Minority Business and Community Leaders Postpone August 27th Rallies in front of Apple in Palo Alto and Facebook in Menlo Park
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 06:59PM Due to unforeseen outside circumstances, the Black Economic Council, the National Asian American Coalition and the Latino Business Chamber of Greater Los Angeles have decided to postpone their scheduled rallies and press conferences on August 27th at the Palo Alto Apple Store and at Facebook's new Menlo Park campus.
Yolanda Lewis, chief deputy for the Black Economic Council, said, "In honor of Steve Jobs sudden departure from Apple, we have decided to postpone our scheduled protest and attempt to work with Steve Job's replacement, Tim Cook. We are hoping that Tim will adequately address the concerns of America's local work force including 110 million minorities, 6 million minority-owned businesses, and the millions concerned about invasions of their privacy".
Additionally, in light of Facebook's CEO recent announced that appears to provide broad privacy protections that may resolve some of the concerns of parents about invasions of privacy of their vulnerable teenagers and pre-teenagers, the scheduled rally at the new Facebook campus in Menlo Park has also been postponed.
Besides these privacy issues, a major concern expressed by the groups, which Mr. Cook and Mr. Zuckerberg will be requested to address within the next 60 days, includes the failure of both Apple and Facebook to employee and do business with local Americans and their relatively poor record of hiring and promoting women.
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