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A multiracial network of women campaigning for justice for sex workers, economic resources and decriminalization of sex work.
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@HIPSDC
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This booklet comes from the struggle of sex workers & formerly incarcerated people, starting w/ Black & other women of color, incl. trans women, who are up against sexism, racism & transphobia, & police abuse.
#DecriminalizeSexWork
#KnowYourRights
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Sex workers join public outrage at murders of Black people by police as we fight police violence, racism & criminalization. We face destitution because we've been excluded from COVID-19 relief. Pls support our demands:
#BlackLivesMatter
#IWD2020
#ISWD2020
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"Our children don't want their mothers in jail." We're campaigning for protection, justice, and compensation for sex workers and formerly incarcerated people and for the decriminalization of sex work. Join us on June 2nd, International Sex Workers Day.
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Join US PROS and others for a digital panel on sex workers and the COVID-19 crisis!
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#Sexworkers
, did you know that if you are a victim or witness to violent crime, you will not be arrested or prosecuted for sex work or minor drug offenses if you report the crime to police? Join us on June 13 to learn more about the Prioritizing Safety for Sex Workers policies!
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Commemorate International Sex Workers Day with
@PROS_Collective
. June 2nd in San Francisco at Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative. 6:30 to 8:00 PM. Film Screening, Readings and Discussion. Join Us.
#InternationalSexWorkersDay
#InternationalWhoresDay
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We agree with
@RedCanarySong
's powerful statement. "Decriminalization of sex work is the only way that sex workers, massage workers, sex trafficking survivors, and anyone criminalized for their survival and/or livelihood will ever be safe."
We appreciate the overwhelming support we have gotten overnight, and understand that many people are looking to us in this moment. Please read our response on the 8 lives lost in Atlanta.
Chinese and Korean translations of this statement are available
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We are excited to announce a new campaign and booklet launched today: Know Your Rights to Protection, Justice & Compensation for Sex Workers & Formerly Incarcerated People by
@PROS_Collective
@c_c_w_p
;
@HIPSDC
;
@woc_gws
Read booklet here:
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Victory in California that the decriminalization of loitering for prostitution was signed into law!! Decades of sex worker led organizing protesting racist, sexist, anti-trans targeting by police here in CA and nationally laid the groundwork.
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End Violence Against Sex Workers: Decriminalization, Compensation, Justice. Virtual gathering Dec. 17, 5:30pm PT, for International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Conveners US PROStitutes Collective & In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety. RSVP
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Today on
#IntlWhoresDay
we are excited to announce that we will be soon releasing a Know Your Rights booklet that hi-lites some protections for SWs, FIPs & others impacted by poverty! Please keep your eyes and ears open for more updates about the release! ✊🏽
#OutlawPoverty
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ACTION ALERT: Support CA Bill SB 233 Improving Sex Workers Health & Safety!
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Sex workers are labeled unfit mothers by the authorities and have our children taken away. We need resources not punishment.
#GiveUsBackOurChildren
#PovertyIsNotNeglect
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US PROS is delighted to be speaking as part of a panel at Sex Workers: Access to Justice webinar, November 19. 9-11 AM PST. 12-2 EST. See details below.
ECP WEBINAR - SEX WORKERS: ACCESS TO JUSTICE. Hear from migrant sex workers about our fight against exploitation and trafficking. 19 Nov 5-7pm Register @
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Take Back the Neighborhood: Rally Against Criminalization! Join
@Coyoteri
& friends on Saturday June 2
#InternationalWhoresDay
#Decrim
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Join us for a virtual gathering on
#IDEVASW
Thurs.
#December17
to uplift sex workers' historic + current struggles against violence + poverty & to honor those who've lost their lives along the way.
RSVP:
#OutlawPovertyNotProstitutes
#NoBadWomenJustBadLaws
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Yay! Good News: the CA Gov. just signed the $7.5 million budget request to
#CompensateSurvivors
of State sponsored forced sterilizations! This victory is an important step in confronting CA's legacy of eugenics.
#EndEugenicsLegacy
Congrats
@c_c_w_p
& others who fought for this!
