Oct 2013 - my london diary

	Police & Developers Evict Soho Working Girls Greek St, Soho, London. Wed 9 Oct 2013
	Women in masks put up banners in frront of the offices of Soho Estates 'Soho says: Safety for Sex Workers' 'Soho Working Girls' banner at Soho Estates in Greek St 'Outlaw Poverty not Pro$titutes - International Prostitutes Collective' A selection of placards related to the evictions Most of the women, both sex workers, and their supporters, wore masks for the protest 'No Bad women just bad laws!'
	A speaker from the English Collective of Prostitutes 'I'd rather sell my body in Soho than sell my mind to a corporation' Soho Estates managing director John James (the son-in-law of the late Paul Raymond) came out with another man to respond to the protest. He said that the police had left him with no alternative but to pass on the notices to the leaseholders, who then had to evict the women. But the protesters told him he should have stood up to the police 'Benefit cuts drive women into prostitution' 'Romanian women say no Eviction Safety First' A speaker from the Soho Society gave her support to the protest and one of the traditional aspects of Soho a man walking past stopped to listen
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