Press Release No.2

CODE:RED USA

Tadej Pogacar and P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art
New York April 23 - May 9 2002

CODE:RED is an ongoing project which investigates and discusses the aspects of prostitution and sexual work as a specific form of parallel economy. Here are last information on upcoming activities in New York in next few days.

The Ultimate Sex Worker Conspiracy Soiree: Conference and Party

Date: Sunday, May 5th, 2002
Time: 1:00 PM-7:00 PM
Location: True (28 East 23rd Street at Madison Avenue in NYC, 212.254.6117)
Cost: Donations (sliding scale-no one turned away for lack of funds)

Description:
Sex workers, activists, and artists respond to local, national and international issues. Presentations, panels and performances.

Presented by:
P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art http://www.parasite-pogacar.si
The CODE:RED USA project was made posssible, in part, by founds from Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, suppported by Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council of the arts.

Also brought to you by:
SACRD: Sex Workers and Advocates Coalition for Rights
and Decriminalization http://www.sacrd.org ,
HOOK Online http://www.hookonline.org ,
PONY: Prostitutes of New York
and COYOTE: Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics
http://www.bayswan.org/COYOTE.html.

Contacts:
Carol Leigh - Speakers & Agenda penet@bayswan.org (415.751.1659)
Kate Larkin - Logistics, Other info misskatelarkin@hotmail.com (212.924.3733)
Jo Weldon - Art/Performance Joweld@aol.com

Featured guests include:
Jo Weldon, Burlesque Artist and Mistress of Ceremonies
Scarlot Harlot, Webmistress of the Prostitutes'
Education Network at http://www.bayswan.org/penet.html
Shane Luitjens, aka Torque, of HOOK Online http://www.lethalwhitetrash.com
Tracy Quan (author, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl book signing to benefit PONY, Prostitutes of New York) http://www.tracyquan.net
Hima B., filmmaker, "Straight for the Money"
Lily Burana, author, Strip City
Synn Stern, Syringe Exchange Advocate and Street Health Educator
April Daisy White (Awarded Best Actress by LA Weekly!)
Shamus Outlaw of Different Avenues, Washington DC http://www.differentavenues.org
Mary Xmas, Radical Cheerleader and co-founder of SWAT
(Sex Worker Action Team), Philadelphia
Kim Airs, performance artist, of Grand Opening, Boston, http://www.grandopening.com
David Sterry, actor, writer, author of best selling memoir Chicken with superstar agent and author, Arielle Eckstut
Priscilla Alexander, troublemaker,
North American Task Force on Prostitution, http://www.bayswan.org/NTFP.html
Cristina Alcivar, Exotic Dancer's Alliance, Toronto
Daniel W.K. Lee, editor, HOOK Online, http://www.hookonline.org
Aaron Lawrence, author and entrepreneur http://www.aaronlawrence.com
Siobhan Brooks, of the Exotic Dancer's Alliance and featured in the film "Live Nude Girls Unite!" http://www.eda-sf.org | http://www.livenudegirlsunite.com
Members of Sex Workers and Advocates Coalition for Rights and Decriminalization
Tadej Pogacar, CODE:RED USA project, Director of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art http://www.parasite-pogacar.si ..and many more.

Panels and presentations will include:
Sex Worker's Rights; Organizing Reports, Planning; The Anti-Trafficking Framework; Migration and Repressive Legislation; Trends in Sex Worker Art, Performance and
Literature; Marginalization; Gender and Sexual Identities, Race and Class Issues in Sex Work; Stories, Affirmations, and Good News About Sex & Sex Workers; and more.

Other Related Events from CODE:RED USA project:
-Public Action in NYC / Monday 6th May 2002
-CODE:RED Discussion Evening / 8th May 2002

APEX, 291 Church Street, New York City , 7 pm The discussion will present the genesis of the CODE:RED project. The following themes will be discussed by the participants: public space and its control, human rights and the sex industry, the influence of globalization on the practice of sexual work, parallel economies and marginal communities, etc. Among others, these individuals will participate in the discussion: Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot (San Francisco, BAYSWAN), Tadej Pogacar (Ljubljana, Director of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art) and Pablo
Helguerra (Mexico City, New York).

See you there!