Vote for G4S in the worst company of the year awards

Hi everyone,

http://www.publiceye.ch/en/vote/g4s/

In case you didn't see it yet, voting opened today in the Public Eye 'worst
company of the year' award run by Greenpeace and the Berne Declaration, and
G4S is one of the nominees, having being nominated by several groups in the
UK and across Europe. UK NGO War on Want kindly took on preparing a video
and the text that accompanies the nomination.

Last year's winner of the award won with 20,000 votes. We're up against
(and currently losing by 300 votes) stiff opposition in the form of Goldman
Sachs and Shell but between us we have really large networks to mobilise
and I think we're in with a good shout of winning. The winner does usually
get quite a lot of bad publicity and it would be a great way to ramp up the
pressure on G4S.

So please do share this widely through newsletters, social media, etc!

thanks,
michael


Vote for G4S in the worst company of the year awards

*Vote Here: http://www.publiceye.ch/en/vote/*

G4S is up for the Public Eye People’s Award 2013, the ‘name and shame’
award no company wants to win. G4S, the world’s largest Private Military
and Security Company, is complicit in Israel’s occupation of Palestine and
is profiting from conflict and insecurity around the world. War on Want and
other European organisations have nominated G4S for the awards which help
to “shine an international spotlight on corporate scandals.” The company
has been shortlisted and is now up for the public vote.

Please take a minute to vote for G4S and then tell your friends to do the
same.

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*Why vote for G4S?*

G4S is complicit in Israel’s occupation of Palestine through the supply of
security equipment and services for use at checkpoints, illegal settlements
in the occupied West Bank. It also helps to maintain and profit from
Israel’s prison system. In 2007, the Israeli subsidiary of G4S signed a
contract with the Israeli Prison Authority to provide security systems for
major Israeli prisons.

G4S CEO Nick Buckles has said that high risk environments offer “big
opportunities” and confirmed that G4S had recently conducted preparatory
work with oil and gas companies for contracts in Iraq. G4S also extended
its contract in Afghanistan just last month in a deal understood to be
worth £72 million.

Despite its track record of complicity in human rights abuses in the UK and
abroad, G4S continues to receive contracts for public services including
policing, asylum housing and deportation oversight. G4S plays a direct role
in running the UK’s immigrant detention centres and Home Office
deportations. In October 2010 Jimmy Mubenga died during his forcible
deportation by G4S to Angola. But in July 2012 the Crown Prosecution
Service decided not to prosecute G4S or its security guards for his death.
In response to the decision, Jimmy Mubenga’s wife stated: “We can’t
understand why the officers and G4S are not answerable to the law as we or
any other member of the public would be.”

It is time to pile on the international pressure on G4S and ensure that it
joins the Hall of Shame of companies that have been voted the worst company
of the year*.*

*Vote G4S Public Eye People’s Award 2013 <http://www.publiceye.ch/>.*