Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Why Did No One Inform Me There Was Cake At The Volkswagen Annual Meeting?

From 7News (Australia), May 11:

Cake flies as climate, human rights protesters take over VW event
The 2023 annual Volkswagen Group investor meeting has been interrupted by activists protesting about human rights and climate concerns.  

Volkswagen’s annual investor meeting in Berlin was overrun by multiple activists concerned about forced labour in China and the company’s climate effects.

According to Automotive News Europe, climate activists laid on the road leading up to the venue and protested at the entrance of the building over concerns Volkswagen is “making climate-damaging concerns”.

During the meeting, concerns over VW’s Chinese plant in Xinjiang were raised based on accusations of forced labour.

About 10 protestors, including a topless women with ‘Dirty Money’ written on her back, interrupted VW Group CEO Oliver Blume’s speech. The group carried banners reading “End Uyghur Forced Labor.”

One activist threw a cake at Porsche SE chairman Wolfgang Porsche but missed, with airborne crumbs landing in the direction of VW Group Supervisory Board chairman Hans Dieter Pötsch....

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The VW people seem to take this stuff in stride. There was the time last year when a group calling themselves Scientist Rebellion glued themselves to the floor in the Autostadt, the museum and showroom across from the big factory in Wolfsburg:
Thursday, October 20, 2022 

From one of the protesters:

He goes on to clarify that their support people can get out, they just can't get back in.

And then there are the security people, making their rounds with bright flashlights, making it difficult to nap.  
Just a clarification: people in support can get out of the building but then they couldn't get back in. We can't order our food, we must use the one provided by Wolkswagen. Lights off. Random unannounced checks by security guards with bright torches. Police just came in.3/

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