Since 1975 we've campaigned for #Decrim of prostitution, sex workers' rights & safety & resources to get out of prostitution if we want to. #MakeAllWomenSafe
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Peter Sutcliffe the Yorkshire Ripper is dead. We remember the 13 women he murdered & official disregard for sex workers' lives that left him free to kill again & again. With @AgainstRape we picketed the high court to protest the handling of the case by the court, police & media.
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We’re so close to our target of 10,000 signatures!
Please support decriminalisation and #MakeAllWomenSafe by signing our petition: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
#Decriminalise #Decriminalisation
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Sending love & power to sex workers around the world on #InternationalWhoresDay ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼 2 June marks the day in 1975 when 150+ sex workers occupied the Church of St. Nizier in Lyon, France. A banner was hung over the church façade 'Our children don't want their mothers in prison'
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VICTORY ‼️ Proposal for Newham’s Public Space Protection Order has been scrapped! We told the council that it would put sex workers at more risk of violence, criminalise women for trying to make a living, & be a dangerous expansion of police powers . . . and they listened!
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On 2 June 1975, following a series of brutal attacks & police crackdowns, over 100 sex workers occupied the Church of St. Nizier in Lyon, France. A banner hung over the church façade 'Our children don't want their mothers in prison’ #InternationalWhoresDay #IWD2020 #ISWD2020
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UK law puts 70,000 women’s lives at risk by forcing them to work alone. This International Worker’s Day, sign the petition to #MakeAllWomenSafe.
We’re so close and only need 4000 more signatures to reach our goal: petition.parliament.uk/petit….
#InternationalWorkersDay #labourday
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40 years ago today, 15 women from the ECP entered Holy Cross Church during a service. When it ended, they told the vicar they were staying and erected a banner ‘Mothers Need Money; End Police Illegality & Racism in King’s Cross’. ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼 prostitutescollective.net/ch… #ECParchive
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Today is #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay. Covid has devastated sex workers’ lives -- our incomes have disappeared, violence and police raids/arrests continue and more women have been pushed into destitution & homelessness.
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On #InternationalWhoresDay we pay tribute to the women of the 1975 St. Nizier Church occupation in Lyon, France who protested serial murders and police & government abuse of sex workers. These injustices -- and our struggle against them – continue #InternationalSexWorkersDay
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As in 1975, we demand decriminalisation. It was introduced in New Zealand in 2003, with verifiable success; we want it here! #InternationalWhoresDay #InternationalSexWorkersDay #IWD #ISWD #Decrim pledgedecrim.com
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📢 URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Ask your MP to call for the removal of Clause 16 of the #OnlineSafetyBill and urge them to speak out against this dangerous attempt to criminalise sex workers’ online advertising. prostitutescollective.eactio…
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Please see our cases update with a few recent examples from sex workers in our network of assaults, stalking and robberies, and the police responses: prostitutescollective.net/20…
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On 2 June 1975, 100-150 sex workers occupied the church of St. Nizier, in the centre of Lyon, France. A banner was hung over the church façade 'Our children don't want their mothers in prison. #InternationalWhoresDay #InternationalSexWorkersDay #IWD #ISWD
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Nordic model motion was defeated at Hackney CLP tonight! Congratulations to all that worked for this victory
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Banks close down sex workers accounts all the time & don't think they have to justify or explain. @HalifaxBank , @monzo most recent guilty ones. Being "debanked" is frightening & excludes sex workers from society -can't pay bills, can't receive income . . theguardian.com/business/202…
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On this day in 1982, following in the footsteps of sex workers in France, who occupied churches to protest arrests & police refusal to act against murders & rapes, the ECP occupied Holy Cross Church, King’s Cross, London for 12 days. prostitutescollective.net/ch… #ECParchive
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On International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, we send love, power and solidarity to sex workers around the world in our fight for decriminalisation and against poverty and violence. #ISWRD
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URGENT: Please fill out this government survey - deadline 16 July! The Home Office has commissioned research on prostitution and its crucial that as many sex worker and allies as possible give evidence. prostitutescollective.net/20…
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Trafficking isn’t enabled by online adverts, it is enabled by poverty and women’s determination to escape it. And it is enabled by the hostile immigration environment that make it impossible for women to cross international borders unaided. redpepper.org.uk/criminalisi…
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We’re protesting now outside Southwark Crown Court for the sentencing of serial rapist & former police officer David Carrick. Prostitution laws give police massive powers – women working on the street are terrorized and inside we’re raided, threatened, convicted & deported.
