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Thread uplifting survivors and families' direct funding requests.
Please support them
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We have received an influx of donations we will have all of this money go towards support and funds to the victims' families and survivors. We are currently working with organizations in Georgia and are trying to contact survivors and families.
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Eight workers in massage parlors have been killed in Atlanta. This is horrific, and is indicative of the violence that massage workers face daily. We are saddened and angered to learn of this, and we are sending our love to the workers in Atlanta.
cnn.com/2021/03/16/us/…
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Many people who have engaged with us recently do not know or do not remember that we were formed in reaction to the murder of Yang Song at the hands of the NYPD.
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These deaths somehow mean more because of the rise in anti-Asian violence related to COVID-19, but no mention of how they’re connected to the long policing of Asian sex work, which so many Asian Americans and those speaking up against anti-Asian hate endorse.
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Black sex worker liberation march fuck yes
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We appreciate the overwhelming support we have gotten overnight, and understand that many people are looking to us in this moment. Please read our response on the 8 lives lost in Atlanta.
Chinese and Korean translations of this statement are available
docs.google.com/document/d/1_Q…
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We knew this would happen, and are still telling everyone more policing or any policing at all doesn't keep people safe ESPECIALLY Asian and migrant massage workers. twitter.com/Tom_Winter/sta…
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If you are engaging with us because of anti-Asian violence, know that we are an explicitly anti-police collective. We hold our history close and ground ourselves in the roots of where we started this work.
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Police are arresting, deporting, and killing migrant Asian people. Policing is an unacceptable remedy for migrant Asian communities. Furthermore, the CRC was developed as part of the NYPD’s counterterrorism unit, a “highly trained team of officers ... trained in special weapons." twitter.com/Tom_Winter/sta…
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We do not ask people to disclose whether they are massage workers, sex workers, survivors, etc. before we provide support. That’s what the cops and the people who work with them do.
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We are looking for ASL, Chinese, and Korean interpreters for our vigil tomorrow. Please DM us if you are one or know one that is available.
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Elcias Hernandez Ortiz was shot during the shootings in Georgia this week, but he survived. His wife has set up this GFM to raise funds for his facial surgery
gofundme.com/f/help-elcias-…
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Hyun Jung Kim was one of the women killed in Acworth. This GoFundMe is set up by one of her sons, asking for donations for survival needs, such as food and shelter.
gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of…
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Decriminalization of sex work is the only way, and the only path to decriminalization is abolition of police and prisons twitter.com/whitney_hu/sta…
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Sexual violence has long been a tool of policing. Massage workers and sex workers would know. Police officers in NYC have routinely assaulted both sex workers and massage workers before, during, and after their arrests. This is unacceptable and has always been unacceptable twitter.com/catsnotcops/st…
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Sun Cha Kim was one of the women killed in Georgia. This GoFundMe is for funds towards her memorial and funeral as well as to her family.
gofundme.com/f/in-loving-me…
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"More cops do not make us feel safer. We need to divest from the police and reinvest resources in community-based safety solutions like we at the Massage Parlor Outreach Project are working toward."
-@emikoyama of the Massage Parlor Outreach Project
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Red Canary Song 红莺歌 - live via Restream.io pscp.tv/w/cyKQLzFYSlFr…
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We remember
Xiaojie Tan
Daoyou Feng
Delaina Ashley Yaun
Paul Andre Michels
Soon Chung Park
Hyun Jung Grant
Suncha Kim
Yong Ae Yue
#8LivesVigil
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"He fired into massage parlors. Where people are given touch, intimacy. Where you lay your head down to sink into yourself. Where a worker cares for your body to relieve your pain. Where a worker is doing a job to support themselves, their family, wherever their family may be."
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Delaina Ashley Yaun was one of the women killed in Acworth, Georgia. This GoFundMe is for direct funds to her family including two kids.
gofund.me/3129d5b9
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Vigil tomorrow with @ButterflyCSW to grieve the deaths of the Asian women massage workers who were killed in Georgia. Join us in holding this grief at 8PM EST. RSVP coming
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Paul Michels was one of the people killed in Acworth, Georgia. This GoFund Me is set up by his wife, Bonnie Michel's coworker to raise money for the family.
gofund.me/0dd50115
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In response to the charges for the shootings in Atlanta at three massage businesses being released we have written this joint statement with @survivepunish. We took time and care to write this and want to reaffirm our position as PIC abolitionists.
docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…
Grassroots collective of Asian sex workers & co-conspirators -- for migrant justice. Labor rights not police raids. Full decriminalization & anti-trafficking.