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We remember Carol Leigh for the many years she dedicated to the sex worker led movement for decriminalization. In particular our work together as part of the SF Prostitution Task Force in 1994, where we pushed and won groundbreaking resolutions for decrim. Carol Leigh presente.
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Tomorrow is International Sex Workers Day. Film screening of actual footage from the 1975 church occupation by sex workers that started in Lyon and spread across France. Readings from sex workers on strike at the time. San Francisco. 6:30 to 8:00 PM.
#InternationalSexWorkersDay
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Stop criminalizing sex work in San Francisco! The City's prostitution Task Force recommended decriminalization nearly 30 years ago! Instead, barricades on Capp Street and more police harassment push women, trying to feed families, into more danger.
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Widely inaccurate reporting by LA Times on arrests during Super Bowl week in CA. Claims of “Nearly 500 Arrested in Statewide Human Trafficking Operations” is disproven by figures which show that the majority were of sex workers & clients where no force or coercion was involved.
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Mission police crackdown in SF won’t help women leave sex work or reduce prostitution--a crime of poverty. The City should implement a Child Tax Credit and a Guaranteed Care Income for single mothers who are or have been at risk of criminalization.
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In the 1980s/90s, Margaret Prescod, founder of the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders, said "There'd be more response from the police if these were San Marino housewives. …If you're Black and living on the fringe, your life isn't worth much.”
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"We want our struggle for justice to be counted as part of the movement against injustice. Thats why we’re joining with the
#PoorPeoplesCampaign
to fight poverty & racism, the war economy & a for a society that values us all" Rachel West US PROS (from1:00)
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News from our sister group the English Collective of Prostitutes
“All the stuff that makes me safer is illegal” New govt. research confirms financial need & criminalisation create the “perfect cocktail of conditions” for undermining sex workers’ safety.
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Join us tomorrow: Wednesday 7/14 @ 10am pst / 11am mt / 1 pm est for the official launch of a NEW
#KnowYourRights
Campaign and Booklet! More info at
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Reporting by WAPO shows
#GilgoBeach
serial killer investigation riddled with infighting between prosecutors & detectives. Pivotal lead, ignored for 10+ years, could have cracked the case! How many MORE women died as a result of police negligence & utter disregard for sex workers?
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Sexist, racist, transphobic, loitering for prostitution charge repealed (effective Jan 1 in CA) so police can’t arrest women for simply walking or standing in public US PROS’ campaigning over decades contributed to this victory:
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@esplerp
@mikestabile
@DesireeAlliance
@AlexPadilla4CA
@FSCArmy
@kristendiangelo
@SwopSacramento
John Oliver was spot on! Really worth watching
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#GilgoBeach
In 2011, Chief of Detectives for serial murder case, referred to victims' status as sex workers, calling it a "consolation" that the murderer wasn't "selecting citizens at large--he's selecting from a pool." (WAPO) Police contempt for sex workers prejudiced the case!
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We demand the decriminalization of sex work so that sex workers are entitled to the same occupational health and safety rights as other workers. We demand resources such as welfare, housing and income so that those who want to leave prostitution can do so.
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As poverty increases so does prostitution. 51M US families can’t afford basics like rent & food. Sex work is a way that women, partic single moms, have found to feed, clothe & put a roof over our kid's heads. We're not ashamed of what we have to do to survive
#PoorPeoplesCampaign
The movement continues! On 6/20, the
#PoorPeoplesCampaign
goes digital w/ a mass online gathering to demand that 140 million poor & low-wealth people across the nation are heard. Our demands must be front & center in this critical election year! Join us: !
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@c_c_w_p
@HIPSDC
@woc_gws
“Knowing our rights to compensation, justice and protection is urgent considering the harms caused by criminalization, and that more people, especially single mothers, are going into
#sexwork
because of a lack of economic options.”
