Day 277 - 10 Jul 96 - Page 20

     
     1        A.  It is my recollection that nigh on nothing in the notes
     2        about McDonald's, apart from people reporting on pickets
     3        that were organised by other organisations or that were
     4        going to be organised by other organises or reading out
     5        letters from other people written about McDonald's.
     6
     7   Q.   Well, we are going to have a look at some of those later on
     8        probably today.  The demonstration, do you call it a picket
     9        or a demonstration, on 16th October 1989?
    10        A.  Picket.
    11
    12   Q.   How many people were there in all do you think, roughly?
    13        A.  30 or so.  I don't know
    14
    15   Q.   And that event was not directed against anybody but
    16        McDonald's was it?
    17        A.  It was a picket of McDonald's head office, yes.
    18
    19   Q.   Yes, but the thrust of the picket was anti-McDonald's was
    20        it not?
         A.  Well, as has been referred to previously, McDonald's
    22        symbolised what was wrong with the way society was being
    23        run for multinationals to make their profits rather than
    24        for the benefit of people living on the planet.
    25
    26   Q.   Quite, but the target was McDonald's?
    27        A.  The picket was of McDonald's, yes.
    28
    29   Q.   And all the literature and the banners were antiMcDonald's
    30        were they not?
    31        A.  I can't say that all the literature was because people
    32        did used to bring along other leaflets about other subjects
    33        and, in fact, when I went to Barlow Lyde & Gilberts offices
    34        and looked at the original leaflets I do remember that for
    35        at least one picket there was actually quite a selection of
    36        leaflets about totally different subjects in the originals
    37        which don't appear in the bundles that we have got in
    38        court.
    39
    40   Q.   Banners saying, for example, "Save the Rainforest, Boycott
         the Burger"?
    42        A.  Which doesn't mention McDonald's.
    43
    44   Q.   No, of course not.
    45        A.  It talks about the burger industry.
    46
    47   Q.   "McDonalds, McDeath, McCancer, McWaste, McHunger" had
    48        nothing to do with McDonald's either I suppose; is that
    49        right?
    50        A.  I did not say that.
    51
    52   Q.   No.  The two people in pursuit of Mr. Howes, Mr. Gravett
    53        and somebody else, being chopped up with a stage chopper,
    54        or whatever it is, pantomime axe I think you called it?
    55        A.  Yes.
    56
    57   Q.   That is, I suppose, you would say is a general comment and
    58        not specifically directed at McDonald's or not?
    59        A.  I don't remember any specific thing about McDonald's
    60        -- I mean, it might have been mentioned.  I don't know.