From: Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK <info@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:53 AM
To: Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Who arranged Oprah’s meeting with the Saudi prince?
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Dear Miriam,
Sky News reported today that the remains of murdered Washington Post journalist
Jamal Khashoggi were found inside the garden of the Saudi consul general’s home
in Istanbul. He was cut into pieces, his face disfigured.
PR firms in the pay of the Saudi government are already working overtime to
whitewash this horror. One by one, we will name and shame them into dropping
their contracts. Already, three companies—the Harbour Group, the BGR Group and
The Glover Park Group—announced they are breaking their contracts. Now let’s
get the McKeon Group to do the same. Howard “Buck” McKeon, who heads the
company, has been using his influence from his days as Chair of the House Armed
Services Committee to garner support for the Saudis.
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Join us in telling the McKeon Group to drop its contract with the murderous
Saudi regime.
McKeon brags that it “positions its clients to have a direct line to
policymakers at all levels of the federal government ensuring that their voice
is heard.” For Saudi Arabia, that has involved creating an image of reform and
modernization to cover up a reality where journalists and dissidents are jailed
and murdered, and the Yemeni people die from a Saudi-led and U.S. supported
bombing campaign.
There is nothing moderate or reformist about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman (MbS), but when MbS came to the U.S. this past spring, firms like the
McKeon group got him high-level meetings with Senators, government officials,
entertainment figures like Oprah, and business leaders like Bill Gates and Jeff
Bezos. Behind this PR-manufactured veneer of reform is a man who bombs school
buses full of children and deployed a team of hit men to murder Jamal Khashoggi
in cold blood.
Under pressure after Khashoggi’s murder, several PR firms have already dropped
their Saudi clients. But Buck McKeon continues to get $50,000 a month in blood
money.
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Tell McKeon to stop profiting from murder by joining the other firms that have
already cancelled their Saudi contracts.
Next on our sights? Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, Schreck (BHFS) and
Qorvis/MSLGroup. Stay tuned...
In remembrance of Jamal Khashoggi,
Medea and the entire CODEPINK team: Ann, Ariel, Brienne, Carley, Caroline,
Jodie, Kirsten, Lily, Mark, Mary, Nancy, Paki, Ryan, Sarah, Tighe and Ursula
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