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Tuesday, November 12, 6pm to 7:30pm SF Public library, Latina/Hispanic Meeting Room, lower level,
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| Speakers: Rachel West, US PROStitutes CollectiveIn Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety ProjectMaxine Doogan, Erotic Service Providers Union A speaker from All of Us or None, a project of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Kimberly A. Horiuchi, spokesperson for the ACLU on |
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| The California Victim Compensation program (CalVCP) has regulations excluding some victims of rape such as sex workers and formerly incarcerated people from getting compensation for rape and other violence.If some victims are discriminated in this way it means that any victim can be judged unworthy and refused. It sends the message that rape is tolerated for some, even encouraged and leads to more violence.A campaign to get the discriminatory regulations scrapped is getting results. The CalVCP board in Sacramento has agreed to review the regulation excluding sex workers and a proposal is being put to their December 12 Board meeting.The regulation disqualifying ex-prisoners on felony probation or parole from compensation is also being opposed, as well as the current process where rather than the state taking responsibility to compensate victims, they extract payments called “restitution” from prisoners, many of whom are inside for non-violent offenses including crimes of poverty.
Come hear about the campaign and what you can do. We want to hear your ideas, suggestions, concerns with a view to strengthening this campaign. Pressure is needed to end this discrimination. |
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| For info: 415 626-4114, email: uspros@prostitutescollective.net, http://www.uspros.net | |||
US PROS Collective
The US PROStitutes Collective (US PROS) is a multiracial network of women who work or have worked in different areas of the sex industry. Founded in 1982, US PROS campaigns for the decriminalization of prostitution and for justice, protection and resources so that no woman, young person or man is forced into prostitution through poverty or violence.
US PROS Collective 