The Tecoma community has been fighting the McDonald’s Corporations plans to open a 24 hour drive through store in their little town for nearly two years yet McDonalds continues to ignore the huge groundswell against them.

We are taking our community protest to the McDonald’s Victorian Head Office in Smith St, Collingwood on Monday 17th December to sing McDonalds some (altered) Christmas Carols and present them with some Christmas presents such as beautiful framed pictures of the Dandenong Ranges, a place beloved by Victorians for its natural beauty and quaint quiet townships.

McDonald’s has been a true Grinch to our community. CEO Catriona Noble recently ignored over 500 emails asking her to meet with the Victorian Planning Minister. They have ignored our 4000 strong petition submitted this week to State Parliament by James Merlino and worst of all they chose not respect the decision of a unanimous vote in 2011 by the Shire of Yarra Ranges Council against their development, and appealed the decision at VCAT. With the help of expensive corporate lawyers and an unsympathetic planning scheme they have successfully squashed our communities’ voice. .

Campaigner Jane said “McDonald’s bullying of the Tecoma community makes them a corporate Grinch. However they will not dampen our Christmas spirit or our determination to stop them. Wearing our Santa hats and reindeer antlers we want to deliver a Christmas message to McDonald’s that it’s not too late for them grant the Tecoma communities Christmas wish and withdraw their plans for an outlet in Tecoma”

Where: 2 Smith St, Collingwood
When:10am, Monday 17th December

(Meeting first thing out the front of 3CR at 21 Smith St before heading down to the office at number 2)