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.

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