We Already Have a Law Against Human Trafficking
What I don’t buy is representing a law against prostitution as a law against human trafficking.
Rhode Island and Nevada
Today’s ProJo has an excellent article by Lynn Arditi that summarizes the legal decisions that leave Rhode Island without a law against indoor prostitution. Also, the web version of the article has a sidebar that links to copies of the bills in question, and the Rhode Island Coalition Against Human Trafficking fact sheet and other [...]
Happy Endings Radio
Tara Hurley, director of the documentary ‘Happy Endings’ will be interviewed on the Helen Glover show today, May 26 at 9am. You can find Helen Glover on your dial at AM 920.
Happy Endings at the Columbus
We longtime Rhode Islanders navigate by where Almacs used to be. We know what the Columbus used to be.
Victimless Crime
There’s a kind of ‘Pretty Woman’ myth that selling sex is just fine as long as you have a ‘respectable’ life to retreat back into when you get tired of it. But doing things for money that you wouldn’t admit to your peers is liable to come back and haunt you.
Human Trafficking–Back to the ‘Loophole’
Who will prosecute traffickers if they prey on immigrants who fear the police? Who will advocate for these people in our angry, anti-immigrant political climate?
ProJo Survey on Prostitution Law
I say, let’s have our police officers drive on by and ticket all the cars. Parking is never really legal in Providence, you just hope they don’t notice you.
Big Anti-Trafficking Tent
I didn’t want to be disruptive, or even a speed bump in the Coalition Against Human Trafficking. But I continually felt that the goal we started with was being changed. It was less a big tent than a big bus, being steered down a different road.
Anti-Trafficking vs Anti-Prostitution
I think that just as selling a kidney to pay the mortgage is something no one should ever have to contemplate; renting out your body is not a benign, harmless way to make a living. Prostitution hurts people and communities.
Why I Wasn’t at the Rally Against Human Trafficking
I continue to have serious concerns about anti-prostitution bills and how the laws would be enforced if passed.
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