Dear Washington DC Area Activists, 

NOW members in the DMV area have the opportunity to attend The Clearinghouse on Women’s Issues (CWI) meeting: Views of Prostitution in the U.S. from the Civil War to Today. NOW President Toni Van Pelt will speak about NOW’s End the Demand campaign in which our grassroots membership calls for support of Nordic or Equality Model legislation, successfully adopted by Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, France, Israel and Canada. Under the Equality Model the demand for sex acts is fully criminalized, but prostituted women are decriminalized, their records are expunged and they are offered much-needed and much-desired supportive services. Sheryl Williams, who just completed a C-SPAN show on prostitution in the civil war, will also to talk about roles of women prostitutes throughout history. Williams works as an actress, historical reenactor, and amateur historian.

• What: CWI Meeting: Views of Prostitution in the U.S. from the Civil War to Today
• When: Tuesday, January 28, 2020; Noon-1:30 PM Eastern
  Where: The Alliance for Justice, 11 Dupont Circle, 5th Floor; entrance on New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC (Nearest Metro Stop: Dupont Circle, north or south exit)

CWI meetings are free and open to the public. Please bring your own lunch.

RSVP is required. RSVP to [email protected].

Additional information about the meeting is available here. We hope that you can join us!