the village voice and its ads are part of the problem. the village voice is making a buck at the expense of exploiting women. from las vegas, the police department there, quote, nothing that in any way promotes criminal activity and trafficking of underage individuals is supported by this or any other law enforcement organization. to say that we want these sites up so we can track them is a misstatement. from los angeles from the lapd, quote, i have never received a call from backpage.com indicating that there are suspicious ads. now, to be fair, the law enforcement officer that mcdougal gave us contact information for in san francisco did back up a lot of what she had to say, but even he, speaking for himself and not on behalf of the police department on a whole, suggested that backpage should donate the tens of millions of dollars they make on adult services ads each year. quote, if it's not about money and just about law enforcement, then take your money and give it to groups that support victims of human trafficking and you'll have a

know hopefully it's not systematic across the nation but it is very shocking now is grammarian village voice writer capital account is up next on our t.v. so let's check in with lauren lyster to see what's on today's agenda lauren i abby i'm sure if you looked up at any t.v. today you couldn't miss all of the hype or discussion about the lack of hype surrounding the facebook i.p.o. so we've already talked about the problems with facebook and with some of these tech companies on this show we're going to look now at what some of the benefits are of these kind of new business models as far as kind of allowing them choose your own adventure accounting privilege which could have you asking if they're cooking the books or could be so people that are that are looking at the facebook stock today are not going to want to miss this thanks lauren that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america or check out our website our to dot com slash usa and you can also follow me on twitter abby martin. see it five. download the official ante up location on the phon

you say targeting advertisers in the village voice would be most effective. >> yeah. i think that public pressure is helpful on backpage and there is, indeed, a petition on change.org to put pressure on them. ultimately what matters to them is money. i think if they see that they're going to lose more money in advertising in village voice and the other regional newspapers they control, then it's not worth it to them. and then they will exit the -- this prostitution ad market. >> the village voice, nick, as you know, is questioning your reporting, particularly one article about a former prostitute named alisa, who says she was sold on backpage.com at a time when it didn't exist in cities that she was in. how do you respond? >> that's completely false. i applied to them, they said that she had turned 16, and i think 2003. she turned 16 on december 30th, 2003. and indeed throughout 2004, she was 16 years old. and was being marketed on backpage, in one city after another, and i could show them that backpage was operating, and of course, throughout that time. and i mean th

of systematic violence and it is happening more prisons across the country i was joined by the village voice news writer who actually exposed these cruel conditions graham rayman he explained the disturbing details of the immense day to day condition behind bars take a listen to the program basically guards are actively encouraging or passively condoning. inmate intimidation. several there's a pecking order in this hierarchy among inmates will be leaders who get extra privileges who get. other inmates to use the phone to get their commissary money they get the best seats to watch television they tell inmates when they can be in their cell when they can't and it happens very commonly in the teen jail on rikers island and graham you one of the documents you guys got actually outlined the rules and that's kind of what you're specifying right now i mean this is this is actually documented that these are the rules of the program yes there was a document titled the with the program because what they do is they the leader is leading inmates will ask new inmates are you with meaning are you going to

well you know when i first came out generation dad and i was reading about this in the village voice you know way back in the two thousand and four presidential election people really dismissed this is an issue and a big part of the conversation was about why don't students stand up for their own rights in their own economic self-interest because it's always been historically true in the united states that that a positive social movement is based around people standing up for their own rights be they you know workers in the labor unions or african-americans or women you know you have to kind of march on your own behalf and i really see that happening with the occupy wall street movement it's very very gratifying to me personally have been involved in the teachings and kind of getting involved in those conversations and i do see it as the approach is something much bigger because obviously we struck a nerve here when students are graduating with twenty seven thousand dollars in student loans and they're trying to start their lives and over half of recent college graduates are they're

