It’s terrifying work.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, children as
young as 10 climb into holes barely wider than their
bodies. They spend hours there, digging out tiny chunks of cobalt to
be used in cell phone batteries. All for $2 a day.
Dozens have died or suffered catastrophic injuries but
Apple, Google, and other tech giants just say it’s not their
problem.
The families of these children say otherwise and are suing Big
Tech for damages. But these billion-dollar companies have the most
expensive lawyers working around the clock to get the case
dismissed.
We’ve already started to help them fight this case -- can
you chip in to help make sure not one more child dies for an
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Instead, Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft, and Tesla have
hired some of the largest law firms in the US to fight the claims
and show they have no responsibility. They admit the
conditions are deplorable, they just say it isn’t their fault!
It’s simply not true. If they refused to buy batteries built on
child labour, their suppliers would have to clean up their act. This
is blindingly obvious -- they know it, you know it. Instead,
they choose to turn their back on the abuse and exploitation
of desperate, dying children.
We can help the families get justice and ensure no more
kids die for the batteries in our cell phones. Let’s go
all-in on this landmark lawsuit:
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While Big Tech’s lawyers dance around the issue, the 14 parents
and children who brought the suit are being helped by a human rights
lawyer, a Congolese professor...and us! Let’s show them what we’re
made of, and make sure they can’t just walk away from this problem
without a fight.