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. First Ever International Day of No Prostitution
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>Announcing
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>The First Ever International Day of No Prostitution
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>We are calling for an International Day of No Prostitution to take place
>on October 5th, 2002 and every October 5th thereafter.
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>This is one day out of the year when no one shall buy or sell any human
>beings or other animals for sexual gratification. We specifically call
>on men to stop buying children and women, particularly girls.
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>This day is part of a much larger struggle for an end to oppression and
>violence based on gender, race and ethnicity, class, religion,
>disability, age, size, sexual orientation, species, and nationality. All
>oppression must be fought in order to bring about the complete cessation
>of prostitution. Prostitution must be stopped because while it
>continues, there is no possibility for a world that is not based on
>abuses of power.
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>A day of no prostitution includes no pornography, phone sex, mail order
>bride services, trafficking, stripping, sex tours, bestiality, and
>prostitution occurring in massage parlors, on the street, in hotels or
>anywhere else.
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>This is a call to those who control the prostitution industry, or the
>men who buy and sell women and children, particularly girls, and
>animals. This is not a call to those used in prostitution. For those who
>argue that by calling for a day of no prostitution we are depriving
>children and women of money they need to survive, we call on them to
>give prostituted children and women money without making them suck dick.
>If men were really concerned about their impact on women and young
>people they would
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>A) not buy or sell others for sex
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>B) give children and women the money they would have given to them or
>their pimps without making children and women submit sexually
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>C) organize to stop prostitution
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>D) create ways for children, women, and animals to escape systems of
>prostitution.
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>We want to make particularly clear that we do not share the beliefs of
>lawmakers, law enforcement, and those who think prostitutes are to blame
>for the existence of prostitution. The purpose of this day is not to put
>the burden on those used in prostitution to make prostitution stop, or
>to take risks on this or any day which may result in economic
>deprivation, violence, or death. Prostitution will stop when the men who
>traffic in human and animal lives stop making money and getting off on
>sexual exploitation.
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>A Call To Action
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>We are calling on men to stop using prostituted girls, boys, women and
>animals by coming to the realization that buying any living being for
>sex is not their ⌠right.■
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>We are calling on all anti-rape, youth, anti-racist and
>anti-globalization organizations, animal rights, and all social justice
>advocates, activists and organizations to include prostitution and
>pornography in their work against violence and murder of children, women
>and animals.
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>We are calling on Take Back The Night rallies to take up prostitution
>and pornography as violence against children, women, and animals.
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>We are calling on others to fight for economic, social, and legal
>resources for those in and escaping prostitution, and to organize
>creative, confrontational protests, girlcotts, speakers, and panels
>against prostitution year round, but especially on October 5th.
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>A toolkit, further political analysis, and other pages will be posted
>soon. Please contact Escape at escape@escapeprostitution.com if you wish
>to participate in organizing for the International Day of No
>Prostitution. If you simply want more information please check back for
>new pages.
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>This page, and the call for an International Day of No Prostitution, is
>the result of a collaboration between Escape and feminists in the San
>Francisco Bay area.
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>This page is available at www.escapeprostitution.com
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