Olympic Activists Attack Corporate "Greenwashing"

With 100 days to go before the curtain rises on the London Games, activists are stepping up their campaign against its corporate sponsors.

Published

about 1 year ago

Categories

World, Europe

Topics

Green, Sports, Europe

People

London Olympics

Places

England, United Kingdom

Companies

McDonald's Corporation, The Dow Chemical Company, Bp Plc

Tags

coca-cola, environmentalism, green news, gulf of mexico oil spill, deepwater horizon explosion, bp oil spill, british petroleum, greenpeace, bhopal gas tragedy, activist, summer olympics, olympic

Transcript

this is apples one hundred days until the olympic games kick off in one of those critics say there's already been planning on running for gold when you realize the first poll will think straight into bed with whoever is splashing the cash despite their duties backgrounds are these sources report some of these messages coming from the twenty four games pitching seven effective innings against england twenty two out of power that is easy enough war the panel is sticking to the greenest and most sustainable gains and but it quickly if it is too partisan responses from london twenty twelve's tells a very different story but with promises of change and that one of the deepest chord with some of these conversations is it seems basic in the afternoon daily and parents how big a tax payer funded advertising campaign as a minister for a school for criminals in a world today i stopped darrow chemical which never accepted blame for one of the world as well as industrial disasters it to look sick you can debate policy in india that killed two thousands of baseball history and that's the million dollar back around the stadium of truth for over eight thousand eight games now wearing two pair of iraq i was at the games officially electricity supply and that he did yes steve freeman too she can even protect them one of the uk's take six and the team provides its self proclaimed green pine and an independent of all lou you can use nuclear power stations and then how come it is he has been convicted in france is going on in great taste that accidents are not accountants and isn't one among a campaign against him does he feel this old saying that it's ok look who is sponsoring this and get on the deal is not excessive growth in demand and espionage it is a tedious and it says moment and that's being paid to a major backer of an incident called sustainability all about despite being according to some one of them will be sustainable company this being the default set up at a rise in oil spill off the gulf of mexico if they continue their investment in the top of that you know being around the toss and sent over to them continuing to devastate indigenous communities that and then there was a completely scrap the piece are not so any plane they announced today that he can sustain that steam does want to come so take a call in seoul suspended upon this essentially they've been stiffed for an image of their own project in his life since the dpp campaign insisting that this is part of a sudden they say three times as many people now believe it's working toward the window reno won't do the whole goal in the countdown clocks tick past one hundred days until the next kickoff it's not jobs for the cities that construction of what could have been very stupid mistake that i will say that they may do that fulton mcdonald about that one of which will be able to think it's in fact as i mentioned that which stands at the pinnacle of power the fact that mcdonald's will be the attitude in the grind date from the deal provides that it's essentially the industry do you think rick is providing the state will be active in the games are games that don't want to carry it out i don't have priests and three companies that do well and that she had a fun ship days in context of heightened trade center and the fact is things that he seems to stand the child has been on a tour of the city seems very inconsistent with his fourteen grand and she's disoriented right now health and physical activity the mcdonald's executives make many secrets of the fact that he didn't have six boats as it i know the humanity the positioned themselves in the health of the territory and that is the croc the intake sponsorship most every day against philanthropy with it in fact send the markets in the standings in the golden knights it's been more than half the pieces would say you're a snitch quality of that