Saturday, August 14, 2010

Naomi Campbell boycott begins

Partial list of companies and contacts that are currently doing business or have done business with Naomi Campbell

Please contact the following companies via phone, e-mail, twitter, etc. and let them know that you personally will abstain from using, buying, or dealing with any and all products associated with Naomi Campbell including there business because of Ms. Campbell's shameful performance at the war crimes trial in the Hague and her receiving African conflict diamonds that have been used to fund genocidal wars in Africa and use child soldiers. Not to mention her unsavory admiration for systematic human rights abusers like Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Charles Taylor. 

Here's a partial list to begin with:

Rachel Zoe Project collaborated with Naomi Campbell.Please e-mail her and ask her to boycott working with Naomi Campbell in the future otherwise her products will be boycotted in the present.
http://www.rachelzoe.com/

Victoria's Secret says they would “love to hear your comments and suggestions, or help to answer your questions.” Please ask them to boycott Naomi Campbell and explain why. Please be civil.

Victoria’s Secret



Munich Models
Germany
Munich
Siegfriedstrasse 17
Phone+49 893899830
Fax+49 8938998333
To the attention of Susanne Maushake

Independent Talent
Registered office:
Oxford House
76 Oxford Street
London W1D 1BS

Subdivision:

TESS Management, 
4th Floor, 9-10 Market Place
London W1W 8AQ
T +44 (0) 20 7 55 77 100
F +44 (0) 20 7 55 77 101
http://www.tessmanagement.com/
info@tessmanagement.com
d-management Milan
13 via Forcella
20144 Milano
P.IVA 13287170156
t: +39 02 89421377
f: +39 02 89421468
info@dmanagementgroup.com

IMG New York   IMG Milan           
304 Park Ave South
Penthouse North
New York
, NY 10010
Main +1 212 253 888 
Dvlp +1 212 477 9382
fax +1 212 253 8883

ELLE magazine's Cherchez La Femme

Hilton Hotels
1-800-Hiltons

American Express has partnered with Naomi Campbell find out if they still do business.
CUSTOMER SERVICE1-800-528-4800
e-mail form: http://bit.ly/8QRzBe 
www.twitter.com/AskAmex


Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The war criminal, the super model, and the blood diamonds

Naomi Campbell & Charles Taylor
“Ms Campbell's testimony reminds us of the damage that can be done by power-hungry individuals who illegally exploit their country's natural resource wealth to wage campaigns of violence and brutality against civilians. The Taylor trial is an important moment in the history of international justice, when the survivors of his regime may finally see some reparation.” Oliver Courtney, Global Witness spokesperson.


Charles Taylor has been described by Spiegel Online as part of the "Slaughterers' Society" of African dictators. A society in which members feed opponents to crocodiles, hack their feet off, and allow their people to starve. Supermodel Naomi Campbell over dinner flirted with "President" Taylor and enjoyed his company.

Hugo Chavez & Naomi Campbell in 2008

Then again she's also enjoyed the company of dictators in other continents and said so proudly. For example, back in 1998 Naomi Cambpell described Fidel Castro as an "inspiration" and meeting him as "very spiritual." She's also hung out with Castro's disciple Hugo Chavez. describing him as a "rebel angel" that poses "no threat to democracy." Now it seems that her encounter with another tyrant she met in 1997 Liberia's Charles Taylor is coming back to haunt the supermodel.



Charles Taylor is now on trial for war crimes committed while he was president of Liberia. Ms. Campbell has testified denying that she knew that the former Liberian president and mass murderer Charles Taylor had sent her blood diamonds. Now other witnesses, among them her friend Mia Farrow and Carole White, her former agent are now contradicting her testimony.

"As we were eating, Naomi leaned back and Charles Taylor leaned forward, and Naomi was very excited and told me he was going to give her some diamonds." - Carole White
Naomi Campbell and war crimes tribunal defendant Charles Taylor in happier times
 Whereas, Naomi Campbell only flirted with an alleged war criminal over dinner and later received contraband diamonds as a gift . Fidel Castro was also closely involved in a working relationship with the convicted genocidal war criminal former Ethiopian dictator

Mengistu Haile Mariam, now a fugitive hiding out with another of Castro ally Zimbabwe's brutal Robert Mugabe, and sent thousand of Cuban troops to assist in killing Ethiopians and spreading terror.
Hopefully one day the world will demand that Fidel Castro answer for that relationship and the Ethiopians murdered with his assistance.

