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- "The contravention codes are not repealed. The situation is the same, the only thing that changed is that there is no more Public Morality, but there are the precincts, there is the command [police unit], the police are still chasing us. After Sandra's death, a month later, we had a partner in Baigorria who was threatened and beaten. The harassment continues, the mobile units stop us, some police come and say 'you have to go because the neighbor says' and that is a lie. They make it up so that the sex worker gives them money and they let her work. The commands are in the red zone and that's because the codes are not repealed and the police still have power. (en)
- The testimony of the comrades and the prostitutes may not have had the weight that was expected. It can be a matter of fear and pressure... Perhaps Sandra's companions were affected by issues of self-security, of their children or their family when it came to involving people who could somehow exercise some power over them... I believe that the case would have had another course with more protection. (en)
- She was very lacking in [i.e. hadn't received] affection, like so many of us. In the organization she began to find something we all seek, to be recognized for something and to be important. (en)
- She cared about the others, the injustices spurred her on, she got what she wanted. (en)
- ... because it is an obsolete unit that allows a certain degree of corruption, without passing judgment on the officers that served in it. (en)
- Our colleagues, who are human beings and have feelings, fall in love with the police and pimps. (en)
- We suffer more searches, more humiliation, more payment of fines and the difficulty of making use of the street. Lately, there are reports that the police drive the girls away, beat them, do not let them work, ask them for sexual favors and ask for money. (en)
- We admire her strength, how she achieves things for us. It makes us think that if we unite we can aspire to a retirement, to a more dignified life. (en)
- ... for much more than two years it was said during the night that they were going to find her dead, because they said she does not respect the codes... (en)
- We are looking for a balance between the claims of the defense of modesty and scandalous prostitution through a new bill. (en)
- We are asking for security. We are fed up with being presented to the merchants of the neighborhoods as sources of insecurity, when many times the presence of prostitutes has avoided robberies.
We know that we are at fault and do not refuse to be delayed by the police in routine checks, but most of us have school-age children and we have already talked to government ministry personnel so we will not be detained in days during the school year, in order to send our children to school.
These things are repeated every time there are changes of leadership in the sections. When we are stopped we do not refuse to show the latest test results for HIV, despite the fact that the National AIDS Act, 23,798, guarantees the confidentiality of those results. (en)
- The word of someone unknown is not the same as one of us talking to our colleagues, with our language, explaining how to take care of ourselves through our experience.
There are women who did not know how to protect themselves when they [clients] ask for a francesa [oral sex]... We have a manual with pictures of healthy vaginas next to diseased vaginas, healthy penises next to diseased penises, because for us things also enter our eyes. (en)
- "I had to go and talk to the commissioner of the 7th precinct, after a worker was detained in the terminal area and extorted by the police. (en)
- Fear is present. When I tell you, let's get together, come, they're afraid. I can not tell them we are going to a march or when we are going to do some research work as well. To myself they say "How do you keep going"? (en)
- The police are chasing street workers instead of combating child prostitution or pimping, which are punishable by law. In fact they commit pimping, because they live by extracting money through blackmail of women who practice prostitution. (en)
- When she proposed it, I did not want to know anything. I told her it was crazy, that it could not be that we had a union, because we had never had anything. Society always had us as the lowest, for me it was like we did not exist. When the crisis came in late 2001, Sandra got social plans. There I started to go to the headquarters of the Central of Argentine Workers , but still thought that we could not get to where we arrived today. When I started to go, I met all the union guys who treated us differently, they said 'how are you, girls.' There I began to realize that we were not what they had made us believe. Because we suffered so much repression, the police made us believe that we were nobody. There I realized that it was not so. (en)
- A short while ago the Command [Radio Command, a police unit] wanted to take bribes from a member [of AMMAR], and it turns out that she is unionized. She told them to take her prisoner, but she would call her lawyer as soon as she got to the police station because she had that right. The cops wanted to arrange something, give them money, or go to jail. But when she told them that, they dropped her at a corner and left. (en)
- I was working in a corner of the Terminal area and a group of pimps and bouncers from a bar in the area beat me up pretty badly. I reported that in the media and there the girls from Buenos Aires showed up. At first I didn't take them seriously, but the following year, when a group of police beat up another coworker in the south area, we began to work with everything. (en)
- I said when Sandra passed, let's try to continue because otherwise everything is dying. And that is the commitment and at the same time persuades me that the death of Sandra was not in vain, beyond that we do not have justice. But it was not in vain, because we followed the path she left us. The day that the codes are repealed will not be our achievement, that's the way Sandra prepared us, so the achievement will be hers. (en)
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