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Unilever Invest Your Money in Promoting Good Not A&E Bigotry

My hope is that you will step up and do the right thing and not be similarly out of touch and insensitive. Alert people who take meaningful action are the ones who make the world a better place.

July 5, 2018

Paul Polman
CEO Unilever USA

Dear Sir,

I know that you have many choices when it comes to selecting where your advertisements run and so I don’t think it will be too hard for you to act upon my request.

A&E, quite out of step with today’s regard for respecting people’s beliefs, is supporting a religiously bigoted hate campaign that targets my religion of over 45 years—Scientology.

Leah Remini and her co-producer Mike Rinder have an axe to grind and somehow, even with crashing ratings they have garnered the support of some misguided and horribly misinformed personnel at A&E and Disney. Well shame on them for being asleep at the wheel.

My hope is that you will step up and do the right thing and not be similarly out of touch and insensitive. Alert people who take meaningful action are the ones who make the world a better place.

You have some power and you have a voice as to how you spend your advertising dollars.

So please do not advertise on A&E’s hate motivated Remini Aftermath series. Even better, send a message to A&E and Disney and don’t advertise on ANY of their shows as long as they support such bigoted programming.

Sincerely,

Keith Miller