Protestors Dressed As iPhones Plank Foxconn Shareholder Meeting

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Sit-ins are so twentieth-century. Protesters Wednesday ‘planked’ outside a Foxconn shareholders meeting in objection to the Apple manufacturer’s long history of worker suicides.


Planking is a trendy new way to either protest or just have fun by laying face down with arms at the side. Recently, an Australian man died after “planking” atop a balcony.

[Business Insider, Australian Planker Death]

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