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                        Apple is coddling the government of China’s mass cyber-surveillance programme.

                        It deleted an app made to protect Hong Kong protesters from violence. It's blocking communication tools used by human rights defenders to fight repression, and ignoring human rights abuses.

                        We have a proposal at the company’s shareholder meeting that would force Apple to take human rights seriously.

                        Will you email your pension or mutual fund manager to ask them to support it?

                         Send an email 
                       
                 
            Right now, Apple is cosying up to the government of China and complying with demands to support its deadly spying regime.

            But, did you know that your retirement savings could help make Apple end its complicity with the government of China’s mass human rights abuses?

            Sounds amazing, but if you have a pension, superannuation fund or mutual fund you probably own shares in Apple, which means you have the power to hold this multi-billion dollar company to account.

            Our shareholder proposal would force Apple to safeguard freedom for everyone. But we need your help to make Apple’s biggest investors -- like your pension fund -- back our plan.

            Fund managers don’t often hear from their investors. So this will really get their attention. And with Apple’s biggest investors already deciding how to vote on this year’s proposals, we need to get their attention now.

            We’ve made it so easy for you to contact your fund manager and ask them to support our proposal. It’ll only take a minute, and the effect could be huge. 

            I’ll ask my fund manager to use their vote to protect people.

            So far nearly 100,000 of us have signed the petition demanding Apple promote freedom of expression and stop taking down VPN apps that keep people safe.

            Now, 13 amazing SumOfUs members who own shares in Apple have been generous enough to work with SumOfUs and submit a groundbreaking shareholder proposal.

            Shareholders own Apple at the end of the day. So if enough of them vote for a change in policy, Apple will be forced to act.

            That’s why last year, Apple set their lawyers on us. But they weren’t able to prevent our proposal from coming to a vote at next month’s meeting.

            Retirement funds hold shares in Apple -- bought with your money and held in your name. Will you ask your fund manager to vote for our proposal on freedom?

            Yes, I’ll send a quick email to my fund manager.

            Religious and ethnic groups are specially targeted in what's been described as the largest mass incarceration of an ethnic-religious minority since the second world war. 

            A million people are in concentration camps controlled by the government of China. Kept away from their families, their every waking move watched, their food and sleep rationed.
             
            It’s happening now, and Apple, the world’s biggest tech company, is removing apps that people use to communicate safely, and avoid incarceration.

            So let’s use our pension power to force Apple to change course. It worked last year when we got Google to abandon its plans for a censorship app called Project Dragonfly. Let’s make it happen again!


             Send an email 
            Thanks for all that you do, 
            Sondhya and the team at SumOfUs



            More information:

            Apple will take a rare shareholder grilling about free speech after it removed a map app used by Hong Kong protesters, Business Insider, 16 December 2019
            SumOfUs shareholder proposal, US Securities and Exchange Commission website, 3 January 2020
            Apple shareholders set to vote on human-rights policies, BBC 16 December 2019
           
              
       






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            From: Sondhya Gupta, SumOfUs 
            Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 8:58 PM
            Subject: Re: Apple 

           
     





 
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