In the spirit of remembrance and healing, the Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP-USA) and SWOP chapters from around the United States wish to join sex worker allies and advocates from around the world in recognizing December 17, the International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers. As we approach this day, we seek to come together to remember those who we have lost this year, and renew our commitment in the on-going struggle for empowerment, visibility, and rights for all sex workers.
SWOP-MI & SW4C will be organizing at Hart Plaza, Dec 17 @ Noon. ALL friends and allies are welcome to join us! We will be meeting for breakfast at 10am, all are welcome to join us for that as well!This Toledoan is hoping we meet at the Star Diner (Legs & Eggs) in Allen Park but I'm only 1 vote
December 17th is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. This event was created to call attention to hate crimes committed against sex workers all over the globe. Originally thought of by Dr. Annie Sprinkle and started by the Sex Workers Outreach Project USA as a memorial and vigil for the victims of the Green River Killer in Seattle Washington. International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers has empowered workers from over cities around the world to come together and organize against discrimination and remember victims of violence. During the week of December 17th, sex worker rights organizations will be staging actions and vigils to raise awareness about violence that is commonly committed against sex workers. The assault, battery, rape and murder of sex workers must end. Existing laws prevent sex workers from reporting violence. The stigma and discrimination that is perpetuated by the prohibitionist laws has made violence against us acceptable. Please join with sex workers around the world and stand against criminalization and violence committed against prostitutes.
GREEN RIVER CRY
By Daisy Anarchy
Sister
What does our flesh
mean to them ?
Sister
What do our lives mean to them ?
Sister
As your corpse is lowered in to a grave
your baby daughter cries
for the comfort of your arms
your baby daughter cries
for her mother's milk.
But Sister
What does our flesh
mean to them ?
What do our lives
mean to them ?
Sister
As your corpse is lowered in to a grave
your mother cries
to hold her baby in her arms again
your mother cries
to hear her daughter's voice again.
Our flesh
Our lives
Our souls
Our dreams
What do we
mean to them?
Sister
As your body is lowered in to a grave
I remember
the way you danced
the way you laughed
the way you sang
the way you moved
the touch of your caring hand
upon my tired shoulder.
What do our dreams
what do our souls
our lives
our flesh
mean to them ?
They are the men
with money to spend.
What's a lot to us
is a pittance to them.
Sister
I remember your head held high
Your soul flaming with rebellion
as you worked the Strip
in the cold night
in front of Boeing.
How much milk for your baby daughter
how many gas and electricity bills
how many phone bills
could you pay
with the millions and millions
they spend on one weapons system ?
And I blame the Green River Murders also on you,
Boeing
The hands that build the bombs
are already covered with our blood
As my sisters face murderers on the streets
because they need the money
and their children cry hungry.
What does it mean
When there is not enough to go around?
It means that someone
has stolen it all.
Me and my sisters
are facing the murderers
to take back
what is ours.
To take our dreams back
To reclaim the hopes of our souls
To reclaim the dignity and beauty
of our flesh.
Facing the murderers
with our lives
on the line.
The cops have spent over 10 million dollars
fucking around pretending to care
about stopping the Green River Murders
10 million dollars fucking around
playing at being heroes
While my sisters are still on the streets
turning $20 tricks
to have a place to sleep for the night
Facing the murderers
square in the eye.
And how much money do the pigs spend in one night
chasing
harassing
arresting
jailing whores?
My sisters turning 20 and 50 dollar tricks
to be able to buy groceries
for themselves and their families.
How much money do they spend
keeping us in jail
while our children still go hungry ?
Cops:
You have long been covered with our blood
from head to toe.
Our souls
Our dreams
Our lives
and you only want
to eat our flesh.
When I was 17
working the street
I learned who vice cops are.
As sister after sister
is murdered
and Green River
runs redder and redder with our blood
I have not forgotten
who vice cops are.
Frank Adamson
I am looking you square in the eye...
This whore
is here fighting
for peace
and love
and life
and Truth.
Officer Friendly my ass
you pigs are murderers
And in my sisters' fight
for peace
and love
and life
the Truth shall be revealed
for all the world to see.
Like a volcano erupting
Our rage and tender love
and the Truths we know
are gonna shake the State.
With the fire of the truth
With the fire of our rage
With the fire of our love
We are going to melt their systems of death-
missile systems
police departments
their systematic sexism
their systematic racism
their Order-
killing us slowly with minimum wage
or killing us quickly
with bloody violence.
When I was fifteen
I saw Mt. Saint Helens erupt.
Honey, that beauty was angry
and so am I.
Green River Murderer
I want to live!
Cops
Politicians
Warmakers:
Us whores
are fighting back
Fighting back for peace
and life and love and truth
So that some day
our little children
can play and laugh and dance and sing
in the sunshine
on the banks of the Green River
well-fed and safe-
Without having to see
their mommie's mutilated corpses
floating
downstream.
