Sex Workers Rights are Human Rights!
Join us for a Speak-Out & Arts Evening! Celebrating International Human Rights Day December 10th Featuring: Performance Artist, Ignacio Rivera Performance Artist, Damien Luxe Guitarist, K. Stone Political Artwork by Empower Thailand Andrea Ritchie, M.C. for the night And more! Where: NYU, 19 University Place, in the Great Room What time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm What day: Thurs., Dec. 10th Sponsored by: Sex Workers Action Network (SWANK) Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP-NYC) MADRE $pread Magazine Best Practices Policy Project (BPPP) Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) WITNESS Share → Tweet
International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers 2009
December 17 th is Internation al Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers Join us in honoring the lives of sex workers and celebrating our communities with a candlelit vigil. Come add your voice to the call to end violence against sex workers at our community speak-out. Speakers will include community organizers, peer educators, advocates, artists. . . and YOU? Where: Metropolitan Community Church 446 West 36th Street, Manhattan When: Thursday December 17th, 8:00pm – 10:00pm Metrocards available. Please wear red! For more information, please contact swank@riseup.net or 212.714.1184 x50 Sponsored by: Sex... Read The Rest →
Malicious tactics used by Fox News reporter
The Desiree Alliance, Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP-USA) and allied organizations such as BAYSWAN and the Best Practices Policy Project are saddened to observe the malicious tactics used by Glen Beck of Fox news in a recent “expose” of ACORN. All of our organizations stand firmly against the exploitation of minors in prostitution and we also oppose trafficking in persons, but we are concerned about the way the provision of services to adult sex workers was portrayed in the recent report. In Glen Beck’s effort to critique ACORN via a... Read The Rest →
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: New York Sex Work(er) Film & Video Fest
New York Sex Work(er) Film & Video Fest is a one day Film and Video art festival screening recent works including shorts, documentaries, and experimental works by and about sex workers. A panel discussion on sex work and the law, media, and art as well as an after party will follow. When/Where October 24, 2009 (Time TBA) UnionDocs: 322 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211, [http://www.uniondocs.org/]. Submission Cost FREE All proceeds from this event go to support community activist work. Submit Your Film/Video Please send a link to your work for... Read The Rest →
Sex Work Legal Training
Free legal training for sex workers on September 24th. Sponsored by SWANK & SWOP-NYC, Sex Worker Project of the Urban Justice Center, and Anti-Violence Project. Share → Tweet