• SWOP-Norcal: providing activism and community.
• St. James infirmary: Health care and services for Sex Workers.
• YOGA FOR SEXWORKERS with Selina Raven @ At the Center for Sex & Culture, 1519 Mission near 11th. For more details visit CSC's website. Tuesdays, 1-2:30, and Thursdays, 5-6:30.
• BAYSWAN: Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network and Prostitutes Education Network.
• US PRO's: U.S. Prostitutes Collective: rachelwest <AT> crossroadswomen.net
• ESPU: Erotic Service Providers Union.

Have a local Northern California resource we don't have listed? contact us.

Sex Workers from all over the country party down at Big Chicks after the four day political conference held here in Chicago. Come grind and rub elbows with the naughtiest of the them all.

Meet sex workers from San Francisco, NYC, and everywhere in between as they converge here in Chicago for the Desiree Alliance conference of 2008. Saturday night will be the night we put aside planning the revolution to get loose and dress up and meet Chicago locals who have supported the movement this year. Come and bring a friend!

WHO::

You (21+), dressed to impress, costumes encouraged... WEAR RED!!

Donations are welcome, but not required. Open to the public!

When::

Saturday Jul 19, 2008

at 9:00 PM

Where::

Sex Workers Outreach Project chapters do something around their local pride festival/march/parade/etc. Each Chapter chooses what they want to do. Here are some things we've done

Nationally we've been at San Francisco Pride since our inception. We've helped ran the gate, ran drink booths, and information booths.

Check out what we are doing in 2008.

*** CALL TO ACTION ***

***** DISTRIBUTE WIDELY *****

PROTEST HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES OF SEX WORKERS IN CAMBODIA!

1:30 PM AT THE CAMBODIAN MISSION TO THE UN

327 E 50TH STREET NEAR SECOND AVENUE

HLM ATTENDEES LEAVE THE UN CAFÉ AT 1 PM

The Cambodian Government under the influence of the US has passed a law

against sex workⁱ. Since March, sex workers have been rounded up in raids,

arrested, detained, denied medical services, beaten and raped by police.

At least three sex workers have died in police custody. Others are being

denied life-saving medicines. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!

Background:

Cambodian sex workers face severe raids from police:

Preserving value of women or treat them with respect and dignity?

Each day for the last few weeks the local news has been flashing

reports of more raids on sex workers in brothels in different areas in

Phnom Penh, and some in the provinces. However, raids on sex workers

don't only take place in Phnom Penh but a number of provinces such as

Banteay Meanchey, Siem Reap, Kampong Chhang . The news paints a bad

PRESS RELEASE
Dylan Wolfe - Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK), swank [at] riseup [dot] net
Michael Bottoms - Sex Workers Outreach Project - New York City (SWOP-NYC),
swop [dot] nyc [at] gmail [dot] com
Susan Blake - Prostitutes of New York (PONY), pony [at] panix [dot] com
Desiree Alliance, info [at] DesireeAlliance [dot] org

The Pink Scare: Of Ms. Palfrey and Sex Panic

New York, NY - The activists at Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK), Sex
Workers Outreach Project New York (SWOP-NYC), Prostitutes of New York
(PONY) and the nationally-based Desiree Alliance are saddened that Deborah
Jeane Palfrey, also known as the D.C. Madam, passed away on May 1st in an
apparent suicide. We - prostitutes, strippers, pro-dommes, porn stars, sex
experts, and allies - extend our sympathies to all of those hurt by this
most recent chapter of the "Pink Scare," in which oppressive legislation
and social stigma partner to generate hysteria around what, for us, can
prove to be simply a decent way to make a living.

The circumstances surrounding Ms. Palfrey's death suggest that Americans
reconsider the current state and federal policies that govern sex workⁱ, as