Videos & Podcasts Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/category/video-podcasts/ Since 1975, the English Collective of Prostitutes has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages. Sat, 02 Aug 2025 10:36:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/favicon-260-x-260-150x150.png Videos & Podcasts Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/category/video-podcasts/ 32 32 Audio: A Church Occupation by the English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/audio-a-church-occupation-by-the-english-collective-of-prostitutes/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:32:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=19408 Part I. Reflecting on the significance of the occupation of the Church of the Holy Cross (1982) in London to protest “police illegality and racism” against sex workers. Guest: Selma James is founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign and author of Hookers in the House of the Lord and The Power of Women […]

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]]> BBC Woman’s Hour: Prostitute’s Cautions https://prostitutescollective.net/bbc-womans-hour-prostitutes-cautions/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:15:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=18008 Campaigners are calling for an end to the “Prostitutes Caution”, saying it’s preventing women leaving sex work behind them. The caution stays on record for 100 years and there’s no appeal possible. A new report from the English Collective of Prostitutes says two thirds of women they surveyed who’d been given one found it hard […]

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]]> Novara Media: Protect or Punish? The Stakes of Sex Worker Activism https://prostitutescollective.net/novara-media-protect-or-punish-the-stakes-of-sex-worker-activism/ Thu, 28 Nov 2024 23:49:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=18000 Novara Media · Novara FM: Protect or Punish? The Stakes of Sex Worker Activism w/ Laura Watson   Imagine a person arrested for keeping a brothel. Who are they? An abusive pimp? Such people exist, no doubt, but the law isn’t set up just to catch abusers: it also targets sex workers working together to […]

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]]> Video: ITV Cymru Wales – Selling Sex to Survive https://prostitutescollective.net/video-itv-cymru-wales-selling-sex-to-survive/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:08:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17905 Wales This Week has found that the number of women selling sex in Wales has almost doubled in the last 18 months. In the grip of a cost of living crisis, the programme investigates why more women are turning to sex work to make ends meet, and hears calls for a change in the laws, to […]

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]]> Video: Soho Sex Work Strike – International Women’s Day 2024 https://prostitutescollective.net/video-soho-sex-work-strike-international-womens-day-2024/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 23:09:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17877 The post Video: Soho Sex Work Strike – International Women’s Day 2024 appeared first on English Collective of Prostitutes.

]]> Video: Sex for rent – is it time to change the law? https://prostitutescollective.net/video-sex-for-rent-is-it-time-to-change-the-law/ Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:46:28 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17722 The post Video: Sex for rent – is it time to change the law? appeared first on English Collective of Prostitutes.

]]> Video: ECP at the sentencing hearing of ex-Met police officer David Carrick https://prostitutescollective.net/video-ecp-at-the-sentencing-hearing-of-ex-met-police-officer-david-carrick/ Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:40:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=19027 ECP's Niki Adams speaking at the protest called by Women Against Rape and Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike on 6 February 2023 outside the sentencing hearing of David Carrick, a former police officer who committed numerous offences of rape and other torture against women. For more info see: The David Carrick Trial - Women Against Rape 

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]]> BBC Politics: Sex work in the cost of living crisis https://prostitutescollective.net/bbc-politics-sex-work-in-the-cost-of-living-crisis/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:37:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17594 "If the majority of sex workers are mothers, that's a condemnation of the society that we live in," says Niki Adams of the English Collective of ProstitutesNiki and former Home Office adviser Nimco Ali discuss sex work in the UK#PoliticsLive https://t.co/YaKq4i6aZH pic.twitter.com/w1FYTkVdQ2— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 13, 2022

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]]> Channel 4 News: Forced into sex work by cost of living crisis https://prostitutescollective.net/channel-4-news-forced-into-sex-work-by-cost-of-living-crisis/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 22:18:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17571 Minnie Stephenson News CorrespondentThe cost of living crisis is causing a significant rise in the number of women returning to sex work, according to the English Collective of Prostitutes.And the organisation says women are putting themselves in much more dangerous situations as they struggle to pay their energy bills and feed their families.The numbers asking […]

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]]> Channel 4 News: Increase in benefits can help protect women from sex work says Labour MP https://prostitutescollective.net/channel-4-news-increase-in-benefits-can-help-protect-women-from-sex-work-says-labour-mp/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 22:14:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17566 Cathy Newham, PresenterA ban on strip clubs has been announced by Edinburgh Council, which says the venues disempower women.But today the United Sex Workers union began a legal challenge of the decision.The union says it would force over 100 women out of work and potentially into more dangerous situations.We spoke to Labour MP Nadia Whittome, […]

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