Event Archive
Anti-Oppression/Anti-Racism Activism training session
Open to all FIRST members. Please contact Esther for more information (emls@shaw.ca)
International Sex Workers Rights Day on March 3 2010
How Many Hats Do you Wear?
In Support of The International Sex Workers Rights Day
Join us over lunch, hang up your hat, and veiw stories of work in the sex trade
March 3, 2010, 12:00-1:00pm
Th Glenbow Museum ConocoPhillipsTheater
130-9th ave SE
Free Event
www.shiftcalgary.org or 403-237-8171
Sex Workers, Clients and the Law: A FIRST Public Forum
One proposed "solution" to Canada's antiquated and oppressive
prostitution laws is to make it illegal to purchase sex, but legal to
sell it. However, this model is failing in Sweden, the country that
pioneered it. Sweden's law was expected to reduce the number of sex
workers in that country, but very few sex workers have stopped working.
While many simply adjusted to the law by choosing to work indoors, some
were forced to work underground in isolation, where they are far more
vulnerable to violence and abuse.
As in Sweden, Canada’s
current prostitution law robs sex workers of their livelihood, and
deprives them of the right to control their work environment and create
safe and empowering working conditions.
Why Decriminalize Sex Work? A FIRST Public Forum
Please check out the webcast of our first Public Forum. It was held June 8, 2008 and featured presentations by Tamara O'Doherty (Simon Fraser University), Dr. Frances Shaver (Concordia University), Dr. Kate Shannon (UBC), Shari Allinott (Sex Workers United Against Violence), Susan Davis (BC Coalition of Experiential Communities) and Karen Mirsky (Pivot).