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
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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
Sex Workers Call Foul On Fake Study
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 25, 2022 Sacramento Anti-Prostitution Group CASH Took $1.5m Of State Money To Produce Worthless Study That Recommends CASH Gets More State Funding SACRAMENTO — Sex worker groups today reacted angrily to a Sacramento anti-prostitution group’s (CASH … 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
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