FEATURE ARTICLE by Rachel West: The Safer Streets for All Act (SB 357), repealing loitering for the intent to engage in prostitution (California Penal code § 653.22), was signed into law by Gov. Newsom on July 1. This code has led to the criminalization of otherwise legal activities like walking or standing in public, resulting in the harassment of Black and Brown, LGTBQ+ communities, mostly women, for simply looking like a “sex worker.” The bill also allows a person convicted of loitering to petition a court for the dismissal and sealing of records.
2022 CA Coalition’s “housing as healthcare” pilot
April 15, 2022The Honorable Nancy SkinnerChair, Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee California State SenateSacramento, CA 95814The Honorable Sydney Kamlager Chair, Senate Budget Subcommittee 4 California State SenateSacramento, CA 95814The Honorable Phil TingChair, Assembly Budget Committee California State Assembly Sacramento, CA 95814The Honorable Wendy CarrilloChair, Assembly Budget Subcommittee 4 California State AssemblySacramento, CA 95814Subject: Support … Continue reading 2022 CA Coalition’s “housing as healthcare” pilot
2020 COVID-19 Hurts by David Block
David Block has numerous articles published on disability, and also the dangers sex workers face. He is a Temple University graduate.
2019 In D.C. Extraordinary Hearing on Decriminalization of Sex Work
Report Re: October 17 hearing Washington DC City Council Committee Judiciary Public Safety on Community Health and Safety Amendment Act of 2019. — Read on medium.com/@phoebejs74/extraordinary-hearing-on-decriminalization-of-sex-work-695c91bb38dd
ESPU Press Release
Presidential candidates clarify your position! espu-press-release-June-27-2019
California Passes SB233
Sex Workers Applaud Vote By California Assembly For Passing SB233: SB 233 prohibits the arrest for prostitution of people who witness or are a victim of specified violent and serious crimes, and prohibits the use of condoms as evidence of sex work.
Support: California SB233
CALL TO ACTION - SB233 - Allow Trafficking Victims and Sex Workers to Report Violence Without Fear of Arrest. This important bill sponsored by SWOP Sacramento, SWOP USA, SWOP LA, St James Infirmary, ESLERP, USPROS, and supported by the ACLU, San Francisco DA, SF County Superviors, and the Gender Health Center. which would prohibit the arrest of individuals engaged in sex work when they come forward as a witness or a victim of specified violent and serious crimes. It will also end the practice of using condoms as evidence of sex work related offenses. Individuals in the sex trade experience and witness extremely high rates of violence but are often reluctant to report crimes for fear of being arrested.
Action Alert: 3/8 Leicester
UK ACTION ALERT: 3/8 Global Sex Work March 8th 7P Leicaster Square London UK Get Yourself There Wear Red Stand Up! Speak Out! FIGHT BACK.
Oakland event March 19: Sex worker collective Empower from Thailand
Great to hear the discussion in Philadelphia. Safe travels and successful journey to EMPOWER.
Please join us in a public meeting welcoming EMPOWER, a sex worker collective from Thailand on Monday, March 19, 2018 at 7pm, location: Omni Commons Ballroom, 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland CA
Today we trade fear for sanctuary
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner Inauguration: Today we start the long road towards empowering and protecting some of our most vulnerable witnesses and survivors: immigrants that lack legal status so that they like other vulnerable groups - young people, elderly people, sex workers - can participate in the criminal justice system that is
there to protect them. Today we trade fear for sanctuary.
Spotlight Of Success: USPROS Rachel West
ESPU thanks you Rachel for all you do!
Just Say No To Nordic
According to the PHILADELPHIA DA case records - as of 2014 - the Nordic Model is charging more sex workers than "johns"!
USPROS: On The “Prioritizing Safety for Sex Workers” Policy, California
Sex workers demand law enforcement focus their efforts on sex crimes and human trafficking.
US PROS Collective | The US PROStitutes Collective (US PROS) is a multiracial network of women who work or have worked in different areas of the sex industry. Founded in 1982, US PROS campaigns for the decriminalization of prostitution and for justice, protection and resources so that no woman, young person or man is forced into prostitution through poverty or violence.
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