Day 273 - 03 Jul 96 - Page 18

     
     1   MR. MORRIS:  If you just cast your eye over those.
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You can make your point.  I know it is only a
     4        few seconds and I have taken more now spelling it out.  It
     5        is just not necessary to read everything now.
     6
     7   MR. MORRIS:  There is no mention of McDonald's, is there?
     8        A.   No.
     9
    10   Q.   In the workshops?
    11        A.   No.
    12
    13   Q.   Specifically?
    14        A.   No.
    15
    16   Q.   So what was the point of an anti-McDonald's fayre of having
    17        workshops and stallholders, none of whom are specifically
    18        focusing on McDonald's?
    19        A.   Well, because we wanted -- well, I more or less
    20        organised this fayre and the point about it was to inform
         and educate people about issues, social, environmental
    22        issues in general, not just to bring them along and subject
    23        them to a barrage of anti-McDonald's propaganda.  I think
    24         -- I mean, I conceived the idea of the anti-McDonald's
    25        fayre in 1988.  I can remember thinking at the time I
    26        conceived it the name McDonald's is so well-known
    27        throughout, you know, that it is actually a way of drawing
    28        people in:  "Oh, look, what is this, anti-McDonald's, what
    29        is that, why are they anti-McDonald's".  Getting people in
    30        and then telling them that all this was going on.  But most
    31        of it is not anti-McDonald's as such.
    32
    33   Q.   Right.  Is that what you meant when you said that was an
    34        anti-McDonald's fayre, it was not really an anti-McDonald's
    35        fayre?
    36        A.   Yes.  I was not clear, but, yes, that is what I meant,
    37        yes.
    38
    39   Q.   And if we note on the front cover, which I do not know what
    40        page that is, but the front cover which says
         "anti-McDonald's 1989", it says at the bottom of the page
    42        in large thick print "for a world without multinationals."
    43
    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Page 91.
    45        A.   Yes, yes.
    46
    47   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, okay, thank you on that.
    48
    49   MS. STEEL:  It is actually page 104 for the programme.
    50
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  One hundred and ---
    52
    53   MS. STEEL:  104 for programme.  The one at 91 is just the
    54        leaflet.
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You are quite right.
    57
    58   MR. MORRIS:  It may be an obvious question, but from looking at
    59        all that discussion and information available at that
    60        fayre, was the concept to be merely against multinationals?