he is a journalist that has worked for the village voice, "time" magazine, washington post, a lot of other papers. he is also writing fix about which he spoke earlier today in a student form and most recently among the other kind of blogs he has done on the civil war, he wrote a piece called why do so few blacks study the civil war, which the undergraduate seminar just recently read. i had one of the most interesting conversations by telephone with tanihasi late las last fall about the idea of tragedy. maybe we will come back to that. andr andrewbh. delbanco is a preimminent professor and professor of humanities at columbia, just awarded the national humanities award by president obama. he is the author of many books. whether you wanted that label or not apparently. among many books, i will just mention two brand new ones both coming out this year. that's not fair, by the way. indeed, nobody should publish two books in one year. one is called the abolitionist imagination, which i read in manuscript. it is a long essay, a probing provocative essay about the reputation of abolitionists

he is a journalist who worked for "the village voice" and ""time" magazine" "the new york times," "washington post," a lot of papers, also now writing fikttionfik fiction about which he spoke earlier today, and most recently among the other blog he's has done on the civil war he wrote a piece "why do so few blacks study the civil war" which an undergraduate seminar just read. quickly. one of the most interesting conversations by telephone with him, late last fall, i think about the idea of tragedy. maybe we'll come back to that. andrew delbanco, going in alphabetical order, end of the line. one of the preimminent literary cultural historians. chair of american studies, and professor of the humanities at columbia, he was just awarded national humanities medal by president obama, once called by "time" magazine, america's best social critic, author of many books. whether you wanted that label or not apparently. among many books, i will mention, two, brand new ones, both coming out this year. that's not fair by the way. it's, not, andy nobody should publish two books in one year. one "abolitionis

point is we are under no obligation to lead every op-ed piece from the wall street journal to the village voiceree gold stars for reading every section of the "new york times." you are allowed to be specific about what you like, and that doesn't make you less of an informer. >> yes, yes, but what the bn of the -- but what about the opinion of the people you meet on the train? >> that's true. >> this is deliberately designed to engage you, it's a business, so you could decide how much businesses have value, and i believe i certainly try to create value and i know our staff does, but you need to interact with it with that knowledge. >> i'm a consumer as well. just because somebody has a microphone doesn't mean you have to. >> that's a good bumper sticker. i should put it on my car. i should put a bumper sticker that says just because i have a microphone doesn't mean u to

robert turner introduced a house resolution calling for a village voice media holdingss to shut it downiately. the 51 attorneys generals and 600 religious leaders, more than 50 ngos and a petition with more than 230,000 signatures are calling on them to shut down the classified ad, adult services section. but tonight backpage.com not backing down one inch. to understand the outrage, take a look at what deborah feyerick found in a recent report she did for 360. >> when we get a case involving the trafficking of prostitution, usually the story is going to start on backpage.com. >> the daughter i know is a kid that likes to color. >> reporter: for dawn that's where the story took her 15-year-old girl, who ran away with a man who seduced herrion line. that man had posted pictures of her on backpage.com and selling her into prostitution. detailed in a criminal complaint. >> he officially took her and beat her into submission to raping her and then held her into prostitution. it totally, totally crushed me. to know that somebody actually did this to her. >> reporter: the accused pimp in the c

and that was the subject, actually, of the piece that you referred to in another piece in the village voice' court could very much produce for obama what fdr had in a hostile court that tended to be far more conservative, and it's proven to be that. that's the reason the next round of appointments to the court are going to be enormously important. >> let me play what justice roberts said during his confirmation hearings. take a listen. >> i believe very strongly in the separation of powers. it was a very important principle that the framers set forth that is very protective of our individual liberty. make legislates, executive competent could you tell us -- executes and the judicial branch decides the law. >> how would say that meets with his time as chief justice? >> no one really asked serious questions, including the democrats. it was really pretty farcical. they talked about movies and baseball, and it left us scratching our head because this guy has enormous importance to the country, and he has moved to the right as we predicted. >> as we go to break, we remember the late robin gibb o

