ALT The Women Prostitutes of Lyon Speak to the People We asked the State to listen to us as women. Poniatowski' answers us with billy clubs, takes our money, puts us in prison, insults us, hits us, ejects us forcibly from churches in order to put us in brothels, and takes away our children. He refuses to see us as women. He only accepts us as sex factories. He speaks about procuring, but he takes our money and goes free! So we say: NO TO PROCURING, NO TO BROTHELS, NO TO POLICE REPRESSION, NO TO PRISON SENTENCES. YES TO JUSTICE YES TO ALL THE ADVANTAGES AND RIGHTS OF BEING WOMEN! More united than ever, in dignity, for the creation of an Estates General of women prostitutes, we come together again in the struggle. Action Committee of Women Prostitutes Translated by Elaine Marks "Les prostituées de Lyon parlent à la population" in Le quotidien des femmes, June 1975. 1 Michael Poniatowski: Minister of the Department of the Interior (2974-1977) in Giscard d'Estaing's government.-Tr.