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Monday 20th February 2012
A good thing:
Facebook, YouTube and even texting will be the salvation of many of the world’s endangered languages.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17081573
A bad thing:
Twenty-nine NGOs providing services ranging from alleviating food insecurity to assisting the disabled in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo Province have been banned, sparking fears that this could be the start of a new wave of restrictions like the blanket ban placed on the activities of civil society organizations during the violent and disputed parliamentary and presidential elections in 2008.
Read more: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=94890
A thing to change:
On Wednesday, Apple shareholders will meet in California to celebrate their most profitable year in history. Apple is now the richest company in the world. Sign this petition to them asking them to make the iPhone 5 ethically. The petition is at 81,000 + signature. Let’s help get it to 90,000.
Reporters have documented cases of deadly explosions at iPad factories, and repeated instances of employees dying of exhaustion after working thirty to sixty hour shifts. In some of the factories Apple contracts with, so many employees have attempted suicide that management installed nets to prevent employees from dying while jumping off building ledges.
Sign here: http://sumofus.org/campaigns/ethical-iphone/
