Sex Workers Outreach Project
Sex Workers Outreach Project

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Support for Angel's Initiative 

Reaches High Levels of Government and Beyond

Despite the protests and scare tactics of the Berkeley City Council, high level government officials, religious and community leaders as well as ordinary citizens have endorsed Angel's Initiative (now Measure Q) as the beginning of a more humane approach to prostitution. Please join:

  • Senator John Burton
  • Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley
  • Former San Francisco DA Terence Hallinan
  • The Green Party of Alameda County
  • East Bay Libertarian Party
  • Libertarian Party of San Francisco
  • Outright Libertarians of San Francisco
  • Gloria Lockett, Executive Director California Prostitute Education Project (Cal-PEP)
  • Delwin Brown, Vice President of Academic Affairs Pacific School of Religion 
  • Dr. Rita Brock, Chair of the Common Global Ministries Board of the Christian Church, Starr King School of Ministries
  • Jesse Townley,  Green Party Candidate for Berkeley City Council District 5, Disaster Council
  • Beatrice Morris, physicians assistant, Masters of Divinity Pacific School of Religion
  • Avaren Ipsen, Berkeley Commissioner on the Status of Women, PhD candidate Graduate Theological Union
  • boona cheema, Executive Director Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, Berkeley
  • CCAP, Citizen Coalition Against Prohibition
  • Lois Rowan, retired union journalist, International Federation of Engineers (IFTPE) AFL-CIO, Berkeley 
  • Jerry Threet, Former President Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, Berkeley
  • Carol Stuart, Co-Author, San Francisco's Equal Benefits Ordinance; Co-Founder, St. James Infirmary, Berkeley
  • Richard Terry Koch, Attorney, Chair State Bar Commission
  • Steven DeAngelo, San Pablo Avenue Business Owner, Berkeley
  • Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH Director, STD Prevention San Francisco Dept Public Health
  • Kelly Winter, San Francisco Dept. Public Health
  • Deborah Cohan, MD, MPH, Assistant Clinical Researcher UCSF, Berkeley
  • Barbara G. Brents, Associate Professor, Sociology University of Nevada
  • Frank Lucido, MD, Berkeley Family Practitioner
  • Bob Cronbach, MPA , Alameda Co. Dept. of Public Health Services Consultant
  • Mike Bunyard, Outreach Worker Roseburg HIV Resource Center
  • Lee Trampleasure Amosslee, Berkeley High Teacher 1996-2004, Berkeley 
  • Robyn Few, Executive Director Sex Workers Outreach Project, Berkeley
  • Michael Foley, Californians for Civil Liberties, Berkeley
  • Jenn Clamen, International Union of Sex Workers
  • Kristal Stetsko, Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers, Montreal
  • David Steinberg, Journalist
  • Scarlot Harlot, sex worker artist
  • Jane Maxwell, Mourning Mothers, Code Pink, Berkeley
  • Haley Ausserer, student
  • Sandy Malave, New York
  • P.L. Newton, Florida
  • Colleen Robinson, activist
  • Erin Siegal, photographer Cathexis Press
  • Eddy Lepp, owner Eddy's Medicinal Gardens
  • Starchild, candidate for SF school board
  • Gary Schubach, Ed.D., A.C.S. sex educator
  • Edward Mendoza, California
  • Joseph Oliver, California
  • Shannon Bean, California
  • Catherine La Croix, Founder COYOTE/Seattle, former courtesan and professional dominant
  • Uriah Bailey, Lagos, Nigeria
  • Melissa Sontag, Virginia, law student and activist
  • Miguel Martinez, California, Accountant

all leading the way toward safer streets and real change, solutions and opportunities in the discourse on prostitution in California.