[GreenYes] URG REQ: SIGN LTR TO AL GORE Re: APPLE TOX WASTE

["Ted Smith" <tsmith@no.address>]

Dear Green Yes colleagues:  can you help circulate this letter?  Thanks!
 
Please send your endorsement of this letter to Al Gore ASAP to Rick Hind
of Greenpeace at rick.hind@no.address
 
(SORRY FOR DUPLICATE POSTING)
 
Dear All;
 
This week we are in a key moment to help turn around Apple Computer on
toxics and takeback policies and we need your support right now.
 
As you may know, Al Gore is on the board of Apple which has just sent
out a statement to two socially responsible investment groups, As You
Sow and Trillium Asset Management, claiming their board's UNANIMOUS
opposition to two shareholder proposals on toxic phase outs and
recycling for a vote at the upcoming Apple annual meeting in May.
 
Before these opposition statements are sent to all Apple shareholders at
we are urging Al Gore to dissent from the Apple board's opposition.  The
attached letter from more than 15 groups including the Computer Take
Back Coalition, Greenpeace, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition urges Gore
to instead support these two modest resolutions and to make a Apple a
leader on greening this industry.
 
To sign the attached letter, please send me your NAME, ORGANIZATION and
phone # by NOON (Pacific time), WED. MARCH 21S to:
rick.hind@no.address
 
We are in contact with Gore staff who will make sure he sees the letter
soon after it arrives.
 
Thank you for your help on such short notice.  Feel free to
contact us if you have any questions.
 
Rick Hind/Greenpeace
and
Ted Smith
Senior Strategist
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
760 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95112
(408) 287-6707 Ext 302
www.svtc.org
www.computertakeback.com
 
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Rick Hind
Legislative Director
Greenpeace Toxics Campaign
702 H Street, NW #300
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 319-2445 (direct)
(202) 413-8513 (cell)
(202) 462-1177 (switch board)
(202) 462-4507 (fax)
rick.hind@no.address
www.greenpeaceusa.org
 
Martha  Arguello        Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los
Angeles
Delma and Christine     Bennett MEAN
Derrick Byrd   
Kizzy   Charles-Guzman  WEACT for Environmental Justice
Tracey  Easthope        Ecology Center
Norma   Grier   Northwest Coaltion for Alternatives to Pesticides
Amanda  Hawes   Worksafe
John    Kepner  Beyond Pesticides
Jesse   Marquez Coalition for a Safe Environment
Ansje   Miller  Center for Environmental Health
Pamela  Miller  Alaska Community Action on Toxics
Mark    Mitchell, MD    Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Floribella      Redondo Campesinos Sin Fonteras
Kristin         Schaffer        Pesticide Action Network
Kathleen        Schuler Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Aditi   Vaidya  Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Charlotte       Wells   Texans for Alternatives to Pesticides
 
 
 
 

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