We're being CENSORED
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- Published on Sunday, 24 April 2016 12:30
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You're being prevented from seeing our ads -- corporate media outlets are refusing to run our campaign that calls out Unilever for being a hypocrite on climate action.
We can’t let the corporate media shut down our voice. Please, will you chip in to stop our ads from being censored?
Donate nowA,
Sometimes, you just know something is wrong.
We had a feeling, and we were right: we’re being silenced.
We were gearing up to plaster the surrounds of Unilever’s HQ with powerful ads to put pressure on Unilever to withdraw from a shady trade lobby group, but now media outlets are refusing to run our ads.
We can’t let the corporate media censor us -- and we have a plan to make sure the voices of SumOfUs members are heard no matter what by driving a mobile billboard around Unilever’s HQ.
Can you help fight back against corporate censorship with a special donation today?
Donate nowThis is the ad that's been deemed too controversial to print:
Unilever -- maker of big brands like Magnum ice-cream and Dove soap -- claims to be a leader in the fight against climate change. But it is sneakily one of the biggest members of FoodDrinkEurope, a massive, pro-corporate lobby group pushing to get negotiators to pass TTIP -- a massive trade deal between Europe and the United States, with eerie similarities to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
If passed, TTIP will spell disaster for our climate.
The Canadian corporation TransCanada, is suing the US government for a whopping $15 billion. And it's all because Obama stopped a controversial, climate-wrecking oil pipeline.
Worst of all, climate-friendly laws all over the world could never end up seeing the light of day if this trade deal passes. The pact grants business lobbyists the right to challenge laws they don't like -- before our leaders in parliament have even seen them.
We can stop this massive trade deal by destroying the power of those lobbying hard for it. And that means making Unilever withdraw from FoodDrinkEurope.
We’re shaking things up for Unilever from the inside by mobilising its employees to ask questions, and therefore forcing senior executives to hear our demands. But right now, we need your help being heard.
Please, will you chip in to stop Unilever from hiding behind a pro-TTIP lobby group?
Donate nowUnilever is vulnerable -- it has invested too much in its image as a climate-saviour. This is what makes this campaign winnable. Unilever’s CEO, Paul Polman, has talked publicly and passionately about the devastating effects of climate change.
Winning this campaign could be a gamechanger. Unilever is one of FoodDrinkEurope’s biggest members. An exit would seriously damage FoodDrinkEurope's credibility -- forcing it to reconsider its TTIP lobby efforts.
But we can’t do this without you.
Already, over 150,000 members of the SumOfUs community have demanded that Unilever take its commitment to climate change seriously, and drop out of FoodDrinkEurope.
It’s now time to take the campaign to the next level, so that Unilever knows that we won’t be letting this one go until it stops complicitly supporting one of the biggest corporate power grabs of a generation.
Donate nowThanks for all that you do,
Kat and the team at SumOfUs
More information:
Petition to Unilever, SumOfUs
TTIP aim to lift US oil export ban goes against climate targets, The Guardian, 3 July 2015
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