Put this in your diary and be there if you are against McDonalds for any reason! Health! Globalisation! Human Rights! The Environment! Animals! Freedom to Protest!
United against McDonalds! One Struggle, One Fight!
McLibel Anniversary Protest:
Sunday 21st June 09′
Meet 12 noon, McDonalds Rose Crescent Cambridge.
All welcome!
Why?
Victory #1: In 1997 activists won the now famous McLibel victory after the company sued 2 campaigners for handing out leaflets about the company’s controversial corporate practices. The Court found that McDonald’s marketing has “pretended to a positive nutritional benefit which their food did not match”; that they “exploit children”; are “culpably responsible for animal cruelty” and “pay low wages”.
More: http://www.mcspotlight.org/
Victory #2: This year in a much smaller local case, an activist was cleared after a walk in protest at McDonalds for the 2008 anniversary of the McLibel case. Police arrested the activist under the Public Order Act. But the court found that the campaigner did not break the criminal law and was exercising freedom of speech. A small McVictory for protest!
More: https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/cambridge/2009/04/429034.html