CLICK TO DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT HERE What is the Guaranteed Care Income Pilot? The Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco (GCISF) pilot was a one-year program (June 2024–June 2025) that provided 10 low-income single mothers in San Francisco with $2,000 a … Continue reading
The San Francisco Standard: $2,000 monthly stipends helped these SF moms leave sex work behind
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Now that the no-strings-attached payments have stopped, some are unsure how they’ll get by. By Jennifer Wadsworth Published Nov. 13, 2025 Shantanae was desperate. Homeless after fleeing a violent ex and selling her body for a controlling pimp on a … Continue reading
Public Release of Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco Pilot Results
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For immediate release November 5, 2025 Español abajo WHAT: Public Release of Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco Pilot Results WHEN: Wednesday, November 12, 12PM CONTACTS: Rachel West 415-640-4250 guaranteedcareincome@gmail.com; Sharon Lungo 562-659-1183 sharon@riseup.net Spanish Interpretation. Pre-interviews possible. Groundbreaking San Francisco Pilot Addresses Poverty, … Continue reading
Action Alert Update: Bills reinstating loitering for prostitution as a crime have stalled in committee
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Due to public pressure, none of the three new California bills to re-criminalize loitering for prostitution, AB 2034, AB 2646 or SB 1219, have made it out of committee and are not now expected to pass, but we remain vigilant … Continue reading
End Women’s Poverty: A Guaranteed Care Income for All Caregivers of People & Planet
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Join us for this exciting international and community gathering at the Crossroads Women’s Center in Philadelphia June 9-11, 2023. Online and in person. Sliding scale for events. No one turned away for lack of funds. Register here.
KPFA Flashpoints Interview on the Police Crackdown in the Mission District of San Francisco
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On February 16, 2023, Rachel West, US Pros Collective, and Nell Myhand, Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike, were interviewed about the police crackdown on sex workers in the Mission District of San Francisco by Dennis J. Bernstein … Continue reading
Watch Hookers in the House of the Lord Event. Livestream. December 10, 2022
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Listen to KPFA Letters and Politics interview with Selma James. December 5, 2022
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40 Years After Sex Workers Took Over an English Church, the Fight for Justice Picks Up in San Francisco
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Written by Ida Mojadad The San Francisco Standard Published Dec. 10, 2022 • 7:30pm Sex workers in San Francisco first staged a direct action more than 100 years ago. | Ida Mojadad/The Standard In 1917, hundreds of San Francisco sex workers confronted a … Continue reading
US PROS letter to California Assembly Safety Committee opposing Assembly Bill 379
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April 25, 2025. We are writing to urgently ask you to oppose AB 379, the Survivor Support and Demand Reduction Act introduced by Assemblymember Maggy Krell. The language of this bill is based on misinformation and is vague and confusing. Most importantly, it … Continue reading
“Stand In” to Protest San Francisco’s High Tech Surveillance Cameras and the Criminalization of Poverty
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On December 15, 2024, US PROStitutes Collective and others held an action to protest the new high tech surveillance cameras in the Mission district. Protestors stood on the corner of Shotwell and 21st beside one tower where the cameras are … Continue reading
“Stand In” to Mark International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
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In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project Open House
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In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project celebrated its new office space with an Open House at the Crossroads Women’s Center on Friday, June 21, 2024. Rachel West, Sharon Lungo and Jane Welford (pictured above from left to right) welcomed … Continue reading
Action Alert: Stop Criminalizing Sex Workers. Oppose bills making loitering for prostitution illegal again.
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Three new California bills, AB 2034, AB 2646 and SB 1219 aim to re-criminalize loitering for the purposes of prostitution. This is a very harmful move as criminalization undermines sex workers’ safety and puts them at greater risk of rape … Continue reading
Action Alert: Stop Criminalizing Sex Workers. Oppose AB 2034. It makes loitering for prostitution illegal again
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A new California Assembly Bill, 2034, re-criminalizes loitering for the purposes of prostitution. The loitering law (Penal Code Section 653.22) was repealed in 2022 following decades of organizing by the grassroots sex worker rights movement in California, which pointed in … Continue reading
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