Day 277 - 10 Jul 96 - Page 64
1 entirely different press release, I don't know.
2
3 Q. The point is this, Ms. Steel, remember that document I
4 showed you earlier which said the people got involved in
5 the group by coming along to its weekly meetings and where
6 they can get involved in planning campaigns; do you
7 remember that?
8 A. Yes.
9
10 Q. The people at this meeting are mostly what I call old
11 hands, people who have been in the group for some
12 considerable time by this stage. That is to say,
13 Mr. Morris?
14 A. Except Vibes and Mark.
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16 Q. Except Vibes and Mark exactly?
17 A. Yes.
18
19 Q. And this is a planning meeting; is it not?
20 A. No, it was a regular.
21
22 Q. For the anti-McDonald's campaign of 1990?
23 A. No, it was a regular London Greenpeace meeting that
24 took place every week at 5, Caledonia Road to discuss
25 anything which anybody wanted to bring up.
26
27 Q. And it has got a lot more people at it, including old
28 hands, than we see at the vast majority of these meetings
29 throughout these notes?
30 A. I cannot account for why people have, you know, turned
31 up at meetings. It could just be complete chance. I mean,
32 I was going to the meetings, most of the meetings, so it
33 was not like I suddenly turned up out of the blue just to
34 so I could discuss McDonald's.
35
36 Q. They are all there because the next item in the group's
37 campaign agenda, Ms. Steel, are the anti-McDonald's events
38 of October 1990. That is right, is it not?
39 A. No, that is not right. I am quite sure Mr. Morris, for
40 example, would not have come along to take part in the
41 planning of the next anti-McDonald's events, because he was
42 not interested in the anti-McDonald's events.
43
44 Q. Then can we move please to 30th August?
45 A. And I was just coming along because I came to most of
46 the meetings.
47
48 Q. 30th August?
49 A. And I expect that is true for most of the other
50 people. I mean, as I say, I would make a point on this,
51 that you are picking out these various things that are
52 mentioned about McDonald's, the meeting would have gone on
53 for quite a while and there would have been lots of other
54 things discussed as well, which your private investigators
55 were not interested in recording, because they were not
56 will to find out about other campaigns. So they have not
57 noted them.
58
59 Q. Did anybody in the group during August and September 1990
60 say, "Well, we have broadened the focus of the fayre,
