A Tribute To Jill Phipps, A True Heroine youtube/watch?v=ra1DgyTt1TI Jill Phipps (15 January 1964 — 1 February 1995) was a British animal rights activist who was crushed to death in Baginton, Warwickshire, England by a lorry transporting live veal calves heading for continental Europe via Coventry Airport. Background Phipps did well at school but chose not to stay on after the age of 16; she went to work for the Royal Mail (her father was a postman). She had become interested in caring for animals when young, and joined her mothers campaigning against the fur trade from the age of 11. After herself becoming a vegetarian, Phipps persuaded the rest of her family to join them. By her late teens she joined the Eastern Animal Liberation League, a group affiliated to the Animal Liberation Front. A local campaign in Coventry supported by Phipps and her mother succeeded in closing down a local fur shop and fur farm. In 1986, together with her mother and sister, Phipps raided the Port Sunlight factory of soap manufacturers Unilever to protest at their use of animal testing. After smashing computer equipment, the group were caught and prosecuted, with Phipps mother being sentenced to six months imprisonment and her sister to eighteen months. Phipps herself received a suspended sentence as she was pregnant. Jills song youtu.be/SkAfvhyA3NA
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