United States Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/united-states/ 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. Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:28:07 +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 United States Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/united-states/ 32 32 Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco – Final Results https://prostitutescollective.net/guaranteed-care-income-san-francisco-final-results/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:27:57 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20178 The research findings of the Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco (GCISF) pilot were made public November 12, 2025 on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco. The event had a strong turnout, including lots of press (see below). There was Spanish interpretation for the event and it opened with a rousing song from local […]

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]]> San Francisco Guaranteed Care Income Pilot – Report https://prostitutescollective.net/san-francisco-guaranteed-care-income-pilot-report/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:03:47 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20067 From our sister organisation US PROStitutes Collective Download full report here. Press coverage here. What is the Guaranteed Care Income Pilot?  The Guaranteed Care Income San Francisco (GCISF) pilot was a one-year program (June 2024–June 2025) that provided 10 low-income single mothers in San Francisco with $2,000 a month in unconditional cash payments. Crucially, it […]

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]]> The San Francisco Standard: $2,000 monthly stipends helped these SF moms leave sex work behind https://prostitutescollective.net/the-san-francisco-standard-2000-monthly-stipends-helped-these-sf-moms-leave-sex-work-behind/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:59:14 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20045 Now that the no-strings-attached payments have stopped, some are unsure how they’ll get by. Shantanae was desperate. Homeless after fleeing a violent ex and selling her body for a controlling pimp on a notorious block of the Mission, the young mother of two often didn’t know where she’d sleep each night. Often, she’d stay at […]

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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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]]> SF Bay View: California repeals discriminatory loitering for prostitution law https://prostitutescollective.net/sf-bay-view-california-repeals-discriminatory-loitering-for-prostitution-law%ef%bf%bc/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 10:22:33 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17082 by Rachel West, US PROStitutes CollectiveThere is a wave of change in the US on the rights of sex workers and it is growing. A slew of laws challenging the criminalization of sex work are being put forward around the country and New York, Seattle and now California have repealed legislation which made loitering for […]

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]]> Statement: Victory in Seattle! https://prostitutescollective.net/statement-victory-in-seattle/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:55:38 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=11727 Seattle City Council votes to repeal drug and prostitution loitering laws which have a “deep and harmful racist history” and are shown to have “a disproportionate impact on women of color, both cis- and transgender”.Today Seattle City Council repealed drug and prostitution loitering laws that endangered SW safety, unjustly targeted non-violent peoples, and disproportionately impacted […]

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]]> Podcast: Sojourner Truth Radio – Cancer alley, sex workers, mutual aid & COVID-19 https://prostitutescollective.net/podcast-sojourner-truth-radio-cancer-alley-sex-workers-mutual-aid-covid-19/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:56:41 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=11561 Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod · April 23, 2020   Today on Sojourner Truth: Coverage of the impact of COVID-19 on sex workers. Should they be eligible for economic relief? Our guests are Niki Adams and Rachel West. Niki Adams is a spokeswoman for the English Collective of Prostitutes, a network of women working in […]

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]]> Event: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS – Sex Workers Travelling to the US 12 Nov https://prostitutescollective.net/event-know-your-rights-sex-workers-travelling-to-the-us-12-nov/ Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:49:05 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=9114 Facebook event here.

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]]> Independent: Sex workers storm New York protest against decriminalisation of prostitution https://prostitutescollective.net/independent-sex-workers-storm-new-york-protest-against-decriminalisation-of-prostitution/ Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:22:45 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7575 'Nothing about us without us''Sex workers have had a struggle to be listened to. For too long policy and law on prostitution has been dealt with without sex workers'Maya Oppenheim Women's Correspondent Two sex workers stormed a demonstration by women opposed to a bill which would decriminalise sex work in New York.Lawmakers have announced plans to introduce a piece […]

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]]> Oakland North: International support groups discuss sex workers’ rights in Oakland https://prostitutescollective.net/oakland-north-international-support-groups-discuss-sex-workers-rights-in-oakland/ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:38:09 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7334 By Saemmool Lee Thanta Laovilwanyakul(middle) talks about her experience as a sex worker at the "Public Meeting with Empower." Empower Foundation set a table that displayed T-shirts and books that represent their their idea at the public meeting On Monday evening, Thanta Laovilwanyakul, a sex worker from Thailand, sat in front of a stage at Omni […]

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