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Subject: media release - McDonalds campaign


Media release

New Zealand Young Labour
Tuesday April 15 2003.

Young Labour holds "kiss-in" to protest McDonalds Discrimination


Young Labour today expressed their deep disappointment at McDonalds 
franchise ban on the "Tearaway? youth magazine, imposed after the magazine 
featured an article on lesbian and gay youth, and on Wednesday will hold a 
??kiss-in? at the McDonalds Head Office (61 Wellington St
Freemans Bay)in Auckland as a form of protest.


?Young People today understand that different sexualities are an important 
and valid party of New Zealand society,? Young Labour President Michael Wood 
said.


?Young people questioning their sexuality have a right to basic health and 
support.  McDonald?s attempt to ban such information from their shops shows 
how out of touch they are with New Zealand youth,? Young Labour Rainbow (Gay 
and Lesbian) Representative, Tony Milne said.


Young Labour want McDonalds to get the clear message that their decision is 
unacceptable to young people in New Zealand and we are calling on others to 
join with us in a same-sex and opposite-sex ?kiss-in? at the McDonald?s on 
Head Office in Freemans Bay at 12pm on Wednesday to protest this decision.

?We call on McDonald?s to direct all franchises to again distribute openly 
the magazine, and to make some gesture of reconciliation to the communities 
which they have damaged,? Michael Wood said.

McDonalds Restaurants (New Zealand) Ltd
61 Wellington St
Freemans Bay
Auckland 1
New Zealand


Contact Michael Wood: 027 471 9261

Contact Tony Milne: 021 159 3259




Anna Barge
0211410977

Princes St Secretary
Auckland/Northland Rep for Young Labour

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." 
- Martin Luther King (1929-1968)




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