Black Coalition in LA Fighting Back Serial Murders at Press Conference re Grim Sleeper arrest
Police Raked for Handling of Prostitute Murder Cases
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Los Angeles Times Wednesday, February 22, 1989 By BETTINA BOXALL, Times Staff Writer Several community activists Tuesday complained to the Police Commission that the Los Angeles Police Department is mishandling and covering up an investigation o[ what appear to be serial … Continue reading
Debating Whether It’s a Crime to Rest on San Francisco’s Sidewalks
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SAN FRANCISCO— Starchild, a self-described sex worker and a candidate forSan Franciscosupervisor, says there is absolutely no reason that his beloved city needs any more rules. “I think that with a lot of laws, half of it is leftover … Continue reading
Canadian sex workers win decriminalization
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The High Court in Ontario, Canada, yesterday abolished the laws banning street soliciting (communicating for the purposes of prostitution), working together from premises (bawdy house) and living off the avails of prostitution as they make sex workers more vulnerable to … Continue reading
Resolution Supporting Sex Workers’ Safety and Rights: for the Decriminalization of Prostitution
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Decriminalization makes it safer for sex workers Full text USSF Detroit 2010 Resolution Supporting Sex Workers’ Safety and Rights: for the Decriminalization of Prostitution US PROStitutes Collective P.O. Box 14512 San Francisco CA 94114 http://www.internationalprostitutescollective.net Contact: Rachel West 415-626-4114 uspros@prostitutescollective.net … Continue reading
City Critique of First Offender Prostitution Program Welcomed
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The US PROStitutes Collective (US PROS) and many others are glad to see the critical audit of the First Offender Prostitution Program (FOPP) just released by the city’s budget analyst. US PROS and other sex worker organizations worked with Supervisor … Continue reading
South Africa; Sex work should be decriminalised and regulated – Institute for Security Studies report
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Report says sex work should be decriminalised This is from the Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg by DENISE WILLIAMS | PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – Jul 31 2008 15:19 Sex work should be decriminalised and regulated by the same labour legislation as other sectors … Continue reading
SF Chronicle article invites violence against sex workers
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May 2, 2007 Contact Rachel West 415/640-4250 Stop Press…Stop Press…Stop Press…Stop Press…Stop Press…Stop US PROStitutes Collective (US PROS) and supporters will be at the San Francisco Chronicle office, 901 Mission Street at 9am Thursday, May 3 to protest the April … Continue reading
Event with DHS Give us Back our Children
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You are invited to a film showing & reception with filmmaker Phoebe Jones of the Every Mother is a Working Mother Network in Philadelphia ◄”This film speaks to the lives of women in our network who also face losing their … Continue reading
Community Dialogue on the Criminalization of Survival: Poverty, Violence and Prostitution 6-9-05
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People from different communities came together to discuss the Criminalization of Survival: Poverty, Violence and Prostitution on June 9, 2005 at St. Boniface Church in San Francisco. This Community Dialogue was called by the In Defense of … Continue reading
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