rights
The 3rd of March is International Sex Worker Rights Day. The day originated
in 2001 when over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a sex worker
festival. The organizers, Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a Calcutta
based group whose membership consists of somewhere upwards of 50,000 sex
workers and members of their communities. Sex worker groups across the world
have subsequently celebrated 3 March as International Sex Workers' Rights
Day.
Yes on Prop K, Sadie Lune, Artist and Sex Worker wins 1st place at
the Museum of Modern Art!
Sadie Lune presents this performance piece "I WANT YOU," which won
1st place at the Museum of Modern Art on September 11, 2008.
San Francisco artist, Tony Labat invited San Franciscans to
participate in this live art event based on the iconic "I Want You"
poster. Labat offered one minute at the museum to "seize the voice
of authority, to make demands of the public, and to be the
finger-pointing Uncle Sam."
Contest winners will be plastered over the city in on posters during
election week.
Sadie says, I Want You to Vote Yes on Prop K, the San Francisco
ballot initiative for the decriminalization of sex workers in San
To view videos as well as the District Attorney and Public Defender arguments, also to appear in the ballot pamphlet visit the BAYSWAN San Francisco Prostitution Ballot Measure Info Page at:
http://www.bayswan.org/SFInitiative08
The language for the San Francisco Prostitution Ballot Measure has been approved and here it is below:
San Francisco Prostitution Ballot Measure 2008:
ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS RELATED TO PROSTITUTION AND SEX WORKERS
Prostitution Ballot Measure as it will appear
in the San Francisco Voters' Pamphlet 2008
THE WAY IT IS NOW:
State and local laws prohibit prostitutioni. State and federal laws prohibit human trafficking for prostitutioni or forced labor. Criminal laws also prohibit crimes such as battery, extortion and rape, regardless of the victim's status as a prostitute or sex worker.
In 1994, the Board of Supervisors established a Task Force on Prostitution (Task Force) to examine prostitutioni in the City and to recommend social and legal reforms. In 1996 the Task Force released a report recommending that:
** Please distribute widely!
Sex Workers and Allies will be out and proud with SF Pride this year, come see all the great things we are doing:
