14 DAY TRIAL // Today is the last day of the MacExpo being held in London at the National Hall, Olympia Kensington. Everyone that wanted to get a taste of state of the art technology got what was looking and as the motto of the expo goes, it offered Everything for the creative mind - all under one roof.
Between the theatres, seminars, hand-on sessions and impressive number on exhibitors, Greenpeace got heir hands on a booth and tried to ruin everyone's fun. The environmentalist organization was kicked out of the MacExpo due to complains from the people participating at the Expo about Greenpeace's behavior on the floor.
Greenpeace had something to pick with Apple for a long time. The mockery of Apple's website is only one proof. Filled with pictures of children from third world countries holding strawberry and blueberry iMac keyboards set as desktop pictures on each Apple product, this mock-site should "raise awareness" and convince Apple's customers to demand "greener products", but at what cost?
In an article, Jeff Smykil said some words that I can not forget: They have a website--no doubt served on a computer made of biodegradable components and powered off of the combined power of wind, fire, air, earth, and heart--that points out to consumers just how ecologically unfriendly corporations can be.
One just has got to wonder what kind of technology is Greenpeace using when making their anti-technology propaganda?Any way, the bottom line is that they kind of crossed the line at the MacExpo.
Greenpeace rented a 3-day booth at this Expo to showcase their Green My Apple campaign. This campaign was meant to raise awareness about potentially toxic chemicals used in Apple products. They were also handing out organic apples, flyers, and signing up Expo-goers to challenge Apple to "go green", arstechnica.com reports.
Well, this would be a very nice thing to do if thinking of the environment, but they kind of pushed it? Nine complaints about Greenpeace were brought to the attention of Bob Denton of the XPO Group, organizers of the MacExpo. It seems that between handing green organic apples and flyers (which seemed pretty harmless), the environmentalists had time to photograph an infant with an apple and a flyer against the mother's wishes. Complains were also addressed regarding the replacing of the promotional materials from other exhibitors with their own and although they were asked several times to restrict their activities to their booth, they kept invading others personal space.
As a direct result of their actions, they were finally asked to leave and have been removed from the show on Thursday (the first day of the Expo). After being removed from the show on Thursday, angry Greenpeace members vowed to be back. True to their word, Greenpeace showed up today at Underground Station Kensington Olympia near the MacExpo to hand out more apples and flyers, but reportedly caused a disturbance once again and were removed from the station by the London Transport Police, arstechnica.com reported.
Apple made no official statement about Greenpeace's removal but the XPO Group stated: Greenpeace violated MacExpo exhibitor agreement by booking a stand at the show with a false name. After several complaints MacExpo asked Greenpeace to leave the show.