Call to Action!!! ***Please circulate widely***
Who: Desiree Alliance and Friends
What: Live-blog response to Farley
When: September 17, 2007 Beginning at 3pm PST 6pm EST and going
all night
Where:
http://www.BoundNotGagged.com
Why: The mainstream media (msm) buys Farley's point of view
without any care or concern for those who actually work in the sex
industry. BNG is where sex workers go to respond to the media
blackout that distorts and ignores our voices. We will put an end to
Farley's lies!
Are
you tired of 'researchers' like Melissa Farley using lies and
manipulation to demon-ize your work? Are you sick of reading article
after article written by journalists who go for all of her sensation
without digging deeper for the REAL stories of people working in the
sex industry?
Now
is your chance to speak out! BoundNotGagged. com is hosting a live-blog
event Monday, September 17th, 2007. Articles and blogs
about Farley's recent visit to Las Vegas will be linked to the blog.
These links are also available below. This blog event is an
opportunity for sex workers and our allies to respond to the lies
and hypocrisy that have dominated this debate! Please take a few
moments this weekend to prepare a post that you can put up on the
blog, respond to other posts and make comments out in the public
arenas.
All
sex worker comments and stories are welcome! Some angles that would
be especially helpful are: critiques of Farley's research from
experts (however one defines oneself as so,) stories from workers
who have participated in Farley's research, stories of Farley's
abuse and manipulation of international allies when researching in
other countries, summaries and links to credible research,
experiences from workers in Nevada, community-based peer research
experiences, etc. Ideas for topics are below if you need a little
inspiration, but please feel free to post anything you feel is
relevant.
Current material is also on the site relating to Palfrey, Sen.
Vitter, Larry Flynt and the on-going DC-Madam circus. Please respond
and comment to some of those articles as well!
Details about how you can contribute are below!
From workers and allies we need:
1.) An RSVP (for the sake of ensuring that you have access to
the blog in
advance) Just send me a note from the email address that you
prefer to use that says "I want to blog on Monday at: (whatever
time you can do it)" email:
Stacey@DesireeAlliance.org
2.) Prepare (in advance if you can) one post that is your
personal
reflections, experiences, opinions, concerns, etc relevant or
related to any
of this news (since we've been attacked on so many levels, there
are a
number of angles to take on this!) ***Please sign your handle
name at the
bottom or top of your post. For some reason when there are
multiple
contributors, wordpress doesn't do it for us.***
3.) Hang out at the blog for a couple of hours reading and
responding to
news articles and other people's posts.
4.) Spend some time commenting on other blogs or at news sites
(links below)
5.) Link to your personal blogs from BoundNotGagged (if I figure
out how the blog roll works I will get you hooked up that way, I
will be spending the weekend figuring out how things work!)
Topics/Issues that may come up (there are tons more, just to get the
wheels
turning):
A
proper spanking for Bob Herbert
Farley's flawed research practices (especially highlighting the
way that she
lies and manipulates to gain access)
Point to reliable research (especially Barb and Kate who are the
real
experts for years living in the actual region.)
Oscar Goodman (ugh, that could go in many different directions)
Voices from women in Las Vegas (non-workers) Do you feel
degraded just
because you are a woman in LV?
Underage prostitution- the real concerns, the real solutions
Challenging the 'trafficking' connection (can a woman of legal
citizenship
be trafficked from a small town in another state into LV? Much
much more)
Are the rates of sexual assault in NV truly higher than in any
other state?
Could this be because the state exists so that people can come
and get
intoxicated, lowering their reasoning and better judgment?
Alcohol is served
24hours. It seems to me that the sw's have more clear boundaries
than most
of the vacationers who are there to party)
John Miller- Farley paid by Feds in a biased ANTI-woman
administration
Articles (all text
available here):
Nevada Coalition Against Trafficking
http://www.nevadacoalition.org/
http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7029088&nav=menu102_
9_2_3
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/story.asp?s=7038035
Bob Herbert:
http://screwsubwalls.blogspot.com/2007/09/city-as-predator.html
http://greenpagan.blogspot.com/2007/09/city-as-predator. html
http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/09/bob-herbert-city-as-predator.html
http://www.ohio.com/editorial/commentary/9579667.html
www.pasadenastarnews.com/opinions/ci_6840160
http://www.franklin now.com/blog/index.aspx?blogid=296&month=09&year=2007&entryid=42973
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891045/posts
http://www.meganedwards.com/blog/2007/09/city-as-predator.html
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/opinion/11herbert.html?th&emc=th
Barb Brents and Kate Hausbeck:
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=1560638
**When you click on link above, pay particular attention to
"Demeaning City?" (Farley) and Sex for Sale? (Barb Brents)
http://www.lvrj.com/news/9612332.html
Defending/Attacking Las Vegas and Nevada:
http://www.lasvegasgleaner.com/las_vegas_gleaner/2007/09/and-it-wont-get.html
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=7032570
http://www.lasvegas sun.com/sunbin/stories/consumer/2007/sep/09/566665623.html
www.vegaspundit.typepad.com
http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/business_ politics/
http://www.rgj.com/blogs/books/2007/09/new-book-brothels-as-concentration.html
Defending sex workers:
http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/node/379
Prostitution/ Trafficking/ Goodman/Debates:
http://www.valleyblogs.com/sebelius/2007-09-06/id_2454
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2007/09/las-vegas-mayor-threatens-to-murder-
ny.html
http://expost.blogspot.com/2007/09/consenting-adults-and-conservative.html
http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2007/Sep-07-Fri-2007/news/16519321.html
http://vicesquad.blogspot.com/
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2007/sep/08/566640489.html
http://politics.lasvegassun.com/2007/09/are-rampant-gam.html
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/debate/2007/sep/09/566621735.html
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/09/10/2003378104
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/debate/2007/sep/11/566624358.html
http://www.lasvegasgleaner.com/las_vegas_
gleaner/2007/09/the-issue-of-os.html
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/debate/2007/sep/12/566675910.html
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Desiree
Alliance is a coalition of sex workers, health professionals, social scientists,
professional sex educators and their supporting networks. We seek to
encourage a better understanding of human sexuality by promoting ethical
and unbiased research into sexual subcultures; to promote saner and more
sensible approaches to policies relating to adult sexual health and
behavior. We use this information to educate and empower the public to
have healthy and rational attitudes about sexuality.
Desiree
Alliance is a Project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a
501(c)(3) non-profit.
