Church Occupation Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/church-occupation/ 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. Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:47:12 +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 Church Occupation Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/church-occupation/ 32 32 Tribune: Sex Workers Unite and Take Over https://prostitutescollective.net/tribune-sex-workers-unite-and-take-over/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:38:57 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20028 By Brit DawsonThe English Collective of Prostitutes was founded fifty years ago to protect sex workers. Despite the progress they have made in the years since, the industry remains criminalised — and exploitative and unsafe as a result.(Credit: Crossroads AV Collective.)On November 17, 1982, fifteen masked women walked, in groups of twos and threes, into […]

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]]> Event: Hookers, dykes and women of colour celebrate 50 years of making trouble & history – 22 October https://prostitutescollective.net/event-hookers-dykes-and-women-of-colour-celebrate-50-years-of-making-trouble-history-22-october/ Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:12:42 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=19614 When: Wednesday 22 October 18:30 - 20:30Where: Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate London EC2M 4QH(Full wheelchair access. Bar & refreshments)Price: £15 / £11(Please get in touch with womenofcolour@globalwomenstrike.net which is dealing with this for all three organisations if you want to come but can’t afford it)

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]]> Islington Tribune: Maeve Murphy’s short film about life in a pre-gentrified King’s Cross has been showered with awards https://prostitutescollective.net/islington-tribune-maeve-murphys-short-film-about-life-in-a-pre-gentrified-kings-cross-has-been-showered-with-awards/ Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:17:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=19378 ‘Let’s face it, it was an inner-city hole and you had to watch your back’Maeve Murphy’s short film about life in a pre-gentrified King’s Cross has been showered with awards. Angela Cobbinah talked to herBy Angela CobbinahIN 1979, the old Camden Journal carried a lurid double-page feature on the Hillview estate, slum Victorian tenement blocks […]

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]]> Euro News: ‘St Pancras Sunrise’ – The award-winning short film shining a light on sex work and police brutality https://prostitutescollective.net/euro-news-st-pancras-sunrise-the-award-winning-short-film-shining-a-light-on-sex-work-and-police-brutality/ Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:47:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=19392 Maeve Murphy is hoping to shine a spotlight on the 1981 murder of a sex worker in her new short film, exploring the powerful protest by the English Collective of Prostitutes and the ongoing battle against police brutality.“15 women, some with children, have locked themselves in Holy Cross Church of Kings Cross. They won’t leave […]

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]]> Visit WFH & ECP in major exhibition ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ https://prostitutescollective.net/visit-wfh-ecp-in-major-exhibition-hard-graft-work-health-and-rights/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:30:16 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=18139 As part of International Women’s Week celebrations, we’re planning a group visit to see ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ at the Wellcome Collection (183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE) on Sunday 9 March at 1pm.  If you would like to join us, please just turn up! The Home section of the exhibition includes magazines, flyers, press releases, […]

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]]> 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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]]> London News Online: Hard Graft – An unsparing showcase of work from production lines to protest https://prostitutescollective.net/london-news-online-hard-graft-an-unsparing-showcase-of-work-from-production-lines-to-protest/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:18:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17944 The world of work is often neglected in art of the 21st century, despite the toil to earn a living consuming an average 35 hours a week in Britain. In September, Wellcome Collection in Euston Road, Euston, opened Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights. This free major exhibition offers an unsparing showcase of artworks that […]

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]]> SF Standard: 40 Years After Sex Workers Took Over an English Church, the Fight for Justice Picks Up in San Francisco https://prostitutescollective.net/san-francisco-standard-40-years-after-sex-workers-took-over-an-english-church-the-fight-for-justice-picks-up-in-san-franc/ Sat, 10 Dec 2022 22:38:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17585 Written by Ida Mojadad In 1917, hundreds of San Francisco sex workers confronted a Tenderloin church pastor for trying to chase them out of town with his sermons, effectively giving him a crash course on their inability to survive economically. That direct action laid the groundwork for sex workers in France, Canada and England to occupy churches, putting […]

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]]> Camden New Journal: English Collective of Prostitutes hold reunion in King’s Cross https://prostitutescollective.net/camden-new-journal-english-collective-of-prostitutes-hold-reunion-in-kings-cross/ Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:05:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17445 40 years since occupation of Cromer Street churchBy Dan CarrierTHE sex workers and their supporters came into the church in small groups – and when the service came to an end the new arrivals on the pews proclaimed they were not going anywhere.This week marks the 40th anniversary of a historic occupation at Holy Cross […]

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]]> Ham & High: Sex workers protest 40th anniversary Holy Cross Kings Cross https://prostitutescollective.net/ham-high-sex-workers-protest-40th-anniversary-holy-cross-kings-cross%ef%bf%bc/ Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:42:08 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17375 By Bridget GaltonForty years ago, a group of sex workers and their children occupied a King's Cross Church in protest against Police harrassment.The 12-day sit-in saw the masked women speak out in frustration at unfair laws which criminalised them while failing to protect them from violent assaults.TV crews and MPs visited the protest at Holy Cross Church […]

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