Main photo: Facing the smashed up McDonalds in May Day 2000 riot, riot police a few feet to my right in full clobber, rioters a few feet to my left.
Caption photo (text wrapped around an intentionally blurred close up of part of the red and yellow sign. Copyright reasons):
‘Have we said hello to the policeman, children?’
Ronald McDonald at Tower Gardens Play Scheme Centre,
Tottenham, August 23, 1996. Ronald was
invited to the annual ‘Fun Day.’
‘McDonald’s founder, Ray Kroc, believed that ‘A company only has the right to operate in a community when it is prepared to contribute to it.’
So in every country where we do business, we strive to make a valuable contribution at both a national and local level…
So all our franchisees are encouraged to ‘put something back’ by involving themselves and their staff as much as possible in local events, schools, community groups and organisations and to raise funds for local charities.’
McDonald’s Franchising
(brochure for potential franchisees)
‘It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but their self-love.’
Wealth of Nations (1776) book 1, chapter 2
Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith
‘We sold them a dream and then paid them as little as possible.’
Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald’s empire.
Outside the damaged London McDonald’s restaurant
during the May Day 2000 anti-capitalist riot
ends. So I'm squaring the opposing sides up and rubbishing the toss-pots. All the way through. Hitler, Thatcher, Kroc, Ian Paisley, Martin McGuinness, Murdoch, New Labour all get a lashing. The headings are Introduction, Germany, Bosnia, Belfast, Glasgow, England. Subjects include war, poverty, drugs, the inequity in education spending (Twice as much in Kensington on primary kids than in Nottingham and Derby), media distortion (The Sun's treatment of the Hillsborough disaster) and media drivel (The Mirror's front page treatment of a pre-nup contract with Catherine Zeta Jones. Front page news a few years ago.)
And so on. John Pilger (check him out on the net; he was the guy who exposed what was going off in Cambodia) blurbed this: 'Neil Jackson has brought together important photographic evidence of truths that are subversive, because they illuminate the other side of mainstream media propaganda.'
In short it's subversive, has an East Midlands finale, and I'd like Shane to see it so he either tells me to take a hike or gives me a blurb quote. So that's me, boys. I live in Risley, junction 25 of the M1. Anyone can take a look if after they'll vouch for me (if they like it) , but I'm not prepared to drive far. Here's some folk who will vouch for me, - museums (Remind them of 'Conflict' exhibition by Neil Jackson) : Julie Biddlecombe, curator of Westbury Manor Museum, 01329 824895, Erewash (Ilkeston) 0115 9071141 Stephen Flinders. Buxton museum; Manager Ros Westwood 01298 24658. Detective Chief Inspector Kev Buttery; number withheld. Kev can phone you after blocking his number.
Thanks for reading. I'll try and upload some pics now.
I think that that's more related to frotteurism rather than homosexuality:
