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Moving to End Sexual Assault (MESA) appalled at t-shirt sold by Amazon
Boulder, Colorado (July 2, 2008) |
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Amazon.com selling t-shirts promoting Date Rape
In 2006, there were 272,350 victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault. (These figures do not include victims 12 years old or younger.)
Every 2 minutes, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. Here's the math. According to the U.S. Department of Justice's
National Crime Victimization Survey - the country's largest and most
reliable crime study - there were 272,350 sexual assaults in 2006 (the most recent data available). There are 525,600 minutes in a non-leap year. That makes 31,536,000
seconds/year. So, 31,536,00 divided by 272,350 comes out to 1 sexual
assault every 116 seconds, or about 1 every 2 minutes.
1 out of every 6 American women have been the victims of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime (14.8% completed rape; 2.8% attempted rape).
About 3% of American men - or 1 in 33 - have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.
And with those statistics, Amazon.com felt that it was appropriate to sell this t-shirt online. The t-shirt is still on-line although no longer available for sale. The mere presence of this t-shirt on the web available for viewing by millions of individuals is dentrimental to the movement to help prevent sexual assault. We encourage you to take a stand and let Amazon.com know that this is not acceptable. Here is how you can help: - Demand that 100% of the profits that were made from these t-shirts be sent to the local rape crisis centers. The proceeds should be sent to the areas where the purchaser of the t-shirt resides.
- Do not make purchases from Amazon.com until a public apology has been made to the survivors of sexual assault
- Demand the immediate removal of the image from their website
Send your communication to Amazon.com to:
Amazon.com
Investor Relations
P.O. Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108-1226
Phone: (206) 266-2171
Fax: (206) 266-1355
E-mail: ir@amazon.com
And here is a list of their officers and their Board of Directors.
Officers
Jeffrey P. Bezos
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Jeffrey M. Blackburn
Senior Vice President, Business Development
Sebastian J. Gunningham
Senior Vice President, Seller Services
Andrew R. Jassy
Senior Vice President, Web Services
Steven Kessel
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Digital Media
Marc A. Onetto
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations
Diego Piacentini
Senior Vice President, International Retail
Shelley L. Reynolds
Vice President, Wordwide Controller and Principal Accounting Officer
Thomas J. Szkutak
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
H. Brian Valentine
Senior Vice President, Ecommerce Platform
Jeffrey A. Wilke
Senior Vice President, North America Retail
L. Michelle Wilson
Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Directors:
Jeffrey P. Bezos
President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Tom A. Alberg
Madrona Venture Group
John Seely Brown
Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at USC
L. John Doerr
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
William B. (Bing) Gordon
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Myrtle Potter
Myrtle Potter and Company, LLC
Thomas O. Ryder
Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
Patricia Q. Stonesifer
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Use your voice today to make a difference. You can help prevent sexual assault by being heard.
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