Send an e-mail to one or more of the directors of Pearson, saying you support the resolution to the AGM. _____
Pearson Media Swarm A campaigning e-mail storm, starting 10h00 (GMT) tomorrow morning SADTU supports the campaign to get a resolution passed at the AGM of the giant Pearson education monopoly, which is busy privatising education in our South Africa and in countries around the world, to the detriment of our children. The resolution, if passed, will alter the way this predator is able to do business. Mugwena Maluleke is SADTU's General Secretary and also Vice President for Africa of the Education International (EI), which fully supports the campaign. Cde Maluleke is presently in London to attend the Pearson AGM at 12 noon (GMT) tomorrow. Many trade unions and other organisations all over the world support this campaign. One of them that is particularly active is the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The AFT has today sent out a message asking friends and affiliates to help with "one last push to get the message across to Pearson's Board of Directors." The AFT has supplied a list that includes 8 out of the ten Pearson directors' e-mail addresses. Please e-mail these ladies and gentlemen tomorrow morning, to tell them of your support for the Shareholders' Resolution calling for a new direction in their business strategy for education. Say that you support the message of the shareholders <http://pearson.aft.org/resolution> ' resolution and petition <http://www.tellpearson.org/> . Say you support SADTU and the Education International. These are the names and addresses of directors of Pearson PLC: Sydney Taurel (Chairman) [email protected] John Fallon (CEO) [email protected] Coram Williams (CFO) [email protected] Elizabeth Corley [email protected] Vivienne Cox [email protected] Joshua Lewis [email protected] Linda Lorimer [email protected] Lincoln Wallen [email protected] This is the text of the shareholders' resolution: "That the Board of Directors of Pearson PLC immediately conduct a thorough business strategy review of Pearson PLC including education commercialisation and its support of high stakes testing and low-fee private schools and to report to shareholders within six months." VC -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
