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	Guardian \| Benny Rothman
		Benny Rothman, who has died aged 90, is now revered as the patron saint of the British outdoor community.
		Rothman was the middle of five children of Romanian-Jewish parents who had come to Britain at the turn of the century.
		Rothman was well under five feet tall, a strong man, calm-eyed, watchful and humorous, with a passionate and selfless conviction.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4342623-103684,00.html (1054 words)

	Kinder Trespass - Benny Rothman ::
		Benny Rothman (1 Jun 1911 - 23 Jan 2002) was a UK political activist, most famous for his leading role in the Mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932.
		The combination of his political activism and interest in the outdoors led to his participation in the mass trespass of 1932, an enterprise that resulted in a spell in jail and further employment difficulties.
		Rothman was active in working with Jewish groups in Manchester to oppose the campaigns of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists.
	kindertrespass.com /index.asp?ID=26 (332 words)

	Eric the Unread: Benny Rothman and the Blackshirts
		Benny Rothman is best known for being the leader of the mass trespass of 1932 on Kinder Scout, a mountain that was at the time out of bounds to the public.
		Benny was born in 1911, the son of Rumanian Jews who moved to Cheetam in Manchester.
		By the end of his late teens he was a member of the Young Communist League, an organisation that in the late twenties was involved in organising working class sport, such as Sunday League Football, cycling, camping trips, and rambling.
	erictheunred.blogspot.com /2004/12/benny-rothman-and-blackshirts.html (1115 words)

	Andrew Bibby: Benny Rothman and access
		Benny Rothman, one of the imprisoned organisers of the 1932 event, helped to plan the programme.
		Journalists and TV crews have become frequent visitors at the semi in the Manchester suburb of Timperley where he lives with wife Lilian (Lilian had wanted to join the trespass, but to her lasting regret had been unable to persuade her father to let her go).
		Benny is friendly and welcoming, and anxious to talk not just of the trespass but also about the issues facing ramblers today.
	www.andrewbibby.com /misc/bennyrothman.html (1084 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| The walk that changed Britain
		Rothman himself, who died aged 90 earlier this year, recalled the day, talking to the BBC in 1980.
		Rothman and four others were arrested after the trespass, and charged with "riotous assembly".
		The ultimate sign of Rothman's victory came this week with the grandson of the 9th Duke of Devonshire, the owner of Kinder Scout, accepting that the ramblers had been right.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1953035.stm (825 words)

	OUT OF DOORS: Trespassers will be celebrated Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		Led by Rothman, a 5ft 2in Jewish Communist mechanic from Manchester, around 400 people, sick of being turned off privately owned land, gathered at the car park, which was then a quarry.
		Benny knew little, as a child, of anything beyond the Jewish community's huddled confines.
		Rothman began to cycle huge distances, eventually going as far as Snowdon, on top of which he discovered, at 16, what was to be a lifelong love of the freedom and beauty of the countryside.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020420/ai_n12622058 (886 words)

	Ramblers Association - News - RA members pay tribute to Benny Rothman
		WALKERS ARE today mourning the death of Benny Rothman (90), leader of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass of 1932 and honorary lifetime member of the Ramblers' Association (RA), who died on Wednesday, 23 January.
		Benny, a stocky, diminutive figure with a huge heart and a will of iron when it came to the public's rights, was a legendary figure in the history of the freedom to roam campaign.
		At that time walkers were banned from almost all the open moorland of the Peak District and the trespass gave a powerful thrust to the campaign that led to the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949, and even the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.
	www.ramblers.org.uk /news/archive/2002/jan2402.html (260 words)

	planetFear / Articles / Others / Longstone Edge — A National Disgrace?
		Benny Rothman must be spinning in his grave.
		Rothman, a political activist from Manchester, fought for the access rights we now enjoy and was a prominent member of the mass Kinder Trespass.
		The Peak District Rothman loved so much is currently being despoiled by quarry companies, notably at Longstone Edge, while we stand impotently on the sidelines waving our placards, writing ineffectually to our elected representatives and whining into our beer.
	www.planetfear.com /article_detail.asp?a_id=840 (1097 words)

	Socialist Worker page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		BENNY Rothman should be mourned by every hill walker and climber in the country.
		Benny knew that change would only come through mass action by ordinary people.
		He was jailed for leading the Kinder trespass, but never stopped campaigning for the right of working class people to enjoy the land stolen by the rich.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /archive/1785/sw178510.htm (125 words)

	A kinder dream artist's statement
		The most memorable event is caught in the story of Benny Rothman, and his dream to hike where he wanted.
		In 1932 he led a mass trespass onto Kinder and Rothman's action became a landmark in the ramblers campaign, but at the time resulted in a fight with the authorities not far from one of the strange gritstone outcrops, appropriately called "The Boxing Gloves Rocks".
		This small sample of the artwork that he has created during his walks on Kinder Scout moor has, he says, drawn him into the process, into the narrative, and into his own dreams and experiences about the place.
	www.thegreencube.co.uk /kinderpress3.html (337 words)

