SLIT Magazine and Scarlet Alliance recently ran a film night at the
Red Rattler as a fundraiser for Womens Network for Unity. It was a
cold rainy night, a few hundred dollars were raised but we wanted to
give you another chance to donate some money towards Womens Network
for Unity before we send them the final amount.

The Cambodian sex workers group Womens Network for Unity is a
democratic and political sex worker organisation based in Phnom Penh.
It is led and organised by sex workers. Please consider donating any
amount, large or small, to their organisation, $10 or $100, it will
all help!

You can donate via electronic transfer: Scarlet Alliance, BankWest,
BSB: 305 122, Account Number: 0131249 Please put "WNU" in the subject
line.

Alternatively you can give cash to Elena from Scarlet Alliance when
you see her, she is flitting about the country (Brisbane, Canberra,
Perth, Sydney) in coming weeks, mob 0401 317 102.

What will this money support? As well as the day to day activities of
outreach and human rights work they have run amazing campaigns to
stand up for sex worker rights and dignity in the face of
globalisation:

- intense struggles against multinational drug company interests,
Gilead and UNSW trying to push a HIV-PREP trial onto their community,
link to video:
http://www.sexworkeurope.org/site/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=184&task=videodirectlink&id=22

- halting reactionary anti-trafficking measures that included the
jailing of hundreds of Cambodian sex workers in 2008, link to Scarlet
Alliance media release:
http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/media/News_Item.2008-06-22.2546

- challenging the huge USAID MTV campaign against trafficking in their
country, which they responded to in detail, link to the video:
http://www.ajws.org/where_we_work/asia/cambodia/womens_network_for_unity_wnu.html

Cambodia is a developing country that has been a minefield of UN Aid
workers, large NGO's with their own in-fighting and agendas, US
influence and trans-national pressure over policy influence.... The
Womens Network for Unity are a sex worker organisation that has stood
up to these pressures on behalf of their community, and our small
donations are a way to ensuring that they know we have solidarity with
them, and that Aussie sex workers and queers support their work now
and in the future!