Save the Date Community event: Stop Discrimination in Compensation for Rape Victims: Justice for Sex Workers is Justice for All Tuesday, November 12, 6pm to 7:30pm, SF Public library, Latina/Hispanic Meeting Room, lower level, 100 Larkin Street (Civic Center BART), … Continue reading
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Rape survivors and other women testify in Sacramento to remove regulations
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On September 9, at an open meeting in Sacramento called by the California Victim Compensation Program (CalVCP), women came or called in by phone from San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles. They gave moving testimony, most as survivors … Continue reading
First win in campaign against discriminatory CalVCP regulations
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A campaign to protest discriminatory regulations of the Victim Compensation Program (CalVCP) is gaining momentum in California. CalVCP is a statewide program that provides financial compensation for victims of rape and other violent crime. Cal VCP’s regulations exclude sex workers … Continue reading
Oppose discriminatory regulations of the California Victim Compensation program
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Statement from Rachel West of the US PROStitutes Collective at public hearing of the California Victim Compensation program, February 28, 2013 We support compensation for all women who have been victims of rape and other violence including women who have … Continue reading
Sign On Signatures Opposing Regulations against Sex Workers and Formerly Incarcerated People in CalVCP program
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May 13, 2013 To: California Victim’s Compensation and Government Claims Board (CalVCP) P.O. Box 48, Sacramento, CA 95812-0048 Compensation is official acknowledgement of what victims suffer and is money which can help with security and recovery. It must be available … Continue reading
Statement by Legal Action for Women on rape compensation discriminatory regulation
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Statement at a California Victim Compensation meeting, May 16, 2013, by Lori Nairne, Legal Action for Women (LAW) Based in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1984, we help women who cannot afford lawyers get legal advice and support. Over … Continue reading
Support Women Prisoners – Protest Prisoner Overcrowding at Chowchilla
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The Global Women’s Strike (GWS) and US PROStitutes Collective are calling for all to come out to Chowchilla, the site of the largest women’s prison in the world, Saturday, January 26, to support women prisoners and protest prisoner overcrowding, in … Continue reading
NO ON PROP 35
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Sex worker groups call for public forum on Prop 35
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Sex Worker groups invite you to a: Public Forum on Prop 35 Monday, October 29 at 12 noon steps of City Hall, Polk Street side We are inviting the proponent and funder of Prop 35 Chris Kelly Facebook millionaire to … Continue reading
Oposicion a la Proposicion 35
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Oposición a la Propuesta 35, el Acto “Case” sobre el tráfico de personas está creciendo (ver abajo). La Prop 35 pretende proteger a las jovenes del tráfico pero en su lugar: Criminaliza a cualquira que ayude a las/los jovenes en … Continue reading
