Sunsara Taylor Protests Sex Trafficking, Pornography, & Backpage.com

Nov. 16, 2011: Sunsara Taylor spoke at protest against Backpage.com for facilitating sex trafficking. The overwhelming majority of women and girls in prostitution are tricked, coerced, or forced through male predation, outright violence, and/or desperation. The notion that women's bodies should be available for sale to men for sexual use and sexual degradation and plunder is a product of thousands of years of patriarchy as it is filtered today through capitalism, which commodifies everything -- including the flesh, the sexuality and the lives of women and girls.

Taylor is a supporter of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA which is led by Bob Avakian and which is building a movement for revolution. This revolution takes the complete liberation of women as a driving force, and a dividing line. Find out more at: revcom.us

The protest against Backpage.com was organized by a coalition of groups, most notably the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women http://www.catwinternational.org/. They are not responsible for the content of Taylor's comments or her larger political views. They are, among other things, an important resource for information on the scale and scope of trafficking of women and a resource for trafficking victims seeking assistance in countries around the world.

Sunsara blogs at: sunsara.blogspot.com

Find a new effort to
End Pornography & Patriarchy: the Enslavement and Degradation of Women
at: stoppatriarchy.tumblr.com

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[owenivor]

It's funny that the only backpage site available for Mexico is Tijuana. coincidentally TJ (affectionate nickname for Tijuana) is Mexico's brothel.

[NubianTribesman]

Good upload.

[iremythpurr]

Thanks for bringing up all these points and connecting them to the issue of pornography. Your analysis is spot on. Shared.