Posts Tagged ‘prostitution’
Survivors of human trafficking take the lead on teaching about “modern day slavery”
“I always was ashamed, and I always thought of myself as a prostitute,” said Elizabeth Quiroz. “But now that I know this, I’m educating myself. That’s not what happened. I was a victim. Now I’m a survivor.”
Read MoreBay Area, international support groups discuss sex workers’ rights in Oakland
Monday night local and international support groups gathered to discuss decriminalizing sex work and protecting workers’ rights.
Read MoreNuisance Eviction Ordinance changes regarding sex workers upset advocacy groups
Sex worker advocacy groups in the Bay Area have taken to social media and traditional media methods to express their outrage over Oakland’s recent updates to an existing “nuisance eviction ordinance” for housing. Advocates believe that the newest addition will allow landlords to unfairly evict those who are voluntarily working as sex workers in commercial…
Read MoreOakland introduces new billboard campaign to combat human trafficking
Oakland District Attorney Nancy O’Malley announced Thursday morning the launch of a billboard campaign aimed at combating human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of minors in the Bay Area.
Read MoreJuvenile Hall in Oakland plans to create a girl’s camp for sexually exploited youth
The Alameda County Juvenile Hall is in the planning stages of creating a girl’s camp to provide stability to victims of sexual exploitation and other at-risk youth.
Read MoreThe Streets Disciples reach out to Oakland’s sex workers and other women in need
The women sat in a circle, pressing their folding chairs closely together as they laughed, clapped and listened to each other’s stories.
Read MoreDear John: Oakland residents are sending your license plate number to the cops
Armed with green forms listing license plate numbers, car models and driver descriptions, residents of the San Antonio neighborhood aim to do what billboards and tow trucks could not—reduce prostitution in their community.
Read MoreOakland residents and police kickoff new campaign to reduce prostitution
Chants rang out along East 15th Street Friday evening as residents waved signs declaring “No crime, no robbery, no prostitution!” and “We need safe neighborhoods!”
Read MoreIn Oakland, a center works to protect Cambodian girls from sexual exploitation
CERI is a non-profit organization that provides mental health and social services to refugee and immigrant families, mostly Cambodians. All of the girls in its support group have parents who are Cambodian refugees, and they all live in high crime neighborhoods in the East Bay. Many of them know other girls—friends, former classmates—who have become involved in “the life,” a term for the underground world of prostitution.
Read MoreOakland church hosts symposium on human trafficking
Three hundred community members and parishioners from the Allen Temple Baptist Church attended a symposium on human trafficking Saturday morning to learn about sexual exploitation in Oakland and the world.
Read MoreCommunity rallies against underage sex trade in Oakland
Community members rallied alongside city leaders Thursday evening to protest the sexual exploitation of minors, shutting down 17th Ave at International Blvd in Oakland’s San Antonio neighborhood — a neighborhood where residents say encountering hookers, pimps and johns is a day-to-day part of life.
Read MoreBay Area turns up the HEAT on underage prostitution
At nighttime along Oakland’s International Boulevard, dozens of teenage girls are working the track—and there’s nothing athletic about it. “The Track” is the street nickname for the epicenter of underage prostitution in Oakland, where girls well under the age of eighteen strut down the street in platform heels and mini dresses while predatory pimps wait in cars around the corner.
Read MoreMayoral candidates share their plans on public safety
“Ladies and gentlemen, you could be taking dance lessons in Jack London Square or having a drink. But no, we’ve had too important a week, haven’t we?” With that, Aimee Alison, host of the KPFA Morning Show and founder of OaklandSeen.com, opened the Oakland mayoral forum on public safety held Thursday evening, July 15th at the Lakeshore Baptist Church.
Read MoreBay Area child sex trafficking stings lead nationwide effort
By ISABEL ESTERMAN OCT. 28 –Thirteen juveniles have been taken into custody in the Bay Area and 123 adults have been arrested as part of Operation Cross Country II, a nationwide effort to combat the sex trafficking of children, law enforcement officials announced this morning. Bay Area operations are responsible for almost 25 percent…
Read MoreMotel’s a sleazy neighbor, residents complain
Neighbors of this Golden Gate neighborhood motel say they’re fed up with what seems to go on inside. Click here for the story.
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