DIY Defunding the Police
How Winnipeg Sex Workers Stopped the Police from Taking Drivers’ Money
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In DIY Defunding the Police the Sex Workers of Winnipeg Action Coalition (SWWAC) a volunteer collective made up of sex workers, activists, and other allies, advocates for the decriminalization and destigmatization of sex work and for improvement in the lives and working conditions of sex workers examine why it is important for the SWWAC to join the call for defunding of the police.
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Sex Workers of Winnipeg Action Coalition
Shiri Pasternak is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto and a first-generation Canadian of the Jewish diaspora. She is a member of Toronto Abolition Convergence and has been active in Indigenous solidarity movements for many years as a founding member of organizations like Barriere Lake Solidarity, Indigenous Sovereignty and Solidarity Network, the Anti-Colonial Committee of the Law Union of Ontario, and Defenders of the Land. She is also co-founder and inaugural Research Director (2018–21) of the Yellowhead Institute, a First Nation–focused think tank based out of Toronto Metropolitan University.