Sex work and the city: How the policing of prostitution in San Francisco has evolved

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by Lydia Sidhom, Bay City News August 17, 2023 AS THE SUN sets over Capp Street in San Francisco’s Mission District each evening, the red lights turn on, and the neighborhood becomes the center for sex work in the city. Cars pass … Continue reading

Help Stop Police Crackdown on Sex Workers in the Mission District, SF

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 Action Alert: Help Stop Police Crackdown on Sex Workers in the Mission District in San Francisco  A police and city crackdown on sex workers in the Mission District is targeting sex workers, particularly women of color, for harassment and arrest. Proposals to … Continue reading

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

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

Bay Area Int’l Day to End Violence against Sex Workers

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December 17, 2017   Center for Sex & Culture   1349 Mission St.  {bet. 9th & 10th Sts.}   Film show, discussion & potluck,  2-4 pm     “Les Prostitutées de Lyon Parlent – The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak ” by Carole Roussopoulos … Continue reading

US PROS film show at Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival: Saturday, May 27th, Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, 4:00 – 5:30 PM

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US PROS flyer sex worker film festival Les Prostitutées de Lyon Parlent  – The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak  by Carole Roussopoulos On 3 June 1975, 150 prostitute women occupied the church of St. Nizier, one of the main churches in the centre of Lyon, … Continue reading

Some Mother’s Daughter – No to Poverty, Violence and Criminalization

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A Women’s History Month event:  Saturday March 19,  2pm Redstone Building, Rm 302, 2940 16th St. SF (near 16th/Mission BART) Over 200 women missing in LA! 100 believed to be victims of serial murderers. Participate in a Day of Solidarity with … Continue reading

Support New Hampshire Bill to decriminalize prostitution! Vote is tomorrow! Feb 17th

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Action Alert from the US PROStitutes Collective URGENT: The vote on the New Hampshire Bill HB1614 to decriminalize prostitution was postponed last week and will be voted on tomorrow February 17! Legislators are hearing from people in NH opposed to … Continue reading