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Related: About this forumThese corporations bankrolled the sponsors of Texas' abortion ban
Texas just enacted the nation's most draconian abortion ban, prohibiting all abortions after six weeks before many women even know they are pregnant. There are no exceptions for rape or incest. Further, the law places a $10,000 bounty on anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion in Texas after six weeks. Private citizens can collect the bounty by filing a lawsuit.
The politicians who sponsored Texas' abortion ban are backed by some of the nation's most prominent corporations. These same corporations hold themselves out as champions of women's rights.
AT&T, for example, is one of the top donors to the sponsors of Texas' abortion ban, also known as SB 8. Since 2018, AT&T has donated $301,000 to the sponsors of SB 8. Yet, in AT&T's 2020 Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Report, CEO John Stankey said one of the company's "core values" was "gender equity and the empowerment of women."
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marble falls
(56,357 posts)11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)marble falls
(56,357 posts)luv2fly
(2,475 posts)Charter, State Farm, and more... great post.
LeftInTX
(24,541 posts)Employees on our federal PAC board convened a call today and decided to suspend contributions to members of Congress who voted to object to the certification of Electoral College votes last week, the AT&T spokesperson told The Dallas Morning News at the time.Mar 23, 2021
But they turned around and contributed to Abbott:
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/563541-watchdog-says-att-gave-over-100k-to-abbott-gop
But all those corporations who said they would not contribute to GOP objectors did not keep their word
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/562189-few-companies-stick-with-pledge-to-shut-off-funding-for-gop-objectors
I feel that I have to boycott everyone...
Marthe48
(16,688 posts)Companies want to maintain the status quo regardless of the harm is it doing to others. I guess ceos think if thge boat is rocked, they will stop pulling down the almighty dollar.
MLAA
(17,162 posts)and couldnt find a way to speak to someone or even get an email address for someone. All there was were numbers to report a problem with one of their services. Called them and they could not provide a number or email address for their corporate office.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Here are some customer service hacks you can use to contact AT&T at their corporate office and potentially reach a real person:
Call the AT&T Executive Customer Support line at (877) 574-8832.
Representatives here deal with complaints that have been escalated from the lower levels of customer support. If you contact AT&T through Executive Customer Support, you might get them to listen. There can be less of a wait time, and the agents are specially trained to be helpful and expedite your issue.
Call the Main Line for AT&s Executive Offices at (210) 821-4105.
At this direct line to AT&Ts corporate office you can ask to speak with senior AT&T executives like the CEO or General Counsel (AT&Ts top lawyer). While you wont get through to a senior executive directly, BUT their assistant will usually transfer you to an escalated customer service process that will prove more proactive than the general customer service line.
(Take caution: some customers have reported hostile and aggressive responses from AT&T when they try this out, but if you are brave enough, go for it.)
John Stankey
Chief Executive Officer at AT&T
Dallas, Texas, United States
Street Address 208 S. Akard St.
Phone (210) 821-4105
City Dallas
Zip Code 75202
State TX
Twitter ID @ATT
Twitter ID @ATTBusiness
Just cancelled my ATT service and when asked why, I mentioned them supporting GOP that voted to overturn our election and who supported GOP who voted to take away women's rights in Tx. I have other ATT service like phone, alarm and internet that I will cancel in the future.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)BidenRocks
(813 posts)Combined with open carry.
What could possibly go wrong?
Ziggysmom
(3,374 posts)I hate both those companies!
When you want to know how and why things happen, you gotta follow the money. Great post!
California Kid
(23 posts)Mersky
(4,969 posts)Like so many satellite providers (AT&T), Spectrum cable offers the FOX horse paste News on the lower cost cable packages. You want CNN, too? Youll probably have pay more. MSNBC? Yeah, thats a Comcast NBC/Universal brand channel and you have to buy the higher tier cable package at Charter/Spectrum to get it. The funny thing about cable channel demand is that you dont want the channels you never see.
This anticompetitive junk about channels calling themselves news offered at cheaper prices needs to stop.