Day 278 - 11 Jul 96 - Page 42
1 were running other campaigns. And if you look at the
2 photographs you will see that there is a wide range of
3 posters about lots of different issues all over the walls.
4 Stuff about the poll tax, stuff about the IMF, something
5 about Europe against current, some of them you cannot read
6 because they are too small.
7
8 A general one about the planet earth, one is just
9 general environmental posters. An antiapartheid poster
10 about Twicker's World doing tours in South Africa. A "Stop
11 the Developers" campaign, "Time To Go" campaign. Just that
12 there was a wide range of issues that people in the group
13 had an interest in.
14
15 One thing from the aims, the so-called aims leaflet
16 that was referred to, and there was reference to the part
17 saying about the people believed in taking action and
18 communicating, I can't remember the exact quote. Yes,
19 taking action and communicating, not sitting around
20 discussing, sitting around in cliques discussing stuffy
21 text. Just to say that taking action is basically taking
22 any kind of picketing, demonstrating, leafleting and so
23 on. It is all about people taking action to change the
24 word, to take control of their own lives rather than
25 leaving it in the hands of other people.
26
27 Can I also, I was asked a question yesterday about if
28 McDonald's had written to us before serving the writs would
29 it have made any difference? And I just want to say that
30 if they had written to us and given full details of what
31 they considered the situation was, what their practices
32 were, and they were things that we could check up, then I
33 would have certainly considered what they had said. And if
34 I had found it to be true I would not have been, I would
35 not have continued putting out anything that, you know,
36 they had clearly shown not to be true. But, if they just
37 wrote to us making a threat, or something like that, then I
38 am not going to apologise to them because I do believe that
39 the things are true.
40
41 The point is, the point about that is that with all
42 their criticisms they have never tried to put over, you
43 know, they have got a massive, they have got massive
44 resources at their disposal. It would be quite easy for
45 them to tell everybody exactly what their practices are,
46 exactly where they get their beef from for example, details
47 of all the suppliers and, you know, people can investigate
48 them and so on. They do not do that. They just make
49 threats and ask people and tell people to shut up. That
50 was not to detract from the answer I gave yesterday. That
51 was just an additional point in terms of whether or not, if
52 they had written with details of all their practices, it
53 might have made a difference.
54
55 I mean, in terms of as it turns out, no, it wouldn't
56 have because I am convinced that everything is true. But,
57 I would, if somebody who I was criticising came to me and
58 said that the criticisms were unfounded and gave me the
59 full reasons why they thought they were unfounded I would
60 most certainly consider it and study what they had said.
