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!
