[Viva] Open letter to VDLC / CUPE / Organize BC - re: anti sex work / anti trans panelist (action)

[Margarite Sanchez]

Thanks for bringing this to the listserv Tami. The Standing Committee meets
this Thursday. We can put it on the agenda to discuss Viva Women signing on.

Margarite

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 10:57 PM, Tami Starlight <tamistarlight at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Forwarded from a national decolonize / intersectionality listserv.
>
> As a admin and one of the founding members of VIVA I am hoping people sign
> up and even VIVA itself sign on.
>
> Great opportunity for us all to learn about these issues.
>
> Be well.
>
>
> Tansi/hello peoples.
>
> Out here west on unceded coast salish territory, this is happening. Make
> note: this is definitely happening across colonial Canada, but across the
> world, as well.
>
> The Coalition Against Trans Antagonism is calling on Vancouver and
> District Labour Council CUPE BC and Organize BC to take a stand and
> recognize sex work as a human rights and a labour issue. Sex work is also a
> trans rights issue. We are asking that well-documented trans
> antagonist/transmisogynist and sex worker antagonist Yuly Chan be removed
> from the Evening Panel at the Vancouver Crossroads Conference. Please share
> widely and sign our open letter in support of our demands by contacting us.
>
> See letter:
> https://noterfsnoswerfs.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/openletter/
>
> Our page
> https://www.facebook.com/CoalitionAgainstTransAntagonis
> m/posts/2555624327996416
>
> Https://www.twitter.com/noterfsnoswerfs
>
> Please sign on, ask others to, as well as distribute to your contacts.
>
> Be well
>
> Sent from my phone
> Tami Starlight
> (unceded coast salish territory/vancouver,canada)
> tamistarlight at gmail.com
> http://theantioppressionnetwork.com
> https://facebook.com/TheAntiOppressionNetworkUncededCoastSalish/
> <https://m.facebook.com/TheAntiOppressionNetworkUncededCoastSalish/>
>
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