For anyone who can make it to Chicago - I’ll be presenting on March 21st with the Chicago Harm Reduction Training Collaborative on Legal Rights for People in the Street Economy.
I love doing this workshop. I’ll be talking about your legal rights when dealing with police and what to do no matter if you’ve done [...]
In this week’s news:
A Seattle man is charged with raping and pimping out a 12 year old who he met walking down the street.
Outside of San Diego a man is on trial for trying to force 4 teenage girls into prostitution. They are testifying about what happened and how they escaped by finding the right [...]
I’m back with a whole month’s worth of news links.
Lots of news about arrests of five teens and two adults for sexually assaulting and pimping out teen girls in Fort Worth Texas.
A man was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison in Missouri for forcing teen girls into prostitution and to pay over a [...]
Good news from DC as Congress lifted the restriction on funding for needle exchange programs in the Capitol.
To follow up from a previous news link, in Tennessee a woman pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution and other charges involving pimping at least one teen and involving another in her efforts.
A teen girl testified in a trial [...]
Here’s the weekly news round-up.
Recent survey in Canada suggests two-thirds of young women 16-24 aren’t using condoms with sex and forgetting to take the pill accurately too.
This past Saturday was World AIDS Day. This article talks about how racism and government inaction has led to the reality that African Americans who are 13 percent of [...]
For this week’s news links…
If you remember almost a couple of weeks ago I posted about an amazing new booklet on police brutality against women of color and trans people of color here. To follow up on that check out the Nov/Dec issue of ColorLines. A series of articles detail an investigation into fatal police [...]
I’m back from presenting at conferences in Ohio and Georgia. More soon about that but first the weekly news links.
Indiana is continuing public hearings on youth homelessness and is struggling to come up with solid numbers.
An arrest in Dallas resulted after police found a brazen ad actually offering someone underage for prostitution.
The safer injection site [...]
Here’s the news that caught my eye this week.
While a major trial is happening in Vancouver for one serial killer, Winnipeg is coming to the conclusion they have more than one serial killer still targeting women and youth on the streets.
A seventeen-year-old young woman Fonasa Lynn Bruyere, who went missing in August, was just identified [...]
In the news this week: a trial wrapped up in Michigan on a 16 year old’s murder while working for an escort service and a trial barely started when a man plead guilty to multiple charges from pimping several people, including two minors. In Texas, a woman was arrested for going door to door [...]
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