Day 275 - 08 Jul 96 - Page 12
1 was handing out copies of the fact sheet to members of the
2 public is wrong. I certainly was not handing out copies of
3 the fact sheet. The only possibility is that at some stage
4 on the demo somebody said to me something like, "Oh, that
5 person over there is interested, do you mind just going and
6 giving him a copy of this", and that could be either the
7 London Greenpeace fact sheet or the Veggies' fact sheet. I
8 do not actually think this happened, but that is the reason
9 why three years after the event I did not want to say
10 categorically 100 per cent that I could not have handed out
11 a single copy of the fact sheet. It is my firm belief that
12 I did not hand out a copy of the fact sheet, but being
13 three years after the event it is impossible for me to
14 say. I do know that I definitely was not handing out the
15 copies of the fact sheet in the manner described by
16 Mr. Nicholson and Mr. Carol -- mass distribution to the
17 public throughout the demonstration. I know that would not
18 have happened because it was my knowledge and understanding
19 that the fact sheet was not to be distributed on any
20 demonstration.
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22 "I attended the anti-McDonald's fayre at Conway Hall
23 in Red Lion Square on 21st October 1989 and it is my
24 recollection that for most of the time I was there I was
25 working in the creche, and I also remember clearing up at
26 the end of the fayre. I have attended a number of London
27 Greenpeace meetings at 6 Endsleigh Street, London WC1 and
28 invariably there would be a collection of various leaflets
29 in the centre of the table for anyone to take if they were
30 interested. Anyone attending the meetings could put
31 leaflets there. If I saw any leaflets there that I had not
32 seen before then I would take a copy to read if it looked
33 interesting.
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35 "I have also attended a number of meetings at the
36 office of London Greenpeace at 5 Caledonian Road, London.
37 At the start of these meetings a sheet of paper would be
38 handed round with the word "agenda" written at the top.
39 Anyone could write on the paper anything which they wanted
40 to talk about at the meeting, and following this the items
41 would be gone through one by one.
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43 If I just say, a description of the way the agenda
44 worked was that somebody would get a piece of paper, write
45 the word "agenda" at the top. Then, the first item on the
46 agenda would always be introductions, the second item would
47 be letters/office, so anything that had to do with any
48 letters that had come in over the past week and anything to
49 do with the office, i.e. concerning bills to be paid for
50 the phone bill; things like that. Then the next item would
51 be reports, which would be where anybody could report on
52 anything which they had done in the past week, or anything
53 that they had heard about which might be of interest to
54 other people attending the meetings. It was not only
55 events that were organised by London Greenpeace that would
56 be brought up under that section. In fact, they were
57 probably in the minority. It was just anything that
58 anybody had done over the past week that was political
59 activity.
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