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Some related news: In San Francisco, ESPLER (Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational and Research, http://esplerp.org/ http://esplerp.org/, https://twitter.
by escortingadvice 12y ago
Some related news:
In San Francisco, ESPLER (Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational and Research, http://esplerp.org/ http://esplerp.org/, https://twitter.com/esplerp https://twitter.com/esplerp) filed suit yesterday against several Bay Area DAs and the California Attorney General, in an attempt to get the primary CA law against prostitution overturned on constutitional grounds. This is on a similar basis
Article about this on VICE: http://www.vice.com/read/a-new-lawsuit-aims-to-decriminalize-prostitution-in-california-304 http://www.vice.com/read/a-new-lawsuit-aims-to-decriminalize...
Another article: http://48hills.org/2015/03/03/lawsuit-seeks-to-throw-out-laws-against-sex-work/ http://48hills.org/2015/03/03/lawsuit-seeks-to-throw-out-law...
More details: https://twitter.com/EscortingAdvice/status/573163832505331712 https://twitter.com/EscortingAdvice/status/57316383250533171...
Summary and full text of the brief: http://esplerp.org/here-is-the-brief/ http://esplerp.org/here-is-the-brief/
Legal thoughts from the lead lawyer: https://twitter.com/GillSperlein/status/573268807629721600 https://twitter.com/GillSperlein/status/573268807629721600
If you support this effort, you can help fund the legal fees here: http://www.gofundme.com/liberateliberate http://www.gofundme.com/liberateliberate
There's also a follow-up article from Reason that relates the shutdown of MyRedBook to the shutdown of Silk Road, and how both are a continuing war on citizen safety:
Reason article: http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/03/governent-war-on-online-vice-purchasing http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/03/governent-war-on-online-vi...
Finally, a related article from VICE on why there's no Uber for sex work. Essentially, at least in the US, decriminalization needs to happen first.
VICE article: http://www.vice.com/read/why-theres-no-uber-for-sex-work-304?utm_source=vicetwitterus http://www.vice.com/read/why-theres-no-uber-for-sex-work-304...