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DESCRIPTION: \nWhy are the police spending time going after sex workers and non-violent 
 clients and not catching rapists and other violent men?\n\nDid you know 
 that since January 1, 36 women and 15 men have been arrested for 
 soliciting?  Are you concerned about the impact on sex workers’ safety of 
 police crackdowns like this? Come hear how stepped up arrests push sex 
 workers into more isolated and dangerous areas, and make it harder for 
 people to report violence for fear of arrest.  \n \nPoliticians blame sex 
 workers for an increase in prostitution. Have they forgotten the economic 
 recession?  70% of sex workers are mothers trying to support their loved 
 ones.  If the $11.4 million (or more!) currently spent on prostitution 
 enforcement went to provide housing, welfare and other resources, if there 
 were jobs that paid a living wage, then women, young people and men, 
 wouldn’t be pushed out on the street to survive.\n \nLet the new Chief of 
 Police know that we don’t want mug shots of clients posted online. What a 
 waste of police resources to go after men for consenting sex when rapists 
 go free. Speak out against the racism in prostitution arrests: Black women 
 are seven times more likely to be arrested; immigrant women are routinely 
 targeted for arrest and deportation using the pretext of trafficking; 40% 
 of men arrested are men of color. \n \nStand with San Franciscans who call 
 for the safety and protection of sex workers to come first.  New Zealand 
 has decriminalized prostitution and sex workers are safer and more able to 
 leave prostitution. We want to know, why not here?\n \nFor info: US 
 PROStitutes Collective: uspros@allwomencount.net  415-626-4114\n \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/01/18636740.php
SUMMARY:"Stand-In" Against the Arrest of Sex Workers
LOCATION:Corner of Polk and Sutter Streets
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/02/01/18636740.php
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