By US Prostitutes Collective Defend Village Voice under attack for adult ads. Protest Women’s Funding Network undermining sex workers’ rights & safety. Village Voice is under attack for running Backpage.com the on-line adult classified ads service. Advertising allows many sex workers to work in the relative safety of premises. The same people who witch-hunted Craigslist with […]
Thursday July 8, 2010Contact: Rachel West (US PROS) 415-640-4250 Sex workers groups and others oppose protest of CraigslistUS PROStitutes Collective (US PROS) and others will be holding a counter protest at Craigslist today at 12 noon. We strongly oppose the false claims about trafficking and pimps made by fundamentalist feminists and others in order to […]
As the economic crisis hit, feminists in government are redoubling their attack on their more vulnerable sisters: sex workers. Today Harriet Harman is speaking at the Women’s Institute (WI). Under the guise of stopping trafficking in persons, she is calling for sex workers to be banned from advertising in local papers. It’s regrettable that the […]
BRITISH TELECOM has been told to stop cutting off the telephone lines of prostitutes who use public telephone boxes to advertise their services.Since July, British Telecom has been trying to stop prostitutes putting cards and stickers in phone boxes by blocking incoming calls on the numbers advertised.Oftel, the telephone services watchdog, yesterday confirmed that it […]
In response to complaints by a number of women in the English Collective of Prostitutes’ network, represented by solicitors Leigh, Day & Co, OFTEL has ruled that British Telecom’s action of cutting off the phones of women who advertise sexual services in phone boxes contravenes their obligation to “provide universal service” without “discrimination against particular […]