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.
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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
