USPROS Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/uspros/ 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 USPROS Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/uspros/ 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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]]> 2025 – Our Work This Year https://prostitutescollective.net/2025-our-work-this-year/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:59:55 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20117 Hookers, dykes and women of colour celebrate 50 years of making trouble, making historyThe year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the ECP. Along with Women of Colour in the Global Women’s Strike and Queer Strike, which are also celebrating their 50th anniversary, we held a sold-out event at the Bishopsgate Institute. All three organisations […]

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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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]]> 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: US PROS on the successful struggle to win an amnesty from arrest and prosecution for victims of violence https://prostitutescollective.net/event-weds-24-jan-us-pros-successful-struggle-win-amnesty-arrest-prosecution-victims-violence/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:58:45 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=6968 Wednesday 24 January 7-8:30pmCrossroads Women’s Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews, London, NW5 2DXRachel West is in London from San Francisco and will report on a recent victory for sex workers there. US PROStitutes Collective, working with other sex worker groups, was instrumental in winning an amnesty from arrest and prosecution for sex workers accused of prostitution […]

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]]> Sex workers win immunity from arrest and prosecution reporting rape and other violence https://prostitutescollective.net/sex-workers-win-immunity-arrest-prosecution-reporting-rape-violence/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:57:42 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=6932 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:           Contact: Minouche Kandel, (415) 572-6482, minouche.kandel@sfgov.org SAN FRANCISCO ANNOUNCES FIRST-IN-THE-COUNTRY POLICIES TO SUPPORT SEX WORKERS WHO ARE VICTIMS OR WITNESSES TO VIOLENCE IN REPORTING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT “Prioritizing Safety for Sex Worker” policies would protect a sex worker reporting a violent crime from arrest or prosecution for prostitution or minor drug offenses […]

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]]> Pacific Standard: Why women in the United States will strike on March 8th https://prostitutescollective.net/pacific-standard-women-united-states-will-strike-march-8th/ Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:50:18 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=6924 Women’s Right to Refuse Why women in the United States will strike on March 8th. By Melissa Gira Grant The call went out just weeks ago for a women’s strike in the United States. March 8th, International Women’s Day, would be marked by “striking, marching, blocking roads, bridges, and squares, abstaining from domestic, care and sex […]

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