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Sex trafficking of girls and boys on Backpage.com, owned by Village Voice Media, is becoming a disturbing trend.
A Georgia man was arrested for pimping two 17-year-old girls around the Nashville area. Detectives responded to a suspicious ad on Backpage.com and drove to a motel. There, they found the teens and their 37-year-old pimp, as well as a laptop computer, likely used for the online advertising. Just four days prior to that, four people in Denver were arrested for forcing a teen girl into prostitution. They also advertised her sexual services, including semi-nude pictures, on Backpage. And last year, a South Dakota couple was arrested for selling underage girls for sex on .... wait for it ... Backpage.com yet again.
Village Voice Media has a moral responsibility to ensure that young girls and boys aren't being abused in the commercial sex industry with help from their website.
Now, a rising movement of people of many faiths and backgrounds, motivated by their shared moral convictions, are taking action to end this practice.
Please join us in demanding that Village Voice Media - Backpage.com's parent company - stop selling ads that others use to sell minors on Backpage.com by shutting down the Adult section of the website.
http://tinyurl.com/6h7vtc9Sex trafficking of girls and boys on Backpage.com, owned by Village Voice Media, is... more
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A popular ‘adult’ advertising website run by the Village Voice should go the way of Craigslist’s ‘erotic services’ site.
One of the most hidden and hideous crimes in America is the sex trafficking of children. But this selling of minors quickly becomes less hidden when Internet sites for community advertising become giant magnets for the sex trade.A popular ‘adult’ advertising website run by the Village Voice should go... more
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Well, that was hostile. You will all have your own highlights from this, the second live NYC appearance from everyone's favorite stupendously inappropriate underage L.A. rap collective, but as for me and my house, we'll stick with the latest chapter in mastermind Tyler the Creator's ongoing compendium of asthma humor. "Who the fuck got asthma here?" he demands, toward the end of this bruising, seething, intermittently thrilling hour-long affair, when we're all indeed out of breath, emotionally if not physically. He holds up an inhaler and starts howling like a baby: "SWAAAAAAAG! SWAAAAAAAAG!" We laugh. We are grateful for the chance. These guys are not funny in the traditional sense. Seconds earlier, Tyler had introduced a new song with "I plan on getting on Bill O'Reilly and having a bunch of white parents hate me for this motherfucker"; seconds later, he notes, "I just wanna slap the fuck out of all parents, and bloggers, and fuckin' ugly people." The guy knows his demo.
Quoting these guys swearing a lot is basically my role here. This show is in all likelihood less absurd and more logically structured than OF's first local gig, at Webster Hall's Studio in November, but that's relative; the personnel tonight is whittled down to Domo Genesis (disarmingly cheerful), Hodgy Beats (pint-size, hilariously combative, openly contemptuous of "the old people in the back"), Left Brain (no impression), and your DJ, Syd, who looks, like, 12. Oh, and Tyler, of course, towering over everyone. He takes the stage in a hoodie with "Fuck the Greater Good" emblazoned on the back, screams "Who the fuck invited Mr. I Don't Give a Fuck?", stops the song, kicks all the photographers offstage, disappears, waits until the song restarts, and then bursts out to scream, "Who the fuck invited Mr. I Don't Give a Fuck?" again. He does not comport himself like a guy on Vampire Weekend's label. He's wearing knee-high striped socks. His voice is a bloody, serrated rasp. His frequent, ferocious stage dives are expressly designed to encourage lawsuits. It's great.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/02/live_odd_future.phpWell, that was hostile. You will all have your own highlights from this, the second... more
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We aren't usually much troubled by celebrities' affiliations with Scientology. Hell, Celine was a Nazi collaborator, and we still love his books. And we're not such fans of Look Who's Talking Too that Kirstie Alley's and John Travolta's religious beliefs would spoil it for us.
We do like Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson et alia, but because she's just a voice we don't have much opportunity to look at her and say, "She really believes little aliens live inside her and has given $10 million to the people who made her crazy."
That may be coming up in our heads more often, alas, since we heard this tape (found via Xenu TV) of Cartwright robo-calling for a Scientology event. It's not so much that she starts by saying, "This is Bart Simpson" -- she quickly says she's just kidding and identifies herself. But she keeps talking in the voice of Bart as she announces "I'm now auditing on New OTVII," says that she will "share my many wins" as an "auditor" at a the Hollywood Scientology event, and assures us, "It's gonna be a blast, man! (Bart laugh)" before asking us to call and confirm our attendance. It's as if we'd heard Bugs Bunny making a speech for Hamas ("Poisonally, Doc, I prefer jihad").
* * * * * Nancy, using Bart to pitch for Scientology? Come on.We aren't usually much troubled by celebrities' affiliations with... more
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These website made up a bunch of words that would work for any city that is suffering from Gentrification and tourists taking advantage of the weak dollar. These website made up a bunch of words that would work for any city that is suffering... more
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Norman Mailer, an American journalist, novelist and playwright among other professions, died today in New York City. He wrote The Naked and the Dead, considered by some to be one of the best novels ever written. He was one of the founding publishers of the Village Voice and also ran for Mayor of New York. Rest In Peace.Norman Mailer, an American journalist, novelist and playwright among other... more
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Norman Mailer wrote dozens of plays, stories, and poems. He was awarded the Pulitzer prize for The Armies of the Night in 1968, and The Executioner's Song in 1979.
Mailer is also a co-founder of The Village Voice. Norman Mailer wrote dozens of plays, stories, and poems. He was awarded the Pulitzer... more
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Gonzales discusses a love supreme for the craft and the rich community that blossoms from the seeds of Tate.
MG blurbs:
"I will always be thankful to the man for being unafraid to be, as Tate himself once described him, a one-man affirmative action committee in the 1980s
all because he believed Afro-diasporic musics should on occasion be covered by people who weren't strangers to those communities.
"I am more than happy that Greg Tate had put up the signposts for this black boy to follow. In fact, one of those signs might have read: Enter At Your Own Risk
This Means You!"
"Hell, that was during the same period that one prominent Caucasian music editor (who is still in a position of editorial power today) told the same publicist something along the lines of,
black music writers dont write that well. Its crazy what some people believe. However, if youve taken a glance at Rolling Stone, Blender, GQ, Esquire and New York magazines lately, that opinion still seems prevalent in 2007.
"hell, even David Byrne and The Clash had discovered Africa by 1986"
"Not to say that we wouldnt be writing for somebody (perhaps medical journals or antique mags), but it was from studying Tates music writing mojo like cold lampin graduate students that helped give us form different options. Like Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis, the Beatles and Oasis, Grandmaster Flash and DJ Shadow, it was Tate and all of us."Gonzales discusses a love supreme for the craft and the rich community that blossoms... more
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