#EndPoverty
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We want our struggle for justice to be counted as part of the movement against injustice. That’s why we’re joining with
@UniteThePoor
to fight poverty & racism, the war economy which is having a devastating impact on us, & for a society that values all of us
#PoorPeoplesCampaign
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"People are going to be getting arrested at high rates, and those disruptions are going to continue the cycles of poverty that people are stuck in because of criminalization" - US PROS in
Learn more tonight @
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Stop the police crackdown in Mission District/SF
@BrookeJenkinsSF
! Sex workers, particularly women of color, are targeted for police racism, illegality & arrest; pushed into isolated areas & danger. Attacking poverty must be the priority, not women working to support families!
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On June 2nd, International Whore’s Day
@PROS_Collective
@SwopSacramento
@sfmistress
@SanFranciscoLP
#SideWalkProjectLA
will be sponsoring a banner drop in SF, LA, and Sacramento
#Sexwork
#DecrimSexWork
#RepealFOSTA
#SupportAsianMassageWorkers
#StopRacistLoiteringLaws
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“We are targeted because of the policing and the criminalization of sex workers. We don’t go to the police when we are raped and we are attacked by people because we are afraid of prosecution.”
#FOSTA
#SESTA
#LetUsSurvive
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New Maine law touted as "feminist" for criminalizing clients of sex workers, as if that's a good thing. It's based on Nordic Model--a disaster in Europe. Shown to increase rape, attacks, & stigma of sex workers, as well as loss of custody, housing, & risk of deportation.
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Great article from our sister group, the English Collective of Prostitutes!
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Oppose CA AB 2034! See Action Alert. Contact the CA Assembly Public Safety Committee before March 12th.
AB 2034 criminalizes loitering for prostitution AGAIN!
The old law, repealed in 2022, was known for its sexist, racist, and transphobic enforcement.
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We're 5 days away from the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers! Don't 4get 2 RSVP 2 Our Virtual Gathering December 17th 2020 5:30PM PST
See you there! ✊
#IDEVASW
#D17
#OutlawPovertyNotProstitutes
#DecriminalizeSexWork
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There is still an urgent need to make calls to demand that CDCr
#StopCCWFOutbreak
! Help our siblings at
@c_c_w_p
get closer to a solution for our people inside!
#Covid19
#CDCr
Use the script in the pic to make your calls!
#WeGotUs
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@c_c_w_p
@HIPSDC
@woc_gws
Yes, we have rights! Changes in California policies and law have been won by grassroots sex worker led campaigns over decades. We are on the road to decriminalization!
#DecriminalizeSexWork
Read more here:
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Tomorrow with
@EmpowerThailand
&
@ProstitutesColl
we're joining
@UniteThePoor
for the
#PoorPeoplesCampaign
digital March on Washington - building the largest online gathering of poor & low-income people in US history! Please join us! Register @
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US PROStitutes Collective will be participating in this exciting international gathering with others in the US and around the world. June 9-11. Hope you will join us.
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@c_c_w_p
@HIPSDC
@woc_gws
Victories include law & policy giving sex workers & formerly incarcerated people rights on: immunity from arrest, access to
#victimcompensation
, protection from forced sterilization & more.
#CompensateSurvivors
See
#KnowYourRights
booklet:
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Many sex workers are mothers and other caregivers, if we had money for our caregiving we could leave prostitution if we want. Support all caregivers now!
#payallcaregivers
Help build twitter storm Thurs 8-10pmET, 5-7pmPT urging
@JoeBiden
@KamalaHarris
to support American Family Act & amend proposed $5000 tax credit for unpaid family caregivers to make it *fully refundable* so no caregiver is excluded-
#payallcaregivers
. See
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New concrete barriers on Capp Street in the Mission District in San Francisco intended to push sex workers out of the neighborhood jeopardize public safety according to San Francisco firefighters.
Someone who doesn't understand our work might say, "what's the big deal?" but to someone whose home is on fire or who is having a medical emergency, seconds can mean life and death. We recently had a large fire on 20th Street just blocks from here.
@HillaryRonen
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Also the CA bill decriminalizing loitering would allow those of us who were previously convicted or are currently serving loitering sentences to ask a court to dismiss and seal the record of the conviction. Criminal records can impact access to resources and keep us impoverished.
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New Maine bill, sponsored by Rep. Lois Reckitt (D,) does not support the most vulnerable! Most sex workers are mothers, many single mothers, struggling to support our children and families. Women of color are the poorest. The bill offers no $ resources to help us out of poverty!
