https://sfbayview.com/2022/07/california-repeals-discriminatory-loitering-for-prostitution-law/ July 26, 2022 by Rachel West, US PROStitutes Collective There is a wave of change in the US on the rights of sex workers and it is growing. A slew of laws challenging the criminalization of sex work are … Continue reading
Category Archives: Criminalization of Poverty
From our sister group ECP: “Stop punishing sex worker mums by taking kids away, demand activists”
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Call to decriminalise sex work and support women in need rather than labelling them ‘unfit’ because of their work Lauren Crosby Medlicott25 July 2022, 2.06pm openDemocracy Every Wednesday, picketers meet outside the Central Family Court in London to protest against … Continue reading
US PROS Speech at Sex Worker Rights Symposium for Super Bowl Week ’22
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On February 9th, 2022 the Stop The Raids committee held a Sex Worker Rights Symposium online. The committee came together to oppose the false pretext of an increase in trafficking during Super Bowl as an excuse for massive police crackdowns … Continue reading
OVER 200 MISSING AND MURDERED BLACK WOMEN IN SOUTH LOS ANGELES AND “MISSING WHITE WOMEN SYNDROME”: PRESS RELEASE
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DATE: Thursday, September 23, 2021FROM: The Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders and the Reclaiming Our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE) Project.CONTACT: Margaret Prescod 323-646-1269 mp@allwomencount.net; Nana Gyamfi 323-947-9722 attorneygyamfi@gmail.com As it stands today, thirty-two Black women whose photos were found in … Continue reading
Know Your Rights To: Protection Justice, Compensation for Sex Workers & Formerly Incarcerated People – Campaign & Booklet
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On July 14th 2021 US PROStitutes Collective launched a new Know Your Rights campaign and booklet for sex workers and formerly incarcerated people. The booklet focuses on hard won laws and policies that have to do with protection, justice and … Continue reading
US PROS quoted in: “Has FOSTA Accomplished Its Goals?”
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Liberal CurrentsLauren Crosby · March 16, 2021 In April 2018, the Trump administration signed FOSTA—a combination of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act—into law, ostensibly a response to the Section 230 protections which kept … Continue reading
Sex Worker Rights & Sex Trafficking Laws – Fighting for Justice, Ending Poverty, Racism and Criminalization
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Stop legislation endangering sex workers in Oakland
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Action Alert! Action Alert! Action Alert!Stop legislation that negatively impacts sex workers in Oakland. Going after clients violates rights & increases discrimination vs sex workers On July 19 legislation was introduced by Oakland City Council Member Abel Guillen to arrest … Continue reading
“Welfare Reform” Is Pushing Women Into Unwaged Work — It’s Time to Change That
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Direct link to article: https://truthout.org/articles/welfare-reform-is-pushing-women-into-unwaged-work-it-s-time-to-change-that/ BY Sarah Jaffe, TruthoutPUBLISHED June 29, 2017 I spoke with several supporters of the Act at the People’s Summit in Chicago recently, starting with Reverend Annie Chambers from Baltimore, Maryland. Next, I spoke with Rachel West … Continue reading
San Francisco Sex Workers Battle For Rights, Legitimacy
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July 6, 2017 6:00 AM CBS SF Bay Area SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — “Did you f*** her first or did you pay her first?” a man nonchalantly asked his friend outside a cluster of massage parlors on Kearny Street in … Continue reading
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