Activists criticize Beijing Olympics sponsors over Darfur, plan protests
By JOE McDONALD, AP Business Writer | via (uncensored) Yahoo!PHILIPPINES news
April 24, 2008
An activist group that wants peace in Darfur said Thursday it will organize protests against Beijing Olympics sponsors that it said are failing to use the Games to press China to help end fighting in the region.
Dream for Darfur said 16 companies including General Electric Co., Coca-Cola Co. and Microsoft Corp. showed "moral cowardice" and will be the target of protests. In a 61-page report, the group said Eastman Kodak Co., Adidas AG and McDonald's Corp. have taken adequate action and would not face protests.
With actress Mia Farrow as its spokeswoman, Dream for Darfur is the most prominent of a series of groups that are waging a public relations campaign to prod sponsors to lobby Beijing to pressure its ally Sudan to end the conflict.
"The majority of the 2008 Olympic corporate sponsors in this report have distinguished themselves for moral cowardice in the hopes of safe profitability," the report said.
Dream for Darfur said it also would protest at company headquarters and urge viewers to turn off commercials during the Games in August. It said the first demonstration will be this weekend against Coca-Cola but gave no other details.
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You know nothing about China! China will grow stronger and more properous under your foolish comments!
30 years ago, China and India are at the same level. India has taken the domocratic medicine your western doctors provided. China refused! All of your cried out: China is going to die very soon. India will grow stronger, maybe will be next UK...
Now, if you really have been to both China and India to have a look. You will see the great difference. India's rising up is fabricated by wetern media who are ashamed to see the reality. while China's prosperous is obvious to every one, except those who are blind and brain-disabled.
You have seen the patriotic activities of chinese all over the world if you are not blind. If the goverment of China is really the one you described, it will not enjoy so much support, both inside and outside China.
OK, guys, open your eyes and face the reality. What you are doing is just making yourselves more and more pathetic!