Comments on: The Birth of a Movement

By: Call to Action: Reclaim Pride From the 1% #OccuPride | Occupy Portland News

Call to Action: Reclaim Pride From the 1% #OccuPride | Occupy Portland News — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:47:56 +0000

[...] mutual aid and allied themselves with the Black Panthers and the Young Lords. We pay homage to the sex worker activists who jump-started a movement against State-enforced morality and for human rights by occupying [...]

By: Call to Action: Reclaim Pride From the 1% #OccuPride | OccuWorld

Call to Action: Reclaim Pride From the 1% #OccuPride | OccuWorld — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 07:11:09 +0000

By: Sailor Barsoom

Sailor Barsoom — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:15:42 +0000

It would help if truck drivers, nurses, factory workers, accountants, plumbers, teachers, bricklayers, data entry clerks, ditch diggers, medical records coders, etc. could see that sex workers are workers. Even a very successful call girl is just somebody with a really good job. She may have short, flexible hours with good pay, but she’s still as much a part of “the 99%” as any of those folks out there getting pepper sprayed by NYPD.

By: Brian Og Brehon (@LawandObscenity)

Brian Og Brehon (@LawandObscenity) — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 01:58:27 +0000

This is badly needed all over again, it’s almost disappointing to read that there was such anger and such uproar but in 37 years, society seems to still be moving in the same circles of criminalisation over acceptance and compassion.

France’s National Assembly has given it’s commitment to pursuing the Swedish model these days. The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same. It’s just attacking these strong, resilient yet harassed women from another angle and attacking a possibly more vulnerable link in the chain – the clients who could end up losing their own livelihoods and families were there private life to be exposed.

It almost angers me that society is unable to deal respectfully and rationally with the whole issue of sex work without jumping to extremes of either legalised over-regulation or complete outright criminalisation.

By: pws (@pws4)

pws (@pws4) — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 22:58:10 +0000

Nowadays it’s also an excuse to take away your car. Which is a big hardship for most people:

http://www.criminaldefenseattorneytampa.com/PracticeAreas/AssetSeizureAssetForfeiture.aspx

“Local governments, such as the City of Tampa, also have their own rules allowing forfeiture. The City of Tampa attempts forfeiture actions pursuant to Tampa’s Code of Ordinances, Section 14-27, which governs the forfeiture of vehicle used to facilitate prostitution and drug related crimes.”

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:40:08 +0000

Ha! “Venerable system” is a great pun in this context.

By: laida

laida — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:15:17 +0000

giscard d estaing was the president of france in 1975,the party was the centre right one.every one think of him as a great politician,what a fucking bastard.

By: Comixchik

Comixchik — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:38:06 +0000

>and the French tax authorities made ridiculous estimates of the number of clients each protesting worker saw, then presented them with tax bills exceeding their entire incomes.

This still goes on, in the USA. As does the threats by cops to take away children.