[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: [DAGreens] Apple Protest Tues Sep 9th, 8am start @ Memorial Park, across from De Anza

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Sent: Sat, Sep 6, 2014 3:30 pm
Subject: [DAGreens] Apple Protest Tues Sep 9th, 8am start @ Memorial Park, across from De Anza


Come join us in action for a better Apple, a better De Anza and a better 
quality of life for Santa Clara Co. residents.
On Tuesday September 9th, begining at 8am the DA Green Party, other 
concerned De Anza students, faculty and staff, and Unions representing 
Apple janitors, security officers, and other property service workers 
will be protesting Apple's actions. We will gather in the Memorial Park 
across the street, at 8am, so please come join us for our peaceful 
protest.

What are some of our concerns?

1) Apple bribed our administration, took over our supposedly "public" 
campus for a number of weeks now, intimidated the De Anza community with 
their "security" officers everywhere, scare tactics over even discussing 
the monstrous sound stage they built for their Sept. 9th product launch.

2) Apple prospers at the expense of the community, doesn't pay its share 
of taxes.  The resulting jobs v. housing imbalance is destroying the 
quality of life for residents of Santa Clara and surrounding counties.

We need affordable housing, living wages, worker and environmental 
safety, healthcare: better better labor conditions and a better quality 
of life for Santa Clarans. Rising inequality remains a threat to Silicon 
Valley's prosperity. 30% of jobs in the region pay less than a living 
wage. Apple is a leader of the monster tech corporations and is in a 
position to make a big difference to the community.  We call upon them 
to step up and lead.

Apple currently is a bad neighbor:
    "...a growing number of local activists say that the country's most 
successful companies aren't doing their part to improve the communities 
around them..."

    "When people talk about Silicon Valley, San Francisco or this whole 
area, people think that because it's the home of all this big tech that 
everything should be fine," said Sam Kehinde, who organized the protest 
as part of a larger campaign targeted at major tech companies. "There 
should be good roads, infrastructure and good-paying jobs. But that's 
not the case. Big tech has beautiful campuses, beautiful offices. But 
the general public's community suffers."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/06/03/protestors-at-wwdc-say-apple-and-other-big-tech-firms-are-bad-neighbors/
https://missionlocal.org/2014/04/labor-union-to-cash-rich-apple-its-tax-time/
http://www.businessinsider.com/protestors-forced-apple-to-shut-down-san-francisco-store-2014-8

3) Last year community activists did the March to Heal the Valley and 
spoke to Apple and Google about reforming their corporate policies to 
become responsible corporate neighbors.  More info here...
http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/healthevalley/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7eIElvOBU8

Only 12 miles from Apple HQ is the largest homeless encampment in the 
U.S., called "the jungle".
http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/articles/2013/12/14/why-san-joses-largest-homeless-encampment-feels-occupy


Together we can call upon the monster tech corporations to change their 
shameful behavior and becoming leaders in solving the social problems 
they are creating.

Drew

 
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