Day 272 - 02 Jul 96 - Page 30
1 Then it says:
2
3 "The speaker suggested that members might give thought to
4 going to Moscow on the 16th of October 1990 to demonstrate
5 outside the new branch of McDonald's there."
6
7 Do you know anything about this idea, where it may have
8 come from?
9 A. Well, there was, I remember there had been talk at the
10 time. It was quite an event that McDonald's were going
11 open up a branch in the USSR, as it then was. I mean, I
12 think we received a letter about it or something from a
13 group there. We may have mentioned that.
14
15 Q. Then it says "this proposal".
16 A. I do not actually remember it being discussed at this
17 particular meeting. He said it received only moderate
18 interest.
19
20 Q. Then it is said that the speaker said:
21
22 "The international mail out would include the customary
23 McDonald's fact sheet."
24
25 You have said it did not include any McDonald's fact sheet
26 or leaflet?
27 A. Let me just explain. The international mail out never
28 included the fact sheet while I did it. There was not an
29 international mail out in 1990 but there had been for the
30 previous, I had helped in the previous three years. We
31 could not put a fact sheet in simply because it was too
32 heavy. All it included was a single A5 leaflet explaining
33 who London Greenpeace were and our campaigns. Now, part of
34 that would have been an anti-McDonald's campaign and the
35 Day of Action, October 16th, but it would also have
36 included things like the IMF World Bank campaign and the
37 State Borders campaign. There would have been no fact
38 sheet.
39
40 Q. You say when you had organised the mail outs you never put
41 a fact sheet in, the international mail outs?
42 A. Yes.
43
44 Q. Which years were those that you organised the mail outs?
45 A. Well, when I say organise, I took part in them.
46
47 Q. Right. Okay.
48 A. '87, '88 and '89, yes.
49
50 Q. And in those previous years would there have been a general
51 McDonald's leaflet or not, the A5?
52 A. The A5 McDonald's leaflet? You mean the London
53 Greenpeace one?
54
55 Q. Yes. In the previous years to 1990 would there have been
56 an A5, small version, with McDonald's leaflet or not, or
57 can you not remember? You said there would not have been a
58 fact sheet?
59 A. There would not have been a fact sheet put in and
60 there was not an A5 McDonald's leaflet put in either.
