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
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Action Alert: Stop Criminalizing Sex Workers. Oppose AB 2034. It makes loitering for prostitution illegal again
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A new California Assembly Bill, 2034, re-criminalizes loitering for the purposes of prostitution. The loitering law (Penal Code Section 653.22) was repealed in 2022 following decades of organizing by the grassroots sex worker rights movement in California, which pointed in … Continue reading
Submission to the UN Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls
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US PROS urges the UN Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls to seriously examine the connections between criminalization of prostitution and violence against women and girls. Criminalization has a harmful and damaging impact on the lives of sex workers. We urge … Continue reading
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
End Women’s Poverty: A Guaranteed Care Income for All Caregivers of People & Planet
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Join us for this exciting international and community gathering at the Crossroads Women’s Center in Philadelphia June 9-11, 2023. Online and in person. Sliding scale for events. No one turned away for lack of funds. Register here.
End Women’s Poverty – A Guaranteed Care Income for All Caregivers of People & Planet
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All events also on zoom! RSVP to get link. The Global Women’s Strike at the new Crossroads Women’s Center in Philadelphia welcomes you to… An international and community gathering, June 9 – 11 End Women’s Poverty – A Guaranteed Care … 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
KPFA Flashpoints Interview on the Police Crackdown in the Mission District of San Francisco
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On February 16, 2023, Rachel West, US Pros Collective, and Nell Myhand, Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike, were interviewed about the police crackdown on sex workers in the Mission District of San Francisco by Dennis J. Bernstein … Continue reading
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
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