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Please support Sandy in leaving her abusive partner and recovering from her injuries. We will be sharing Sandy’s own words below [TW: Mentions of SA, DV, IPV]
venmo: choyeonhoo
paypal: choyeonhoo
cashapp: $babyangelette
Put “For Sandy” in the notes
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This is an urgent request as Princess’ health and situation is rapidly changing. Please share and give as you can!
More of Princess’ story and image descriptions will be in the replies. ALT text is already on
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Please help support a Chinese migrant massage worker currently incarcerated in Taconic. She and her family are in a dire situation. All funds will go directly to her and her family.
PayPal: yvestng@gmail.com
Venmo: yvesnguyen
Cashapp: $heymoon
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We do not support the building of ANY jails. This so called “feminist jail” will be used to incarcerate SWers, migrants, survivors, etc who are most often Black and Indigenous women and other women of color.
Support the zap: docs.google.com/document/d/1et… twitter.com/abolitionistfe…
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We did not meet our goal of 9k in recurring monthly donations, but we are getting closer. We have 34k followers on this account if 1/3 of our followers dedicated $1/month we would meet our goal. twitter.com/RedCanarySong/…
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In early June, an elder spa worker in our community fell down the stairs in her apartment building while getting to work
After a major bone fracture surgery & a few days of hospitalization, she was sent back home & awaiting another surgery to repair her broken fingers & backhand
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In NY, unlicensed massage is one of the few professions where workers are arrested for simply trying to make ends meet.
More than 90% of those arrested are Asian women. The majority are noncitizens.
This criminalization traps low-income, Asian migrants in systemic poverty.
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In honor of #AAPIHeritageMonth, RCS is raising $9K monthly recurring donations for our expanding outreach program!
As a small grassroots collective, we've relied heavily on one-time grants. Our community of Asian massage & SWers is growing, & we require a bigger support network.
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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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A view of the #8LivesVigil Art memorial (韧 Curtain Armor). The memorial is a simulacrum of a typical massage parlor, exposing the hidden workspace the migrant women workers call “home.” Inside are 3 massage beds set up as vigil altars w/ homemade foods & mourning tokens. twitter.com/RedCanarySong/…
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Today is the one year anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings. You can live-stream the vigil with @RedCanarySong @aafcollective in collective remembrance here: youtu.be/rKv2rjUWrl0
We will also be live-tweeting under #8LivesVigil.
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Seeking ASL and Mandarin interpreters still, please email redcanarysong@gmail.com if that's you or you have any recommendations please reach out to us. Mandarin interpreters can be remote. ASL interpreters need to be in NYC. twitter.com/RedCanarySong/…
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Our network is stretched a little thin. We are looking for Korean and Mandarin interpreters available on March 16 for the vigil. We are also looking to add people to our interpreter list. Please DM or email us if you are available or know someone.
redcanarysong@gmail.com
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1/ TODAY, Red Canary Song introduced the Massage License Decriminalization Act (A 8281), sponsored by Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas @votejgr in collaboration with legal aid organizations, civil rights groups, researchers & directly impacted massage workers.
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March 16th marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic Atlanta spa shootings. @RedCanarySong, in collaboration with @aafcollective, will be hosting a live vigil for the #8Lives lost
Join us for a time of collective remembrance and healing. #8LivesVigil
tinyurl.com/8lives-vigil
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Sooyoung is a Korean massage worker in NYC living with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), osteoarthritis, chronic kidney failures, avascular necrosis, and scoliosis.
She hopes to afford a hip joint replacement surgery which she couldn’t afford for years.
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CALL FOR MUTUAL AID!
Anjana is an Asian sex worker struggling to create a better life for herself and her daughter who was diagnosed with cancer a few months ago. She’s been having a hard time with employment due to COVID-19 and the rise of anti-Asian violence.
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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…
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“Migrant sex workers and massage workers, especially those who are undocumented people of color with language barriers, are not people most think of as being affected by surveillance technology or connected to this issue with OnlyFans, but they are.” - @yvesandthemoon twitter.com/whoreganizer/s…
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❗️URGENT MUTUAL AID REQUEST❗️
C is an undocumented Korean-Vietnamese sex worker and mother of 3, who is trying to leave a domestic violence situation. They urgently need $1300 for rent and other basic necessities.
paypal: yvestng@gmail.com
venmo: yvesnguyen
cashapp: $heymoon
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Seeking Mandarin outreach support to assist worker applications to the Excluded Workers Fund!!!!!
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MUTUAL AID REQUEST FOR A COMMUNITY MEMBER!
Gina is an undocumented, Asian immigrant sex worker struggling to find a job due to COVID-19. She is currently seeking help to pay off a $9,000 debt due to rent and her daughter’s medical expenses.
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Esther K, a member of Asian sex worker collective Red Canary Song, explained at a recent teach-in: “The erasure of sex workers from the Stop Asian Hate movement has been heartbreaking.” twitter.com/heenasharma_/s…
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Please continue to support this fund. When we talk about the violent criminalization that affects people in the sex trades and trafficking survivors this is what we mean. Social services and government support continually fail. Collectively we have to support each other. twitter.com/RedCanarySong/…
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Please support Ms. A in her healing. She is a criminalized survivor of sex trafficking, who needs funds after being detained by ICE, kicked out of housing, and forced to regurgitate her trauma for immigration purposes.
Donate: gofundme.com/20k4missa
Grassroots collective of Asian sex workers & co-conspirators -- for migrant justice. Labor rights not police raids. Full decriminalization & anti-trafficking.