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RECLAIM THE NIGHT IPSWICH - 29th December

Tumble Weed | 14.12.2006 18:56 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | Cambridge

After the bodies of 5 sex workers have been found murdered within 10 days of each other and the police advising women to stay at home concerned citizens of Ipswich call you to:-

********RECLAIM THE NIGHT - 29TH DECEMBER - 7PM ONWARDS - IPSWICH TOWN HALL STEPS**********

WE HAVE COMRADES VISITING ARRIVING FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO SHOW THEIR LOVE AND SOLIDARITY FOR THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF THESE WOMEN AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF IPSWICH.

IF YOU ARE ABLE TO OFFER TRANSPORT OR WOULD LIKE IT PLEASE CONTACT US AND WE WILL TRY OUR HARDEST TO ORGANISE LIFT SHARES ETC.

IF YOU REQUIRE ACCOMODATION BEFORE OR AFTER LET US KNOW ASAP AND IT WILL BE PROVIDED (THOUGH THE QUALITY MIGHT NOT BE GREAT!)

PLEASE BRING BANNERS, CANDLES FOOD, YOUR THOUGHTS, EXPERIENCES, LOVE & FRIENDS.

****THIS WILL NOT BE RESTRICTED TO A WOMEN ONLY EVENT****

TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT  ipswichqueers@yahoo.co.uk

(if you are planning on coming; it would be wonderful if you could contact us so we can get an idea of numbers)

For those in the Ipswich Area we DESPERATELY need your help in organising this potentially mammoth event; please meet us at Cafe Direct (the small canteen), Suffolk College at 7pm Monday 18th December

Tumble Weed
- e-mail: ipswichqueers@yahoo.co.uk


Additions

Support Women in Ipswich

15.12.2006 08:26

Birmingham Women Fight Back Group support our sisters in Ipswich and call on women in Birmingham to join us in going to the Reclaim the Night march, coach to leave Birmingham 3pm 29th December, see  womenfightback@hotmail.co.uk for details.

We will not be kept at home or fobbed off with rape alarms, let's get out on the street and show our support for one another.

t cross
mail e-mail: womenfightback@hotmail.co.uk


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A socialist perspective on Ipswich serial murders

15.12.2006 21:53

Just posting this link for your information. I am not this well respected blogger. Best wishes.

Hu
- Homepage: http://leninology.blogspot.com/2006/12/murder-in-ipswich.html


Thought i'll might as well submit this

17.12.2006 17:45

From the BBC website:
"The police declined to confirm or deny reports a senior officer had been a client of two of the murder victims."

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6187705.stm

Name?


Incomplete List of All Sex Workers Discovered Murdered in 2006

20.12.2006 05:02

List of Dead

Rine
Dec. 17th Memorial List

Below is an incomplete list of sex workers (all prostitutes) who were murdered or have been discovered to have been murdered in 2006. The list was compiled by $pread Magazine based on reporting in major world newspapers. If you have more names to add to this list, please email  contribute@spreadmagazine.org.
Names that appear in groups are the victims of a serial killer.
Suzie Sutherland & “The Christchurch Prostitute” (Christchurch, New Zealand);
Vanessa Lackey Franklin, Pamela Ann Goss, Lakita Stubblefield, Jasmine Clark, & two unidentified women (Houston, TX);
Susan Third, 21 (Aberdeen Harbour, Scotland);
Wong Lam, 37 (Shamshuipo, China);
Fok Sau-king and Mao Chunyan (Shamshuipo, China);
Mechelle Hicks, 35 (Goemble Avenue in Buffalo, NY);
Robin Renee Brown, 35, Melonie M. Carr, 33, & Tawana L. Beane, 40 (Delaware, OH);
Tina Renee Gibbs, 26 (Las Vegas, NV);
Lanett Deyon White, 25 (Fontana, CA);
Patricia Ann Tamez, 29 (Hesperia, CA);
Emma Jane Caldwell, 27 (Renfrewshire, Scotland);
Veronique Lalonde, 21 (Montreal, Canada);
Arron Light (Sydney, Australia);
Theresa Merrie Innes, 36 (Edmonton, Canada);
Buffie Sammons, 27 (Columbus, OH);
Julie Louise McColl (Brisbane, Australia);
Jasmin Crathern, 41 (Brisbane, Australia);
Hanna Montessori (Santa Ana, CA);
Kristi Hoenig, 21 (Chicago, IL);
Shentelle Jackson, 38 (Chicago, IL);
Nadine Gurczenski, 26, Dawn Stewart, 31 Diane Dimitri, 28, Margaret Jugaru, 26, & Cassey Cichocki, 22 (Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada);
Nasra Ismail, 27, Regents Canal, Somalia);
Tracey Wylde & Diane McInally, 23 (Glasgow, Scotland);
Arlene Brumfield & Joanna Washington (Brooklyn, NY);
Katherine Collins, 45 (New Orleans, LA);
Adele Bailey (Victoria, Australia);
Bella Evangelista, also called Elvis Augusto Perez Morales (Washington, DC);
Angela Jones, 32, Beverly Burns, 39, Toliya Spivey, 29, Debra Pagan, 47, Starshun Nelson, 36, Julia M. Veal, 44, & Roberta McKinney, 32 (Queensland, Australia);
Samantha Tayleen Berg, 19, Charlene Could, 20, Ellie May Meyer, 33, Delores Brower, & Bonnie Lynn Jack (Edmonton, Canada);
Ahmed Khalil, 14 (Iraq);
Julie Green, Laquetta Gunther, & Iawana Patton, 37 (Daytona Beach, FL);
Gemma Adams, 25, Tania Nicol, 19, and one unidentified woman, (Suffolk, England)
Kimberly Raffo, 35, Barbara V. Breidor, 42, Tracy Ann Roberts, 23, & Molly Jean Dilts, 20 (Atlantic City, NJ).


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