Defending sex workers against attacks by vigilantes and exposing how the police, local councils and politicians back these violent criminals in order to force working girls out of the area. In Balsall Heath, Birmingham, England, some sex workers, with our support, have defeated the local authority's attempts to evict them from their homes. Street dread, Guardian, February 1998: Prostitute women and residents oppose ordinance to seize cars of people suspected of soliciting