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Many sex workers are mothers. Pass
#ChildTaxCredit
NOW
Pass
#ChildTaxCredit
NOW. Children urgently need it & mothers have earned it!
#InternationalWomensDay
@POTUS
@SenSchumer
@USProgressives
@SenSanders
@RepJayapal
@Sen_JoeManchin
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Racist enforcement of the prostitution laws targets Black & other women of color, who are most arrested & imprisoned. Street-based sex workers, migrant & trans women face particular stigma, discrimination, & brutal violence including from the police.
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Here's the schedule for the June 9-11 2023 international and community gathering in Philadelphia. See QR Code below for online and in person registration.
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@c_c_w_p
@HIPSDC
@woc_gws
Booklet highlights ongoing campaigns such as abolishing or amending harmful & racist anti-trafficking laws, addressing women’s poverty & criminalization, winning full decriminalization of sex work.
#DecriminalizeSexWork
#EndPoverty
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Washtenaw County DA
@elisavit
says he will no longer charge consensual sex work. This is one piece of policy that goes hand in hand w/ CA leg like SB 233 and the SFPD + SFDA policies to not arrest and/or prosecute sex workers when reporting violence.
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Black, Indigenous, Latinx, incarcerated people, people with disabilities, and poor people have been targeted for sterilizations.
#AB1007
is long overdue.
#ItsTime
time to
#EndEugenicsLegacy
@LorenaSGonzalez
@WendyCarrillo
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"It has been characterized as a form of stop-and-frisk for women and trans people because it allows police to stop and search anyone they believe to be engaged in prostitution based on nothing more than their appearance."
"This discriminatory law that was enacted in 1976 to 'clean up the streets' has morphed into the most discriminatory law in the New York State statute.” ...it is a direct descendent of Jim Crow vagrancy laws that punished Black folks for merely existing.
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US PROS has endorsed this exciting event. Hope you will join us Wednesday March 8 International Women's Day!
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Help Stop the Police Crackdown on Sex Workers in the Mission District in San Francisco. See our Action Alert for details.
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Follow us on
#instagram
to join our IG Live conversations leading up to our
#IDEVASW
#D17
event!
#DecriminalizeSexWork
#ProtectSexWorkers
#BlackCoalitonFightingBackSerialMurders
#MMIWGS2
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Sex workers are mothers and caregivers too! We all deserve to be paid for the work we do!
Press release from Election Action for Caregivers: Unpaid Family Caregivers Respond to President Biden’s Rescue Plan
and to the Marshall Plan for Moms Proposal
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Sex Worker Groups Call Foul On Fake Study: Sacramento Anti-Prostitution Group CASH Took $1.5m of State Money To Produce Worthless Study That Recommends CASH Gets More State Funding: see press release:
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Join US PROS and others for this digital panel on sex workers and the COVID-19 crisis!
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"In 2017, San Francisco became the first place in the US to implement amnesty for sex workers reporting crime in its Prioritizing Safety for Sex Workers Policy."
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@HIPSDC
Encampment evictions are happening regularly in the Bay Area too. In San Francisco, the Sit and Lie Law, making it illegal to sit or lie on the sidewalk between 7AM and 11PM, is being enforced. Gives the police power to harass houseless people, sex workers and others.
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Only 41 arrests out of the 500 were related to felony human trafficking. 415 of the arrests involved loitering for prostitution or escorting without a license. 15 involved supervising prostitution. 11 involved other misdemeanors not related to sex.
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Happening today! Still time to sign up @
if you arent able to register in time for link to be sent please go to our fb to see live stream
End Violence Against Sex Workers: Decriminalization, Compensation, Justice. Virtual gathering Dec. 17, 5:30pm PT, for International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Conveners US PROStitutes Collective & In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety. RSVP
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Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary, Tales of the Grim Sleeper. It documents campaigning by the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders for police accountability and justice for over 200 missing & murdered Black women & girls, and their families, in LA.
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We protest the massive crackdown during Super Bowl using the excuse of anti-trafficking campaigns to round-up and arrest sex workers, primarily women of color and others trying to make a living.
