CONCERNS ABOUT THE CONGO

This summer, the Congo Minerals Trade Transparency Act was part of a larger financial bill which passed in Congress and was signed into law by President Obama. More needs to be done. The Securities and Exchange Commission needs to provide oversight to see that this law has some enforcement and is not watered down by the representatives of 20 large companies:
Nokia       Samsung     Motorola     Sony Ericsson     LG-Life's Good    RIM Blackberry     Apple     Dell
HP    Panasonic    acer     Toshiba     lenovo     SanDisk   Philips     Microsoft    IBM    intel    Canon
Nintendo I was really impressed with how promptly Nintendo responded to my e-mail petition. I hope they are as committed to buying components only from those who fully disclose the origins of materials as they stated they were.
At RAISEHope4Congo you can sign a petition urging these biggest electronics companies to make products conflict free. If you have a cell phone, then you you have a link to the deadliest war in the world. The minerals are also used in laptops and other electronic products. Since tin is now replacing lead as a safer product, the demand for tin has increased. Can we demand safer extraction and avenues of trade for this and other minerals? Can we tell companies we will buy products if we can determine they are conflict free?
BACKGROUND: Over 5 million people have been killed and hundreds of thousands of women raped over the last decade in the Congo because of the desire for minerals-the "Blood DIAMONDS" of this African country. The multi-million dollar trade in minerals tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold can be examined in YOU TUBE videos Conflict Minerals 101 and Congo's Enough Moment. An earlier mining video Grand Theft Congo-DRC  is also on You Tube.
Become a consumer advocate for conflict free products. Become an advocate by reading about, e-mailing, or writing to companies listed above. Post references on social network sites about this issue.
Every time  I look at the picture of my sponsored child Chancelle sitting on the ground playing with her friend, I have a personal link with someone who can have either a future of tragedy or a future of hope. NATURALLY, I WANT THE BEST FOR HER AND OTHERS LIKE HER.