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NO ONE SCREWS MORE PROSTITUTES THAN THE GOVERNMENT!
In 1992 we ran a poster campaign with an advertising agency calling for the abolition of the prostitution laws. #ECParchive
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Solidarity with sex workers earning their living in the Holbeck managed area. We are outraged at the way these workers have been disrespected and disparaged in a hate campaign fueled by the media. Statement from ECP and @SexWorkHive prostitutescollective.net/20… #Decrim #DecrimNow
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Happy International Sex Workers Rights Day!
The UK law puts 70,000 women's lives at risk by forcing them to work alone. It's legal to be a sex worker but illegal to work together.
Help us get rid of this dangerous law makeallwomensafe.com
#MakeAllWomenSafe #DecrimNow
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Sex workers in ECP first went on strike on Intl Women's Day 2000 & took legal action to stop the closure of flats. 100s of masked sex workers marched through the streets of Soho demanding an end to poverty, criminalisation & gentrification #ECParchive prostitutescollective.net/so… #IWD
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Do you believe all women should be safe at work? Yes? Sign our petition to decriminalise prostitution today!
Help us #MAKEALLWOMENSAFE, sign online at: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Want to know more or have any questions? Join the campaign at: makeallwomensafe.net
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Two women arrested for working together for safety are being charged as tenants with “permitting premises to be used for prostitution". Please use our template letter to write & demand this prosecution be dropped immediately: prostitutescollective.net/20…
#MakeAllWomenSafe
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We don’t want to discuss whether sex work is uniquely degrading or empowering, or whether it is work or victimisation – apply the same question to call centre workers and you’ll realise how absurd it is. #makeallwomensafe
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Bindel describes prostitution as “harmful and abusive” and salaciously misrepresents the sex-worker-led movement to decriminalise it as the “happy hooker crew”. In fact, it consists of women determined not to starve and see our children go without. thetimes.co.uk/article/lette…
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❗ACTION ALERT❗ Please object to Newham's Public Space Protection Order! A PSPO will increase violence against sex workers, criminalise women working to survive at the time of a cost-of-living crisis & do nothing to help women leave sex work if they want. prostitutescollective.net/op…
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Sending love & solidarity to sex workers around the world on #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay! Watch our campaign video & sign our petition demanding the UK Gov decriminalises prostitution. We all deserve the same rights to safety. #MAKEALLWOMENSAFE bit.ly/makeallwomensafeTW
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Compelling speech today by @lynbrownmp against a dangerous 10-Minute Rule motion which would criminalise sex workers clients saying it “will put women at greater risk”. #MakeAllWomenSafe prostitutescollective.net/vi…
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Outrageous that @Soph__wilson Labour candidate for Rother Valley has come under fire from some for attending a rally organized by women against the closure of their workplace! How is supporting sex workers seen as "anti-women"? yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/pol…
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WE NEED:
☑️Tenants' rights
☑️Rent controls
NOT "sex for rent" laws!
The government is considering a new law to explicitly outlaw “sex for rent” and has issued a “call for evidence”. Deadline 30 June. Please submit a response: prostitutescollective.net/ac…
ALT Woman standing in the street holding a placard that reads: We need tenants' rights and rent controls, not "sex for rent laws". English Collective of Prostitutes
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We have reached 10,000 signatures!! 🍾🥳
This ensures that the Government will have to respond to our petition to decriminalise prostitution for the safety of ALL women.
