“…Activists Gathering at Apple Stores Around the World Today to Protest Awful Treatment of Chinese Workers…”

“…Protesters will hand-deliver petitions targeting the poor treatment of Chinese factory workers to half a dozen Apple stores around the world today – CNNMoney reports.

The protests are the offline outgrowth of an online petition drive launched two weeks ago on social activism site Change.org.

Created by Mark Shields – a self-described lifelong Apple customer who says he was “shocked to learn of the abusive working conditions in many of Apple’s supplier factories,”-

- the petition has drawn almost 200,000 signatures since its launch.

A parallel petition effort – led by corporate accountability lobbying group SumOfUs.org -

- has drawn another 50,000 signatures…”

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Activists Gathering at Apple Stores Around the World Today to Protest Awful Treatment of Chinese Workers | AlterNet.

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