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<P><STRONG>Apple is coddling the government of China’s
mass cyber-surveillance programme.</STRONG></P>
<P>It <STRONG>deleted an app</STRONG> made to protect
Hong Kong protesters from violence. It's
<STRONG>blocking communication tools</STRONG> used by
human rights defenders to fight repression, and ignoring
human rights abuses.</P>
<P>We have a <STRONG>proposal at the company’s
shareholder meeting</STRONG> that would force Apple to
take human rights seriously.</P>
<P>Will you <STRONG>email your pension or mutual fund
manager to ask them to support it?</STRONG></P>
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<P>Right now, <STRONG>Apple is cosying up to the government of China
and complying with demands to support its deadly spying
regime.</STRONG></P>
<P>But, did you know that <STRONG>your retirement savings could help
make Apple end its complicity with the government of China’s mass
human rights abuses</STRONG>?</P>
<P>Sounds amazing, but <STRONG>if you have a pension, superannuation
fund or mutual fund you probably own shares in Apple</STRONG>, which
means you have the power to hold this multi-billion dollar company
to account.</P>
<P>Our <STRONG>shareholder proposal would force Apple to safeguard
freedom for everyone</STRONG>. But we need your help to make Apple’s
biggest investors -- like your pension fund -- back our plan.</P>
<P>Fund managers don’t often hear from their investors. So this will
really get their attention. And with <STRONG>Apple’s biggest
investors already deciding how to vote on this year’s proposals, we
need to get their attention now</STRONG>.</P>
<P>We’ve made it <STRONG>so easy for you to contact your fund
manager</STRONG> and ask them to support our proposal. <STRONG>It’ll
only take a minute</STRONG>, and the effect could be huge. </P>
<P><A style="COLOR: #00abbd; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/513204?t=1&akid=68732%2E15424008%2EPcDYjP">I’ll
ask my fund manager to use their vote to protect people.</A></P>
<P>So far nearly <STRONG>100,000 of us have signed the petition
demanding Apple promote freedom of expression</STRONG> and stop
taking down VPN apps that keep people safe.</P>
<P>Now, 13 amazing SumOfUs members who own shares in Apple have been
generous enough to work with SumOfUs and <STRONG>submit a
groundbreaking shareholder proposal.</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Shareholders own Apple</STRONG> at the end of the day. So
<STRONG>if enough of them vote for a change in policy, Apple will be
forced to act</STRONG>.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P><STRONG>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?</STRONG></P>
<P><A style="COLOR: #00abbd; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/513204?t=2&akid=68732%2E15424008%2EPcDYjP">Yes,
I’ll send a quick email to my fund manager.</A></P>
<P>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. <BR><BR>A <STRONG>million
people are in concentration camps</STRONG> controlled by the
government of China. <STRONG>Kept away from their families</STRONG>,
their every waking move watched, their <STRONG>food and sleep
rationed</STRONG>.<BR> <BR>It’s happening now, and Apple, the
world’s biggest tech company, is removing apps that people use to
communicate safely, and avoid incarceration.</P>
<P>So <STRONG>let’s</STRONG> <STRONG>use our pension power to force
Apple to change course</STRONG>. 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!</P><IMG alt=""
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<P>Thanks for all that you do, <BR>Sondhya and the team at
SumOfUs</P><BR>
<P><EM><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">More
information:</SPAN></EM></P>
<P><A
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/512870?t=14&akid=68732%2E15424008%2EPcDYjP">Apple
will take a rare shareholder grilling about free speech after it
removed a map app used by Hong Kong protesters,</A> Business
Insider, 16 December 2019<BR><A
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/513229?t=15&akid=68732%2E15424008%2EPcDYjP">SumOfUs
shareholder proposal,</A> US Securities and Exchange Commission
website, 3 January 2020<BR><A
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/513230?t=16&akid=68732%2E15424008%2EPcDYjP">Apple
shareholders set to vote on human-rights policies</A>, BBC 16
December 2019</P></TD></TR>
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align=left><B>From:</B> <A title=us@sumofus.org
href="mailto:us@sumofus.org">Sondhya Gupta, SumOfUs</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial" align=left><B>Sent:</B> Monday,
January 20, 2020 8:58 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial" align=left><B>Subject:</B> Re: Apple
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