RINJ Foundation Asks Belevedere Vodka To Assist Oksana Makar's Family
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Noon Saturday, March 31, 2012 - Toronto Canada -
On March 24 RINJ
Campaign announced an international boycott of
Belvedere Vodka following that company's online publication and
global dissemination of content that appears to recommend Belvedere
Vodka's male customers drink to excess or at least to the point they
begin to perform unlawful acts such as forcible confinement; sexual
assault; forced fellatio; rape; aggravated assault; abuse of women; and
violent bullying while drinking.
As the global community discussed Belvedere Vodka's
advertisement that supported drunks raping young women, on Thursday
March 29, Oksana Makar died from her rape and injuries done to her by
three, male, drunken rapists. Vodka drinkers. (See
https://www.facebook.com/rape.is.no.joke for more.)
Despite the two weak apologies from Belvedere:
1) The damages is done. The apology was the
barest minimum and did not undo the damage.
2) We are opposed to the corporate culture that allowed this
in the first place and believe that culture still exists.
3) This LVMH subsidiary, Belvedere, may well represent
the attitude of a large multinational led by Louis Vuitton et. al. which
has as its main customers, women.
4) The acts of this liquor manufacturer are so egregious
that the situation can now be compared to rape where saying sorry
afterwards doesn't fix anything. This company is a powerful
opinion-leader and trend-setter and needs to be opposed in its
disgusting attitude toward women.
https://www.facebook.com/Remember.Oksana.Makar
The 3 drunken rapists who violated Oksana Makar were
worried that she would go to police. To avoid this — all were
intoxicated — they took further steps.
The 3 drunk men tried to strangle Oksana with a cord,
leaving her barely conscious. Then they wrapped her in a blanket and
dragged her to a nearby construction site, where they set her on fire.
She was discovered the next morning, still conscious, by a passing
motorist.
Oksana had burns to 55% of her body. She endured the
amputation of her arm and horrible pain across her entire body.
We had prayed Oksana Makar would survive. Doctors and
family along with hundreds of thousands of prayers failed to defeat the
evil that was done. Oksana died 29 March. Her funeral was hours ago.
Rape Is No Joke, Belvedere Vodka.
RINJ wants Belvedere Vodka to assist Oksana's parents in the
memory of their daughter.
Background:
Belevedere Vodka's ad promotes a rape culture
which is a complex of beliefs that encourages male sexual
aggression and supports violence against women.
This advertisement of Belvedere encourages a
continuum of threatened violence that ranges from disgusting sexual
remarks to sexual touching, forcible confinement, terrorizing women, to
rape itself.
Belvedere seems to advance that violence be seen as
sexy and sexuality as violent and further wants to promote a
concept that alcohol drinking favourably leads to sexual assault and
rape.
*LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.A., better known as
LVMH, is a French multinational apparels and accessories company
headquartered in Paris, France. The company was formed after the 1987
merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton with Moët Hennessy, a company
formed after the 1971 merger between the champagne producer Moët &
Chandon and Hennessy, the cognac manufacturer. It controls around 60
subsidiaries including Belvedere.
RINJ Foundation is an international organization
headquartered in Toronto and
founded by persons in Canada, Britain and Australia.
RINJ seeks removal of media content condoning sexual
assault and rape.
Allowing this content on social networking sites and in other media further normalises a
rape culture and the high instance of sexual violence in global society.
1)
RINJ reports all inappropriate content to the public, advertisers and law enforcement where that seems appropriate.
2)
RINJ reports to advertisers any ads
appearing on pro-rape, pro-child-molestation media content, web pages and
social network groups.
3) RINJ promotes a global boycott of advertisers and their products
advertised on pro-rape content in any media.
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Previous releases:
October 14, 2011
October 24, 2011
October 25, 2011
October 27, 2011
November 4, 2011
November 9, 2011
November 13, 2011
November 24, 2011
December 3, 2011
December 6 Warning
December 11, 2011
December 25, 2011
January 11, 2012
January 12, 2012 - WS
January 12, 2012 -RINJ.org
January 18, 2012
January 21, 2012
January 27, 2012
March 8, 2012
March 24, 2012
March 30, 2012
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