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• RI: Full House OKs ban on indoor prostitution

  
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  11:29 AM EDT on Thursday, October 29, 2009Lynn Arditi, Journal Staff WriterPROVIDENCE — The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill to outlaw indoor prostitution Wednesday night, paving the way for a final debate on the Senate floor Thursday. The bill’s passage followed an hour of impassioned ...
  2 weeks ago

• UK: Have sex traffic levels been exaggerated?

  
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  The Guardian newspaper has said that the problem of sex trafficking has been exaggerated and that the number of people who have been brought into the UK and forced against their will into prostitution is much smaller than claimed.Jeremy Paxman talks to former minister for Europe, Dennis McShane, and Nikki Adams, of ...
  3 weeks ago

• UK: A bad bill for sex workers

  
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  A lack of trafficking evidence highlights the flaws in a policing and crime bill that fails to distinguish between types of sex workElizabeth Pisaniguardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 October 2009 10.00 BSTLast night, I went to a play about sex trafficking at the Arcola theatre. The programme notes: “While elements of It ...
  3 weeks ago

• Keene Crackdown at Pumpkin Fest

  
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  Six individuals were arrested by police this afternoon at Pumpkin Fest.  The daily 420 event was moved to the area directly in front of City Hall due to the massive pumpkin display at Central Square.  Rich Paul of Keene took to the megaphone in front a large crowd and at the proper time lit a pipe presumably ...
  4 weeks ago

• Prostitution debate rages worldwide

  
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  Natalie Alcoba, National PostFriday, Oct. 16, 2009A prostitute in Amsterdam’s red light district. The debate around legalizing the sex trade rages in many countries around the world, including Canada. – Anoek de Groot/AFP/Getty ImagesOne of the latest battlegrounds for the highly charged issue of prostitution – ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lessons from a Mexican Brothel

  
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  by Patty Kelly on June 16, 2009On a chilly March morning, my friend Abraham and I head out by car from Washington, D.C. to rural Virginia to do some exploring. Visiting from Mexico City, Abraham has been to New York City many times. But large cities can give a visitor the wrong idea about a [...]
  4 weeks ago

• NH Public Radio Reports on Keene’s Daily 4:20 Cannabis Celebrations

  
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  Thanks to NHPR’s Josh Rogers for this report : ( Audio Version ) The smokers are protesting marijuana laws and say they’ll smoke in Central Square daily until the law changes. Police say they won’t tolerate wanton law-breaking, but have no plans for a crackdown. Marijuana may or may not spark creativity, ...
  6 weeks ago

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