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Beijing 2008 : Sponsors Cashing In On Oppression Olympics

China Coke

Some more reportage from those brilliant people at www.unmadeinchina.org. This time its the sponsors they are having a go at. In a way it’s difficult to accuse a company as crassly destructive as Coca Cola or BHPBilliton of hypocrisy in sponsoring the Oppression Olympics (I think that’s what I’ll call them from now on), but as all of the non-Chinese companies purport to be ethical in some way, then it is vital that their names are made public.

Worldwide (Permanent) Olympic Partners*:

Coca Cola
Atos Origin
General Electric
Johnson & Johnson
Kodak
IBM (trading as Lenovo)
Manulife
McDonalds
Omega Watches
Panasonic
Samsung
Visa

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