Safe Passage announces its 7th annual Hot Chocolate Run in Northampton: The Hot Chocolate Run raises funds for Safe Passage, the Hampshire County organization providing shelter, counseling, and advocacy services to women and children who have experienced domestic violence. This event is Safe Passage’s largest fundraising event. We are so fortunate to have the support of thousands of […]
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Good news today from the MN Men’s Action Network: Hello all, I am pleased to announce: Winona County Passes Clean Hotel Policy First in State The Winona County Board of Commissioners passed a clean hotel resolution and travel policy on Tuesday September 7th which provides reimbursement for county employees only when staying in hotels […]
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From the Anti-Porn Activist Network: ACTION ALERT! September 2010 Tell Newbury Comics executives to dump CDs which promote violence against women. Necro’s CD Die!, contains a song so vile that 3 different music retailers have already dropped it (Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Juno.com). The song, “Human Traffic King”, glorifies criminals who kidnap women and force them […]
CNN reports today: Adult services censored on Craigslist Online classified service Craigslist’s decision to censor its adult services section could be a model for other websites, a leader in the fight against prostitution ads said Saturday. “This step is very much in the right direction,” said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who spearheaded a […]
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The University of New Hampshire Womyn’s Club is organizing an anti-pornography conference this October. The conference will take place in Durham, NH and is free to all. See this website for more details. We have asked ourselves: what does an effective community response to sexual violence look like? When a community decides to come together to meet in […]
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Global Centurion, a foundation which fights human trafficking by focusing on demand, announces the Norma Hotaling Awards. Download an award application form (PDF). Three Awards in Commemoration of Norma Hotaling Norma Hotaling (1951-2008), founder of the SAGE, transcended homelessness, addiction and prostitution and transformed her suffering into an opportunity of hope for others. Trafficked into prostitution […]
CNN today presses Craig Newmark on the “adult services” ads that throng Craigslist: Sold on Craigslist: Critics say sex ad crackdown inadequate “Most of the young women we’ve worked with who have been exploited online talk about Craigslist,” said Andrea Powell of the anti-trafficking group The FAIR Fund. “Craigslist is like the Wal-Mart of online […]
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The good folks at Reuniting have kindly made a short video series available free to the public, “Things You Didn’t Know About Porn”. These videos are related to an earlier article reprinted at NoPornNorthampton, “How to Talk about Porn with Your 11-Year-Old Son”. From the introduction at Reuniting: This is a three-part YouTube series we helped create, based […]
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CNN today interviews Professor Gail Dines, author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. Professor Dines is a founder of Stop Porn Culture! See also: Dr. Gail Dines: “Pornography Debases Men, Women & Culture” – Video (6/25/10) Gail Dines Presents: Pornography and Pop Culture (explicit) Gail Dines: “Penn, Porn and Me” (7/1/08) Now Showing at Amazing.net: The War […]
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It might claim otherwise, but the sex industry is no friend to the LGBT community. Lambda Literary writes in June: There’s a dirty secret in the LGBT community. One we rarely discuss, but one that affects thousands of queer teens every year: homelessness. According to a report by The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 26% of […]
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