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1 MR. MORRIS: It is all right.
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3 MR. RAMPTON: I am going to come back to this document in more
4 detail later, Mr. Gravett, but for the moment I would just
5 like you to look at the first paragraph.
6 A. Yes.
7
8 Q. "Tuesday, October 16th, United Nations world food day will
9 again be World Day of Action Against McDonald's. This will
10 be the eighth day of action. The first was way back on
11 January the 19th, 1985".
12
13 Are you the author of this document? I think you said you
14 were.
15 A. Yes, I am.
16
17 Q. Was there one day of action annually or sometimes two?
18 A. In 1985 I believe there were three.
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20 Q. Right.
21 A. One in January, one in April, one in October.
22 Thereafter that there was one per year.
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24 Q. Right. So one in '86, that makes four; one in '87, that
25 makes five; one in '88, that makes six; and one in '89
26 makes seven; plus one for 1990 makes eight. Is that right?
27 A. Yes.
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29 Q. So there was undoubtedly a day of action both in 1987 and
30 1988?
31 A. Yes.
32
33 Q. And I expect London Greenpeace, because it was a London
34 Greenpeace event so far as McDonald's was concerned, did
35 everything it could to make sure that the day of action was
36 as effective as possible throughout this country?
37 A. Well, we had sent -- we did a mail out to local groups
38 informing them of the day of action.
39
40 Q. Now, I want to ask you about something else. You said this
41 morning, Mr. Gravett, in effect this, I think; that it was
42 not the practice of London Greenpeace to take the 6-sided
43 fact sheet on demonstrations in bulk. Is that right?
44 A. Yes.
45
46 Q. The last time you did that, I think you told us, was in
47 January 1987?
48 A. Yes, to the best of my knowledge that was last time it
49 was done by London Greenpeace.
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51 Q. And you said it became after that, it became too costly?
52 A. Yes.
53
54 Q. You said in relation to the Hackney and Islington Animal
55 Rights meeting on 2nd October 1990 that the fact sheet was
56 no longer available in quantity at that time so it would
57 not have been there. Do you remember that?
58 A. Well, I would not have taken it there.
59
60 Q. No. And you said that you do not remember piles of the
