Sex workers organize to save public health in San Francisco

This just in from some fabulous activists at St. James Infirmary — the nation’s only for & by sex worker health clinic, and one of my second homes: the Coalition to Save Public Health in San Francisco needs people to come speak out against Mayor Gavin Newsom’s mid-term budget cuts that would mean the end of crucial services to sex workers, GLBT adults & teens, homeless youth, and harm reduction services to folks of all kinds struggling just to get by.

They’re calling for a vote to reduce the damage of the cuts now, and for a special election to put these cuts before San Francisco voters, and need a big turnout in support at this week’s Board of Supervisors meeting on January 27th. The whole organizing effort is collaborative, between all kinds of community people working in HIV prevention, harm reduction, sexual health services, and mental health services, and sex workers have been at the forefront of this fight.

Can’t make it? You can follow along at the hearing on Tuesday with the @SaveHealthSF Twitter account, and also on Flickr and the Save Public Health blog.