Our sister organisation the US PROStitutes Collective (US PROS) is a multiracial network of women who work or have worked in different areas of the sex industry. Founded in 1982, US PROS campaigns for the decriminalization of prostitution and for justice, protection and resources so that no one is forced into prostitution through poverty or violence.
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Dear Friends, Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA and the US PROStitutes Collective are asking for your help in opposing provisions in House Bill HR 3887 passed in the US House of Representatives on December 4, 2007 and now before the US Senate. HR 3887 is part of a campaign to use justifiable concern about trafficking to […]
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 […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Starchild, a self-described sex worker and a candidate for San Francisco supervisor, says there is absolutely no reason that his beloved city needs any more rules.“I think that with a lot of laws, half of it is leftover morality from the Puritan days,” said Starchild, a male escort who goes by only one […]
On a busy sidewalk in San Francisco’s Polk Street neighborhood on May 20, about 25 people took part in a “Stand-In” to protest the arrests of sex workers and “Sit/Lie” – a proposed bill to make it illegal to sit or lie on the sidewalk between 7am and 11pm under threat of a fine and jail. […]
BY RACHEL WESTTaking advantage of the recent turmoil over the huge city budget cuts, Mayor Gavin Newsom and Sup. Carmen Chu, have pushed though malicious legislation imposing criminal charges and restrictions on massage parlors. Many are outraged that this costly legislation was prioritized — we want to know why it was, and how much it […]
Protect workers’ safety! Stop the closure of massage parlors! Stop targeting immigrant sex workers!Under the pretence of stopping sex trafficking, Supervisor Carmen Chu and Mayor Newsom want to impose criminal charges and exorbitant fines on massage parlors despite workers’ concerns that it will push the industry underground making them more vulnerable to violence and exploitation. […]
English Collective of Prostitutes & International Prostitutes Collective International Conference on prostitution – A response to the government’s review of the prostitution laws, the first in 50 years No Bad Women, No Bad Children, Just Bad Laws Saturday 4 December 9.30 – 6 pm St Mary’s Church, Somers Town, Eversholt St, (cnr Aldenham St) London NW1 […]
At a time of economic recession, why are sex workers trying to make a living being targeted? And why is taxpayers’ money being used to arrest and prosecute an activist? The sex worker community, with the support of people from all walks of life, is mobilizing to protest the arrest of a well known activist, […]
!!Urgent call to action!!People of Asian descent and of all ethnicities and nationalities!When: Monday, November 3rd 6pm,Wanted: lion head masks, lion dancers!Asian drummers (taiko?), horns, kazoos and signs!Please call 1-877-776-2004 x5 for info or if you plan to show up!Bring a red umbrella. It is going to rain!Meet up point: o’farrell and polk streetsMarch through the […]