April 25, 2025. We are writing to urgently ask you to oppose AB 379, the Survivor Support and Demand Reduction Act introduced by Assemblymember Maggy Krell. The language of this bill is based on misinformation and is vague and confusing. Most importantly, it … Continue reading
Category Archives: Sex Workers Speak Out
“Stand In” to Protest San Francisco’s High Tech Surveillance Cameras and the Criminalization of Poverty
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On December 15, 2024, US PROStitutes Collective and others held an action to protest the new high tech surveillance cameras in the Mission district. Protestors stood on the corner of Shotwell and 21st beside one tower where the cameras are … Continue reading
Action Alert Update: Bills reinstating loitering for prostitution as a crime have stalled in committee
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Due to public pressure, none of the three new California bills to re-criminalize loitering for prostitution, AB 2034, AB 2646 or SB 1219, have made it out of committee and are not now expected to pass, but we remain vigilant … Continue reading
Action Alert: Stop Criminalizing Sex Workers. Oppose bills making loitering for prostitution illegal again.
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Three new California bills, AB 2034, AB 2646 and SB 1219 aim to re-criminalize loitering for the purposes of prostitution. This is a very harmful move as criminalization undermines sex workers’ safety and puts them at greater risk of rape … 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
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
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