campaigns

PRESS ADVISORY: 18MillionRising.org (18MR) Targets Gap Inc. With Prank Raising Tough Questions About International Labor Abuses

Campaigns • May 20, 2014 • By 18MR Staff

During the Gap Inc. shareholder meeting in San Francisco, 18MillionRising.org launched a campaign targeting the clothing company for failing to uphold its responsibility to factory workers in Bangladesh. Utilizing a website (www.GapDoesMore.com) and Twitter account (@GapDoesMore), 18MR posed as the clothier and announced the decision to sign the Bangladesh Accord…

PRESS ADVISORY: 18MillionRising.org (18MR) Pulls Hoax on Gap Inc., Corporation Responds by Shutting Down www.gapdoesmore.com

Campaigns • May 20, 2014 • By 18MR Staff

Yesterday, the AAPI online activist group 18MillionRising.org successfully launched a hoax campaign targeting Gap Inc. for its failure to take responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of Bangaldeshi factory workers. Leveraging a website (www.GapDoesMore.com, now defunct) and Twitter account (@GapDoesMore, now defunct), 18MR posed as the clothing giant and announced…

18MR Launches #ElPaso37 Campaign to Release Punjabi Asylum Seekers, Joins Forces With Community Groups

Campaigns • April 23, 2014 • By 18MR Staff

In late spring of 2013, more than forty Sikh men – all of them members of a minority political party from the Punjab region – fled India because they feared for their lives. In a journey that zig-zagged around the globe, they finally arrived in the United States seeking safety…