Thank you all for your support for the campaign so far! 💕
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This #IDEVASW we honour & mourn sex workers globally who have been victims of violence & murder. Today is also a day of resistance. We send our love & strength to all those fighting for justice, safety & protection from violence. “These tears are both a token and a vow of combat”
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This isn’t a “split in feminism”. Real feminism starts with women’s needs, campaigns for a living wage so no one is driven into sex work by poverty, and for decriminalisation so women in the sex industry can win employment rights like other workers. thetimes.co.uk/edition/comme…
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On our way into court to defend our right to work together in greater safety.
Stop prosecuting sex workers - Safety First!
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#MakeAllWomenSafe #PledgeDecrim
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New ECP short film! Migrant Sex Workers Fight Police Illegality & Racism. Since the Brexit vote, abuse, arrests & deportations have increased. We're demanding the right to safety, healthcare, #decrim, for our work to be recognised & the right to stay! piped.video/a7PkFCcaBQA
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Sex workers helped make OnlyFans profitable & now we're dumped because multi-national corporations assume the right to discriminate on moral grounds. Being left without any income, govt. support or labour rights in a pandemic – that’s immoral.
I’ve had a few journalists reach out to me about Only Fans, but pls speak fo sex workers about this before academics. @SexWorkHive @ProstitutesColl are great points of contact
If you need stats about SW & online safety, there is research available online researchgate.net/publication…
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Migrant sex workers are targeted for arrest & deportation by the police. The info in our new rights sheet is based on the experience of women in the ECP network – both what women have suffered & ways they have found to defend themselves prostitutescollective.net/se… #Dec17 #IDEVASW
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Emergency Protest: Sex workers’ safety & rights are under attack. Sarah Champion MP bringing a debate to parliament with a view to outlaw prostitution platforms inspired by #FOSTA #SESTA in the US. Meet 1pm Wednesday 4 July at Parliament Square facebook.com/events/60464695…
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“Sex workers are being convicted under unjust laws. Convictions and cautions must be expunged and no-one should be convicted in the future."
Article by @LaurenMedlicott
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Women & non-binary people across the world live under the constant threat of violence and for sex workers, this is heightened by illegality and stigma. #pledgedecrim for sex workers’ rights and safety on #IDEVASW #Dec17 pledgedecrim.com
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This #IDEVASW we remember & commemorate the sex workers who have lost their lives to violence, inc the countless women whose names never made the headlines. Please join us tonight & hear our demands for an end to violence, criminalisation & poverty: prostitutescollective.net/de… #Dec17
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"We have a responsibility to call for what is in the best interests of public health & the patients who entrust us with their care. Nurses rightly chose to follow the evidence which shows criminalisation undermines sex workers’health & welfare” @Cahill_Lou theguardian.com/society/2019…
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If it’s unacceptable for police officers to work alone and puts them at “increased risk” why is it okay for sex workers? If we work together we risk prosecution for brothel keeping & up to 7 years in prison. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47212662
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ECP WEBINAR - SEX WORKERS: ACCESS TO JUSTICE. Hear from migrant sex workers about our fight against exploitation and trafficking. 19 Nov 5-7pm Register @ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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We have less than 1500 signatures left to go to reach our target! Please keep sharing and encouraging your friends and followers to support the campaign! #MakeAllWomenSafe petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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The devaluing of sex workers’ lives was notoriously expressed at the time by the Attorney General's comments that “some [of the victims] were prostitutes, but perhaps the saddest part of the case is that some were not. The last six attacks were on totally respectable women.”
