No D.C. ballot measure to decriminalize sex work after local activists object
2020-03-05
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A National Advocacy group for sex workers is withdrawing from the battle to decriminalise sex wor in the city. They have basically fallen out with local sex work activists. Local sex activists accuse the national group of being white and cisgender.
Decriminalize Sex Work was offering $100,000 to a local DC group to spearhead an initiative in 2022 .....
A War Over Sex Work is Raging Inside The Nation’s Biggest Feminist Group
2020-02-10
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A war is raging inside Americas largest Feminist group about sex work. The leadership of T he National Organisation for Women (NOW) has made in plain they do not support decriminalization of sex work. Toni Van Pelt, the 72-year-old leader came out against the Washington DC bill. This shocked the local chapter headed by Monica Weeks who never opposed decriminalization and had been worki .....