http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/taxonomy/term/65/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/text_entry/576 <p>The red umbrella has been used by sex workers as a symbol of sex worker resistance to discrimination. I view these as collective performance, creating a striking image in large crowds:<br /> <a></p> <br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/text_entry/576">read more</a></p> http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/text_entry/576#comment Action performance sex workers social change Tool Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:02:50 +0000 tomski 576 at http://www.performingrightslibrary.org http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/link/322 <br /><a href="http://www.umich.edu/~clemency/clemency_manual/manual_intro.html">www.umich.edu/~clemency/clemency_manual/manual_intro.html</a>I was bowled away by this project after seeing a film & presentation this Friday afternoon, for me it exemplified what this conference is about: Susan Fair founded the Michigan Battered Women's Clemency Project in 1991. Volunteer attorneys and advocates joined with her and distributed questionnaires to women in two Michigan prisons. Their aim was to identify women inmates who were convicted of murder and for whom the battered woman syndrome was an explanatory defense, but for whom that evidence was either not raised, raised inadequately, or rejected by the judge. Approximately 50 women were interviewed; 25 were identified as primary candidates for clemency petitions. <p><a href="http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/link/322">read more</a></p> http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/link/322#comment Debate Organisations QMUL Event Tool women Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:37:43 +0000 tomski 322 at http://www.performingrightslibrary.org