Full Decriminalization vs Legalization {or..my cat is super cute}

{video by aymi} You can watch my kitty in 720HD :)
this is the video i'm replying to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDwv5av2t88
Although it started off as a reply & i did address some of her "questions", i think this video sort of morphed into decrim & legallization discussion.
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this video is way too long. sorry.
i've also forgotten quite a few things in this video. Just not enough time! Oh well, i'm sure you get the idea.
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Beyond Decrim {PDF}
http://www.pivotlegal.org/sites/pivotlegal.org/files/BeyondDecrimLongReport.pdf
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Voices of Dignity: A Call to End the Harms Caused by Canada's Sex Trade Laws {PDF}
http://www.pivotlegal.org/sites/default/files/voicesfordignity.pdf
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Important Book:
Taking the Crime Out of Sex Work: New Zealand Sex Workers' Fight for Decriminalisation.
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To find Sex Worker Rights groups from around the world, check out Empower's comprehensive list here: http://www.empowerfoundation.org/everywhere_en.html
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There is much more info to be found online, and in many of our videos & other sex worker activist videos.
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And here are some more of those rights sex workers are always screaming about ;)
• Provide sex workers with full access to the rights and protections found in the Employment Standards Act, and ensure the legislation explicitly protects an individual sex
worker's decision to provide sexual services and maintain control over her or his contract for the provision of sexual services.
• Respect the right of sex workers to unionize and provide resources and support to them throughout the process.
• Involve sex workers in a meaningful way in municipal governance issues, such as business licensing and city zoning, in order to meet the diverse needs of sex workers from various aspects of the industry as well as the interests of communities.
• Respect the right of sex workers to have fair and equal access to Workers' Compensation, Employment Insurance as well as other employment benefits.
• Enact a provision in all relevant legislation to ensure that refusal to work in the sex industry does not affect a person's entitlements to Employment Insurance or Income Assistance.
• Ensure the freedom of sex workers to choose from a range of business structures.
• Ensure that income earned through sex work is subject to fair and non-discriminatory taxation and that sex workers are not retroactively taxed once their work becomes recognized as a legal activity.
• Recognize that a parent's involvement in sex work does not automatically create grounds for the apprehension of a child or loss of custody, and take steps to ensure that sex workers are not subject to discrimination by the Courts or government in family law matters.
• Ensure the right of sex workers to access the human rights complaint process and equal opportunities for social citizenship.
• Ensure that migrant sex workers are afforded the rights and protections found in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
{From Pivot Legal Society}

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[kommissarw]

Decriminalisation, removal of laws.

Legalisation, imposition of laws.

I don't get why ppl find this hard to grasp. When there are laws passed, they will conform to an interest groups adgenda. By removal of laws, the sex workers get to make their own arrangements either in isolation, co-op.

[YeOldeHeretic]

@kommissarw Exactly. Thanks for stopping by!

Laurel

[rriverstone1]

I trailed in her cuz of Divinity's latest video. It's almost 3 am & I seriously need 2 sleep...it's new year's & I'm falling in love with someone from the U.K. who just woke up, with whom I just finished a Skype. So, I'm not going 2 study the low bar right now. I have nothing profound 2 add 2 this discussion. Just want u 2 know I appreciate your articulation & that, while I may b the oldest champion u have, I am a sister & support your effort.not my 1st time @ the show. shit's gotta change.

[YeOldeHeretic]

@rriverstone1 change has got to come! thank you for being here :)

~aymi

[Eminemno1fan]

Excellent video.

[YeOldeHeretic]

@Eminemno1fan thank you for watching :)

~aymi

[rriverstone1]

@YeOldeHeretic I have a feeling I may do some rambling that includes this issue. I have things to say about sexuality, gender and love, anyway. Not to include sex workers issues would b idiotic. stay tuned

[YeOldeHeretic]

@62netty thank you for watching :) Perhaps it was the way i spoke, but when i mentioned Amsterdam and Germany, i was speaking about them as seperate places with forms of legalization :)

Again, thank you for your words :)

!aymi

[62netty]

Subbed, excellent video. One little remark; Amsterdam is not in Germany, but in the Netherlands, my country. But you're right, the legalization of prostitution in this country didn't benefit the sex-workers. What's changed for them is that they have to pay taxes now.

True decriminalisation would be a much better solution. But I fear it will take a long time before sex-workers will be accepted like other professionals, and not seen as victims or as criminals.

Hypocrisy still rules this land.