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Animal Rights, Sex Trafficking, LGBT Issues: 10 Petitions To Sign Right Now

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Kathy Sontag, Brooke Harris, Poverty, Trayvon Martin, Caylee Anthony, Slideexpand, Village Voice, Backpage.com, Sean Forsythe, Video, Trafficking, Hunger, Jennifer Tyrrell, Puppy Mills, Wolves, Autism, Foreclosure, Casey Anthony, Impact News

We can’t help but to follow along closely as heartbreaking stories about young girls getting trafficked and gay Boy Scouts volunteers getting fired ...

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Major Companies Sign Petition, Pull Village Voice Ads Amid Sex Trafficking Scandal

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Village Voice Backpage, Sex Trafficking, Justin Wassel, Activism, Village Voice Media Group, Backpage.com, Village Voice, Village Voice Sex Trafficking, Impact News

The 27 companies that recently pulled their ads from the Village Voice are the newest advocates to join the fight in protecting girls from being traff...

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Alicia Keys, Pearl Jam, REM And More Speak Out Against Backpage Sex Ads

Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Video, Backpage Sex Trafficking, Talib Kweli, Village Voice Media, The Roots, Alicia Keys, Nicholas Kristof, Sex Trafficking, Rem, Village Voice, Backpage.com, New York News

The backlash against Village Voice Media's ownership of Backpage.com continues with a group of high-profile musicians speaking out against the controv...

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VIDEO: Village Voice Profiles The Men Behind The Second Ave Subway

The Huffington Post | Jonah Green | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: NY Around Town, Video, Second Avenue Subway, Sandhogs, Village Voice, Local 147, New York News

The Village Voice has a cover story this week on the sandhogs that are currently building the Second Ave Subway. Local 147 has been in those enormous ...

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Ann Romney Trust Invested In Questionable Fund

Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs backpage.com, Video, Ann Romney, 2012 Election, Village Voice Media, Elections 2012, Ann Romney Trust, Village Voice, Backpage.com, Politics News

By Greg Roumeliotis A blind trust in the name of Ann Romney, wife of Republican U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, was an investor in a fun...

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The Why And How Of Freedom: The Enduring Message Of Passover

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Sex Trafficking, Passover, Village Voice, Jewish Social Justice, Book of Exodus, Judaism, Video, Religion News

On this Passover, we have an opportunity -- and responsibility -- to hold in our hearts and minds a grand vision of justice and peace, and to move from the general to the specific, from the abstract to the concrete.

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Religious Leaders Press Village Voice On Sex Ads

Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Video, Newspapers, Village Voice Sex Ads Religious Leaders, Village Voice Sex Ads Clergy, Village Voice, Village Voice Sex Ads Opposed, Village Voice Sex Ads, Religion News

By Annalisa Musarra Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious leaders on Thursday (March 29) delivered more than 230,000 signatures to the ...

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Protesters: Village Voice Helps Sell Kids For Sex

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Video, Sex Trafficking, Village Voice Protest, New York Media, Village Voice, Ny Media, New York News

NEW YORK — The son of Norman Mailer joined a protest Thursday against the Village Voice, the New York City weekly his late father co-founded tha...

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Why The Village Voice Must Shut Down Backpage.com's Adult Section

Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Village Voice Media, Nicholas Kristof, Backpage.com, Sex Trafficking, Groundswell, Gender and Religion, Village Voice, Human Trafficking, Religion News

Called upon to act by a multifaith clergy coalition of hundreds of rabbis, ministers, imams, priests, and other religious and moral leaders, Village Voice has claimed that this issue is "complicated."

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Nicholas Kristof Vs. The Village Voice On Backpage Sex-Trafficking

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Village Voice Media, Sex Trafficking, Nicholas Kristof, Backpage.com, Village Voice, New York News

New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof reignited his war against Village Voice Media with a new editorial, "Where Pimps Peddle Their Goods," ...

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Newspaper Classifieds: The Good, the Bad and the Hilarious

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Chicago Reader, Michael Ventura, Harlan Ellison, 60 Minutes, LA Weekly, Classified Advertising, New Age, Mikal Gilmore, Village Voice, Lola Lane, Rockie Gardner, Alternative Weekly Newspapers, Classified Ads, Newspaper Classifieds, Video, Media News

The sad state of newspaper classifieds makes me feel lucky that I worked at LA Weekly during the early '80s, when the classifieds did more than drive revenue: they said as much about the city's culture as the cover stories.

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Artist Behind Pee Wee's Playhouse Shines In New Doc

Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: South by Southwest, Beauty Is Embarrassing, Peter Gabriel, Video, Wayne White, SXSW 2012, Tonight, South by South West 2012, The New York Times, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Smashing Pumpkins Tonight, Smashing Pumpkins, Village Voice, Sxsw, Arts News

Wayne White is an artist who has likely made a huge impression on your life whether you know it or not. After being the cartoonist for The New York Ti...

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Bloomberg To Appeal Order To Release Correspondences With Cathie Black

Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, City Hall, Mayor Bloomberg, Nyc Schools Chancellor, Sergio Hernandez, Village Voice, Ny News, Cathie Black, Video, New York News

The Bloomberg administration is set to appeal an order from the State Supreme Court to release email correspondences between the Mayor and former Scho...

