Posted in Hypocrisy, Sex Work, Trafficking, bound not gagged, tagged eliot spitzer, Hypocrisy, Media, Politicians, prostitution, Sex Work, Sex Workers Rights on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Want to know what sex workers have to say about the Spitzer “scandal”?
Get thee self over to www.boundnotgagged.com!
Posted in Hypocrisy, Politics, Trafficking, tagged Coerced Labor, Human Rights, Iraq, Labor Rights, Sex Work, United States on January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
New evidence reveals previously unreported instances of appalling living conditions, abuse and coerced labor in the building of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
Soon after the State Department awarded a $592 million building contract to First Kuwaiti General Trading and Contracting in July 2005, thousands of low-paid migrant workers recruited from South Asia, the Philippines and [...]
Posted in Sex Work, Trafficking, bound not gagged, tagged New York, Poverty, prostitution, Sex Workers Project, Slavery, Urban Justice Center on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
The Sex Workers Project (SWP) had a letter published in The San Francisco Chronicle that is a must read!
Don’t Call It Slavery
The link above will take to www.BoundNotGagged.com, where you can read what sex workers, and their allies, have to say about the letter.
A thousand kisses for the SWP!
Posted in Sex Work, Trafficking, tagged Bush Administration, FBI, Legal System, prostitution, Sex at the Margins on November 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Proposal could turn FBI into a vice squad
The battle against trafficking is a major priority for the Bush administration, which is attacking the problem with 10 federal agencies reporting to a Cabinet-level task force chaired by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. But there has been heated debate - even among the dozens of organizations [...]
Posted in Sex, Sex Work, Trafficking, prostitution, tagged Labor Rights, Migrant, Migrant Workers, Migration, Rescue Industry, Sex at the Margins, Sex Workers Rights, Susie Bright on October 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Susie Bright discusses Laura Agustin’s latest book, Sex at the Margins
The book, recent–and surprising–trafficking reports, and the concept of the “rescue industry” are all touched on here, along with an interview of the author herself.
If you’ve EVER read a story about trafficking, “immigration problems,” and felt like you didn’t know where to turn, this [...]
Posted in Hypocrisy, Sex Work, Trafficking, tagged Coerced Labor. Flawed Research, Sex Workers Rights on September 24, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m catching up on my internet life after a stressful weekend spent away from a computer. First, and most importantly, I got this link in my inbox this morning: Human trafficking outrages, with little evidence. I am just now reading the complete piece, and then I’m off to check the activity on BoundNotGagged.com, where their [...]
