Category Archives: Criminalization of Poverty

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

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-december-5-2022/#playlist

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 →

Bay View – California repeals discriminatory loitering for prostitution law

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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 →

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 →