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Please support folks in raising funds for Mistress V's funeral, family, and to pay off their debt.
bit.ly/rememberingvel…
We all, in Red Canary Song's collective, are mourning the loss of Mistress Velvet and hope to honor their life. twitter.com/MissVChicago/s…
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The “rescue” of Asian women in the sex trades has always been rooted in white moral superiority specifically white women’s feeling of moral superiority over Asian women.
Thank you @mayjeong for you gathering and analysis of this history twitter.com/hackinghustlin…
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❤️ This month for ‘AAPI Heritage Month’ we will be paying homage to our history as a collective, other organizers and organizations who share our dream of shared liberation, and the organizers who make this work possible.
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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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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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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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We are trying to build a world where all the incidents of police violence and murder would not happen and the people we have lost would still be with us.
That will not happen with any charge, conviction, or sentence served.
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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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Op-ed by core organizer @uhlenna "This everyday threat of policing also makes it far less likely that workers will feel comfortable reporting poor working conditions and threats to their safety."
nytimes.com/2021/03/26/opi…
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“”mutual aid is keeping people safe [by] meeting people’s needs in the immediate that are not being met by the systems that are in place,” Nguyen said, noting that these same systems criminalize Asian migrants, including massage workers” twitter.com/LVikkiml/statu…
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Yong Ae Yue was one of the women killed in Acworth, Georgia. This GoFundMe is organized by her youngest son to pay for her memorial service and personal affairs.
gofund.me/c0d08ca8
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Please continue supporting the survivors and families. twitter.com/RedCanarySong/…
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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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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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Reminder we are a NYC based org, and while we are in contact with ATL based orgs they are the organizers on the ground. We are uplifting their requests and demands.
Please support this fund for @AAAJ_Atlanta
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/su…
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This GoFundMe for direct funds to Elcias Hernandez Ortiz, a survivor of the shootings in Acworth, Georgia, for his facial surgery and other medical expenses is still unfulfilled twitter.com/RedCanarySong/…
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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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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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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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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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Thread uplifting survivors and families' direct funding requests.
Please support them
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"As we mourn the deaths, let us also hold close, the survivors, the injured and those who faced this horror. And let us hold close the vast communities of Asian women who are devastated by fear."
-Yin Q, @RedCanarySong
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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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"This country’s first immigration laws targeted Chinese women because of fears of Asian sexualities. We cannot separate the Atlanta shooting from last Monday’s plane deporting Vietnamese refugees."
-Turner, @18millionrising
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"Society knows how to fix the problem, but they continue to harm the community because of their moral agenda, their racist ideas. People are killed by sexism, racism, whorephobia, by the state, and by NGOs that claim to rescue sex workers."
-Elene @ButterflyCSW
Grassroots collective of Asian sex workers & co-conspirators -- for migrant justice. Labor rights not police raids. Full decriminalization & anti-trafficking.