Apple CEO Tim Cook Visits Foxconn's iPhone Plant In China

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40. Wow. Great food for thought!

I love hearing the actions you've taken and I totally agree with your view on the voting machines.
Maybe we can actually use the products made in China such as the Androids or iPads to do good. With more people connected it becomes much easier to inform others on the source as well as the cost in human and environmental suffering for the products they buy. Just as we are using them now to inform others of the repercussions.
I do tend to come down pretty hard on people who support corporations I think are poor upholders of human rights & nature. I share the same vitriol for BP & Lockheed as I do for Apple and other exploiters of third world labor.
However in our "wildly consumer society" I do have to hold my tongue in many instances. And for the most part, I can't fault the average Joe for not knowing the source or the manufacturing methods of the item he is consuming. The constant bombardment of advertising and the well honed feelings of inadequacy that can come from not having the newest toy can wreak havoc on their psyche.
Was the person who used the slave cotton really bad? Not really in my estimation. Was the person who made money delivering slaves or the slave "owner" himself bad? At the time there may have been differences in opinion but I think today we can safely say it was heinous.
When someone becomes an "owner" by being vested in Corporations that make money by the most dishonorable of methods they can be called out and should be called out. As much and as many times as they can be. Especially on a free thinking, liberal discussion forum such as this. If DU existed during the strikes of the early 1900's I'd like to think the majority of people here would be heavily on the side of the laborers and not worrying about the loss of the product, investment returns or how it might affect their retirement income. In fact, they might even decide they don't want to be partial owners of those companies and thereby being rewarded and responsible for the conditions imposed.

Anyway, rambling away and I need more coffee. Let us continue the good fight to bring about an end to corporate controlled government and a paper trail in elections again!