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DESCRIPTION:Sex Workers Groups Call for Removal of Discriminatory Regulations\n 
 \nSpeakers from sex worker and other organizations are holding a press 
 conference and community event to call for the removal of Regulation 649.56 
 Involvement in the Qualifying Crime of Prostitution which denies victims of 
 rape who are sex workers from getting compensation in the California Victim 
 Compensation Program (CalVCP).  Other groups including All of Us or None 
 and the ACLU will be also be speaking.  Speakers are calling for Regulation 
 649.2 b which excludes formerly incarcerated people from getting 
 compensation to be scrapped as well.\n \nRachel West of the US PROStitutes 
 Collective says "Denying compensation based on involvement in the crime of 
 prostitution is blaming the victims and dividing us into worthy and 
 unworthy. Compensation for rape acknowledges that something happened to 
 you. When a rape victim is not compensated, it sends a message that rape is 
 tolerated or even encouraged.  Victims are stigmatized and it leads to more 
 violence."\n \nMaxine Doogan of the Erotic Service Providers Union adds: 
 "The Obama administration stated in a United Nations review of human rights 
 that no one who faces violence should be denied access to public services 
 on the basis of sexual orientation or status as a person in prostitution. 
 Removing this discriminatory regulation will set a new standard in 
 California in line with the Obama administration policy."\n \nKate Horton, 
 a PhD student at UCSF and part of the working group organizing the event, 
 says "As a woman I feel strongly that sexual violence should never be 
 permissible. Regulation 649.56 not only discriminates against sex workers, 
 but sends a message that rape is more serious for some than it is for 
 others. To protect all women from sexual violence we need to remove these 
 double-standards."\n \n"The ACLU of  Northern California has a strong 
 desire to see this regulation repealed," says Kimberley Horiuchi, attorney 
 with the ACLU of Northern California. "It is imperative that the Victim 
 Compensation and Government Claims Board make victim compensation available 
 to all victims of crime.”\n \nThe campaign to get rid of the regulations 
 removed has got wide support around the state from church, veterans, legal, 
 prisoner rights groups and others and is having an  impact. After hearings 
 and  testimony from sex workers, the CalVCP's Board has called for a review 
 of the regulation and a proposal on 649.56 will be presented at their 
 December 12 meeting in Sacramento.  Our community forum November 12 aims to 
 build further public support.\n.\nEvent Planning group: BAYSWAN; Elisa 
 Eoceguera; Erotic Service Providers Union; F*WORD; In Defense of Prostitute 
 Women's Safety Project; Kate Horton; Legal Action for   Women; Queer 
 Strike; Sex Workers Outreach Project; Sin Barras: US PROStitutes 
 Collective.\n\nEvent Endorsers:  ACLU of Northern California;  All of Us or 
 None; California Coalition for Women Prisoners; Children of the Night; 
 Coalition on Homelessness; Critical Resistance, Oakland; Harvey Milk LGBT 
 Democratic Club;  Jeff Adachi, Public Defender; National Lawyers Guild, SF; 
 POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE; San Francisco for Democracy; San Francisco 
 Green Party.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/08/18746120.php
SUMMARY:Community Forum-REPEAL! Sex workers denied compensation in cases of rape
LOCATION:Press Conference at 5:30;  Community Forum at 6pm\nSF Public Library, 
 Latino/Hispanic room, lower level, 100 Larkin, SF
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/08/18746120.php
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