resources
To continue with the series Know Your Rights SWOP Chicago has made a video about what to do if you are arrested, police tactics, and things everyone should know. Presented below by blip.tv, orginally show a www.redlightdistrictchicago.com .
CALL FOR COMMUNITY EXPERTISE:
Do you have personal experience in the justice system that you
would share as part of SWOP’S 2009 Legal Resource Guide? We are
looking for short 2-500 word articles and quotes to publish in this
years updated resource guide which will have lists of recommended
lawyers and legal resources and be distributed to all chapters and
during outreach events. Possible articles/topics that may be included:
Hello Wonderful Fans of the Infirmary-
- SWOP-Norcal: providing activism and community.
- St. James infirmary: Health care and services for Sex Workers.
- YOGA FOR SEXWORKERS with Selina Raven @ At the Center for Sex & Culture, 1519 Mission near 11th. For more details visit CSC's website. Tuesdays, 1-2:30, and Thursdays, 5-6:30.
- BAYSWAN: Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network and Prostitutes Education Network.
- US PRO's: U.S. Prostitutes Collective: rachelwest <AT> crossroadswomen.net
- ESPU: Erotic Service Providers Union.
Have a local Northern California resource we don't have listed? contact us.
Sex Worker News
- swopusa: Is it OK to bash women if they are selling sex? - National Times, AU: http://bit.ly/c88AV0
- swopusa: Transgender and wondering how to fill out your #census form? Here's the Census Bureau's answers (PDF): http://is.gd/aKJjV RT @Arizona_Abby
- swopusa: All our email now belongs to law enforcement, no warrants required, privacy be damned: http://bit.ly/bIQkKN
- Australia: Is it OK to bash women if they are selling sex?
- swopusa: Sex worker raped, strangled in SouthAfrica: http://bit.ly/bKSdEO
