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Nominate Your Favorite Canadian Adult Entertainment Industry Workers for TNT People's Choice Awards 2012
For Immediate Release
Nominate Your Favourite Canadian Adult Entertainment Industry Workers
CANADA: Canadian Dominatrix Mz. Scream is spreading her slaves legs, er…we mean…spreading the word that NakedTruth.ca is taking nominations starting October 15, 2011 until December 31, 2011 for The Naked Truth’s 2012 People’s Choice Adult Entertainment Awards.
The inaugural awards celebration was held in Vancouver for the last two years to give a big “pat-on-the back” for Canada's adult industry workers, in an effort to bring recognition and appreciation to many folks who do not always get the acknowledgement they deserve.
“I wanted to bring our community together under one roof and show the world the incredible people who make up our industry,” says Annie Temple who founded the awards.
To nominate your favourite, you can log onto Nakedtruth.ca to access your free membership, and the specific nomination instructions are specified within the forum. Voting will take place in January 2012 until April 15, 2012. Categories include “people's favourites” from these industries; Adult Film and Photo, BDSM and Fetish, Exotic Dance, Service Providers in the Massage and Escort Industry, Webcam and Phone Sex, Industry CoWorkers, Adult Media, Advocates and Support Workers, Adult Entertainment Supplies, and even favourite Clients.
The awards celebration will take place on June 9, 2012 and the details will be announced at a later date. For more information go to www.nakedtruth.ca or email Mz. Scream at mzscream@nakedtruth.ca.
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Sex workers launch Ombudsman complaint against federal government
“We are done with government indifference to violence against sex workers”
VANCOUVER, February 24, 2011 — Vancouver sex worker groups and supporters have launched a complaint to the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime against the federal government’s decision to exclude sex workers from the national strategy on missing and murdered women.
“Unbelievably, thirteen Canadian governments – federal, provincial and territorial –totally ignored violence against sex workers in the national strategy,” says Susan Davis, Coordinator of the BC Coalition of Experiential Communities.”
Justice Ministers' Strategy Ignores Violence Against Sex Workers
Open letter calls for action from Canada’s governments
VANCOUVER, December 17, 2010 —On the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, sex worker groups and supporters have issued an open letter calling on Canada’s Justice Ministers to include Canadian sex workers in their national strategy on missing and murdered women.
“We are completely stunned that our governments have ignored violence against sex workers in their long-awaited national strategy,” says Susan Davis, Coordinator of the BC Coalition of Experiential Communities.”
BC Sex Workers Win Access to Justice
Joint Press Release from FIRST and the BC Coalition of Experiential Communities
October 12, 2010
BC Court of Appeal Gives Public Interest Standing to
Sex Workers to Challenge Prostitution Laws
VANCOUVER– The BC Court of Appeal has agreed that a group of Vancouver sex workers and an individual former sex worker deserve public interest standing, which allows them to proceed with their constitutional challenge to Canada’s prostitution laws.
FIRST denounces arrests of DTES violence against women activists
VANCOUVER — FIRST was shocked to learn that Vancouver police arrested three violence against women activists attempting to deliver a letter to the city’s chief of police that called for a thorough investigation into the death of Ashley Machisknic, a 22-year old Indigenous woman from Saskatchewan. Ashley was found brutally murdered behind the Regent hotel in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) in mid-September.
“After the near unfathomable bungling of the VPD/RCMP investigation of the Missing Women case, this VPD action is truly beyond belief,” said FIRST spokesperson, Esther Shannon.
Ontario Court Strikes Down Prostitution Laws
NATIONAL – Sex workers across Canada are celebrating the Ontario Superior Court’s decision today, which struck down Canada’s prostitution laws. The Court held that the bawdy house law, the communication law and the law that prohibits living on the avails are unconstitutional because they violate sex workers’ rights to safety, life, liberty and freedom of expression.
The 1st FIRST Sex Worker Video Project is complete!
A Public Service Announcement from FIRST, celebrating the strength and diversity of sex workers.
The Video below is housed at http://firstcoalition.blip.tv/
Thank you so much to everyone who was involved in this project from start to finish. We can't wait to make more!
New Bawdy-House Sentencing Regulations Will Harm and Stigmatize Sex Workers
Media Release August 10, 2010
New Bawdy-House Sentencing Regulations
Will Harm and Stigmatize Sex Workers
VANCOUVER – The Conservative government has introduced troubling new Criminal Code regulations that reclassify a number of existing offences as “serious offences” – indictable offenses for which the maximum punishment is imprisonment for five years or more. But sex worker advocacy groups say there is no rational basis for making it a serious offence to keep a bawdy house, and that the move goes against all evidence and expert advice.
Will the Court Protect Sex Workers?
Charter challenge to criminalization of sex work must go forward January 21, 2010
VANCOUVER - Lawyers representing Vancouver sex workers will appear in the BC Court of Appeal today, continuing efforts by sex workers to abolish Canada's prostitution laws with a Charter challenge.
"Today is critical. The Court will decide whether the Charter challenge can continue, but as important, the Court will decide whether marginalized people actually do have access to justice in our country," said FIRST spokesperson Esther Shannon.