Day 272 - 02 Jul 96 - Page 30


     
     1        Then it says:
     2
     3        "The speaker suggested that members might give thought to
     4        going to Moscow on the 16th of October 1990 to demonstrate
     5        outside the new branch of McDonald's there."
     6
     7        Do you know anything about this idea, where it may have
     8        come from?
     9        A.   Well, there was, I remember there had been talk at the
    10        time.  It was quite an event that McDonald's were going
    11        open up a branch in the USSR, as it then was.  I mean, I
    12        think we received a letter about it or something from a
    13        group there.  We may have mentioned that.
    14
    15   Q.   Then it says "this proposal".
    16        A.   I do not actually remember it being discussed at this
    17        particular meeting.  He said it received only moderate
    18        interest.
    19
    20   Q.   Then it is said that the speaker said:
    21
    22        "The international mail out would include the customary
    23        McDonald's fact sheet."
    24
    25        You have said it did not include any McDonald's fact sheet
    26        or leaflet?
    27        A.  Let me just explain.  The international mail out never
    28        included the fact sheet while I did it.  There was not an
    29        international mail out in 1990 but there had been for the
    30        previous, I had helped in the previous three years.  We
    31        could not put a fact sheet in simply because it was too
    32        heavy.  All it included was a single A5 leaflet explaining
    33        who London Greenpeace were and our campaigns.  Now, part of
    34        that would have been an anti-McDonald's campaign and the
    35        Day of Action, October 16th, but it would also have
    36        included things like the IMF World Bank campaign and the
    37        State Borders campaign.  There would have been no fact
    38        sheet.
    39
    40   Q.   You say when you had organised the mail outs you never put
    41        a fact sheet in, the international mail outs?
    42        A.  Yes.
    43
    44   Q.   Which years were those that you organised the mail outs?
    45        A.  Well, when I say organise, I took part in them.
    46
    47   Q.   Right.  Okay.
    48        A.  '87, '88 and '89, yes.
    49
    50   Q.   And in those previous years would there have been a general
    51        McDonald's leaflet or not, the A5?
    52        A.   The A5 McDonald's leaflet?  You mean the London
    53        Greenpeace one?
    54
    55   Q.   Yes.  In the previous years to 1990 would there have been
    56        an A5, small version, with McDonald's leaflet or not, or
    57        can you not remember?  You said there would not have been a
    58        fact sheet?
    59        A.   There would not have been a fact sheet put in and
    60        there was not an A5 McDonald's leaflet put in either.

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