The opposition activists on the ground need to communicate directly with corporate management and shareholders, via telephone, email, or fax, or by issuing press releases and video statements, clarifying that no one can protect their capital in Egypt, no one can ensure the efficiency of their operations in Egypt, except the people of Egypt. It needs to be clearly articulated to corporate power that they will face endless disruption unless and until they throw thier weight behind the will and aspirations of the population and the struggle for justice and freedom in Egypt.
Let them know that we do not oppose them because we oppose capitalism, we do not oppose them because they are foreign, and we are not trying to force them out of the country. They have a tremendous amount to gain by their presence in Egypt, and that cannot be acquired at the cost of the suffering and enslavement of the Egyptian people. That cannot be acquired through support for dictatorship. Rather, the only way their presence in the country will be allowed benefit them, is if they support the legitimate rights of the people, and respect the sovereignty of the nation.
Benefit and profit and rights and freedom cannot be all for them, and none for us.
Corporate social responsibility means, if it means anything, doing business in a way that does not destroy the society and cause suffering to the population. Doing business with a dictator, a brutal military regime that slaughters peaceful activists and imprisons innocent people for months or years without charge; a regime that is ready to discard its own social responsibility and sell its people into slavery for the sake of its own private profit; this is the worst possible form of corporate irresponsibility.