Day 276 - 09 Jul 96 - Page 45
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2 Q. I think it represents ecology generally?
3 A. Okay. As far as I remember I have seen it in on
4 ecological things, but I associated it with antinuclear
5 power.
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7 Q. Right. And the broken rifle and the ecological cross bar
8 form an "A" do they, which stand for what?
9 A. Anarchism.
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11 Q. The building 6, Endsleigh Street, what kind of building is
12 that; is it a centre?
13 A. It is owned by the Peace Pledge Union I think and I
14 think there is various peace groups based in that
15 building. As I understand it, that was where London
16 Greenpeace originally had its offices. Although I was not
17 around at that time, but I do remember that being said when
18 the history of the group was came up at meetings from time
19 to time.
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21 Q. The 5, Caledonia Road building; do you know what manages
22 that building?
23 A. Peace News Trustees.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Who?
26 A. Peace News Trustees and also there is offices of
27 various peace groups: War Resisters International, Peace
28 Brigade International and other peace groups have their
29 offices there. I think London Greenpeace, as far as I
30 know, has had a quite a longstanding involvement with that
31 building as well.
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33 MR. MORRIS: A small point, when you looked at the poster about
34 the IMF on the wall in the London Greenpeace office you
35 pointed out in the photograph, you said this was a
36 demonstration against the IMF. Which group organised that
37 or who organised that demonstration that there was a
38 photograph of?
39 A. It was a London Greenpeace picket of the Bank of
40 England.
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42 Q. Had you been involved with that?
43 A. Yes. I was one of the organisers of the protest.
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45 Q. A question about meetings at the London Greenpeace offices
46 or indeed at Endsleigh Street. Was it a case of once
47 people arrived they stayed glued to their seats until the
48 final end of the meeting, or was it the case that people
49 tend to come in early, sorry, come in late, leave early,
50 sometimes go in and out during the meeting?
51 A. Well, I mean, generally speaking, they were pretty sort
52 of haphazard really. Because invariably there would be
53 people who would be late, there would be people who had to
54 leave early because they had other commitments or because
55 they had to be able to get back because there was not
56 transport available. Sometimes people would go out and
57 make take the phone out and make personal phone calls,
58 obviously.
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60 There was a photocopier in Switchboard upstairs who
