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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
TO THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICE COMMISSION MEETINGS
San Francisco Police Chief Healther Fong has decided that recommend that 7 police officers ought to be fired for thier role in creating the videos that depicted police officers' unbecoming of their uniforms. Several others are slated to recieve lesser punishments like being suspended.
The Police commission meetings are on Wednesdays at 5:30. Here's the link
http://www.sfgov.org/site/police_page.asp?id=50587
One of the video clips created for the Bayview Christmas party portrayed two San Francisco Officers in uniform sitting inside their police car looking at the massage parlor ads in the news paper. The next scene shows those same officers going u p to the door of the massage parlor.
In real life, the police department targets massage parlor workers and management in numerous sting operations, which result in the loss of economic independence for those workers and deportation for several.
The fact that some police officers utilizes these same targeted businesses as a means of entertainment for its ranks, demonstrates a lack of respect for massage parlor workers’ human dignity, freedom of choice, and labor rights
What would have been entertaining to would be the police officers going to the massage parlor to offer their assistance to help massage parlor workers gain access to their right to negotiate for their wages and work conditions like the police officers have.
Section 3 in the petition titled Non Enforcement of the Prostitution Laws and Protection for Sex Workers would require the San Francisco Police Department to not use public resources to deprive another group of workers of their right to negotiate for fair wages and work conditions, regardless of their work status.
The City of San Francisco should not allocating any resources for the investigation and prosecution of prostitutes for prostitution
Further it states that
San Francisco’s law enforcement agencies shall not apply, nor receive federal and state monies that institute racial profiling as a means of targeting alleged trafficked victims under the guise of enforcing the abatement of prostitution laws.
Also...
The San Francisco Police Department and the Office of the District Attorney shall be required to practice full disclosure in the investigation and prosecution of charges of rape, extortion, sexual assault, and battery against sex workers, exotic dancers or erotic service providers.
I suggest this commission employ progressive discipline in this situation.
The commission ought to endorse the petition of Non Enforcement of the Prostitution Laws and Protection of Sex Workers.
I also recommend that the San Francisco police officers and their union allot resources to help get erotic service providers to next years summer union for women by hosting a fundraiser for us.
http://www.sfgov.org/site/police_page.asp?id=50587
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Petition Action Alert
Status Report on the Petition of “Non Enforcement of the Prostitution Laws and Protection of Sex Workers Ordinance”
Petition Update
The Petition of Non Enforcement of the Prostitution Laws and Protection of Sex Workers
Ordinance is currently listed at the bottom of the Agenda for San Francisco Board
of Supervisors Tuesday, November 7th 2006 under Proposed Resolutions.
http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/bosagendas/a110706.htm
The Public Comment portion of the meeting will occur before the Proposed Resolution
portion so come to city hall and tell the board to put the petition on the ballot
for 2007 The meeting starts at 2 pm. And the Public Comment portion is agenda item
#32.
Of course you can always write or call the Clerk of the Board or the Supervisors,
see their contact information below.
Read the petition if you haven�t already at
http://espu-ca.org/2006/03/actual-petition.html
The time to collect the 10,399 signatures required to qualify as a ballot initiative expired on Sept. 15th 2006 but, not to worry, 4 of the 11 San Francisco Board of Supervisors can still qualify the petition for the November 2007 ballot cycle so your help is still needed! Supervisor Bevin Dufty and Chris Daly have signed the petition and other supervisors are interested. The San Francisco Libertarian Party and the Harvey Milk Democratic Club have endorsed the petition. I am asking for your endorsements too. I want to thank the actual erotic laborers who collected signatures; you know who you are.
Send your endorcement to info@espu-ca.org
Call to Action:
Call or Write the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and tell them they need to show some leadership and that you want to see the petition of “Non Enforcement of the Prostitution Laws and Protection of Sex Workers Ordinance” on the ballot this November! Remember, if we can’t stop the enforcement of the prostitution laws in San Francisco, where can it be done?
The Clerk of the Board: Gloria Young
Contact Board.of.Supervisors@sfgov.org
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
Room 244
San Francisco, CA 94102-4689
(415) 554-5184 - voice
(415) 554-5163 - fax
(415) 554-5227 - TTY
Email: board.of.supervisors@sfgov.org
Business Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
(Except Legal Holidays)
Supervisor Tom Ammiano (415) 554-5144 Tom.Ammiano@sfgov.org
Supervisor Jake McGoldrick (415) 554-7410 jake.mcgoldrick@sfgov.org
Supervisor Bevan Dufty (415) 554-6968 bevan.dufty@sfgov.org
Supervisor Chris Daly (415) 554-7970 chris.daly@sfgov.org
Supervisor Sophie Maxwell (415) 554-7670 sophie.maxwell@sfgov.org
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi (415) 554-7630 ross.mirkarimi@sfgov.org
Supervisor Aaron Peskin (415) 554-7450 aaron.peskin@sfgov.org
Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval (415) 554-6975 gerardo.sandoval@sfgov.org
Supervisor Fiona Ma (415) 554-7460 fiona.ma@sfgov.org
(Send all letters to City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B Goodlett Place Room 244, San Francisco94102)
http://espu-ca.org/initiative.html
7 Reasons to Donate:
• Stop law enforcement agencies from profiting off the criminalization of prostitution by spending 7.6 million on enforcing the prostitution laws.
• Stop the immoral practice of arresting workers before they receive services.
• Stop the deportation of migrant workers.
• Stop the poverty pimping of sex industry worker by healthcare providers who profit off the criminalization of prostitution by giving out condoms and counseling.
• Stop the poverty pimping of the sex industry worker by social service providers who haven’t helped us get our right to negotiate for our wages and work conditions?
• It’s an important way to participate in this community beneficial cause.
• By contributing to the petition you get to be part of the solution to end violence against sex workers.
• Fight back against the century long oppression against most revered workers on the planet. Get the government out of our underwear
Donate on line
http://espu-ca.org/initiative.html
Or
Make Checks or money orders payable to ESPU
Mail checks to ESPU
c/o San Francisco Labor Council
1188 Franklin # 203
San Francisco, Ca
94109-685209-6852
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