Portland Mothers and Daughters to Confront Intel on Conflict Trade
Please contact us immediately to join our groundbreaking action in Portland Oregon (email hidden; JavaScript is required). On Monday, at 12:30 PST, we will carry 45,000 pennies to Intel, representing the 45,000 lives lost every month in the conflict, and the one penny per product the Conflict Minerals Trade Act would cost tech companies- as written. We urge Intel to issue a public statement fully supporting H.R.4128 as written, and cease all efforts to remove the bill’s teeth, including pressing for an industry escape clause.
Our message: We’ll pay the extra penny. Congolese lives are worth it.
Please send the following message to Intel, care of our new contact at the corporate responsibility department: email hidden; JavaScript is required
Dear Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini,
We applaud and thank Intel for their leadership on supply chain investigations and willingness to address the issue of conflict minerals. The proactive steps the company has taken make it a front runner of the industry. However, we have heard reports that Intel is pushing to water down the Conflict Minerals Trade Act (H.R. 4128) to make it less “burdensome” for industry. This will weaken the bill, stall it in Congress, and ultimately cost thousands of Congolese lives and continue the worst sexual violence on the planet. As Intel’s consumers and employees, we must ensure that the company does the right thing and supports H.R. 4128, as the bill is written, this year. We are bewildered that Intel would take steps that risk its groundbreaking efforts on conflict minerals in an effort to save less than one penny per product.
Human life is worth more than a penny. We urge Intel to immediately cease all efforts to weaken the Conflict Minerals Trade Act. Rather, we urge Intel to issue a public statement in full support of The Conflict Minerals Trade Act as written and actively lobby for its passage as written.
Sincerely,
Your name here
Wish I could be there, but an email has been sent! I’ll urge my friends to do so, as well.
I’ll be there!
We’ll be there. e-mail sent!
Thank you so much for giving us this information! I wish I could be there!
Email to Intel sent. Facebook posts and Twitter tweets went out to our fans and followers.
BRAVO!!!
Letter sent ane will forward it onto all my friends who also care.
E-mail sent!
E-mail sent!
Emailed and forwarded to others.
Email sent. Good luck tomorrow.
Although I am not American, I have sent the letter too. Keep up the good work that you are doing.
done. thx for this info and way to speak out!
E-mail sent, also to some international cc addresses. Thank you for the strong incentives to address unrighteousness.
My spirit joins yours.
email was sent- thank you so much for doing this work!!!
Thanks to Renee who posted this to the Business & Human Rights Toronto page. And thanks to all of you in Portland who are taking this on.