Sunday, 10 December 2006 12:34
Postcard Campaign: Design a protest postcard! Tell the world where you stand on issues that affect sex workers.
Combatting Violence against sex workers.
Sex workers experience disproportionate levels of violence and crime. The stigmatisation of sex workers has led to society and public authorities condoning violence and crime against us because it is seen as inherent to our work.
We demand that our governments recognise that violence against sex workers is a crime, whether it be perpetrated by our clients, our managers, our partners, local residents or members of the public authorities. (from the Sex Workers in Europe Manifesto )
To learn more about 17 December visit our 17 December history pages.
Make your own!
Protest Postcards can be made in many ways. You do not need to be a technical wizard! You can:
Make a paper collage then scan it or take a digital photograph, even with your phone.
Make some protest signs on paper and take a digital picture of you and your friends; in front of a police station, in front of a government building, in a location where a sex worker was hurt and send it in.
Use a computer program: Paint, Gimp, Photoshop, Word, whatever you know how to use. Save your image in .jpg, or gif format and send it in!
(if you know how to size images then make it 500 x 350 pixels or bigger; if you do not know how then we will do it for you)
If you would like your image to also be a link to your organisation, blog, or website, send the url along with your postcard(s) to:
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What next?
Email your card to the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we will upload your postcard to our ecard page where you and others can send it as a postcard. Send a protest postcard to; a politician who cares, a politician who should care, your 'favourite' abolitionist, the police in your city, to the press, to colleagues, to friends, to your clients.
Want to email the image yourself:
use your right mouse button and use “send image” or "send to"
or
use your right mouse button and "save image" to your computer and then attach it to your email.