May Day 2010
London May Day march & rally in Trafalgar Sq.
This year one of the main speakers at the rally is Thierry Schaffauser - President of the IUSW / GMB Branch. Saturday May 1 - assemble 11:30am - Clerkenwell Green EC1 - the march will be led by GMB Sex Workers & Adult Entertainment Branch / [...]
We will not back down until we are given justice!
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Prostitutes-in-Greece-demand-apf-782716756.html?x=0&.v=2
Dozens of prostitutes, most using headscarves or hoods to hide their faces, demonstrated in central Athens Wednesday, demanding working licenses for brothels across Greece.
Prostitution is legal in Greece, and sex workers have personal permits to exercise their profession. But they can only do that by walking the streets, not using brothels. As a result, [...]
Solidarity with Yarl’s Wood Women on hunger strike
London Detainee Solidarity Network has called a picket of Serco’s London office (Serco manage Yarl’s Wood on behalf of UK Border Agency) in support of the Yarl’s Wood women hunger strikers.
Friday 12th February 2.30pm
Serco’s offices
18-22 Hand Court (off High Holborn),
London, WC1V 6JF.
Please distribute.
Red Umbrella Contingent on Reclaim the Night March
Feminist Fightback and x:talk would like to carry on the tradition of marching together - as feminists and sex workers - on the annual Reclaim The Night March.
Our message will be ‘feminists need sex workers, just as sex workers need feminism’.
The Reclaim the Night March is Saturday 21st November - 6pm at [...]
Demonstration Against the Policing and Crime Bill
:: urgent: to be distributed to all networks and allies::
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SEX WORKERS NEED SAFETY AND RIGHTS, NOT CRIMINALISATION
Demonstration Against the Policing and Crime Bill
12-2pm, Tuesday 3 November, Parliament Square
Bring placards and red umbrella’s and join the demonstration to [...]
Colonised yesterday; exploited today; tomorrow, regularised
This article first appeared on the French New Anticapitalist Party’s website on 22 October.
Translated for Workers’ Liberty by Ed Maltby.
A new wave of undocumented migrant workers’ strikes, bigger than that of April 2008, began on the 12th of October. Strikers are determined to get papers for all. To win that, solidarity from all workers is [...]
Sex Workers Say ‘No To Criminalisation’
:: FRANÇAIS ::
On 31 March 2009, sex workers and our allies held a successful SPEAK OUT at the Eros Fountain, Piccadilly Circus against criminalisation and for labour rights for everyone who works in the sex industry. At 2.30pm, we took over one of the streets, bringing traffic to a standstill at Piccadilly Circus and unveiled [...]
The Independent: Jacqui Smith is making prostitution less safe
:: the original article can be found here ::
The Independent
by Sophie Morris
Jacqui Smith is making prostitution less safe
Ironically, she seems not to understand the sex industry
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
While the police force was getting its knickers in a twist over the expected G20 protests, an altogether more serene demonstration took place in central London yesterday. [...]
Morning Star: Sex workers rally against new Crime Bill
:: the original article can be found here
by Paul Haste in central London
Tuesday 31 March 2009
SEX workers smothered London’s Piccadilly Circus in red umbrellas on Tuesday
to protest against the criminalisation of their profession.
Scores of workers from the nearby Soho district gathered at the Eros statue in
the heart of the capital, stopping traffic to highlight [...]
Migrant Workers Take Action in Airport
As a part of the ongoing cleaners’ campaign in Holland on Thursday about 120 migrant workers did a civil disobedience at Schiphol airport’s main plaza (a sit-in).
They shouted for respect and demanded back pay, full time for all the temporary (agency) workers there, and paid transportation. There was a lot of press due to the [...]