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1 anti-McDonald's movement and the people in it. And I just
2 wanted to say that, as soon as the writs were served, I was
3 determined to fight the case and so, in particular, I
4 identified myself with the anti-McDonald's movement from
5 that time on. Obviously, prior to that I had sympathised
6 with the campaign and I had participated in pickets from
7 time to time.
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9 Mr. Morris, at the time, had personal difficulties,
10 when we had the writ continuing. You know, having to care
11 for his son and so on, and so he did not really get
12 involved until a much later stage in the support campaign,
13 basically not until everybody else had -- well, the other
14 three defendants had pulled out.
15
16 I said something about, yesterday I think it was,
17 about the stalls at the 1990 fayre were more or less the
18 same as at the 1989 one, although I think there were some
19 differences. But I just wanted to say I think the
20 workshops had a different focus. The original ones in 1989
21 having been about the fast food industry in general,
22 although not all of those, but the ones at the later fayre
23 being much more wide ranging.
24
25 Yes, when I looked through the transcript for
26 yesterday, I think it might have been a little bit unclear
27 about what I was saying about the Veggies fact sheet, or it
28 may be because of the question that Mr. Rampton asked, it
29 was left perhaps a little bit unclear. But just to say
30 that the Veggies fact sheet, the one that is in the bundle,
31 the one before at tab 208 is the one before McDonald's
32 contacted them and asked them to change it. There was
33 another one reprinted after that, shortly after that as I
34 understand it.
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36 But certainly I was well aware that there was another
37 one printed after that and before October 1989. Because I
38 think it was the way that Mr. Rampton asked the question
39 yesterday, he may not have been suggesting this but it was
40 not actually done in a new style until 1991, which is not
41 the case. It was an updated -- it had the amendments in it
42 long before 1991.
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44 Q. It had them in before 1989, as I understand it?
45 A. That is right, yes.
46
47 Q. But Mr. Patrick Smith was correct, that up until and
48 including October 1989, and indeed for some time after
49 that, it was the two sheets of A4 printed on each side
50 folded in the middle and one put inside other?
51 A. Yes, folded into A5. I just wanted to say something
52 about, because I was asked about the posters on the wall in
53 the London Greenpeace office that appear in Mr. Clare's
54 photographs. I just wanted to say that nobody has ever
55 suggested that London Greenpeace, you know, had not
56 produced posters about McDonald's or produced a leaflet or
57 had an interest in anti-McDonald's. But it was not as if
58 it was the only campaign or the main campaign or anything
59 like that. It was one of the campaigns which was run by
60 some people in the group in the same way that other people
