I went and did a little phone banking for No on I yesterday. (Apologies to those at the GGLR meeting, where I inadvertently got the day wrong and thought it was happening Wednesday.) What I heard yesterday is that it will be happening every Tuesday and Thursday until the election, from 5-8pm at 11 Grove Street, across from the main library.
Apparently this has been going on longer than I realized -- I was told that all the Democrats in SF had already been called once, and now Republicans are being called! I requested call sheets for registered Libertarians, and Justin (from the SF Bay Area Renters Federation) who was coordinating the phonebanking promised me he'd get some for next time. I also asked that the LPSF be added to the list of No on I endorsers to be mentioned.
The Sex Workers Outreach Project (www.SWOP-USA.org) will have a booth at the Castro Street Fair which I'll be helping staff. Marcy, if you or anyone else has some literature you'd like to hand out there, or would like to come help at the booth, please let me know (not No on I stuff though -- SWOP hasn't taken any positions on local ballot measures, so I doubt that would be welcome).
By the way a couple items from this past week's SWOP meeting...
1) I was selected as our new chapter rep to sit on the national SWOP board (at least on an interim basis -- the group is talking about doing a restructuring some time in coming months).
2) [This has never happened that I can recall in my years as an activist in any group I've been involved with, and just shows how the issue of decriminalizing prostitution is gaining momentum!] A sitting member of the California legislature, Bill Quirk (D-Hayward) dropped by with a staffer to reach out and encourage us to participate in an upcoming legislative hearing that his committee will be holding on sex trafficking on October 20. We hadn't invited him and had no idea anyone from the legislature was coming, he just showed up! In a delightful coincidence, the latest issue of Reason had just arrived that same afternoon in my mailbox with a great cover story on how sex trafficking is the new war on drugs, and I'd brought it along to show my sex worker colleagues (see attachment). So I was also able to show it to Assemblymember Quirk, who chairs the Public Safety Committee which will be holding the Oct. 20 hearing.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
P.S. - I'm copying California LP Executive Committee member Jim Hoerricks on this so that he can let the state leadership know about Sacramento hearing and encourage them to send someone to testify (presumably Janine Kloss, since I understand she's been brought on as executive director and lives up there). Jim may possibly be the most pro-transparency member we have on the ExCom right now -- at least he's the only one who's been copying me on messages about state leadership doings.
(Attachment Reason-SexTrafficking.jpeg is missing)