A-Infos (en) Ronald McDonald Burned in Effigy!

[irate@tao.ca (Aaron Koleszar)]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Ronald McDonald Burned in Effigy

   At 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 18, six members of Island Residents
Against Toxic Environments (IRATE) gathered outside of the new McDonalds
restaurant in Charlottetown, PEI. The event was the Grand Opening for the
new building, and Ronald McDonald was in attendance for the ribbon cutting
ceremony and to play with the children. The protest culminated with a 5-foot
tall Ronald McDonald lookalike being set afire as the "real" Ronald was
getting into his van.
   When the activists arrived, they set up the homemade Ronald, then
proceeded to distribute leaflets to bystanders and the customers inside the
store. The leaflets were about what's wrong with McDonalds, how Ronald lies
to children, the global impacts of eating meat, and the condom found in a
McDonalds burger in the USA. The protesters also carried placards with
slogans like "McGreedy," "McLies," "Anti-union," "McGrease," and
"McSlaughterhouse." The public responded positively by honking as they drove
by or by turning into the parking lot to talk and get a leaflet. Ronald kept
casting nervous glances out the window, but his twin just stared back at him.
   The reasons for protesting McDonalds are many, including: cruelty to
animals, damaging the environment, low wages and poor treatment of workers,
and brainwashing children into eating unhealthy food.
   As Ronald left the building, his twin burst into flame. He hurried to his
van and didn't wait around to chat. After Ronald had finished burning, the
demonstrators doused his charred remains with water and left.

"I want to apologize for participating in helping to brainwash North
America's young people into doing something that I now know to be contrary
to the purpose of life." 
     - Geoffrey Giuliano, who played Ronald McDonald for two years for
Mcdonalds of Canada.

The reason McDonalds' food is cheap, is because the true costs are borne by
their workers, the environment, animals, and the health of the children and
others who consume their unhealthy food.
     - Aaron Koleszar, Island Residents Against Toxic Environments (IRATE)

Note: Workers at a McDonalds outlet in Quebec decided to form a union, then
on February 13, the manager of the McDonalds announced that the restaurant
would close. Newsworld reporters were denied an interview with staff, so
they visited the drive-through window to speak to them. "When do you go for
your break?" asked the reporter. "I don't get a break'" replied the
drive-through server. "Funny," commented the reporter, "I thought 'Have you
had your break today?' was McDonald's motto."

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Contact: 
Aaron Koleszar, Island Residents Against Toxic Environments (IRATE)
 (902) 659-2570, aaronk@isn.net

For more information on McDonalds, see above, or the website:
http://www.mcspotlight.org/
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Aaron Koleszar <aaronk@isn.net>, <irate@tao.ca>
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ABE LINCOLN  -  "On Our Future"
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves 
me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.  
... corporations  have been enthroned and an era of 
corruption in high places will follow, and the money power 
of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by 
working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth  
is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." 
 
Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (Letter ot Col. William F. Elkins)
Ref. "The Lincoln Encyclopedia", Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950,NY)


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