congressman robert turner introduced a house resolution calling for a village voice media holdingss tohut it down immediately. pressure another website has been building for months. the 51 attorneys generals and senators, 600 religious leaders, 50 ngos and a petition with more than 230,000 signatures are calling on them to shut down the classified ads, adult services section. but tonight backpage.com not backing down one inch. to understand the outrage, take a look at what deborah feyerick found in a recent report she did for 360. >> when we get a case involving the trafficking of prostitution, usually the story is going to start on backpage.com. >> the daughter i know is a kid that likes to color. >> reporter: for dawn that's where the story took her 15-year-old girl, a child who apparently ran away with a man who seduced her online. within days, that han had posted pictures of her on backpage.com, selling the girl into prostitution. charges that were detailed in a criminal complaint. >> he officially took her and beat her into submission to raping her and then held her into prostitut

new york times to the atlantic monthly, times, fice, harper's to the sports illustrated, and the village voice. like appear daughters and keep a firm hand upon their wallets. at present to you richard zacks. [applause] >> can you guys hear me? is it coming through? because kevin was so incredibly nice in that intersection i won't tell the story of some of the nets we have shared. abcaeight. a lot of what he said is true. can we turn the house lights down a little bit. during this lines up. can return the sauce lets them or not? not any more? more important and i am. ahead. there we go. there kate. as most of you know of no theodore roosevelt was extremely energetic customer, opinionated, and separately confidence. his own local said if he ever encounters a stone wall he will bang his head against it until the index down. disney's recall playing a game at the oyster bay that involve walking a straight line. so here we go. a police scandal hits new york. appoints roosevelt as police commissioner. t.r. admits he knows nothing about police demonstration, 36 years old and coming on six years as a c

if you read the village voice article about what he did at bain.> yeah on a huge scale. >> if you read the whole "washington post" article the main through you got was what a huge douche nozzle. because some kids were on scholarships and not of the same mean, and there was a guy who's father was a teacher, and he said there was a theme. mitt romney doesn't like anyone that isn't just like him. >> right. >> does it pass the smell test? i don't know what decade you grew up in to not know this kid is gay. whatever words -- >> yeah. >> that's right. >> and that's what bullying is. exactly. do they know for a fact did they ever see him with another guy? no, but he was the one they targeted, and probably gay. and if you have been to school anywhere, you know which kid that is, and the thing was always gay. >> uh-huh. >> ourer are was fem, do you remember that? >> no. >> it was brought on jenny cream ail. >> and niagara ice wine. >> no lake niagara wine. >> great. >> it still had toenails in it. [ laughter ] >> oh. >> all right. >> but now -- you know --

i thought i need to get other voices in here and i will do this. when sachy goes up to the village. the leper lady when she starts telling him the story her voice come in. i thought to myself, thank god. i could write a section in her voice and not only be in his voice. those things don't come until you need to work them out. that stumped me for awhile and came to with when she and the other villagers who contract lepercy decide to kill themselves to not bring shame to the village. and she can't do it. the man servant who's story that steven slowly finds out rescues her. >> even now i feel the cold waves pushing and pulling against my legs as a stood knee deep in the ocean. there was a flock of birds flying over head. their voices leading us on. as the water lapped around me i saw a man the father of a school friend walk straight into the ocean he never turned back. one moment he was there and in the next he was swaulode by the sea. one woman took a knife and slashed her wrists. i remember how the bloodstreamed down her arms. she turned toward me with a strange smile handed me her kn

his voice dominates the local council meetings, and his answer to the critics is always the same -- the people of the village are better off than other spaniards. the struggle continues. the laborers are repeatedly driven away by the police. but they always return a few days later supported by the mayor. >> the village works today because we occupied the land back then. that is why we have an income and jobs. we want to do something similar with this project. >> occupying the land has turned around the lives of the villagers. despite the economic crisis, the village is driving. >> if you are sharing three lanes with five cars that keep crisscrossing in all directions happily honking their horns, you must be driving in istanbul. it is a fascinating city in turkey, but drivers need nerves of steel, so many turks rely on one of the 6000 so-called dormushes to get around. it is a minibus with 14 seats but often more passengers squeezed in when needed. they operate in an informal and chaotic way, and they are much cheaper than taxis, but now, some local politicians want to get rid of them. they say that they are