Last month Polk County in FL did a backpage sting and arrested over 90 men, and in the media they said that they were "launching an investigation into backpage". All the Long Island arrests were all from backpage. Mark by words that they be more attempts in shutting down BP. Tennessee recently passed a law outlawing escort ads, but since BP has tons of money they hired an attorney and a federal judge ruled this new law unconstitutional.
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/humphrey/courts-judges/ We know the Attorney General loves abusing their power, lets remember the NY madam last year that was held for 90 days on a 2 million dollars bond, once she agreed to plead guilty, she was released on 5 years probation as she was sentenced to 6 months with time served.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235931/Anna-Gristina-sentenced-months-jail-lawyer-claims-trapped-sting-undercover-cop-watched-women-sex.html There is a solution, so please keep reading.
I know I just came back to the board after being away a few years, and since I have been gone I have researched at great length, the politics behind the moral witch hunt. I have become an ACTIVIST and re launched the Rhode Island chapter of Coyote (
http://coyoteri.org/index.php) My quest began after all the girls on Gilgo Beach started showing up dead. Over a dozen murder victims and LE rather do stupid stings and they have no interest in finding the killer. I have a HUGE problem with these women being murdered.
Since 2009, I have participated in the making of American Courtesans which will be released on July 12, 2013 (www.americancourtesans.com)
I was a guest speaker at Rutgers University last November 2012, for a human sexuality class, and I educated the class about the issues surrounding sex work.
I interviewed with the directors of HartBeat Assemble in CT and helped rewrite the play " The Berlin Turnpike"
https://www.facebook.com/TheBerlinTurnpike
I also have spend over 8,000 hours researching who the anti trafficking groups are and what their REAL AGENDA, and I will be presenting at the Desiree Alliance conference in Las Vegas in July, and I will have the opportunity to listen to activists from all over the world.
The US spends 250 million each year for "PUBLIC AWARENESS about human trafficking, and of course they misinform the public. We have HATERS like Dr Melissa Farely who helped create hysteria in the media telling American that hundreds of thousands of our teens were being exploited. The truth is last year the US only had 347 victims. Now Dr Farely has complaints filed against her by her own colleagues, yet she still gets 30% of her annual funding from the justice dept. The anti trafficking groups have custody of the narrative in the media, and our voices have been censored for too long.
I also a board member with "Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational and Research Project is a Non-Profit 501-(C) 3" ESPLERP.org
The founder of ESPLERP is Maxine Doogan and she did a great job trying to get Prop K passed in San Francisco back in 2008, and they almost won with 40 something percent of the vote. Maxine also did a great job at defending Prop 35 in CA last year.
THERE IS A SOLUTION:
Coyote has now teamed up with ESPLERP. Unlike BP we don't have tons of money so the only way we are going to succeed is if the members of the adult community donate to the legal defense, which is tax deductible, as we are a 501 c 3. We have already had a couple thousand dollars anonymous donations.
Please watch the 7.5 minute video of attorney Louis Sirkin who is a leading constitutional lawyer talking about " the time is ripe to have a constitutional challenge to in private consenting adult prostitution laws."
DONATE NOW!
http://www.gofundme.com/298mw0 In closing, to all the men arrested in Long Island, I feel for you. There is a sense of EMPOWERMENT that comes with being outed. (I know this from personal experience). I would never wish this on anyone, but this is what has given me the courage to become an activist and demand change and stand up for the sex workers and our clients.
For those interested here are some great links as many members in the adult community have no clue what is going on politically in regards to prostitution and trafficking. We all need to be apart of the discuss and the solution if we are ever going to create change.
http://www.policeprostitutionandpolitics.com/ http://www.iswface.org/NJAbio.html Stay informed with daily posts in Coyotes FB group at
http://www.facebook.com/groups/coyoteri/ IT"S TIME THE MEMBERS OF THE ADULT COMMUNITY STOOD UP FOR THEIR RIGHTS!
Stay safe everyone,
Gina Robinson