Decriminalization would: 1. Increase safety. Police crackdowns break up safety networks. Raids, arrests and prosecutions make it harder for sex workers to collectively assert their rights to better working conditions. Street workers are forced into isolated areas and … Continue reading
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Support Lawsuit to Decriminalize Prostitution in California
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A lawsuit led by Erotic Service Provider Legal, Education & Research Project (ESPLERP) calls for the removal of California Penal Code 647(b), which criminalizes soliciting or engaging in prostitution. This law is used for most prostitution-related arrests in California. The court case … 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
“YES ON PROP K”
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v Prop K can win because the majority of the public of SF wants the criminalization of sex workers to end. v The $11.4 million dollars of taxpayer’s money now spent rounding up sex workers should instead be used for … Continue reading
