St. John's West NDP District Association

Each year on December 17th we join sex workers around the world, along with our friends, families, advocates and allies to recognize the International Day To En...d Violence Against Sex Workers. This Thursday December 17, 2020 join SHOP for a Facebook Live presentation and discussion from 2:00-3:00pm on Resistance on the Rock: How Sex Workers In Newfoundland Talk Back, with researcher, ally and advocate Laura Winters. *Closed captioning will be available. In the words SWOP USA, "The majority of violence against sex workers is not just violence against sex workers it’s also violence against trans women, against women of color, against drug users, against immigrants. We cannot end the marginalization and victimization of all sex workers without also fighting trans-phobia, racism, stigma and criminalization of drug use, and xenophobia."

No, no, a thousand times no. This would be a disaster for the province's balance sheet and social well-being. We are growing tired of this fight, but we will keep fighting it so long as the threat is there.

To those who are celebrating, happy Hanukkah

It’s been 31 years since that horrific day in Montreal ... we remember the 14 young women. Has anything changed? Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil ...engineering student Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student See more