{"id":104,"date":"2009-03-11T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T21:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=104"},"modified":"2014-02-08T05:31:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T12:31:37","slug":"stop-the-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/d79ed7a8d7a5_2009_0441.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106 aligncenter\" title=\"d79ed7a8d7a5_2009_0441\" alt=\"d79ed7a8d7a5_2009_0441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/d79ed7a8d7a5_2009_0441.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/d79ed7a8d7a5_2009_0441.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/d79ed7a8d7a5_2009_0441-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The pre-Purim shopping procession along King George Street last Friday was impeded by a car parked in the middle of the sidewalk in front of Gan Meir Park; its windows completely covered with cards advertising the services of artificially posed women with airbrushed smiles. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u201cWe wanted to get in people\u2019s way,\u201d said Gili Asher, \u201cwe put the car on the sidewalk so that people couldn\u2019t avoid seeing it.\u201d Asher and Ofra Segoli, both third year students in the School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University, set up the car to protest against trafficking in women. The project originated as an assignment for \u201cArt and Activism\u201d, a course taught by Rimona Lappin in the Theatre Arts Department. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u201cWe knew we wanted to address the issue of trafficking in women. As someone who lives in Tel Aviv with a car, I walk out each morning to find these cards on my windshield,\u201d Asher, \u201cmost people end up throwing them on the sidewalk, so it\u2019s also an environmental issue.\u201d Another disturbing aspect of this phenomenon was discussed by Meirav Shlomo on Ynet (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynet.co.il\/articles\/0,7340,L-3622662,00.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">http:\/\/www.mynet.co.il\/articles\/0,7340,L-3622662,00.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">) \u2013 young children have begun collecting these cards from the streets, playing with them and trading them like baseball cards. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Segoli and Asher wanted to call attention to the problem and decided to use the car itself as illustration, plastering and effectively sealing its windows with the cards. \u201cPeople remain sealed off; oblivious\u2026we wanted to remind them that there is a woman, a story behind the picture.\u201d Flyers calling for \u201cAn End to Apathy\u201d provided the grim statistics (14 is the average age of someone entering prostitution, between 75% &#8211; 90% of prostitutes were sexually abused as children) and offered some suggestions for further action, such as volunteering at organizations that provide a hotline for prostitutes. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>For more information: <\/span><a href=\"mailto:kav.siyua@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">kav.siyua@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">[Image credit: Gili Asher]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pre-Purim shopping procession along King George Street last Friday was impeded by a car parked in the middle of the sidewalk in front of Gan Meir Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}