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...