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Protest bei Olympia Sponsoren

29.03.2008 18:49

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angesichts der trostlosen Lage der Tibeter/innen ist es ausgesprochen wichtig, die Stimme zu erheben und nicht zuzusehen, wie China Menschenrechte mit Füssen tritt. Olympia 2008 in Peking bricht alle finanziellen Rekorde, weil China als Schauplatz ausgewählt wurde; deshalb wäre es wichtig, Druck auf die Sponsoren zu machen. Gegenwärtig wird allerorts verlautbart, dass Kritik an Menschenrechtsverletzungen keinesfalls die Olympischen Spiele beeinträchtigen darf. Wir müssen den Verantwortlichen klar machen, dass sie auf einen gewaltigen PR Gau zusteuern, wenn sie nicht Position beziehen und ihren Einfluss als Sponsoren geltend machen. Bitte nehmt Euch Zeit, den nachstehenden Text oder einen anderen) an Coca Cola & Co zu senden.
Danke und liebe Grüße

Coca Cola: pressinquiries@na.ko.com; enquiries@eur.ko.com; info@coke.at

Atos Origin: newsroom@atosorigin.com; more-info@atosorigin.com; info.austria@atosorigin.com

General Electric: peter.o'toole@ge.com; deirdre.latour@ge.com; eszter.szabo@ge.com

Johnson & Johnson: jnjgateway@cscch.jnj.com; kundenservice@crdde.jnj.com; service@cscgr.jnj.com

Kodak: david.lanzillo@kodak.com; barbara.pierce@kodak.com; kodakwien@kodak.com

Lenovo: thuys@lenovo.com; sildech@lenovo.com

Manulife: laurie_lupton@manulife.com; rvanderson@jhancock.com

Mc Donald’s: walt.riker@us.mcd.com; Heidi.barker@us.mcd.com; barbara.taussig@at.mcd.com

Omega: press@omega.ch

Pananasonic: samuelsj@us.panasonic.com; demariac@us.panasonic.com; marc.irwin@eu.panasonic.com

Samsung: reka.balint@samsung.comVisa: corpcomap@visa.com; kleines@visa.com

Adidas: Oliver.Brueggen@adidas.com; Stefanie.Wittmann@adidas.com

VW: kay.trippner@volkswagen.com.cn ; info@volkswagen.at

Schenker AG: events@schenker.com; info@schenker.com; gabriele.passet@schenker.at; Katherina.Sirnik@schenker.at

(Name des Sponsors einsetzen) is sponsoring the 2008 Olympic Games and thus a prestigious image campaign for China, a country that continues to commit acts of violence against minority groups, denies the right to peaceful dissent, freedom of speech and uncensored information to its citizens and denies the international media and human rights organizations unsupervised and unrestricted access to Tibet in the aftermath of the current public protests. China itself invested 30 billion USD to ensure that these Games become an unprecedented event and a demonstration of the power of their growing economy. The Olympic Games had never been just a sports event, not in 1936 and not today.So far your company did not use its power as a major sponsor of the 2008 Olympic Games to assume a clear position and to make it clear in a public statement that China is required to honor its Olympic pledges to improve human rights and freedom of press. Thus your company becomes a supporter of a political regime that violates human rights and human dignity, presently and before the eyes of the IOC and the world. Olympism claims to be a philosophy that is based on “the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles”. It also claims to promote “a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity”. I assume it is this Olympic spirit that international companies sponsoring the Games want their brands to be associated with. In the context of the current political events in China the IOC and the sponsors of the 2008 Olympic Games all of the sudden declare that the Olympic Games are sports and not politics thus creating the impression that Olympism is an altogether different philosophy which honors a growing consumer market of 1,3 billion better than human rights and human dignity: Even long before their start the 2008 Olympic Games were reported to be the most profitable ones in history with more than 1 billion USD in sponsorship revenues alone. From this standpoint China was obviously the ideal host country. While one might claim that in 2001, when the Olympic Games were awarded to Beijing, there was slight belief that the human rights situation in China might actually improve in the context of this international event, it is now evident that it did not. Any sponsor who does NOT assume a clear position will in future been known as having supported an autocratic regime and the staging of propaganda for a regime that openly defies human rights and human dignity. As your company is part of this event, you cannot just remain silent. I ask you to assume a clear position.Unless the situation improves, I will boycott all products of sponsors of the 2008 Olympic Games and all broadcasts of the 2008 Olympic Games and continue to petition that other people in the Western World do the same.
Best regards,(Unterschrift)

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