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Resources, Events, Activism

The Lola Greene Baldwin Foundation for Recovery

"The Lola Greene Baldwin Foundation for Recovery was created in 1999 by three professionals with over fifty years experience working with survivors of war, prostitution, domestic violence, and other trauma. They saw the need for a more expanded treatment program for prostitution survivors, as well as more public discussions on the issue of prostitution as a serious human rights violation. The organization traces its roots to the anti-slavery societies active before the Civil War. These groups worked against slavery on a political level, and also helped slaves escape through the Underground Railroad." There's a good website with plenty of resources for researchers and activists.

Chicago Conference on Demand Dynamics

The "Demand Dynamics" conference will examine the role of pornography in maintaining demand for sexual trafficking. [De Clarke notes: A critique of demand rather than supply, in prostitution/porn or any other socially troublesome market sector or activity, is extremely rare in current political/economic discourse -- for various reasons which I talk about in my contribution to the NfS book. I'm surprised and delighted to find that, at last, there's a conference where critiquing demand is the central theme!]