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Olympics blocks 'Light the flame for workers' human rights' action

Categories: Articles:Human Rights | Published: 21/08/2012 | Views: 1669
A message from the Playfair 2012 campaign
Thank you for taking the Playfair 2012 campaign action Light the flame for workers' human rights, in support of ending exploitation in the Olympic Games. Thousands of you have taken action, and the International Olympic Committee have certainly noticed everyone's concern. In fact there were so many that they quickly blocked all emails from the campaign. Our apologies if you're one of the people who has received a message from the IOC to say your email was rejected.

We've contacted them already to protest the email block, but with no result so far. It's a shame that Jacques Rogge and the IOC do not feel they need to listen to what so many people around the world are telling them.
It doesn't stop here though. We want to make sure that everyone who has taken the time to help in this campaign gets their message through to the IOC, so we have collected everyone's actions together and will now be making them into a petition, as evidence of your support for an exploitation-free Games.
So from now until the end of the 2012 Paralympic games, we want to build this petition as big as we can. We've already got your name on it, but please can you help now by sharing the petition with your friends, family and colleagues?
The IOC may think they can ignore us, but the international campaign will be continuing to follow them on to Sochi 2014 and Brazil 2016, and we'll be doing all we can to ensure the gains for workers made at London 2012 don't get lost for future Games.
Blocking our emails won't make international outrage at workers' rights abuses just go away.
Visit and share the petition at: www.playfair2012.org.uk/petition 
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