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Making Sex Workers Visible in the Village Voice Ad Controversy

Michelle Chen | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Women, Prostitution, Human Rights, Children, Sex Workers, Labor Rights, Village Voice Media, Sex Offenders, Child Prostitution, Feminism, Village Voice, Human Trafficking, Media News

The perspectives of sex workers are sidelined in the public discourse on sex ads. Of the many politically savvy voices that fill the debate, few belong to the human beings on whose bodies this culture war is being waged.

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Village Voice Sues Time Out New York For Using 'Best Of' Phrase

FishbowlNY | Chris O'Shea on November 16, 2011 9:38 AM | Posted 01.16.2012

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The people behind The Village Voice have lost their damn minds. That's the only explanation we can think of for it suing Time Out New York (TONY) beca...

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What It Was Like To Be A New York Reporter On 9/11

Capital New York | Azi Paybarah | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: New York 9/11, New York Post, Newspapers, 9/11, Village Voice, New York Times, New York Media, 9/11 Media, 9/11 New York, 9/11 Reporters, New York Daily News, September 11 Anniversary, Media News

As the anniversary of Sept. 11 spawns its many commemorative covers and magazines and books, all attempting to find the sophisticated angle, the final...

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New York Press Is Dead

The New York Observer | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Video, Newspapers, New York Press, Our Town Downtown, Downtown Express, New York Management, New York Newspapers, Manhattan Media, Village Voice, Media News

As has been rumored for weeks, Manhattan Media is shutting down the New York Press and reviving Our Town Downtown, starting September 1. The weekly pu...

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Child Sex, Money and Village Voice Media

Trevor Neilson | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Village Voice Media, Sex Trafficking, Sex Slavery, Trevor Neilson, Village Voice, Human Trafficking, Ashton Kutcher, Media News

When Craiglist closed the adult services section of its website last fall, it left a lot of money on the table. Village Voice Media was the single biggest beneficiary of Craigslist closing this section of the website.

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Celebrity Activism: When The Celeb Takes A Hit, So Does Her Cause

Silpa Kovvali | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Gay Rights, Activism, Celebrity Activism, Celebrity Activists, Lady GaGa, Bill Gates, Sex Trafficking, Village Voice, Ashton Kutcher, Human Trafficking, Culture News

Lady Gaga's "freak" schtick has made her rich and famous, but money and Twitter followers don't equate to respect. Gaga is more than welcome to choose the former over the latter, until she starts lampooning an important cause.

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Find Your Inner Dancer At Jules Feiffer Exhibition

dnainfo.com | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: New York Around Town, NY Around Town, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Jules Feiffer, Village Voice, River to River Festival, Arts World Financial Center, New York News

LOWER MANHATTAN --Cartoonist Jules Feiffer's famous dancer came to life at a "Dance In" for the River to River Festival's "Express Your Inner Feiffer ...

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Voice Labor Settlement: High Drama or Foregone Conclusion?

Michael Sigman | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Union Negotiations, LA Weekly, Village Voice Media, Media Coverage, Village Voice, Village Voice Union Negotiations, Village Voice Media Strike, Village Voice Strike, Labor Rights, Labor Laws, Village Voice Labor Rights, Media News

To state as a fact that a strike was "narrowly averted" has little more meaning than if I told you I narrowly averted missing dinner by consuming a sandwich just two hours before bedtime.

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Child Sex Trafficking: Dispelling the Myths

Rebecca Kantar | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Sex Trade, Sex Trafficking, Child Sex Trafficking, Village Voice, Impact News

In light of the recent DNA Foundation's Real Men Campaign and criticism raised in response by the Village Voice, I thought now would be the right time to address the underlying societal stigma that surrounds the commercial sexual exploitation of children in our nation.

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Trafficked: The Village Voice Needs to Fact-Check

Turnstyle | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Child Sex Trafficking, Seann William Scott, Dude Where's My Car, Police, Robert Mueller, Oakland, Dna Foundation, Crimes Against Children Unit, Demi Moore, Sex Trafficking, Village Voice, Real Men, Csec, Fact Checking, Ashton Kutcher, Impact News

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered ...

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Village Voice, Continuing Its Progressive Attacks On Celebrities Tackling Social Ills, Turns Its Sights On George Clooney and Darfur

David Kronke | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Village Voice Media, Village Voice Ashton Kutcher, George Clooney, George Clooney Sudan, Village Voice Human Trafficking, George Clooney Darfur, Village Voice, Village Voice Sex Trafficking, Comedy News

Village Voice Media, fresh off its triumph putting Ashton Kutcher in his place for trying to bring awareness to the problem of human trafficking, has directed its crosshairs to an even bigger celebrity and a more vexing issue.

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Child Sex Trafficking: Setting the Record Straight

Maggie Neilson | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Village Voice Sex Trade Article, Ashton Kutcher Village Voice, Child Sex Trafficking, u.s. Sex Trafficking, U.S. Sex Trade, Village Voice Sex Trafficking Article, Village Voice Ashton Kutcher, Sex Trafficking U.S., Sex Trafficking, Village Voice, Sex Trade, Impact News

There are a few things in life I know in that 'beyond a shadow of a doubt' way. One is that children shouldn't be sold for sex.

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