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Safeway was one of the major chains making profit from the sale of goods tainted by Apartheid. So, on Oct. 25, 1986, we brought the Non-Stop Picket to one particular branch at the Brunswick Center in the London Borough of Camden.
Over a short period of time, we entered the store separately or in pairs and spent our time apparently shopping while we filled our carts with items corresponding to our prepared list of brands that held assets in South Africa. When we all reached the checkout clerks, we loudly refused to pay for any of the items "because there's blood on them!" And that's when we produced the megaphone and the leaflets and began a protest rally inside the store that went on until the police arrived and asked us to leave.
Send an e-mail if you can name some of the unidentified activists shown here continuing the rally in front of the store. From left, they are Norma Kitson, Michael Burgess, David Kitson, 'Wapping' Tony, er... (what's her name?), that wretched boy (What's his name?), the American woman (Martha something?), Sharon something, Adam Bowles.
The photographer was, of course, Brassett.