Day 272 - 02 Jul 96 - Page 53


     
     1   Q.   I would just like to get you to look at the original.  They
     2        are in that envelope, yes.  Thank you very much.  This is
     3        the London Greenpeace anti-McDonald's fact sheet?
     4        A.   Yes.
     5
     6   Q.   There is no other London Greenpeace document which is
     7        called the anti-McDonald's fact sheet, is there?
     8        A.   No, no, that is true.
     9
    10   Q.   It says:
    11
    12        "We received requests for copies from all over the world
    13        and many groups have used it to make their..."
    14
    15        I am going to stop there because I do not think the next
    16        sentence has got anything to do with this case.  How come,
    17        Mr. Gravett, that it has become a classic that requests for
    18        copies of it have come from all over the world and that
    19        many groups have been enabled to use it for their own
    20        leaflets?  How did that happen?  What were the mechanics?
    21        A.   Well, the fact sheet was very popular.  We had
    22        requests for it from groups.  I do not know how they all
    23        heard about it.  Sometimes we -- I mean, it was put in the
    24        mail out in 1986, the World Day of Action.  It was handed
    25        out on the street.  I think copies were sent to
    26        publications, journals, things like that, in 1986.  It just
    27        took off.
    28
    29   Q.   And if anybody wrote in and asked a specific question about
    30        McDonald's or for more information about McDonald's,
    31        whether from this country or abroad, and you had copies of
    32        the fact sheet available, you would stuff them in an
    33        envelope and send them out, would you not?
    34        A.   In 1986, yes.  I mean, 1986, '87, '88 we had enquiries
    35        about -- specific enquiries to do with McDonald's.  We
    36        would put a fact sheet in it to answer, with the answer.
    37
    38   Q.   And it went --
    39        A.   Later on they got used more sparingly.  We were
    40        running out of copies.
    41
    42   Q.   I understand that, but they were still used, were they not?
    43        A.   They were used by me very sparingly.  They were not
    44        even used for every McDonald's inquiry.  If someone just
    45        wrote us to and said "I would like you to send me some
    46        information on McDonald's", we would have normally sent the
    47        A5 leaflet.  If someone wrote to us and said "I have seen
    48        your A5 leaflets on McDonald's, please send further
    49        information", or it was a request for some very specific
    50        piece of information from, say, another group somewhere
    51        relating to a specific aspect of the case, then the fact
    52        sheet would be sent to them.
    53
    54   Q.   Right.
    55        A.  That is what I did, anyway, and I was the person
    56        responsible for the anti-McDonald's campaign from 87-90.
    57
    58   Q.   And did anybody in the group, except possibly towards the
    59        end of 1990, did anybody in the group disapprove of or
    60        dissent from your role as the group's anti-McDonald's

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