Anti Prostitution Group Commits Violence On Sex Worker  At UC 
Berkeley Performance
By Maxine Doogan

11/11/07
 An altercation involving Maxine Doogan of the Erotic Service 
Providers Union, followed a performance sponsored by U C Berkeley 
Ethic Department at UC Berkeley Worth Ryder Gallery on Nov. 9th 
2007 which resulted in the U C Berkeley Police issuing a 7 day stay 
away order to Ms Doogan, Lisa Roelillg one other companion.

“My Real Name” was a One New Earth Production performance by 
Students and Artist Fighting to End Human Slavery.  Sponsored by 
the UC Berkeley Ethics Studies and promoted by the SAGE Project 
violent scene after violent scene was played out against 
streetbased prostitutes. This play actually turned out to be a 
propaganda piece conflating incest, rape, domestic violence, 
economic disparity, homelessness, drug addiction with the 
occupation of prostitution by depicting graphic sexually violent 
images and reenactments.

The producer had stated that this performance was meant to be 
interactive and invited audience members to interact with the 
people depicting the violence during the performance.  It was 
unclear if the people relating the violence were actors or the 
actual people who had experienced the violence originally.   The 
producer also said a discussion about trafficking in the sex 
industry would follow the performance.
Many people walked out before the end as did Doogan, who returned 
at the conclusion expecting to find a discussion under way but 
instead found her comrade, Lisa Roellig, a former streetbased 
worker surrounded by anti prostitution activist, like researcher 
Melissa Farley, who recently called for the closing of the legal 
brothels in Nevada.

Roellig, an ex-streetbased worker and Doogan attempted to converse 
with the producer about her relationship to the issues raised in 
the performance.  The producer responded by yelled and waved her 
arms saying she didn’t believe in the comodification of women and 
that no discussion was going to take place.   However a loud 
discussion ensued between all parties with the producer stating 
that Doogan ‘sucked the dicks of corporate America’ and was ‘a 
white and privileged’.  Another anti prostitutionist, also a former 
streetbased worker, stated that all prostitutes are dogs, and used 
physical intimidation to push Doogan out the door while evoking the 
name of blood of Jesus Christ. Doogan responded by leaving the 
building and calling the anti prostitution group “poverty pimps”. 
Annie Fukushima, U C Berkeley Doctorial Candidate, threatened to 
call the cops and Doogan encouraged her to do so.

Doogan, Roellig and the third person made statements to the police 
that Doogan had been physically assaulted.  UC Berkeley Campus 
Officer Sanchez only wanted to know if the women who called the 
police were women of color.  All three women were issued 7 day stay 
away orders.

Said Roellig, “While they were privileged enough to call in the 
cops because two women show up to question their view of our lives, 
I was not ever privileged enough to call the cops when I was raped, 
assaulted  or robbed on the street because I was a criminalized 
worker.  These women are outspoken on their abolitionists views and 
are advocates of  the continuation of the States oppressive laws 
that control our bodies, our economies and most important make us 
easy targets for police abuse and corruption”

Please call, write or email the Berkeley Police Department and tell 
them to receive the report of battery on Maxine Doogan.  And the UC 
Berkeley Ethnic Studies Department because it failed in its 
commitment to be understanding of the deep multiple meanings of 
racial diversity in the Americas in the area of prostitution when 
they sponsored the performance and facilitated racial violence 
against sex industry workers.