SAVE THE DATE!
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The Young Women's Empowerment Project
invites you to celebrate our resistance and resilience
on Thursday, December 17, 2009
7 o'clock to 10 o'clock
Walton Residence
70 East Walton
Chicago, IL

Hors d'oeuvres, wine, DJs
Dress to impress in all black & white
Special toast at 8 PM
Tickets: $25 at the door, $20 in advance
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Admission FREE for those who become a monthly sustainer.

We are inviting you to the release of our research study. This research was created by girls, collected, analyzed and written by girls in the sex trade and street economy. Our study is called

"Girls do what they have to do to survive: Illuminating Methods used by Girls in the Sex Trade and Street Economy to Fight Back and Heal

A Participatory Action Research Study of Resilience and Resistance"
After 18 months of research and sorting through hundreds of responses, we cannot wait to share this powerful and life saving information with you.

We titled this show Survival of the artist: Resisting Recession Oppression and Depression because its about the economy of our survival. to us this means its about the math of our emotions- how things add up in our lives and how they add up in our hearts.

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Siddharth Dube and Joanne Csete
guardian.co.uk,
Sunday August 3 2008

With President Bush's term coming to a close and a search underway for a new chief for the UNAids secretariat, the 15,000 experts and activists gathered in Mexico City for the 17th International Aids Conference can begin to repair the deadly damage inflicted by the Bush administration's reactionary take on HIV prevention and the UN's culpable failure to challenge it.

Read more here : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/03/aids.unitednations?g...

Don’t call it slavery

Editor - Regarding Joel Brinkley’s “Enslaved, by definition,” Jan. 13:
Finally someone has noticed that the deliberate conflation of
prostitution and human trafficking hurts everyone involved.

The reality is even worse than Brinkley’s admirable column suggests.
Pending House reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
wrongly calls all prostitution “sex trafficking” and makes “inducement
into prostitution” a federal crime. It would also force the Justice
Department to stretch its resources for fighting child sexual

In the Windy City, prostitutes sleep with police more often than get arrested by them
article by Carolyn O'Hara

Another dispatch on the Freakonomics effect: University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt (Mr. Freakonomics himself) and his collaborator Sudhir Venkatesh, a Columbia University sociologist who previously worked with Levitt to measure the average wages of street-level drug dealers (pdf), have teamed up to study the economics of street prostitutes in Chicago.