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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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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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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
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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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❗️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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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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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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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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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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Seth Myers & his wife support laws like SESTA-FOSTA that kill sex workers.
It’s not the “Equality Model” or “Nordic Model”. Let’s call it what it is from now on. It’s the Deportation Model, the Sex Worker Eviction Model.
Limousine Liberals colonizing our language to violate us twitter.com/NYDailyNews/st…
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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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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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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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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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“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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"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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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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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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One important point to highlight:
You can’t have a universal housing guarantee without full sex work decrim.
Under current “pimp” laws, landlords are charged as pimps. This allows for legal housing discrimination against sex workers, requiring workers to live and work in fear.
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Please continue supporting the survivors and families. twitter.com/RedCanarySong/…
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Asking for support:
There's another hateful anti-BLM & pro-NYPD march tomorrow 11am in front of the Flushing Library.
We're gathering with other organizers in counter-protest, to stand with BLM against racism & police brutality.
Please join us, as we'll be very outnumbered. twitter.com/yjpc06/status/…
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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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“This system is not broken. This system is working exactly as it was designed. It was designed to hurt particular communities and help other individuals keep their power. And we are here to dismantle it and change it forever.”
-NYS Assembly Member, @yuhline
Grassroots collective of Asian sex workers & co-conspirators -- for migrant justice. Labor rights not police raids. Full decriminalization & anti-trafficking.