<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><base href="x-msg://239/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><div bgcolor="#80a4a4" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="padding: 2px 10px 25px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; background-color: rgb(128, 164, 164); "><tbody><tr><td align="center"><table width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); "><tbody><tr><td><img border="0" src="https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/RA_Header.jpg" alt="GRAPHIC: Roots Action logo header"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"><table width="580" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="margin: 10px 0px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="left" colspan="3"><table width="228" cellpadding="8" align="right" style="border: 1px solid rgb(5, 125, 203); background-color: rgb(234, 236, 236); margin: 10px; "><tbody><tr><td align="center"><table width="212" cellpadding="8" style="border: 1px solid rgb(216, 128, 38); background-color: rgb(43, 104, 104); "><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-right: 5px; "><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qrSfEP%2FkRMh2jx8SSJSPe%2BJH1KMvQfiU" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong>Apple is blocking an iPhone app that shows where drones strike.</strong></span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HL0E990UmtRcFp63vh14zOJH1KMvQfiU" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><img alt="" src="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/dronephone200.jpg"></a><br><br><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ij%2FlmWPoptGpujo%2FqNN4sOJH1KMvQfiU" style="background-color: transparent; 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text-decoration: none; "><img width="25" height="25" border="0" align="absMiddle" src="https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/btn_twitter_icon_sm.jpg" alt="" style="margin-right: 5px; "><span style="font-size: smaller; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Share this action on Twitter</span></a><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HR%2F%2BanbAwQDnv5YCvn6nuOJH1KMvQfiU" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: smaller; "><br></span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-right: 5px; text-align: left; ">Apple Inc., which has received over $9 million in Pentagon contracts in recent years, has rejected from its App Store, and therefore from all iPhones, a simple informative application.<br><br>Drones+ is an application that shows no depictions of the carnage of war and reveals no secret information. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>It simply adds a location to a map every time a drone strike is reported in the media</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and added to a database maintained by the U.K.'s Bureau of Investigative Journalism.<br><br><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=C%2Ft%2FcDfgmxMdMyB65C1gauJH1KMvQfiU" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><b>Apple has rejected the app as "objectionable and crude."</b></a><br><br>Drone wars continue because the U.S. public is unaware what is being done in our name with our money. We are interested in knowing where our government is using drones and has killed people, not in celebrating that killing.<br><br>The people in Pakistan and Afghanistan and elsewhere living under the drones can't ignore what's being done to them. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yM2VqjXvvvzPS50G5MrGBuJH1KMvQfiU" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><b>Neither should we, as it's done with our money and in our names.</b></a><br><br>A recent study by Stanford and NYU found that drones traumatize innocent populations, who have no way of knowing how to protect themselves from drone strikes. Further, only 2% of victims of these strikes are high-level targets. The drones kill civilian men, women, and children, are being used to target rescuers, schools and funerals, and create significant anti-U.S. hostility -- exactly as the Pakistani and Afghan governments have said they do.<br><br><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=odE0Xs3FXmceOrR0ogThEuJH1KMvQfiU" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><b>Ask Apple to stop hiding the simplest of facts.</b></a><br><br>Please forward this email widely to like-minded friends.<br><br>-- The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://RootsAction.org" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; ">RootsAction.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>team<br><br>P.S. 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RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, and many others.<br><br>Background:<br><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qdvIt9psCs9grx1RbHG6geJH1KMvQfiU" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><i>Wired:</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes<br></a><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FY4iOH%2B%2BuBWEsNzbipBOI%2BJH1KMvQfiU" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><i>Stanford/NYU:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Living Under Drones</a></p><div style="margin-right: 5px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FAxN9yxJjpI8NsVqnCEJCeJH1KMvQfiU" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><img width="52" height="52" border="0" src="https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/btn_rootsactiondonatebutton.png" alt="Donate button"></a></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3qs12j2HySEM9pj%2BoN2ScuJH1KMvQfiU" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><img width="52" height="52" border="0" src="https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/btn_facebook_icon_med.jpg" alt="Facebook button"></a></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WHKvs0FUsq165wsWZ2S9GOJH1KMvQfiU" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><img width="52" height="52" src="https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/btn_twitter_icon_med.jpg" alt="Twitter button"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); "><tbody><tr><td align="center"><br><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pHies2WrrvKvYcIXh%2FURMeJH1KMvQfiU" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; ">Click here</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to unsubscribe and stop ALL email from RootsAction.</p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 12px; padding: 0pt; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; ">To modify your email communication preferences or update your personal profile, visit your subscription management page at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IwDC53B5nWfft5dnD66edLNLBoPNU86V" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; ">http://hq-salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/profile/</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.salsalabs.com/?email" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><img alt="empowered by Salsa" src="https://wfc2.salsalabs.com/salsa/images/empowered-by-salsa.gif" border="0"></a></div><img width="1" height="1" src="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/TrackImage?key=1269957714"><diaemailid='1269957714' thread="375124"></diaemailid='1269957714'></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>