Comments on: The Amsterdam Window Protest: The War Continues https://titsandsass.com/the-amsterdam-window-protest-the-war-continues/ By and about sex workers Wed, 13 May 2015 10:16:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Matthias Lehmann https://titsandsass.com/the-amsterdam-window-protest-the-war-continues/#comment-830630 Wed, 13 May 2015 10:16:31 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=19654#comment-830630 If you wish to read translations of some of the sources mentioned in your above piece, incl. the letter from Amsterdam’s mayor Eberhard van der Laan to the justice minister to enquire if there was a way to “legalise” violating sex workers’ privacy rights, the response to that letter from PROUD’s chairwoman Mariska Majoor, and the subsequent parliamentary inquiry that followed by MP Magda Berndsen-Janssen, you can read a guest post by Frans van Rossum on Research Project Korea, which includes links to the respective translations he created. It also includes a translation of the petition which PROUD handed over to the mayor, a translation of a Dutch newspaper article about the “Occupy Brothel Initiative”, and some quite interesting footnotes, including one about the history of sex work legislation in the Netherlands, which is important to understand as context for the legal uncertainties through which sex workers are required to navigate. As Frans said in closing, “This is the stuff that history is made of.”

“Sex workers in the Netherlands are making history”
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]]> By: The Week In Links—May 8th — Tits and Sass https://titsandsass.com/the-amsterdam-window-protest-the-war-continues/#comment-820482 Fri, 08 May 2015 21:01:05 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=19654#comment-820482 […] Dutch sex worker union PROUD has filed a lawsuit against the city of Amsterdam after the city closed the window sex workers’ work spaces; they’re demanding that the work spaces stay open and that the workers be compensated for each day they can’t work. T&S covered the Amsterdam Window Protest here. […]

]]> By: Understanding Prohibitionists - Marijke Vonk https://titsandsass.com/the-amsterdam-window-protest-the-war-continues/#comment-816811 Thu, 07 May 2015 06:34:49 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=19654#comment-816811 […] of people with very little protection, and it attracts bad guys like vulchers to a wounded animal. Amsterdam mayor v/d Laan isn’t closing workplaces for prostitutes because he believes it helps them, he knows perfectly well he’s sacrificing […]

]]> By: Mark van der Beer https://titsandsass.com/the-amsterdam-window-protest-the-war-continues/#comment-807634 Sun, 03 May 2015 02:46:43 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=19654#comment-807634 The war indeed isn’t over yet, in fact, last Friday sex workers occupied three of the eighteen window brothels that were closed down that day, protesting against the closures of these windows brothels. PROUD has also filled a court case the same for the sex workers against the mayor of Amsterdam, demanding to re-open the window brothels and for the sex workers to be compensated for each day they can’t work in these brothels.

You can read more about it on the blog of Felicia Anna here: http://behindtheredlightdistrict.blogspot.nl/2015/05/prostitutes-occupy-closed-window.html

The war indeed isn’t over, like my fiance Felicia Anna stated correctly, and Hella Dee quoted. In fact, the war has just begun. I foresee much more of a struggle for politicians and especially the mayor of Amsterdam in the future in their crusade against sex work.

]]> By: #Amsterdam #WindowProtest: i/le sex workers in lotta contro la chiusura delle vetrine! – Al di là del Buco https://titsandsass.com/the-amsterdam-window-protest-the-war-continues/#comment-804127 Fri, 01 May 2015 07:07:22 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=19654#comment-804127 […] un pezzo scritto da Hella Dee per il titsandsass.com. QUI il pezzo in lingua in inglese e in basso la traduzione in italiano fatta da Francesco (grazie!). […]

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