Emma Grinfeld and Leonore Schick discuss young women’s issues. This week VLW are joined by members of the English Collective of Prostitutes who campaign for the decriminalisation of prostitution as well as for sex workers’ rights and safety. We’ll be talking about the real effects that the current laws in the UK have on sex […]
From Grunwick to Deliveroo: getting organised, getting unionised: Forty years ago Asian women at Grunwick led a strike for basic human dignity at work and for the right to join to a trade union. Today these battles are still being fought, often by migrant workers in precarious employment conditions. The experiences of those at Byron […]
Who cares about women’s work? Discussing care, Wages for Housework and valuing feminised labour, Ray is joined by Selma James, coordinator of the Global Women’s Strike and author of Sex, Race and Class, and Cari Mitchell, spokeswoman for the English Collective of Prostitutes.
Speakers highlight two recent sex worker-led struggles: the historic victory in California of sex workers winning compensation for rape, and the protests against mass raids and closures of sex workers’ flats in the red-light area of Soho, London, England. Hear how trafficking is being used as a justification for a moralistic crusade against sex workers […]
Listen here.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has criticised calls for the Government to make buying sex a crime.Tory cabinet minister Caroline Spelman claimed the UK should copy the so-called nordic model, where prostitution is legal but buying sex is not.However ECP spokeswoman Cari Mitchell said the changes in Sweden made the profession “more dangerous” […]
PEOPLE’S PARLIAMENT MEETING, HOUSE OF COMMONS. Stop the criminalisation of sex work – safety first! 26 March 2014
Following the eviction of several sex workers from a flat in Soho, London, on Tuesday, the English Collective of Prostitutes protest at the office of the landlords who enforced the eviction. One sex worker and two “maids” explain why they do their work, and how the crackdown in Soho will make their job more dangerous […]
Jasmine and Dora 4-Ever from Carol Leigh on Vimeo. In 2012 during the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, I met and interviewed Petite Jasmine with Pye Jakobsson from Rose Alliance of Sweden. Petite Jasmine was murdered one year later, a victim of the stigmatisation and legal discrimination that sex workers face. She was […]