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     2   MR. RAMPTON:  60A, 'A' for Arthur.  I hope, Mr. Gravett, you
     3        have got a document headed 'anti-McDonald's campaign 1990'?
     4        A.   Yes.
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     6   Q.   You do.  I referred you to the first paragraph yesterday
     7        for a different purpose.  I would like you to look at the
     8        second sentence of the first paragraph which reads:
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    10        "London Greenpeace, the libertarian ecological collective,
    11        no relation to the much larger Greenpeace International, is
    12        calling on all groups concerned with human and animal
    13        exploitation and the survival of our world to protest
    14        against the burger empire and death culture of Ronald
    15        McDonald."
    16
    17        That was a call made by the group, presumably in 1990, was
    18        it not?
    19        A.   Yes.  It was made by people participating in the
    20        anti-McDonald's campaign and it was written by me and they
         were my words.
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    23   Q.   You said that it was written by you, but once again I have
    24        to put it to you; you would not have heard a whisper of
    25        protest from any other member of the group at the contents
    26        of this document, would you?
    27        A.   Well, you know, I was left to deal with the
    28        anti-McDonald's side of the group.
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    30   Q.   Yes?
    31        A.   And I wrote the leaflets.
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    33   Q.   Yes, you were delegated by the other members of the group
    34        to carry on the principal part of the anti-McDonald's
    35        campaign during 1990, were you not?
    36        A.   I think "delegated" is too strong a word.  There were
    37        no delegates at London Greenpeace.  There were no votes
    38        taken at meetings.  It was a very informal loose collection
    39        of people.
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    Q.   What is a "collective", in your terminology, Mr. Gravett?
    42        A.   A collective?
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    44   Q.   Yes, you use the word in this document, the fourth line.
    45        What does it mean?
    46        A.   I take it to mean a group of people where a group -- a
    47        group where those involved are allowed to share, if they
    48        wish, in decision making.
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    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Keep your voice up.
    51        A.   Sorry.  A group of people where they are allowed, if
    52        they wish, to share in decision making.  An open democratic
    53        organisation.
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    55   MR. RAMPTON:  That is right.  It is not much different from a
    56        cooperative, is it?
    57        A.   I think it is.
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    59   Q.   You are all working together for the same ends, are you
    60        not?