February 2012
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Tomorrow: Listen to 89.3 wpfw for show about the... →
Hello friends,
Tomorrow at 7pm eastern time the Latino Media Collective (who our LaPalabra buddies are apart of <3) will devote an hour long show to the criminalization of marginalized communities, with a focus on DC. Nopfzs contributor and community activist Darby Hickey will be a guest on the show and giving us straight talk about the Prostitution Free Zones. Ruby Corado, of the DC Trans...
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"It's bad public health, it's bad social policy."...
An excerpt of the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance testimony on making the Protitution Free Zones Permanent:
The Metropolitan Police Department’s current use of Prostitution Free Zones (or PFZs) facilitates discriminatory police profiling of transgender people. Making PFZs permanent, as this bill would do, would exacerbate the problem. It would also amount to doubling down on a...
January 2012
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PFZ Hearing Update and THANK YOU
Hey folx,
So, the hearing for Bill 19-567: The Prostitution Free Zone Amendement Act (to make the PFZ’s permanent), was yesterday. And it went so great! We had the room stacked with people testifying against the amendment. There were only three or four folks testifying in favor, and more then ten against! It was a triumphant moment, and everyone made very compelling arguments against...
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Sign our petition:
Vote against making DC’s “Prostitution Free Zones” permanent.
Greetings,
The D.C. Council is currently considering the “Prostitution Free Zone Amendment Act,” which will affect sex workers, or anyone thought to be a sex worker. This new bill builds off the “Prostitution Free Zone Act of 2005,” which allowed the police to declare any public area a...
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