Day 272 - 02 Jul 96 - Page 05
1 of the fact sheet which was around in circulation then on
2 that day, and if there would have been copies of that
3 there, that has got the same cover as our version, as the
4 London Greenpeace fact sheet, but it is not the same
5 leaflet.
6
7 Q. Did Veggies people sometimes attend pickets of Head Office?
8 A. Yes, they did, they did used to come down from time to
9 time. They may have brought some of their leaflets with
10 them.
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12 Q. Okay, if we move on:
13
14 "In the office there was a separate tray for McDonald's
15 enquiries and these letters were answered by a small
16 'subgroup' of one or two people who were particularly
17 involved in the campaign. Dave and Helen were never part
18 of this group."
19 A. Yes, that is true.
20
21 Q. "London Greenpeace was never just an anti-McDonald's
22 group. It was always involved in a wide range of campaigns
23 depending on who was coming to meetings. Two major
24 campaigns of this period were against the IMF World Bank
25 and State Borders?
26 A. Yes, that is true. Those two campaigns, I would say,
27 were just as important in the nineteen eighty -- certainly
28 the 1988-90 period as the McDonald's campaign was.
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30 Q. Right.
31
32 "Dave and Helen were not heavily involved in the
33 anti-McDonald's campaign. Neither played any role in
34 planning or organising the 1989 anti-McDonald's fayre,
35 extent turning up on the day to help (as did a great many
36 people). In 1990 it was decided to rename it the London
37 Greenpeace Fayre because we wanted to get away from being
38 seen as a single issue 'anti-McDonald's' group"?
39 A. Yes.
40
41 Q. "Both Dave and Helen were in favour of this."
42 A. Yes, that is true. I mean, the important thing there
43 is that being seen as a single issue anti-McDonald's group,
44 we never were a single issue anti-McDonald's group, but the
45 anti-McDonald's campaign of the mid 80's did take off and,
46 as a result of that, other people did associate us as being
47 an anti-McDonald's group, but, as I explained earlier, we
48 never were, and that was something we did like to point out
49 at meetings, and Dave in particular always did.
50
51 Q. "By 1989-90 we met only once a month at Endsleigh Street.
52 These were called public meetings but often there was no
53 'public' there due to the meetings not being publicised.
54 There was normally a selection of leaflets put in the
55 centre of the table by people attending the meetings. What
56 leaflets were put there depended on which people were at
57 the meetings. The number of people at meetings fluctuated
58 wildly and were some who were only loosely involved in the
59 group --"
60 A. Sorry "there was".
