Day 272 - 02 Jul 96 - Page 04
1 brought the leaflets from the office, 5 Caledonian Road,
2 took them up to McDonald's headquarters. I also arranged
3 the street theatre on the day. I got hold of the pantomime
4 cow costume.
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6 Q. Right. Which leaflets did you bring from the office?
7 A. The leaflets that I brought were the A5 London
8 Greenpeace leaflets. I did not bring any fact sheets with
9 me because it was not the custom of the group at that time
10 to take McDonald's fact sheets on to demonstrations to hand
11 out in bulk. In fact, we had not done it since 1987.
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13 Q. So it had happened in the past then?
14 A. It happened, to the best of my knowledge, on two
15 occasions.
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17 Q. And when were they?
18 A. They were October 1986, World Day of Action Against
19 McDonald's, October 16th. And in January 1987 we decided
20 to do some demonstrations outside McDonald's branches in
21 South London and they were taken then. Now, after that
22 time, as a result of handing them out in the street, there
23 were very knew left and we decided to reprint. They were
24 costly to reprint, they were a big leaflet, and we then
25 decided, a decision was made that we would not hand them
26 out any more in the street.
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28 Soon after that, in the spring of 1987, I can remember
29 producing an A5 leaflet. I actually wrote the A5 leaflet.
30 I did it firstly for Hackney and Islington Animal Rights.
31 I think the group was called Islington Animal Rights then.
32 I did it for that group. And then shortly afterwards that
33 was used by London Greenpeace, the A5 leaflet, and
34 thereafter that was always used on street demonstrations.
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36 Q. Okay. Mr. Nicholson says that he thinks that he saw you
37 with a stack of the anti-McDonald's fact sheets that we are
38 being sued over under your arm on this demonstration though
39 he does not remember whether or not -- well, he did not see
40 you handing any out, and he also says that he saw me with a
41 whole pile of anti-McDonald's fact sheets on this
42 demonstration, distributing them. Do you have any comment
43 about that?
44 A. Yes. As I said earlier, to the best of my knowledge
45 there were no anti-McDonald's fact sheets there. I
46 certainly did not take any and I do not believe that anyone
47 who was involved in the group would have taken any with
48 them. That does not mean that someone else might not have
49 brought some with them, because the sort of group London
50 Greenpeace was, people did used to bring other leaflets
51 than the ones we brought ourselves to demonstrations.
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53 Now, I may have handed out some leaflets that day. I spent
54 a lot of the time in the cow costume. I was part of that.
55 I may have handed out some leaflets myself. If I had done,
56 they would have been the A5 leaflets because that is the
57 one I took. You, Helen, I can only remember you on that
58 day holding that Greenpeace banner. I do not remember you
59 handing out any leaflets at all on that day. And also, as
60 I remember it, there was also the Veggies version as well
