Conference call tomorrow (9/8) at 11 AM EST on Craigslist and Adult Services Section

UPDATE

MORE: sorry I couldn't make it! (turned out to be one crazy day); will try to post this weekend about the international issue

Delia

P.S. pleased to see the group is giving craigslist the chance to join the good fight (whatever the history, it is most important that things go as well as possible from now on) D.

Delia,
That sounds great. If you would like to listen into the call or ask any questions, I can send you the call in. Otherwise, we would appreciate, very much, the posting.

K

Katherine Miller
Managing Director
Hattaway Communications
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On Sep 7, 2010, at 7:53 PM, dperiod wrote:

> Hi Brad and Katherine! Thanks for letting me know... It's just that I'm not quite sure what this is asking from me, if anything. Although I've been blogging about craigslist for quite a while, I am not at all "credentialed press" and do not travel in order to get info about craigslist. Part of it is the fact that I need to preserve my privacy (my blogs would look very different if I thought I'd give up my privacy at some point). I do wish you success and would be glad to post the press release on my blog if you'd like that! Let me know if I can help with anything else... thanks! ~Delia
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> Subject: Re: Conference call tomorrow (9/8) at 11 AM EST on Craigslist and Adult Services Section
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> I hope that you will be able to join Malika Saada Saar, from the Rebecca Project, and Bradley Myles, from Polaris Project, for a call focused on Craigslist's recent decision to close down the US-based Adult Services section and continuing efforts to encourage Craigslist to take additional steps to address global sex trafficking. Details are below. The statement they released today is also pasted below, for your information.
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> If you have any questions, please let me know.
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> Katherine Miller
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> Hattaway Communications
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> MEDIA ADVISORY
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> What: Press conference call with:
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> Bradley Myles, Executive Director, Polaris Project
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> Malika Saada Saar, Executive Director, Rebecca Project for Human Rights
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> About: Sex trafficking on Craigslist
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> When: Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 11:00 AM EST
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> Dial-in: Credentialed press only. RSVP to acole@hattaway.com for dial-in code.
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> Statement on Craigslist
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> For Immediate Release: Contact: Bradley Myles
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> September 7, 2010 Polaris Project
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> 202-507-7956
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> Anti-Trafficking Experts Call for Craigslist to Close Adult Services Outside the U.S.
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> WASHINGTON — Four leading organizations that work on ending the sex trafficking of children and young women issued the following statement in response to Craigslist’s decision to close its adult service section in the United States:
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> “We thank Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster for voluntarily closing the adult services section of Craigslist in the United States. As the largest classified ads site to have an adult services section, Craigslist has become a major marketplace for buying and selling sex with children and young women. An FBI investigation found 2,800 ads selling sex with children in the adult services section in 2008 alone. Closing this section of Craigslist sends a clear signal to sexual predators that it will not stand for them using the site to sexually enslave children and young women.”
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> “While this is a good first step in the U.S., there are still more than 250 other Craigslist ‘erotic’ pages around the world where children and young women are still being sold for sex through Craigslist. Craigslist is a global company, and it has a global responsibility. It should immediately shut down the ‘erotic’ services sections across the globe.” [In many areas, “adult services” is called “erotic services.”]
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> “We hope that closing this section only in the U.S. was not simply a PR move in advance of a Congressional hearing on September 15th on sex trafficking where Craigslist has been called to testify. If Craigslist is seriously committed to ending the site’s use as a platform for sex trafficking and the sexual enslavement of children and young women, it will immediately close the remaining sections around the world.”
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> Polaris Project, Rebecca Project for Human Rights, FAIR Fund, Courtney’s House