Remembering Carrie Fisher
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Dec 28, 2016 
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Its a sad day for science fiction fans everywhere. Carrie Fisher, best known for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars series, has passed away at the age of 60.
Most people know her for her role in Star Wars, but did you know that she’s also an animal welfare activist?
According to The New York Times, Fisher suffered a heart attack while on a flight from London to Los Angeles this past Friday and had been hospitalized until her time of death.
As an actress, Fishers role as Leia showed that a passive, helpless character was the not the only role for women in cinema. In spite of the heartbreaking destruction of her home planet Alderaan at the hands of Darth Vader, Princess Leia was a force to be a reckoned with as one of the most esteemed leaders of the Rebel Alliance.
But, Fisher did much more than play the role of a character who would go on to become a highly recognized feminist icon in pop culture; she was also an animal lover who fought for an end to the Yulin Dog Meat Festival.
Early this Summer, Fisher and her service dog Gary joined a protest in front of the London Chinese Embassy calling for an end to the Yulin Dog Meat Festival.
Fisher explained in an Express article, there is so much animal suffering in the world, and much of it you feel helpless to end, but stopping the Yulin dog meat festival and ending all that suffering is easy All the Chinese authorities need to do is declare it shut down, and the killing stops.
She went on to say, These poor dogs need us to fight for them. Every single one of them is as precious as my dear Gary, every one of them is someones best friend.
Carrie Fisher was a fighter. As an older woman, she fought for the way that we view younger women in the meeting and the way that the media treats actresses of a certain age. As an animal rights activist, she believed that we can put a stop to the Yulin Dog Meat Festival through the power of the people.
Rest in peace, Carrie Fisher. Thank you for inspiring us all.
May the force be with you.
(via OneGreenPlanet.org)
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