Dear All,
I hope this would not be considered an abuse of this list, but I thought it may be relevant to some following on from various conversations on the list relating to the urban cleansing of the city of London in the shadow of the Olympics.
Police have been targetting, arresting and imposing banning orders on sex workers working in the three Olympic boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and Hackney. Women have been removed from safe working premises and many have been forced to work on the streets where their chances of facing violence are considerably higher. x:talk is calling for a moratorium on sex worker arrests for the duration of the Olympics.
They are asking for support by signing an open letter to Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London. The letter is being hand delivered tomorrow, so it would be great if people could sign as soon as possible.
There is a link here, please leave your affiliation as well as your name. Please also ask relevant academic groups, activist organisations and others to sign up: http://www.moratorium2012.org/open-letter/petition/
Kate
Dr Kate Hardy
Lecturer
Leeds University Business School
Maurice Keyworth Building
University of Leeds
Leeds
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