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City From Below!

"The city has emerged in recent years as an indispensable concept for many of the struggles for social justice we are all engaged in - it's a place where theory meets practice, where the neighborhood organizes against global capitalism, where unequal divisions based on race and class can be mapped out block by block and contested, where the micropolitics of gender and sexual orientation are subject to metropolitan rearticulation, where every corner is a potential site of resistance and every vacant lot a commons to be reclaimed, and, most importantly, a place where all our diverse struggles and strategies have a chance of coming together into something greater. In cities everywhere, new social movements are coming into being, hidden histories and herstories are being uncovered, and unanticipated futures are being imagined and built - but so much of this knowledge remains, so to speak, at street-level. We need a space to gather and share our stories, our ideas and analysis, a space to come together and rethink the city from below."

THEMES TO BE CONSIDERED

* Gentrification/uneven development
* Policing and incarceration
* Tenants rights/housing as a right
* Public transit
* Urban worker's rights
* Foreclosures/financial crisis
* Public education
* Slots/casinos/regressive taxation
* Cultural gentrification
* Underground economies
* Reclaiming public space
* The right to the city
* Squatting/Contesting Property Rights
* Urban sustainability

Read more - get excited - submit proposals!

Mixed Bizness

I recently went to the Lusty Lady for the first time. $1 a minute to see real live naked ladies dance around. That's what I like to call a "North Beach Night Cap." Mix business with pleasure.

xo
'la

Sex and Candy

new blog added to the blogroll:

Sugar Daddy Blog

very interesting blog from a dating website for you if you are (or want to be):
a sugar daddy, sugar mama, or sugar baby

check it out!

xoxo
carla

Excellent Blogs

These two blogs are my new favorites:

Letters from Johns

Letters from Working Girls

It's been a while since I've posted about the sex industry. One of the main reasons I moved to California was to become more involved in sex workers' rights movements that are kicking ass here in the Bay Area.

I've been making contacts that will hopefully prove valuable. I'm just so broke now that I've had to put the social justice issues on the backburner while I try to find work to pay the bills (without working the red light).

love to love to love ya
'la

Benedetti Poems

From one of my favorite movies, El Lado Oscuro del Corazon:



Rent the movie, please.

Too $exy for PA

Woman teaches dance classes.
People in charge hate on her sexy moves.
Read on...

“This is in every way a dance studio,” Mr. Walczak said. “The only reason they don’t want her here is the township commissioners just don’t like some of the dances she teaches."...even though the dance instruction did not involve nudity and there would be no audience, the dance styles were “provocative” and involved sexual “innuendo.”

I'm really getting pumped about moving to the Bay Area and working with places like BaySwan, SWOP, and St James.

xoxo
'Lita

Sex Workers are People, Too.

Dear New York Post,

Fuck you.

Love,
Carla

International Sex Worker Rights Day! Keep Working, Ladies!

March 3rd is International Sex Worker Rights Day!

• Decriminalize prostitution!
• Stop the entrapment of prostitutes and their customers!
• Encourage and fund education and programs that keep us all physically and mentally healthy!
  

There are many events taking place from NYC - Chicago - LA - AZ - SF... Find one in your city!

In other sex work news:
Bush Calls on Congress to Pass PEPFAR Reauthorization Bill
For those of you who don't know, PEPFAR is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and it includes some exciting funding bits for abstinence only as well as condom programs... It also makes governments of the world pledge to have zero tolerance for "sex trafficking" if they want to receive this funding. Unfortunately for sex workers, ALL prostitutes are lumped into the this group and labeled "victims of sex trafficking" as opposed to women with free will to enter the trade. I have a lot of info on this at home of you'd like to read more or borrow my copy of "Taking the Pledge." Picked it up at the US Social Forum in Atlanta last summer.

Barcelona Police as Pimps to Immigrant Sex Workers, Women go on Fines Payment Strike!

xoxo
Carla