It is one year today since veteran animal rights activist Gari Allen of Coventry Animal Alliance died, aged just 43. Read more about Gari below, including details of a special remembrance event coming soon.
Helping to serve free vegan food @ Redditch Green Fair, 2 weeks before his death
Gari had been involved in the movement for 25 years, and was still very active on demos, stalls, meetings etc. He is without doubt the one person that we could say attended more events than anyone else we know!! Coach trips to events will never be the same again. He could almost invariably be seen at big marches shaking a tin raising money for Green Meadow Animal Sanctuary and selling purple lapel ribbons out of a bucket. In his home town of Coventry, he was heavily involved in cat rescue, trapping & neutering etc. When Gari died on 18th June 2006, the animals lost one of their greatest friends. Read an obituary to Gari, written by John Curtin, here 
http://www.arkangelweb.org/features/20060706gari.php
GARI ALLEN REMEMBRANCE
Sat 30th June - Sun 1st July
Details taken from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=925
A memorial event for a great friend of the animals, veteran AR activist Gari Allen of Coventry Animal Alliance, will be held at Friend Farmed Animal Rescue near Tonbridge in Kent. http://www.friendsanimalrescue.org.uk/
The event is intended specifically to remember Gari and his work for the animals. There will be the laying of a specially engraved hand picked welsh slate from Gari's favourite holiday location, at 4pm on Saturday, followed by food and a party, with practical sanctuary work on Sunday.
Friends are urged to offer support - please get in touch to get involved in any way, or add to the activities proposed, for example by bringing fruit trees for the orchard - the rescue's pigs will thank you!
For further details call 01926 335826.
WMAA
http://www.arkangelweb.org/features/20060706gari.php GARI ALLEN REMEMBRANCE
Sat 30th June - Sun 1st July
Details taken from
http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=925 A memorial event for a great friend of the animals, veteran AR activist Gari Allen of Coventry Animal Alliance, will be held at Friend Farmed Animal Rescue near Tonbridge in Kent.
http://www.friendsanimalrescue.org.uk/ The event is intended specifically to remember Gari and his work for the animals. There will be the laying of a specially engraved hand picked welsh slate from Gari's favourite holiday location, at 4pm on Saturday, followed by food and a party, with practical sanctuary work on Sunday.
Friends are urged to offer support - please get in touch to get involved in any way, or add to the activities proposed, for example by bringing fruit trees for the orchard - the rescue's pigs will thank you!
For further details call 01926 335826.
WMAA
