Decriminalization makes it safer for sex workers Full text USSF Detroit 2010 Resolution Supporting Sex Workers’ Safety and Rights: for the Decriminalization of Prostitution US PROStitutes Collective P.O. Box 14512 San Francisco CA 94114 http://www.internationalprostitutescollective.net Contact: Rachel West 415-626-4114 uspros@prostitutescollective.net … Continue reading
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US Social Forum workshop – Rape, Prostitution, Trafficking – the Issue is Consent
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US Social Forum Workshop Rape, Prostitution, Trafficking – The Issue is Consent How a growing international movement is demanding decriminalization of sex work, prioritizing resources, and protection. How anti-trafficking and law enforcement undermine women’s safety and rights and target immigrant sex … Continue reading
India: The fight for ‘justice’ by a sex workers’ union sparkle a debate
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By M G Radhaakrishan For the group of sex workers on its usual rounds near the Thampanoor Railway Station in Thiruvananthapuram, the night of February 25 appeared no different at … Continue reading
Report of International Prostitutes Collective conference: No Bad Women, No Bad Children, Just Bad Laws
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This path breaking conference aimed to influence the UK government’s review of the prostitution laws, learn from the experience of other countries and gather support for International Prostitutes Collective (IPC) proposals to prevent further violence and criminalisation against sex workers. … Continue reading
No woman is safe when prostitutes aren’t safe
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Jack Bokin has been charged with a series of brutal rapes and sexual assaults on four women, three of whom are prostitute women. He attacked the last victim with a hammer while he was out on bail, and left her … Continue reading
The Criminalization of Survival: Poverty, Violence and Prostitution
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Street Sheet, (San Francisco) June 2005, p7 You need look no further than the case of serial rapist Jack Bokin to know why the SF Board of Supervisors (BOS) resolution 1564, Mitigating Violence Against Prostitutes should be immediately implemented. … Continue reading
Recovering from Rape or Sexual Assault? A Self Help Alternative Healing Workshop
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In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project presents Recovering from Rape or Sexual Assault? A Self Help Alternative Healing Workshop Are you and/or someone you know trying to recover from/deal with rape or sexual assault? This workshop will introduce … Continue reading
Please vote YES ON PROPOSITION K
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!!Urgent call to action!! People of Asian descent and of all ethnicities and nationalities! When: Monday, November 3rd 6pm, Wanted: lion head masks, lion dancers! Asian drummers (taiko?), horns, kazoos and signs! Please call 1-877-776-2004 x5 for info or if you plan … Continue reading
Statement from a Latina/Filipina mother
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I am a 27year old Latina/Filipina mother of three. I grew up with my two brothers in the Tenderloin or anywhere we could stay and the only way to survive was bring on welfare, which didn’t pay enough for 3 … Continue reading
New Zealand Prostitutes Collective in San Francisco
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RECEPTION FOR: CATHERINE HEALY, NEW ZEALAND PROSTITUTION LAW REVIEW COMMITTEE & NIKI ADAMS, ENGLISH COLLECTIVE OF PROSTITUTES February 10th 6PM-10PM Center for Sex and Culture theatre, 1519 Mission street, San Francisco Dear Friends, We are excited to announce that the US PROStitutes … Continue reading
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