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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
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
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
US PROS quoted in Washington Post
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Increased sex trafficking during the Super Bowl is a dangerous myth, these L.A. sex workers say https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/02/08/sex-workers-trafficking-super-bowl/ Washington Post Ahead of the event, campaigns to curb trafficking have been popping up in the city. Some believe it could lead to … 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
Asian hate and Sex Workers: Sojourner Truth radio show 3/23/21
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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
Support statement for Rhode Island hearing on H5250
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Support H5250 To the members of the House Health & Human Services Committee: We are writing in support of H5250 to create a legislative commission to make a study. We understand the proposed study would look at how laws affect … Continue reading
Media: “Sex workers are human too. They deserve protections for reporting violence.”
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Lauren Crosby Medlicott , Opinion Contributor, Business Insider Feb 14, 2021, 5:03 AM Sex workers are scared to report violence for fear of criminalization for prostitution. Between 45% and 75% of sex workers globally have experienced violence at work. Until decriminalization of sex … Continue reading
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