At the same time one cannot underestimate the seriousness of blood diamonds and what they signify. Blood or conflict diamonds are subject to an international sanctions regimen that aims to undercut a funding source for armed conflicts in Africa. A more detailed description is provided by the Security Council Affairs Division which is part of the United Nations and based out of New York which states:
On 1 December 2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, unanimously, a resolution on the role of diamonds in fueling conflict, breaking the link between the illicit transaction of rough diamonds and armed conflict, as a contribution to prevention and settlement of conflicts (A/RES/55/56). In taking up this agenda item, the General Assembly recognized that conflict diamonds are a crucial factor in prolonging brutal wars in parts of Africa, and underscored that legitimate diamonds contribute to prosperity and development elsewhere on the continent.

The story is still developing, and offers an insight into the relationship between economic sanctions and attempting to improve the human rights situation in a regional context. Below on the Colbert Report, although humorous, makes a serious point about human rights and economic interests looking at business practices in China followed by the Naomi Campbell controversy.

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
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Original article copied from Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter

Bandera Negra e-mail with information on Naomi Campbell sponsors

Naomi Campbell:

* What she loves about autocracies and autocrats is -above all else- the privacy provided by their tight control of all media. Fidel Castro’s Cuba is one of her preferred vacation spots, and no luxury is denied although most of the children that her foundation is supposed to be helping are dying of malnutrition caused by the catastrophic economic conditions created by its necrotic leaders.

* Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela was explored but the harassment was too negative. She could probably be hiding on some remote beach and/or island provided access is granted by the despot and facilitated by the military, but we are not yet enslaved. If it was known it would be documented as a scandal. I have not researched yet this, but I only remember a highly publicized visit with the dictator... Let me note however, that I was impressed by your mentioning this. Thank you for paying attention.

Please feel free to use in any that best serves you any or all parts of this note. All categories and names are taken from her official website http://www.naomicampbell.com/ with the intention to be all inclusive (all collaboration, even by people who were paid, or were incapable of knowing) to generate attention. I strongly suggest you start looking for a way to monitor the impact.


1. Photographers

* Gonzalez Prats
* Mario Sorrenti

2. Digital Presence Management - FAMEBRIDGE in Milano info@famebridge.com
Science Park Politecnico di Milano, Via Garofalo, 39-20133

3. Corporation/Brands
* Louis Vuitton
* Lotus
* Mercedes Benz
* IMG Models Worldwide SVP
* ticketmaster.com
* American Express
* Kevin Krier & Associates
* Chopard, jewelers
* Maybelline New York
* The Shuter Group
* Burberry
* Versace
* Vivienne Westwood
* Chanel
* Valentino


4. THE HARDEST PORTION
a. Charities

FASHION FOR RELIEF
http://www.naomicampbell.com/

WHITE RIBBON ALLIANCE
http://www.whiteribbonalliance.org/ 

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL of Great Britain and Ireland
http://www.ribi.org

CITIZENS FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE
http://www.naomicampbell.com/

Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund

Quincy Jones’s Listen Up Foundation
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/caring/quincy_jones/listenup/index.html

CARE
http://www.care.org


b. sponsors
* Gino Rosato (Lotus)
* Ivan Bart, managing director IMG
* Charlotte Willer, make up (Maybelline New York)
* Rob Shuter (The Shuter Group robertshuter6@aol.com)
* Faye Dunaway
* Christian Slater
* Rio Ferdinad
* Lilly Cole
* Prince Azim
* Duchess of York
* Princess Beatrice
* Jamelia
* Rachel Zoe, hair
* Orlando Pita, hair
* Nelson Mandela
* Quincy Jones
* Fidel Castro
* Hugo Chavez
* Charles Taylor (we should not forget).

I will keep digging and will send you all I got. You are encouraged to used complete, but be free to steal, edit, paste and in general use as you please.

cheers,
Bandera Negra