Resolution will bring District into compliance with state Human Trafficking Prevention Education and Training Act marking a victory for children in San Diego Unified schools On Wednesday, January 11, 2023, the San Diego Unified School Board unanimously (5-0) adopted a resolution to institute anti-trafficking curricula geared towards training all district staff and students on identifying trafficking in schools. The school board has committed to equipping SDUSD personnel to identify and support students experiencing commercial sexual exploitation, and to provide fundamental resources for students to safely exit.  Specifically, the school board has committed to a specialized curriculum, collaborating with existing service … Read more

Contact: AF3IRM Seattle, [email protected] Today on February 14th, AF3IRM observes Purple Rose Day in honor of those exploited by sex trafficking, sexual and gender-based violence, and fetishization. This is a day to reaffirm the struggle to end gender-based violence and the exploitation of women, children, and gender-oppressed people. The purple rose is a flower artificially bred for profit and pleasure. The existence of the sex trade is similarly an imposition on the land and bodies of so many for the sake of imperialist profiteering and exploiter pleasure. Therefore, we reclaim our purple roses through our commitment to ending the military … Read more

Contact: AF3IRM Los Angeles || [email protected] AF3IRM Los Angeles (AF3IRM LA) condemns the city’s decision to host the Super Bowl LVI at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Sunday, February 13, 2022, as the planned increase in police presence will result in increased sweeps and raids, displacement of our unhoused neighbors, and criminalization of Los Angeles’ most vulnerable, leaving only further persecution of the city’s systematically marginalized and disadvantaged communities in its aftermath. We are disheartened that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Inglewood Mayor James Thurman Butts Jr. have chosen to value profit over the safety and wellbeing of … Read more

A WIN for AF3IRM Portland! AF3IRM Portland has been working with a coalition of survivor-led organizations since late 2021 to DISMANTLE Initiative Petition 42 (IP 42), AKA the Oregon ballot measure which was deceptively titled the “Sex Worker Rights Act”, when it pushed to further protect buyers, pimps, and brothels, and increase demand and sex trafficking. It sought to further normalize sexual exploitation and protect the interests of sex buyers and pimps. It was in no way a genuine measure to empower those in the sex trade, particularly Indigenous women, women and girls of color.  The coalition and AF3IRM mobilized … Read more

Contact: Connie HuynhAF3IRM National Chairperson, [email protected] EspinosaAF3IRM National Programme Coordinator, [email protected] “Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.  Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” – Arundhati Roy AF3IRM women follow … Read more

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: AF3IRM LOS ANGELES [email protected] Los Angeles, CA – Transnational feminist activists from AF3IRM Los Angeles applaud the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the passage of the Massage Establishment Ordinance on January 28, 2020, and urge the Board of Supervisors to remove a provision from the ordinance that would allow for the suspension, revocation, or denial of business licenses to survivors. The new ordinance will be the first in the County’s history to explicitly address sex trafficking in the massage industry. The passage of this ordinance is a critical victory in AF3IRM Los Angeles’ Survivors … Read more