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DESCRIPTION:Stop the war on the massage parlors workers!\n\nSan Francisco Premiere Film 
 Screening of\n“H a p p y  E n d i n g s?”\n\nWhen: Wednesday, March 11, 
  from 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm\n\nSan Francisco Public Main Library Wheelchair 
 Accessible\n100 Larkin Street (at Grove) (415) 557-4400\nLatino/Hispanic 
 Community Room B\n\n This 80-minute movie will be followed by panel 
 discussion on the issues raised in the film. \n \n Hosted by Erotic Service 
 Providers Union With Special Speaker Dr. Jeff Klausner, STD Preention and 
 Control Section *\n \nRhode Island. The only state where indoor 
 prostitution is legal for over 25 years since five prostitutes sued the 
 state of Rhode Island for selective prosecution, and prostitution laws were 
 removed from the books.  Then documentaries Tara Hurley and Nick Marcoux 
 turned their cameras on the under belly of "The Renaissance City" 
 Providence, RI. \n \nWhy: to educate ourselves about the on going struggle 
 massage parlor workers face and how this oppression isn’t unique to San 
 Francisco; that unionization is the means to stop the systematic attack on 
 informal workers rights!\n \nWatch the drama unfold in Asian massage 
 parlors as Mayor David Cicilline of the City of Providence pushes to close 
 the prostitution "loophole". Follow "Heather", a Korean immigrant, over two 
 years as she manages a massage parlor while trying to become an American 
 citizen.\n\nLearn about the women who work in the spas. Hear from the 
 police who arrest them. Watch the fight for and against prostitution 
 legislation.\n\nThe film includes English subtitled interviews with Korean 
 women who work in the spas, clients who frequent the spas, Police, 
 Politicians, ACLU, news footage, local radio call in shows, "voiced" 
 reviews from internet escort review boards, local citizens, and ‘human 
 trafficking experts’.  \n \nhttp://www.happyendingsdoc.com/\n\n  *For 
 identification purposes only, does not imply policy or endorsement of the 
 San Francisco Department of Public Health.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/25/18573183.php
SUMMARY:Happy Endings? Stop the war on the massage parlors workers!
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Main Library Wheelchair Accessible\n100 Larkin Street 
 (at Grove) (415) 557-4400\nLatino/Hispanic Community Room B\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/25/18573183.php
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