World Anti Mcdonalds Day

McCru­el­ty: “We’re not lov’in it” – Cam­bridge

Two cam­paign­ers held a belat­ed mini protest for World Day Against McDon­alds today 18th Oct 08 in Cam­bridge city cen­tre. The ‘What’s Wrong With McDon­alds’ leaflets were dis­trib­uted. (For a copy see http://www.mcspotlight.org/campaigns/current/resources/index.html ) Passers by showed an inter­est and took leaflets. Some peo­ple took pic­tures.

Back in June one of the activists was arrest­ed on a walk in protest at the same McDon­alds and is await­ing tri­al in Decem­ber. The activist is charged under Sec­tion 5 of the Pub­lic Order Act. See http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2008/06/401637.html
A pre-tri­al hear­ing was held in July where a tri­al was set for Sep­tem­ber. How­ev­er it was lat­er post­poned until Decem­ber after a wit­ness was appar­ent­ly ill.

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World anti mcdon­alds day began for us in Coventry.Around 9 of us gave out hun­dreds of anti mcdon­alds leaflets and yum­my veg­an burgers.Most of the pub­lic we’re supportive,especially as there was free food,and showed gen­uine interest.One guy who start­ed with “I hate veg­ans & love big juicy cheese­burg­ers” left with one of our burg­ers and a smile on his face.

We had the Mcdon­alds manager,who pro­claimed to be veggie,come out with:“What about vegetables,u kill veg­eta­bles!”. Despite us telling him that veg­eta­bles have nei­ther ner­vous system,brain or a heart beat…he disagreed(saying they did! haha).

It was real­ly pos­i­tive day,with no police hassle,and plen­ty of warmth from the pub­lic