	Access Denied
		Two hundred years on and the battle for access is still being fought against the twin evils of social control and landed self-interest.
		On April 24th, 1932, Benny Rothman joined thousands of ramblers and rough-stuffers in the famous mass trespass if Kinder Scout.
		Back then there was no such offence as criminal trespass, so Benny served four months at His Majesty's pleasure for riotous assembly and violence (against property).
	www.bikereader.com /contributors/Brick/enclosed.html (933 words)

	Kinder Trespass Anniversary Celebration - OUTDOORSmagic OTH news
		One for the diary - the 70th anniversary of the legendary Kinder Trespass of 1932 falls this year, just months after the death of leader Benny Rothman and there's going to be a big knees-up at the site of the original meeting to commemorate the event.
		The well-used rucksac of Kinder Trespass leader Benny Rothman has been presented to Glossop Mountain Rescue Team by his family.
		Benny Rothman, the extraordinary leading figure behind the 1932 Kinder Trespass has died aged 90 after a lifetime of campaigning
	www.outdoorsmagic.com /news/article.asp?UAN=1277 (501 words)

	TrailZone - Main Home Page
		marks the 70th anniversary of the famous Kinder Trespass, when Benny Rothman and others struck a decisive blow for the access rights we now enjoy.
		Sadly, Benny Rothman died at the age of 90 on 25th January 2002 at his home in Essex.
		He grew up in Manchester, and at the age of 20 was one of the leaders of the now famous mass trespass in protest against the landowners who zealously protected the high moorland.
	home.clara.net /bonez/kindertrespass.html (356 words)

	Lamorna Path
		If so, the you must visit Brittain, it is a walker’s paradise, because you have the right of way, mostly.
		Benny Rothman and five others went to jail in 1932 for this right.
		The walk of walks is of course the end-to-end, from John O’Groats in Scotland to Lands’ End at the toe of the Cornish boot.
	www.bobwheeler.com /photo/Gallery/Lamorna_Path/lamorna_path.html (118 words)

	Graham Stevenson: R to S - Compendium of Communist Biography by surname
		Born on June 1st 1911, Bernard (Benny) Rothman was the middle son of five children of Romanian Jewish parents, who came to Britain at the turn of the century.
		Rothman’s group of six or seven, mostly factory lads, mused over the possibility of there having been a shop full of apprentices and the concept of a mass trespass was born.
		Rothman stepped in at the last minute as main speaker, when the intended incumbent took fright at the sight of 200 police.
	graham.thewebtailor.co.uk /archives/000089.html (21316 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The enclosure of common land and its sale to commercial interests is the starting point for the environmental degradation seen today upon the moor.
		Peat Alert is organising a mass trespass on Hatfield Moor in memory of Benny Rothman, leader of the original Kinder Scout Mass Trespass, who died on January 23rd, aged 90.
		Benny was a tireless activist on countryside access, pensioners and workers rights and on many more issues, and was described as “a political and environmental workaholic”.
	www.peatalert.org.uk /campaign/masstrespass.htm (278 words)

	Kinder Cycle Ride 2002
		Benny Rothman led the 1932 Kinder trespass as part of his campaign to improve access to the hills for ordinary people.
		In the meanwhile here is a picture of a Young Rothman on his own bike...
		Seventy years after the 1932 Kinder Trespass the Countryside and Rights of Way act seems to be about to grant walkers 'the right to roam' unconstrained by the existing rights of ways network.
	www.thebikezone.org.uk /thebikezone/campaigning/offroad/kinder2002.html (688 words)

	Kinder Trespass - Benny Rothman Book ::
		In the words of the Foreword by Tom Waghorn: "This book, told in Benny's own words, is an important historical document for the rambling world."
		Recognising that "a whole mythology has grown around the Trespass", in preparing for the book, Benny interviewed participants, local villages, keepers and policemen who took part.
		He re-read newspaper accounts of the time, and again looked at the court proceedings, in order to present as accurate an account as possible of the Trespass, and what it brought about.
	kindertrespass.com /index.asp?ID=30 (183 words)

