Events

Candlelit Vigil walk to end violence against sex workers

Thursday 15th December 2011
6:00pm to 9:00pm

Assemble 6pm at Eros statue, Piccadilly Circus

Meeting at 7pm, Congress House, Great Russell Street

At the occasion of the international day to end violence against sex workers, a candle vigil walk through Soho is organised to remember our colleagues who were murdered or victims of violence. The walk will start from Piccadilly circus and end in Congress House, Tottenham Court Road. There will be free drinks offered with speeches from sex worker activists and trade unions people as well as a presentation about sex workers’ unionisation and a short movie about Sex Worker Open University 2011.

The theme of the event is “unionisation as a means to stop violence”

Speakers will include:
GMB branch I50 (sex workers)
English collective of Prostitutes
Ava Caradona, X-Talk
Member of STRASS, french union of sex workers
Short movie from Sex Worker Open University 2011
SERTUC women rights committee
John McDonnell MP
and a presentation by Dr Kate Hardy about sex workers’ unionisation in Argentina.