelihood marchers as "muddled". (Links to seven additional stories on the same day.) (September 24, 2002)
• Telegraph: What will make them listen? - Leader. Denounces the "breathtakingly patronising" response to the march by Alun Michael, the minister for rural affairs. (September 24, 2002)
• The Age: A hunting they'll go - Mr Bishop, who farms in Herefordshire, said he had been receiving the same prices for some of his produce as he did in the 1970s, while supermarkets sold them at five to seven times the farm gate price. Australia. (September 23, 2002)
• BBC News - Fighting talk behind festive spirit - Hunting green, tweed and flat caps are much in evidence among the countryside protesters on the Liberty and Livelihood march in London. By Megan Lane BBC News Online, in central London. (September 23, 2002)
• BBC News - Farmer's diary: Marching for our future - Adam Quinney, a Warwickshire livestock farmer, gives his account of the Liberty and Livelihood march. (September 23, 2002)
• CBC News: Huge rally defends UK fox hunting - "If they try to take away our freedoms one by one, the countryside will suffer and our livelihoods will suffer," said one woman marcher. Canada. (September 23, 2002)
• Guardian: 400,000 bring rural protest to London - Tania Branigan. In response to speculation that he might propose a licensing system, Alun Michael said yesterday: "A lot of people have recognised that the two sides have become too polarised. Activities with dogs may be no more cruel, or actually less cruel, than other ways of dealing with it. On the other hand, people are saying we cannot just go on as we always have done. But that doesn't necessarily mean accepting the 'middle way' option." (September 23, 2002)
• Hello!: Celebrities join countryside marchers in huge demo - A range of famous faces including model Elle Macpherson, footballer-turned-actor-turned-singer Vinnie Jones, comedian Jim Davidson, actor Edward Fox, Earl Spencer and explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes joined the demonstration in London. (September 23, 2002)
• New York Times: 400,000 Rural Protesters Take to London Streets - Reuters. Rural protesters held one of the biggest marches of recent times in London to defend fox hunting and their traditional ways of life. Video clip. [RealPlayer] USA. (September 23, 2002)
• New Zealand Herald: Rural rights protest draws 400,000 to London - "Today we are making history... They must listen," said the march's main organiser, James Stanford. The march of 407,791 protesters brought London to a standstill. New Zealand. (September 23, 2002)
• Scotsman: Cheers as saltires join the voices of protest - Edward Black. Why the countryside people of Scotland marched in the Liberty and Livelihood March. Scotland. (September 23, 2002)
• The Telegraph Calcutta India - Front page. A child sleeps prior to the Liberty and Livelihood march - one of Britain's biggest rallies - organised by the Countryside Alliance in London on Sunday. India. (September 23, 2002)
• BBC Breakfast: Countryside march - As tens of thousands converge on London for the Liberty and Livelihood marches, Breakfast reported live on the issues involved in the rural protests. Photos and video clips. (September 22, 2002)
• BBC: Huge turnout for countryside march - 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.) (September 22, 2002)
• BBC News - In pictures: The Countryside March - About 400,000 people descended on London for the Liberty and Livelihood march, bringing the streets of Westminster to a halt. (September 22, 2002)
• Cape Times: Rural folk and fox hunters hound London - More than 350 000 aggrieved country folk have taken part here in one of Britain's biggest marches, defending the right to hunt foxes and protesting at the erosion of rural life. South Africa. (September 22, 2002)
• CNN.com: Huge rural march grips London - Around 400,000 campaigners have taken part in a countryside rights march in London in one of Britain's biggest rallies. Video clip. [RealPlayer] USA. (September 22, 2002)
• 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. (September 22, 2002)
• Ireland Online: 400,000 countryside campaigners march on London - Rural Britain took over central London today in the biggest invasion of its kind ever seen as at least 400,000 demonstrators converged on the capital. Whether the march will signal a sea-change in the way the Government deals with rural affairs remains to be seen. Ireland. (September 22, 2002)
• People's Daily: Tens of Thousands Demonstrate in London for Rural Rights - Tens of thousands of people from across Britain marched through central London on Sunday to stage a protest against an official ban on hunting and highlight the needs of rural communities. China. (September 22, 2002)
• BBC: London braced for huge protest - Organisers of the countryside march in London on Sunday say they expect a turn-out of at least 250,000 people. (September 21, 2002)
• BBC News - MPs 'are listening' to countryside - The government is listening to the concerns of rural people, says one minister ahead of Sunday's countryside march in London. (September 21, 2002)
• Guardian: From landowners to pony clubs - Snapshot of the many groups who will be marching on Sunday in support of the countryside. (September 21, 2002)
• 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 schisms between economic classes and town and countryside that date back centuries: arguments in Scotland about banning English influence, and arguments in England about the relative cruelty of different fox-control methods. California, USA. (September 21, 2002)
• BBC News - Hunters united - for now - The Countryside Alliance march in London on 22 September is a fragile coalition of very different interests. (September 20, 2002)
• CNN: Hunters march to protect tradition - Wildlife experts on Friday urged the government to adopt a "middle way" option of licensed hunting to solve the controversial issue of hunting with dogs. Fairer laws were the only way of getting the countryside lobby on-side and making the laws enforceable, the report into hunting said. USA. (September 20, 2002)

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