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Rest in power, Laura Lee. Thank you for everything. Our thoughts are with Laura’s family and, in particular, her daughter Cat. Joint statement from ECP and @SexWorkHive prostitutescollective.net/20…
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“Two-thirds of sex workers have suffered violence. Decriminalise sex work. Safety first!” Glad to take part in this adhacking action on #IWD2020 ! dazeddigital.com/life-cultur…
#MakeAllWomenSafe #DecrimNow #Strike4Decrim
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Dear friends, we're gathering signatures for an open letter to demand police prioritise the protection of SWers
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“Sex workers are predominantly single mothers and they still have to work, they still have to earn. If they’re not registered, they’re not applicable for the government funding. If they’ve got children, how are they supposed to feed their families?” bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no…
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Sex work has been mystified & segregated and sex workers stereotyped & characterised as happy hookers or poor victims, not workers like other workers in need of rights. Check out our new report comparing & reintegrating sex work with other “women’s work”! prostitutescollective.net/wp…
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Victory! These charges should never have been brought. Ms O and Ms R were working in a flat together for safety & supporting their families. Their courage, ECP’s support & thousands of people who wrote to protest mean they leave court without a conviction! prostitutescollective.net/20…
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We congratulate the 3 women who won the right not to reveal their criminal convictions for prostitution to prospective employers, & send our best wishes for the appeal today to extend their case & demand these convictions are expunged @centreWJ @HWistrich .prostitutescollective.net/20…
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“We’re disappointed that it’s Labour MPs putting it forward - we think those women who call themselves feminists should have the basic respect to treat us with a bit of dignity & actually consult us about the laws that they’re trying to pass in our name”. londonlive.co.uk/news/2018-0…
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On #InternationalWorkersDay we stand in solidarity with all workers organising for their rights. Like other workers, sex workers are fighting for occupational health and safety, against exploitation and for better working conditions and pay #Mayday
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"This is really important to us. This is our livelihoods . . I'm a single mother. This job helps me feed my children. This job has actually changed my life for the better." bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-so…
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Pro-criminalisation ‘feminists’ within the establishment do not represent us. Their choice to side with the state, increase police powers against us, and stay silent as we are made poorer and more vulnerable to violence, is no real feminism at all. opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-…
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"We’re all mothers, you know" Women working in the Leeds no arrest zone are heard at last: inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/… Thanks @BasisSexWork @SexWorkHive @ScotPep @SexWorkResearch @ukdecrimnow
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"What we are asking people to understand is that stripping is a job and just like any other worker we need to benefit from the same rights, which is to be safe at work." @afrenchstripper @BristolSWC @unitedswers bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-br…
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“The money from sex work is supporting whole families and communities in very harsh economic times, and if people knew that, their attitudes would probably be very different.”
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Our banner said: “Mothers need money. Stop police illegality and racism in King’s Cross.” Like our French sisters, we pointed out that most sex workers are mothers, and that the State which criminalises and fines us is the biggest pimp. #InternationalWhoresDay #IWD #ISWD
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If you're in London on Tues 5 Feb please join us for the launch of our new research! “What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Job like This – a comparison between sex work and other jobs commonly done by women.” All welcome: facebook.com/events/38873022…
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“We need immediate emergency cash payments to these women who at this moment have nothing to eat. We know who these women are, and we need to help them now, not in several weeks time.” theguardian.com/society/2020…
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Things that have been said to sex workers by police when we've tried to report rape and other violence.
#whyididntreport #InternationalWhoresDay #InternationalSexWorkersDay #ISWD2020 #IWD2020
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We send our support to the women today challenging the law that requires people to disclose criminal convictions for prostitution: prostitutescollective.net/20… #ImNoCriminal #pledgedecrim
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All work is prostitution. Whether we fuck for £, wait on tables, pack biscuits, type letters, drive lorries, bear children, teach in schools, or work in coal mines, we are forced to sell our bodies and minds. Our whole lives are stolen from us by work. prostitutescollective.net/st…
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The UK law puts 70,000 women's lives at risk by forcing us to work alone. It's legal to be a sex worker but illegal for us to work together. On #IDEVAW please share our petition to decriminalise sex work & #MakeAllWomenSafe
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#16DaysOfActivism #16Days
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“I don’t really want to work in a brothel. I would prefer to work for myself . . . Yet because of the online safety bill, I feel forced to keep my job in this brothel – just in case the websites that I sell independently on get shut down" @MayaOppenheim independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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Discrimination against sex workers by banks etc. is bad enough but worse they try to justify it as necessary to “protect some of the most vulnerable citizens from risk of abuse, including human trafficking”. Save us from the saviors. theguardian.com/business/202…
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After sex workers places of work in Thailand were closed for over 400 days & the govt hadn’t provided compensation & relief, our sisters @EmpowerThailand began to mail their high-heels to the govt. with msgs reminding them of their duty & responsibilities! thethaiger.com/news/national…
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#DecrimNow, Safety First! Protesting outside parliament against a proposal to shut down online sites where sex workers advertise. #LetUsSurvive prostitutescollective.net/20…
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ECP protesting outside Yorkshire Ripper trial 1982, “Some were prostitutes, but perhaps the saddest part of the case is that some were not,” -- attorney general Michael Havers. BBC film The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story, on Tues. #makeallwomensafe
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Susie from ECP "don't talk to me about the harms of prostitution when, under the circumstance, prostitution is the only way for me to get any dignity and to survive". news.sky.com/story/selling-s…
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"Nobody should ever be promoting the criminalisation of sex work without first acknowledging the danger it puts us in." #MakeAllWomenSafe vice.com/en_uk/article/d3m97…
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Support our campaign to decriminalise prostitution, so sex workers can have the same protection the law offers everyone else.
