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NewsWhore
08-25-2006, 04:50 AM
I've spent the last week immersed again in all these updates coming in from all over, on the role of sex workers at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto -- so, straight from my overloaded browser tabs to you, along with a bonus track: Claire Thiboutot, executive director of Montreal's stellar sex worker organization, Stella (http://www.chezstella.org/stella/?q=en/sida2006&PHPSESSID=663a99a249142089f095776732f6c1ae), on Democracy Now (http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl?issue=20060817)!
<ul>"Sex Worker Rights: Time to Deliver!" (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060818/aids_feature_060818/20060818/), on Stella and the goings-on at the sex workers' Stiletto Lounge in the conference's Global Village, from Canadian CTV
This positive piece pairs super cute, super pink photos of a performance on safer sex (http://www.todayonline.com/articles/136805.asp) with right-on links between decriminalization and risk prevention.
Rachel Wotton reports in for the Scarlet Alliance (http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/events/2006/toronto06), with a recap of sex worker actions throughout the conference (including unfurling a banner in protest during Bill Gates' speech).
So guess which former US president at the conference said:

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