In the area of high pressure heat up, 300 spirited protestors participated in the showing. Our posters featured a wide range of messages such as "Backpage Is A Candy Department store for Predators, Usual Men Don't Buy Sex," and "Manner Problem Facade." Protesters signed an amazing postcard addressed to the CEO of Colony Put into words Media that read, "Be keen on Mr. Larkin: How does it feel to get rich from online pimping?"
We opened the tension with speeches from leading anti-trafficking fighter survivors Stella Marr, Joy Friedman, and Danielle Douglas. New speakers included: CATW Line Aficionada Dorchen Leidholdt, NYC Authority Aficionada Melissa Mark-Viverito, NYC Authority Aficionada Brad Lander, Author and Revolutionary Aaron Cohen, Nomi Muddle President Diana Mao, and InterVarsity's New York Metropolis Industrial Hide Outstanding Jonathan Walton, who was a key rub of this tension. Habitual with our November tension, we provided 80 picketers with bright pink umbrellas, which fashioned a deluge of discoloration and made our tension nicely plain from blocks away. The umbrellas together with chants and posters enticed pedestrians to stop and ask questions, and some in harmony opted to join in. Cyclic CATW's history of combining art and activism, the tension included manifold creative elements. Our chanting campaign line was set to the intonation of three energetic drummers. Singer-songwriter Naja Rosa moved the gang with her beautiful song "Peak of Respect." The gain young women of Hide Daughter Performance Supportive performed scenes from "Trafficked", a effective play about the struggles of young prostituted women. Hide Daughter later energized the gang with a step dance passionate to girl power! The Frederick Douglass Attitude Base tenable a next to showing in Pheonix, Arizona, where Backpage's corporate organization are positioned. The Vancouver Rape Delivery and Women's Limit tenable an optional extra action in Vancouver, Canada. We are positive for their joint effort in making the tension a multi-state and international fixation.
Alicia Keys posted on Facebook and tweeted to her over 8 million peep following about our tension, allocation us to lug the profile of CATW's "Generally Strategy for a Sex Trafficking Existing Internet. "The tension expected media increase in loads of publications, and the New York Push (see http://nypress.com/does-backpage-com-help-or-hinder-sex-trafficking-protesters-outside-the-village-voice-disagree/) and NBC, which will form video recording in its personage programming on human trafficking. Claim is plainly building against Backpage's sex industry based activities, which run to be expanding internationally. Members of Change, a pro-sex industry element, attempted to co-opt our action with their own showing in gaze at of Backpage's prostitution promotion. Survivors Christine Resilient, Stella Marr, Cherie Jimenez, Rebecca Mott, FreeIrishWoman, and Joy Friedman provided a keenly written letter proclaiming their joint effort with the tension against Backpage and SWOP's smash of worry in protesting our action (see letter tied). Three hundred copies of this send somebody a statement were scatter to protesters downhearted with profile about Backpage's facilitation of sex trafficking.
Minute the tension, we tenable a honeymoon societal with manifold of the organizers, speakers, and protestors. We self-evaluated and discussed the afterward steps to observe to have claim on Colony Put into words Media.
Undeviating this latest action, we brought our revelation to Colony Voice's doorstep, holding the company publically trustworthy for its online facilitation of sex trafficking. Supported by 117 leading anti-trafficking organizations and outstanding frequent, we later than again stood together against this multimillion kick spur of sex trafficking. We will observe to press Backpage.com to remove ads that relief sex trafficking until we gain.
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