FILM SHOWING: TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER Director: Nick Broomfield (Ghosts and Battle for Haditha) 6.30pm, Curzon, Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY Tales of the Grim Sleeper is an investigation into a notorious serial killer who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over 25 years, the women he targeted, and the efforts of the […]
Canadian sex worker activists speak out: Prostitution laws are ‘dangerous’ and infringe our constitutional rights Organising to win & retain the Supreme Court Ruling which struck down the prostitution laws because they infringed the constitutional right to work in safety 22 September 2014 7pm -9pm Crossroads Women’s Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews, London NW5 2DX In […]
On Tuesday 8 July 2014, the French Senate rejected proposals to criminalise sex workers’ clients. The Select Committee considering the proposal consulted sex workers and other organisations over several months and found that people were alarmed about the danger caused to sex workers. The Committee received compelling evidence that clients, anxious about being fined, could […]
From the UK to the Bay Area: Sex Workers Win Justice and the Right to Work Safely When: Friday, August 1 6:30pm Snacks, meet and greet Niki from London 7pm program starts Where: 518 Valencia Street, San Francisco (16th Mission BART) Guest speaker: Niki Adams, English Collective of Prostitutes. Also, Alexandra Berliner, Legal Services for […]
Speakers highlight two recent sex worker-led struggles: the historic victory in California of sex workers winning compensation for rape, and the protests against mass raids and closures of sex workers’ flats in the red-light area of Soho, London, England. Hear how trafficking is being used as a justification for a moralistic crusade against sex workers […]
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work Discussion: Melissa Gira Grant & Niki Adams, English Collective of Prostitutes Chair: Selma James March 31, 2014, 6.00pm – 8.00pm University of London Union. Malet Suite – 2nd floor, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY ⋅ Selma James chairs a discussion between Melissa Gira Grant and Niki Adams, English Collective of Prostitutes Join us for this […]
Sex Workers Response, Stop the Criminalisation of Sex Work – Safety First! Sex workers from a number of European countries including Sweden will be speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday 26 March 2014. Where: Committee Room 12When: Wednesday 26 March, 6.30-8.30pmHosted by: John McDonnell MPOrganised by: English Collective of Prostitutes and the People’s […]
Tickets available for meeting here. The People’s Parliament check how many tickets are booked in case a bigger room is needed. But it isn’t essential to have a ticket, you can just turn up. Please allow 20 minutes to get through security at the House of Commons. You do NOT need ID to get into […]
Niki Adams cautions against ‘the Swedish Model’ and raises concerns about the role of the religiously-motivated, State-funded Irish pressure group ‘Ruhama’. Olaf Tyaransen “To the moralist, prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.” – EMMA GOLDMAN, Anarchism And Other Essays […]
Dear friends, a motion by MEP Mary Honeyball to criminalise sex workers’ clients is being voted on in Europe tomorrow Wednesday 26 February.Lobby your MEP TODAY – Information from the International Committee for the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe here and model letter below:”Dear (insert name of MEP here)The 570 NGOs and civil society organisations […]