The Silence Game Instructions and Rules

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Global Companies with poor human rights
records Shell Nestle Caterpillar
The Body Shop
Co Operative financial services
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Shell

• Shell is the second largest oil and gas company
  in the world. It operates in more than 145
  countries.
• Shell's operations demonstrate how badly
  companies can affect the communities they operate
  in.

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Children by one of Shells gas flares in Nigeria

• The Nigerian government banned gas flaring in
  1969, but Shell continues to flout the law.
• Did you know?
• There have been over 4,000 oil spills in the
  Niger Delta since 1960.

Where oil reigns, life is hell -Oronto Douglas,
Envirnmental Lawyer, Niger Delta
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Shell

• Shell is the second largest oil and gas company
  in the world. It operates in more than 145
  countries.
• Shell's operations demonstrate how badly
  companies can affect the communities they operate
  in.

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Shell has been working in the Niger Delta since
1956, causing problems to

• local communities - gas flares burn day and
  night, roaring like jet engines and polluting the
  air with thick sooty particles that stick to
  almost everything and have serious health
  impacts.
• livelihoods - oil is a root of conflict and
  suffering in Nigeria. Over 1000 law suits have
  been filed against Shell, yet it still refuses to
  pay compensation costs.
• the environment - polluting oil spills and fires
  have occurred for decades due to Shell's rusting
  pipes seriously affecting local villages,
  biodiversity, and contributing towards climate
  change.
• US Energy information service

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the enrollment of New Nike women on their first
day at work.
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• On the left is an activist's artwork. On the
  right, a photo of mealtime in a Vietnam Nike
  factory. Few fans if any are used in lunch rooms
  so that workers will stay at work.

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Activist Art

• "The Scream" by-Paul Kitagaki Jr. In China,
  Vietnam, and Indonesia, it is alleged women work
  till they drop. Young girls and women 16 to 25
  work 14 to 16 hours a day with one or two days
  off per month. The photo on the left is the "Nike
  Scream," attempting to shout something, I can not
  hear. On the right is a young girl, I would say,
  napping with others, on a lunch break, soon to be
  over.

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Tiger Woods Nike

• Last year, he made approx. 8 Million US playing
  golf and an additional 80 Million in
  endorsements from sponsors such as Buick and
  Nike.

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P on Nike

• Activist image on the left. On the Right is a
  photo of a Nike worker using toxic glue applied
  without face mask, gloves, or adequate
  ventilation. In Indonesia there are seven toilets
  for 10,000 workers. Piss on Nike is one
  cultural artist's statement about Nike. Nike
  spends a good deal of money to put forth a
  wholesome American, sports, and entrepreneurial
  image to its public.  

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• It's time to take a closer look at another
  popular MNC (Multi-National-Corporation). It's
  sweet and Swiss, that's right, it's gonna be all
  about Nestlé. Here is a short introduction about
  the Nestlé corporation and their practices. 

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Nestlé based in Switzerland is the world's
largest food company with nearly 230,000
employees in 468 factories worldwide in more
than 80 countries and a turnover of 52 billion,
taking over 1,000 a second. They are also the
focus of the worlds longest running consumer
boycott (22 years).

• The water division of the Nestlé Group, Nestlé
  Waters is the market leader. Nestlé Waters
  manages 77 brands of bottled water produced at
  107 sites. The Group operates in 130 countries
  and employs 25,100 people. Nestlé USA has more
  than 8 billion in annual sales. It has seven
  divisions beverage confections and snacks food
  services foreign trade nutrition pet care and
  prepared foods. The Nestlé corporation makes many
  of the products we see in everyday life. From
  Butterfinger bars to Fancy Feast cat food, most
  of us have some sort of Nestlé product in our
  cupboards.

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• Nestlé holds about 50 of the world's breast
  milk substitute market and is being boycotted for
  continued breaches of the 1981 WHO Code
  regulating the marketing of breast milk
  substitutes

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• They have been reported for persuading health
  care workers to give their feeding products to
  new mothers, and giving free samples and gifts to
  new mothers. These free samples are their way of
  getting babies "hooked on the bottle". Mothers
  spend enormous amounts of money on infant formula
  every year, and for people with low incomes, this
  is more money than they can afford. Some of their
  infant formula products are not properly
  labelled, some are in the incorrect language,
  and/or do not include clear directions or
  prominent health warning. These are all flagrant
  violations of the code, and have caused many
  deaths of infants who may have lived if not on
  the bottle, especially in developing countries.