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Prostitutes in training for Vancouver Olympics
The Star (Toronoto) ^
| May 19, 2009
Posted on 05/20/2009 1:50:28 PM PDT by Stoat
Prostitutes in training for Vancouver Olympics
They'll learn how to talk to the media
THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER Vancouver sex-trade workers need to know their rights when dealing with cameras and reporters and will be offered media training ahead of the 2010 Olympic Games, an advocacy group said.
The Prostitution Alternatives Counselling and Education Society, located in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside, will hold the session in November.
"We just want our members to feel safe. ... Media attention to the area can be a little less than compassionate and we don't want them to feel like animals in a zoo," said spokeswoman Kerry Porth.
"We just want (the sex-trade workers) to be aware of what their rights are around media, including the fact that it is legal for (media) to take a picture of them on a public street," Porth said.
The society held a similar training session at the onset of the Robert Pickton trial. Pickton was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder in December 2007.
Sue Davis, a Vancouver sex worker, said that during the trial "some workers reported up to nine reporters a day trying to film them," she said. "And people asking them things like 'Do you feel safe? Did your friends die? Are you on drugs?' And then 'Thanks for the story, see you later.' "
Porth said the response from those who received the training at the time was positive.
TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; olympics; prostitutes; vancouver
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Giving credit where it's due....I was alerted to this essential article by the Wall Street Journal's "Best of the Web Today" email.
They introduced it with the line "Quit sniggering, she's training for the high jump!"
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.....
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:50:28 PM PDT
by
Stoat
To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro; fanfan
Official Athelete Transport Vehicle, Vancouver Olympics
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:51:02 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Revolting cat!
Vancouver sex-trade workers need to know their rights when dealing with cameras and reporters If the customer has a camera, be sure to charge extra for that, and if the client is a reporter, be sure to tape the phone calls for later exposure...
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:52:17 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(If you like the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, the IRS, and the Post Office, you'll love govt Health Care)
To: Stoat
some workers reported up to nine reporters a day trying to film them," Yea, that was it. They're trying to 'film' them.
Hookers or reporters...wow, that's a tough one. I'd have to say that the hooker is making the more honest living.
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:52:47 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Stoat
Prostitutes in training for Vancouver OlympicsWhat event? ? ?
Pole Vault
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:53:47 PM PDT
by
BOBTHENAILER
(the obamination will ruin this nation)
To: Stoat
Sue Davis, a Vancouver sex worker, said that during the trial "some workers reported up to nine reporters a day trying to film them," she said. "And people asking them things like 'Do you feel safe? Did your friends die? Are you on drugs?' And then 'Thanks for the story, see you later.' " That's nothing, if a tornado destroys your home and kills your kids and dog, reporters can be certain to stick a microphone in front of your devastated face and blithely ask "So how does all of this make you feel?"
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:54:15 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(If you like the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, the IRS, and the Post Office, you'll love govt Health Care)
To: Stoat
The first move in becoming media savvy is to get these gals a full set of tooth and a bath.
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:54:37 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(A feral conservative in my own land.)
To: Lurker
If you film it, you can avoid charges of “prostitution”, just tell the prosecutor you were making a privately owned sex film. Porno actresses are exempted from prostitution laws somehow.
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:55:22 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(If you like the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, the IRS, and the Post Office, you'll love govt Health Care)
To: llevrok
The first move in becoming media savvy is to get these gals a full set of tooth and a bath. Would you be referring to the 'sex trade workers' or the 'journalism trade workers'?
(((snicker))))
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:56:48 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: Stoat
Do they train politicians too?
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:57:02 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
To: BOBTHENAILER
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:57:50 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 121 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: Stoat
Well...if the prostitutes go both ways....they can participate in the Bi-athlon
Of course, the Vancouverites, from what i understand, built the Olympic Village where the local prostitutes promote their trade. Which would make Michael Phelps pretty happy (bet he is trying to qualify for an Olympic event)
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:58:17 PM PDT
by
UCFRoadWarrior
(The Biggest Threat To American Soverignty Is Rampant Economic Anti-Americanism)
To: Stoat
The Prostitution Alternatives Counselling and Education Society.....
See?.....ain’t nothin the government can’t manage!
To: BOBTHENAILER
“What event? ? ?”
Clean and jerk, or perhaps the other way around...
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posted on
05/20/2009 2:00:34 PM PDT
by
Buck W.
(The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
To: BOBTHENAILER
For when the IOC meets to decide who gets the next winter games.
To: UCFRoadWarrior
Which would make Michael Phelps pretty happy (bet he is trying to qualify for an Olympic event)He may need a new manager...
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posted on
05/20/2009 2:02:57 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
To: UCFRoadWarrior; cardinal4
Since We The People are sending our tax dollars to China to teach the bar girls in Shanghai to drink responsibly, it’s only fair that we pony up some long green to help out our neighbors to the north, eh.
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posted on
05/20/2009 2:04:31 PM PDT
by
Ax
To: Stoat
Vancouver sex-trade workers need to know their rights when dealing with cameras and reporters and will be offered media training ahead of the 2010 Olympic GamesAbout the only training I can think of that a prostitute would need in dealing with the media would be to ask 'Cash or Credit?' Otherwise, there is plenty of overlap in their occuptions so they should understand each other just fine.
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posted on
05/20/2009 2:05:19 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: Stoat
I was wondering what that Giant sucking sound was all about!
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posted on
05/20/2009 2:05:29 PM PDT
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
To: ZULU
Do they train politicians too?Or is it the politicians who train the hookers?
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posted on
05/20/2009 2:05:41 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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