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DESCRIPTION:Sex workers and supporters come together to discuss the way 
 anti-trafficking campaigns and arrests impact us and ways to move forward 
 to fight abuse on our own terms. \n\nAn evening of short movies and 
 discussion for sex workers and allies who are in the cross hairs of 
 anti-trafficking campaigns. Our community includes people who identify as 
 sex workers and as trafficked persons or survivors. We are students, social 
 workers, attorneys, journalists, filmmakers, artists, academics as well as 
 sex workers trying to make sense of this new war against us.\n\nThis 
 evening we will hear from diverse panelists who are committed to working 
 together to support sex workers rights and challenge prostitution 
 abolitionism, 'end-demand' strategies and the hypocrisies of the rescue 
 industry.\n\nSpeakers include representatives from Cal-Pep, Red Light Legal 
 and more.\n\nVideos screened tell the stories of  the ways sex workers face 
 repression, state abuse and state violence as a result of anti-trafficking 
 policies.\n\nBecky’s Journey by anthropologist Sine Plambech is a 
 narrative about  migration, sex work and human trafficking seen from the 
 perspective of Becky, offering  a fascinating take on migration for the 
 purposes of sex work that is never heard in the mainstream press.\n\nBeing 
 a Refugee is Hard by Muchaneta with SWEAT from South presents widowed 
 Muchaneta, a refugee of the economy of her home country, where working as a 
 secretary she still cannot earn enough to feed her children. She migrates 
 to South Africa in hardship and learns how to make ends meet.\n\nUnraveling 
 by Anne Elizabeth Moore & Melissa Mendes is an illustrated story tracing 
 the relationships between anti-trafficking efforts and the garment 
 industry: “The threads that connect the sex industry to the garment 
 industry are many... But if you look closely you can figure out how to 
 unravel them.” 
 http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25657-unraveling-anti-trafficking-ngos-and-the-garment-industry 
   \n\nNew clips from a work-in progress focus on anti-trafficking campaigns 
 in Cambodia Somaly Mam and police abuse. Collateral Damage: Sex Workers & 
 The Anti-Trafficking Campaigns demonstrates how anti-trafficking is a 
 sacred cow, but behind this humanitarian concern is a century-old movement 
 that historically reflects xenophobia and prostitution abolitionism. 
 \n\nDoin’ It For Themselves: the Hunt Sisters by Feminist Whore is an 
 extremely informative rant about two sisters, female scions of the  Hunt 
 family. “Helen and Swanee Hunt have conservative Christian values, and 
 more money than any ten million of us will earn in our little lifetimes, 
 all of which they use to advance their agenda regarding the silencing and 
 general disenfranchisement of sex workers. Spoiler alert!!  The revolution 
 will NEVER be funded through the many foundations these two own," explains 
 Festival Curator Laure McElroy.\n\nMovies will be screened from 7- 7:45, 
 followed by presentations, emphasizing community discussion. We come 
 together to learn (and teach) about anti-trafficking issues from the 
 perspective of sex worker rights.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/05/01/18771748.php
SUMMARY:Sex Work ≠ (Is Not) Trafficking
LOCATION:Omni Commons 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/05/01/18771748.php
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