Monday, 02 August 2010 10:49
CABIRIA
PETITION OF SUPPORT
The collective of prostitutes of Gerland
Several years ago the City of Lyon began taking a succession of measures to make the trucks and prostitutes of Lyon’s streets disappear. This policy of municipal orders prohibited parking, consequently people move from one neighborhood to another and they are pushed further away from areas with public circulation which is detrimental to their security.
After the last municipal order on May 17, 2010, the prostitutes of Gerland united collectively in order to oppose the methods that push them further into precarious situations. They can not exercise their activity, which we must remember, is not prohibited.
The collective of prostitutes published an open letter in the press alerting all the elected officials of the central City Hall about the consequences of this policy. The women invited the elected officials to work together to find real solutions, concrete and livable, respectful of their rights, to correct the problems that sharing space and their presence seems to raise.
Only one elected official bothered to respond without proposing to meet and without solutions. Once again, that shows us the little consideration of the elected officials for the prostitutes. They are not seen as people with questions that are of importance or people of interest.
This fashion of ‘managing the undesired’ predicts the expulsion of prostitutes working by foot in other neighborhoods of Lyon or the prostitutes working everywhere in French cities. We already have examples of this in Valence and in Montargis.
Sir and Madam, the elected officials of the city of Lyon, we support the demands made by the prostitutes in their open letter, dated June 2, 2010. We demand of you to stop this unjust policy of municipal orders and we assert that ultimately the real solutions will be found with the prostitutes.
The collective of prostitutes of Gerland
C/ CABIRIA www.cabiria.asso.fr
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