Want to know more or have any questions? Join the campaign at: makeallwomensafe.net .
#MakeAllWomenSafe
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#RememberingLauraLee There is no doubt that Laura’s expertise & common sense helped the Home Affairs Committee conclude that sex workers on the street & working together inside should be decriminalised. An important win for our movement for #decrim Thank you Laura Lee.
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ECP demonstrating outside Julie Bindel's book launch. Decriminalise sex work for safety's sake! Sign the pledge! pledgedecrim.com
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Trans people across the world live under the constant threat of violence, & for trans sex workers, this is heightened by illegality and stigma. Fantastic to have so much support for #decrim at Brighton Trans, Non-Binary & Intersex Conference inc from @MunroeBergdorf! #TNBI2018
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At the Sex/Work Strike in Soho! On #IWD2020 we demand #decrim of sex work to promote safety & put money in women's hands so that we can leave prostitution if and when we want! #DecrimNow #MakeAllWomenSafe #Strike4Decrim
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Sex workers appear only when they are dead; sex workers are ludicrously happy; sex workers are powerless victims. There is more to it than that. Our lovely Frankie writes here: inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/…
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5000-strong march for #trans rights @TPrideBrighton! Thanks to everyone who marched with us and signed our pledge for #decrim pledgedecrim.com Video footage of ECP speaking & more photos to follow shortly! #TransPrideBrighton #pledgedecrim
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We demanded emergency payments for sex workers made destitute because of Covid. The government in reply boasted that they were “providing £76m to charities and organisations throughout the country to support victims of modern slavery, sexual violence and domestic abuse.”
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Victoria to join the Northern Territory & New South Wales and decriminalise sex following a review that heard from sex workers who had been assaulted by clients because they were unable to work from a safe place. @VixenCollective theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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We are mothers supporting families, women seeking asylum barely surviving on £36 a week, migrants sending money home, students funding our studies & many more. We come from different situations but WE ALL WANT DECRIMINALISATION, SAFETY & RIGHTS. #WomensStrike #makeallwomensafe
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"When sex workers are not allowed to unionise, are afraid of the police, are increasingly stigmatised by society, and unable to work together, they are more at risk of harm from buyers." independent.co.uk/voices/sex…
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ECP will be back at @TPrideBrighton on Saturday 15th July! DM if you'd like to join us in the protest march, or look out for our banners on the day. We'll be speaking at the start & have a stall in the park. Hope to see you there! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
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Fantastic news from Hull! Section 222 orders banning prostitution in the Hessle Road area have been removed! hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hul…
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We’ve submitted a proposal to decriminalise sex work to the Labour Party National Policy Forum. If you’re a Labour Party member, please vote to support it here: policyforum.labour.org.uk/co… DEADLINE SUNDAY 30 JUNE @labpolicyforum #MakeAllWomenSafe
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Help needed! Hi all, we’ve made a much-needed zine that documents sex worker-led fights in Soho against violence, criminalisation & gentrification! Does anyone have access to free printing for us to make some copies for Trans Pride this Saturday 20 July?
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Sex workers internationally are campaigning for #decrim to get the law off our backs! We face saturation policing with no protection. As workers we are demanding safety, rights & justice. Our fight v criminalisation is everyone’s fight @NevilleSouthall @SexWorkHive
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