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KEN SILVERSTEIN-Olympic Sponsors "Cheer for China": |
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Contributed by Ken Silverstein
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In an interview here about a week ago, Arvind Ganesan of Human Rights Watch criticized the twelve corporate "super-sponsors" of the Beijing Olympics, companies that include McDonald's, Coke, and GE. "These twelve companies have given upwards of $866 million-an average of $73 million in shareholder money each-for the right to be called an 'exclusive' Olympic partner," he said. "In addition to the $866 million, those companies are spending huge sums on advertising. None of them to our knowledge has made any type of effort to ensure that the government or the IOC fulfills the human rights commitments that were agreed to when they paid the money." . . .
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