Village Voice Media

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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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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Ann Romney's Blind Trust Invested In Controversial Sex Site Via Goldman

Reuters | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Conflicts of Interest, Prostitution, Video, Ann Romney, 2012 Election, Reuters, Village Voice Media, Mitt Romney, Sex Trafficking, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Backpage.com, GS Capital Partners III, Business News

By Greg Roumeliotis NEW YORK, April 2 (Reuters) - A blind trust in the name of Ann Romney, wife of Republican U.S. pre...

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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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Pimps Using The Internet To Peddle Their Goods

www.nytimes.com | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Village Voice Media, Prostitution, Nicholas Kristof, New York City, Technology News

I WENT on a walk in Manhattan the other day with a young woman who once had to work these streets, hired out by eight pimps while she was just 16 and ...

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Council Members, Change.org Fight To Stop Trafficking On Village Voice Site

Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Video, Trafficking, Brad Lander, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Lauren Hersh, Craigslist, Village Voice Media, Nicholas Kristof, Sex Trafficking, Backpage.com, Slidepollajax, Human Trafficking, Impact News

Change.org is getting help from New York council members to pressure the Village Voice to shut down its adult section of classified ads. The social...

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Urban Legends and Hoaxes: How Hyperbole Hurts Trafficking Victims

Rachel Lloyd | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Domestic Trafficking, Village Voice Media, Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax, Sex Trafficking, Women Sex Exploitation, Girls Sex Exploitation, Sex Exploitation, Sex Trafficking Victims, Impact News

Hyperbole only obscures the true issue and damages the movement's credibility. It's critical that as a field that we pay attention to statistics, instead of focusing on media-friendly quick fixes and sensationalized stories.

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Escort Ads, Sex Slaves and Four Dead Women

Kevin M. Ryan | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Craigslist Escorts Killer, Prostitution, Willie Pickton, Village Voice Media, Backpage.com, Long Island Serial Killer, Gary Ridgway, Impact News

If Backpage.com can't monitor its ads carefully enough to keep nudity out of its ads, how can anyone believe that it can keep underage people from being offered up for sale?

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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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The Horrible Truth: Penn State Is The Tip Of The Iceberg

Isaac Luria | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Religion, Penn State, Child Abuse, Penn State Scandal, Village Voice Media, Sex Abuse, Joe Paterno, Media News

What if the horror of what happened at Penn State was happening on a larger scale all over the country? What if a Web site made money providing a platform where kids were regularly sold for sex, right here in America?

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One Child Is Too Many

Valarie Kaur | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Village Voice Media, Groundswell, Sex Trafficking, Backpage.com, Impact News

Websites like Backpage.com legitimize the sex trafficking of minors by giving a prominent commercial platform to their pimps and adult customers. We need a groundswell to end this practice.

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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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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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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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Village Voice Staff Set To Strike

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Village Voice Media, Villiage Voice Strike, The Real Voice, Village Voice, Media News

Staffers at The Village Voice are set to strike if they can't agree on contract negotiations by midnight on June 30th. According to the union pre...

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Protecting The Mothers of Tomorrow

Deborah Richardson | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Village Voice Media, Girls, Sex Trafficking, Child Sex Trafficking, Backpage.com, Women's Funding Network, Human Trafficking, Impact News

Let us join together to create zero tolerance for the buying and selling of children for sex because if even one girl is trapped in sexual slavery, it is one girl too many.

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Deception in Advertising: Local Sex Ads and Human Trafficking Victims

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Organization for Women, AIMGroup.Com, Chelsea-Lyn Rudder, Village Voice Media, Sex Trafficking, New York Historical Society, Nicholas Kristof, El Diario, Jean Bucaria, Village Voice, Backpage.com, New York Magazine, Human Trafficking, New York News

Anti-human trafficking advocates say that explicit advertisements in many of New York City's local publications fuel brothels.

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For You To Succeed, Must Someone Else Fail?

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Bp, The Apprentice, Twitter, Rick Hanson, Matt Lauer, World Cup, President Obama, Kick Ass, Leonard Stern, Metta, Kenny Rogers, Democrats, New York, Pulitzer Prize, Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplation, Midterm Elections, Donald Trump, Village Voice Media, Spirit Rock, Father Guido Sarducci, Buddhism, Mark Millar, Hartz Mountain, John Romita Jr., Republicans, Mike Ditka, Nbc, James Baraz, Netherlands, LA Lakers, Nba, Boston Celtics, Spain, Healthy Living News

"You have to know when to kick ass and when to kiss ass." That Tweetable maxim was Leonard Stern's principal advice to me during the six years I wor...

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No Goldman at the End of the Rainbow?

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Bill Clinton, Creative Destruction, Sec, Creative Loafing, Marxism, Jim Hightower, LA Weekly, Village Voice Media, Warren Buffett, Socialism, Greece, Business News

We now know that Goldman and other huge banks made multiple billions by financing financing -- as opposed to financing companies.

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Working Miracles

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

My earliest memory of an inspiring title was The Miracle Worker, which I loved because that "miracle" suggested an astonishing achievement against impossible odds.

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Charges Dropped Against Village Voice Execs

Editor & Publisher | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two newspaper executives who published details of a secret grand jury subpoena seeking reporters' notes and lists of Web site readers won't face charg...

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Village Voice Media Execs Arrested For Revealing Grand Jury Secrets

New York Times | David Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maricopa Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, Village Voice Media, Jim Larkin, Village Voice, Michael Lacey, Media News

Two executives from Village Voice Media -- a company that owns a number of alternative weeklies including The Village Voice, The LA Weekly and The Pho...

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