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Public Meeting with EMPOWER, a Thai Sex Worker Collective

Date:
Monday, March 19, 2018
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Type:
Fundraiser
Organizer/Author:
John Torok
Location Details:
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA

Presenters Include:
Four Women from Empower
Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes

Hosted by US PROStitutes Collective

Empower Foundation is a sex workers collective in Thailand which for 30 years has been promoting rights and opportunities for sex workers, especially access to education, health and legal advocacy. Over the years 50,000 sex workers have passed through including migrant women from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.

This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from sex workers as well as from grassroots women in the Global South who are organizing for survival across different sectors of society.

The English Collective of Prostitutes is a UK based group, founded in 1975, which helps sex workers defend themselves against unjust charges and spearheads campaigns for decriminalization, safety, and for resources so that sex workers can leave sex work if and when they want.

US PROStitutes Collective is a Bay Area based organization, founded in 1982, which won parity for sex workers in compensation claims and with others got policies establishing immunity from arrest for sex workers reporting violence.

Sponsored by Global Women's Strike/Bay Area, GWS Oni Collective, In Defense of Prostitute Women's Safety Project, US PROStitutes Collective and Women of Color/GWS.

For more information contact uspros [at] prostitutescollective.net 415-626-4114 http://www.uspros.net
Added to the calendar on Thu, Feb 22, 2018 3:22PM
§Join us to Welcome EMPOWER
by U.S. Prostitutes Collective (uspros [at] prostitutescollective.net)
Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck Ave.
Oakland, CA

Empower Foundation is a sex workers' collective in Thailand which for 30 years has been promoting rights and opportunities for sex workers, especially access to education, health and legal advocacy. Over the years 50,000 sex workers, have passed through their doors including migrant women from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.
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Please join The US PROStitutes Collective for a public meeting to welcome EMPOWER to the Bay Area. Empower is a sex workers’ collective from Thailand that has been promoting rights and opportunities for sex workers for the past thirty years.

This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from sex workers as well as from grassroots women in the Global South who are organizing for survival across different sectors of society.

Monday, March 19 at 7pm
Omni Commons Ballroom
4799 Shattuck Avenue
Oakland, CA

For more information please go to http://www.uspros.net [or contact us at
uspros [at] prostitutescollective.net or call 415-626-4114
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