Laborfest Sex Worker Screening 7/17

Greetings everyone,


6:30pm:
TALES OF THE NIGHT FAIRIES
Indian sex workers organized for their labor, human and civil rights.
Shohini Ghosh, Bengali, 2002, 72 minutes.

8:00pm:
LEGALIZATION SUCKS- DECRIMINALIZE NOW!
This documentary features two licensed Nevada brothel workers and two San
Francisco strip club workers who talk about the exploitation of legal sex
businesses. These "legalized" models have brought workers little control of
their working conditions, health or safety, compared to the
decriminalization of prostitution preferred by workers. Maxine Doogan, San
Francisco, 2005, 46 minutes.

9:30pm:
THE STORY OF THE TAIPEI LICENSED PROSTITUTES
When then Mayor, now President Chen abolishes legal
prostitution in Taipei, the prostitutes organize and stage fierce protests
with the help of womens' rights advocates in ICLE, a labor union. This video
documents the struggle as well as the changes in the lives of the
prostitutes. Formosa Television and COSWAS (Collective of Sex Workers and
Supporters), Taipei, 2000, 27 minutes

http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=1477

In Sexual Solidarity,
Maxine Doogan
Espu-ca.org