	Britons enjoy right to walk on private land \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Hundreds of ramblers – many of them blue-collar workers from the industrial northwest – fought bailiffs, police and gamekeepers in a vain effort to win access to a boggy, high plateau in the Peak District.
		One of their leaders was Benny Rothman, a labor unionist and communist.
		Their protests bore fruit only after World War II, with the creation of national parks in such places as the Lake District and the Peak District, guaranteeing free public access.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040920/news_1n20hiking.html (627 words)

	spiked \| Farewell to the city?
		In the interwar recession, and the postwar reconstruction, working-class people took every opportunity to escape from grim cities and re-assert their rights over the countryside that the landed classes had bagged for themselves.
		The late Benny Rothman, a Manchester communist, led a mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932.
		Families from the East End of London started to live in the holiday huts they made at Pitsea such that ‘by the end of World War II there was a settled population of about 25,000 on 75 miles of grass-track roads, mostly unsewered and with standpipes for water supply’.
	www.spiked-online.com /index.php?/site/article/301 (3042 words)

	Red Pepper April 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		And looking ahead, a Mayday bank holiday mass trespass is also in the offing.
		It will be a tribute to Benny Rothman,who died last month.
		He was involved in the celebrated Kinder Scout mass trespass in the 1930s.
	www.redpepper.org.uk /natarch/x-peat.html (606 words)

	Another country / Comment / Home - Morning Star
		The ramblers have built on the foundation of the mass trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932.
		Its prime mover was 20-year-old Manchester communist and apprentice car worker Benny Rothman - Jewish by descent, tiny in stature and fiery in rhetoric.
		The trespass grew out of his participation in the British Workers' Sports Federation, which ran weekend camps for Manchester's poor and unemployed - and his confrontation with a group of gamekeepers attempting to debar them from their employer's land.
	www.morningstaronline.co.uk /index2.php/free/comment/another_country (417 words)

	Socialist Unity
		Stalin was even worse; however, the CPGB member Benny Rothman's Kinder Scout trespass in the 1930s was part of a working class campaign for access to the countryside for walking and climbing.
		Benny spoke at Twyford Down to resist the M3 cutting through on an Earth First!
		The managerial approach of the Fabians distorted British social democracy, although the 1945 Atlee governments’ creation of National Parks shows that the Morris influence continued a little.
	www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk /voices/derekwall.htm (3492 words)

	CalvertonCam Walks
		This plaque marking the spot where Benny Rothman led hundreds of walkers onto the Kinder plateau.
		The Kinder Trespass as it became known marked the start of the access debate that continues to this day.
		All I can say is that without Benny I would not be enjoying some of the fantastic parts of the countryside that I, and countless others presently do.
	www.calvertoncam.co.uk /walks/individual_walks/kinder_080705 (402 words)

	peak district local history, customs, wildlife, transport - Peakland Heritage
		Several of them were arrested and later put on trial for public order offences but not for trespass.
		The leader of the trespass, Benny Rothman, later conducted a brilliant defence against these charges.
		However this did not stop the judge sentencing them to between two and six months' imprisonment.
	www.peaklandheritage.org.uk /index.asp?peakkey=01400721 (552 words)

	Indymedia UK - obituaries of two brilliant uk radicals (part one) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		benny rothman was a long time communist, trade unionist and pioneer open access activist who led a famous mass trespass in the thirties to kinder scout pass in derbyshire, an action which helped lead to the creation of the national parks.we may not see his like again....
		Inspirational figure who led the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass in its fight for open access
		Sat 9th - Sun 17th December, UK-wide: UK Week Of Action For Oaxaca
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2002/01/21106.html (1294 words)

	Discover Derbyshire and the Peak District
		This had been well advertised in the Manchester Evening Chronicle and involved some 400 people.
		The police were waiting for the leader, Benny Rothman, at the railway station but he avoided arrest by arriving on his bike.
		The walk started from Bowden Bridge Quarry, just to the west of the village centre.
	www.derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk /hayfield.htm (1252 words)

	Edale to Snake Pass
		This was the scene of the famous “mass trespass” in the 1930’s that was instrumental in opening up these lonely moors to public access.
		On that Sunday morning in 1932 roughly 400 walkers, among them the legendary Benny Rothman, engaged in an act of mass civil disobedience by trespassing over what was then private ground.
		They were confronted by gamekeepers but won out by sheer weight of numbers.
	www.jbutler.org.uk /e2e/pw/w1/index.shtml (2775 words)

	rubens rothman for Alberta
		in 1921 in Edmonton, Alberta - University law graduate, but Benny Rothman - Manchester - ambulance driver - led the Kinder Herman Rosenstein - USA.
		Ray Richardson, Larry Rivers, Alicia Rothman, Jim Schantz, Robert Sherer, Alexander Blakelock, Gutzon Borglum, Matthew Burcaw, Alberta Cifolelli, Chandler Davis, Robert Goodnough
		Torres (Laura Elkin), Alberta Watson (Angela Brandt), Scotty Celeste Foxx), John Rothman (O`Hara), David Bailey (Alan Bauer (David), Herbert Rubens (Ralph), Chelsea Altman
	www.canadianbusinessdirectory.ca /historyab_rubens_rothman.htm (201 words)

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