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Dear Allies, friends, SWOP-ees around the world,
We are so proud to announce that we SUCCEEDED in our efforts to secure the endorsement of the Democratic Party! Due to our hard work and lobbying (which was truly a culmination of many years of sex workers working directly with city politicians and politicos) the Democratic party endorsed us! Am I dreaming?
We were very fortunate to have remarkable allies such as Greg Shaw, former president of the Harvey Milk Club, who initiated, explained and helped coordinate the strategy, as well as Slava Osowska, a queer activist and member of Industrial Workers of The World, who did much of the physical work of actually getting the 12,745 signatures needed. Slava has helped write the materials and works tirelessly.
About 40 (or maybe more?) sex workers and supporters showed up and most testified, the majority identifying as sex workers. Long time allies from the HIV prevention/harm reduction movements and from the medical marijuana movement were instrumental in their support.
Celebrate a decade of Research for Sex Work!
The tenth issue has been released and can be downloaded from http://www.researchforsexwork.org.
It is bilingual, with text in Spanish and English.
SEX WORKERS' RIGHTS!
Contents
Editorial - Melissa Ditmore
Resisting Raids and Rescue -VAMP Collective and SANGRAM
Los trabajadores sexuales en la India enfrentan abuso en Ataques de
incursiones en la Colectividad de VAMP
Sex Worker Activists: Embodying Aberrance - Stewart
Activistas trabajadoras sexuales: Expresando la Aberración - Stewart
A participatory-action and interventional research approach to HIV
prevention and treatment among women in survival sex worki - Shannon
and Bright
Una aproximacion participativa e intervencionista en la prevención
del VIH y tratamiento en mujeres que hacen trabajo sexual para
sobrevivir - Shannon and Bright
"My one-way ticket to Kamathipura": Rights of sex workers
compromised - Karandikar and Próspero
May 19, 2008
Michael O. Leavitt
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Global Health Affairs
Room 639H
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201
Subject: Comments on Office of Global Health Affairs; Regulation on the Organizational Integrity of Entities Implementing Leadership Act Programs and Activities, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 73 Fed. Reg. 20,900, April 17, 2008
Dear Secretary Leavitt,
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