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Honouring Truth - A Public Reading

Vancouver Sex Workers Honouring Vancouver's Missing and Murdered Women


12:00pm
- 5:00pm
Thursday October 25 2012

Venue: Central Library Plaza

 

Vancouver sex workers and allies host a public reading:

 

“Wouldn’t Piss on Them if They Were on Fire

How Discrimination Against Sex Workers, Drug Users and

Aboriginal Women Enabled A Serial Killer

 

Report of the Independent Counsel to the Commissioner of

the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, by Jason Gratl

 

 

The Independent Counsel’s report unflinchingly describes the lethal stereotypes and beyond callous attitudes of those individuals and institutions that profoundly failed to protect Vancouver sex workers from violence and death.

 

 

Date:               Thursday, October 25, 2012

 

Time:              Noon – 5: p.m.

 

Place:  Vancouver Public Library Plaza

 

 

 

Contact:         Kerry Porth

                        604-780-2536

 

                        Esther Shannon

                        604-254-963

 

Organizer: Kerry Porth 604-780-2536 or Esther Shannon 604-254-963

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