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D 17: Stand with sex workers demanding that Mission Police stop arrests and prioritize safety!
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Printable Version of new
#KnowYourRights
booklet for SWs & FIPs:
#DecriminalizeSexWork
#CompensateSurvivors
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Sex Worker Rights & Sex Trafficking Laws – Fighting for Justice, Ending Poverty, Racism and Criminalization
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Sex workers face criminalization, discrimination and poverty. Many sex workers are mothers working to put food on the table for their children. Join us June 2nd in San Francisco.
#InternationalSexWorkersDay
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Our event will be live on
#Zoom
this Thurs
#D17
starting @ 5:30PM PST. We know lots of ppl dont use zoom so we'll also be streaming onto
#FacebookLive
& recording 4 ppl 2 watch l8r. RSVP:
#IDEVASW2020
#EndViolenceAgainstSexWorkers
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That LA times article contradicts their recent editorial that calls out the dangerous myth of the increase of sex trafficking during the Super Bowl
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Tmrw Saturday 12/11 <3
Reminder, TOMORROW 9am PT / 12pm ET, US Launch of pathbreaking books by Andaiye and Selma James. REGISTER HERE:
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"California Repeals Discriminatory Loitering for Prostitution Law" thanks to Bay View for publishing
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Today is
#InternationalDayToEndViolenceAgainstSexWorkers
, We honor sex workers that have lost their lives to the violence of criminalization, stigma, racism, sexism and poverty.
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"This discriminatory law that was enacted in 1976 to 'clean up the streets' has morphed into the most discriminatory law in the New York State statute.” ...it is a direct descendent of Jim Crow vagrancy laws that punished Black folks for merely existing.
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California Poor People’s Campaign Returns to CA State Capitol for Non-Violent Direct-Action. Rachel West of US PROS speaking at this event on Monday!
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Hope you can participate in this international and community gathering. See QR Code below to register. See next tweet for the event schedule.
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New Maine bill (
#1435
) erroneously renames all sex work as "commercial sexual exploitation." This will give more powers to the police under the guise of reducing trafficking. In Sweden, under this model, there was no reduction in trafficking!
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Between 1909-1979 CA sterilized over 20,000 people - a third of eugenics sterilizations nationwide. Forced sterilizations continued in CA women’s prisons & most recently in detention centers.
@LorenaSGonzalez
support
#AB1007
and
#EndEugenicsLegacy
in CA.
@WendyCarrillo
#ItsTime
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CA bill SB 1219 re-criminalizes standing in a public place for anyone police suspect is loitering for prostitution. This bill makes sex workers and others less safe! Senate Public Safety Committee hearing is 4/2/24. See Action Alert to oppose this.
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Decriminalization removes prostitution from the criminal law & gives legal, health, employment and other rights to sex workers. While the new Maine law, based on the Nordic Model, criminalizes clients rather than sex workers, it is not decriminalization!
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This year International Whore’s Day coincides with the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention. Let’s make our voices heard on what’s happening to sex workers! June 1st 12-3pm, Moscone Center, SF -
#RepealFOSTA
#DecrimNow
#SexWorkerRights
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Forwarding from our sisters. In Philly and online. Saturday, July 20th. 3PM Eastern, 2 PM Central, 1 PM Mountain, 12 PM Pacific. Please join us for a community conversation.
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@womenstrike_us
@sydneykamlager
@AsmMarkStone
@AsmReyes47
@AsmRichardBloom
Support CA bill SB 1085 - sex workers facing poverty and homelessness are penalized by having our kids taken away for trying to survive and feed our families. Poverty is not Neglect.
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Bravo to UC Davis School of Law students, who got Maggy Krell's "Taking Down Backpage" talk cancelled last week. Maggy Krell was part of the team prosecuting Backpage, a popular website used by sex workers. See the protest letter from students below:
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On
#D17
we remember the over 200 Black women dead or missing in South L.A., victims of serial murderers. We support the work of the
#BlackCoalitionFightingBackSerialMurders
who’ve been fighting for justice & police accountability.
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