Day 277 - 10 Jul 96 - Page 54
1 A. Yes.
2
3 Q. And you had conceived the idea before ever you joined this
4 group, am I right, that successful multinationals of the
5 type you saw epitomised by McDonald's, successful
6 multinationals of that kind, ought to be removed from the
7 face of the earth; is that right?
8 A. You cannot run a multinational and make profits without
9 exploitation and oppression.
10
11 Q. But am I right?
12 A. Yes, I did. It was before I got involved with London
13 Greenpeace that I had an opposition to the way that
14 multinationals did their profiteering.
15
16 Q. So the London Greenpeace anti-McDonald's campaign, which
17 was already being heralded as a huge success even by the
18 time you joined, must have seemed like manna from heaven to
19 you. It was absolutely perfect for your purposes was it
20 not?
21 A. It was a campaign I was involved in. I mean, just lots
22 of different things, and I have attended hundreds of
23 demonstrations and pickets on a wide range of issues, and
24 McDonald's was one of those.
25
26 Q. You must have thought that fact sheet, so called
27 fact sheet, was one of the best things you had every read.
28 Am I not right?
29 A. It was interesting.
30
31 Q. Yes. And I am sure you embraced it with enthusiasm did you
32 not?
33 A. I don't know what you mean to be honest.
34
35 Q. What I mean is that you grasped every opportunity that
36 arose to dish out this and other kinds of material which
37 might help to remove McDonald's from the planet?
38 A. From when I got involved in the group, it was always
39 said that the fact sheet was not for distributing on the
40 streets, that it was saved for specific inquiries. If I
41 was as keen as you are making out, I would have got
42 involved with answering letters, and so on, to do with the
43 with anti-McDonald's stuff. I would have, like, become
44 part of the -- I mean, it was not a subgroup but part of
45 the, you know, people who were actually running the
46 campaign. To me it was one of the issues and, yes, it
47 embraced issues which are important to me, but it was not,
48 it did not have, you know, any special significance.
49
50 Q. And you did not in the very least, in fact quite the
51 contrary, disapprove of what anybody else may have done in
52 pursuit of that campaign, did you?
53 A. It was not up to me to disapprove or approve, people
54 got on with whatever they felt was important and, you know,
55 if you weren't interested or you did not feel that that was
56 something you wanted to focus on, then you did not have to.
57
58 Q. Are you saying, Miss Steel, it is in character for you to
59 sit by when something is being done in the name of a group
60 with which you are associated of which you do not approve.
