Corporate Sponsors It's Time To Speak Up for Darfur

As the start of the Olympics in Beijing get closer, the protest of its host gets louder. Eighteen large corporate sponsors were graded on their relationship with China. The results were disappointing.



"Our major conclusions were that the corporate Olympic sponsors are engaged in a form of silent complicity with the Chinese government in its support of genocide," said Ellen Freudenheim, who conducted research for the project. (Reuters.com)

All it would take is for these sponsors to voice their concern about China’s relationship with the government of Sudan. “There is no way Khartoum could thumb its nose at the entire international community and the United Nations as well without the full knowledge that it is being backed by China," said actress Mia Farrow, a Darfur activist. (Reuters.com)

There is still time and hope for the Olympic Sponsors to voice there concerns.

The corporate sponsors included in the survey are:

McDonalds and Adidas Atos Origin, Lenovo, Manulife, Panasonic, Samsung, Swatch, Anheuser-Busch, BHP Billiton, Eastman Kodak, Microsoft, Staples, Visa and Volkswagen, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson and UPS (Reuters.com)

Let’s not help this Genocide continue.