#rememberyangsong

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Our collective’s statement read by our dear comrade Julie at last night’s vigil to remember Yang Song —so much love to Red Canary Song for holding space.

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Today, in Flushing Queens comrades will gather to mourn the death of Yang Song and share collective outrage at the continued criminalization of massage and sex working migrant people. We send love, support and righteous anger as we rise up alongside our comrades today.

Alisha wanted to share these words with folx as they head to the vigil action, "We love and support all sex workers, and their right to be heard, especially on this day. This day that we will never forget. We will never stop demanding justice for Yang Song, and her family. It is proven fabric threaded together is stronger. What more is there to say about resilient hoes, woven together by a common purpose!"

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From our comrades Red Canary Song * Vigil for Yang Song *

Time: Saturday 11/30 3-6PM Location: 40th Road (near the LIRR tracks), Flushing Rain Location: Chinese Democracy Club/Flushing Quaker Meeting House

We are gathering for a vigil to honor the life of Yang Song, who passed away after a police raid at the massage parlor where she worked in 2017. Together, we will be remembering her and imagining a world beyond criminalization.

This vigil is organized by Red Canary Song in community with a coalition of activists, allies, and workers. Red Canary Song is a grassroots organizing group of volunteers, healthcare providers, activists, and sex workers fighting to secure the rights of Asian and migrant massage parlor workers and sex workers.

We encourage you to send us a short message of support that we will translate and post at the site of the vigil. Please send by 11/23, if you can!

https://docs.google.com/…/1eGqpbPT7GBHxycGMjTb0ScMyOPT…/edit

* 宋杨悼念会 * 时间：11月30日（周日）下午3-6时 地点：纽约皇后区法拉盛40街（长岛火车站火车站附近）

今年，我们再度聚首，悼念2017年在警察突袭按摩店时去世的宋杨女士，为更加公平、安全、有尊严的未来而团结起来。

此次悼念会由红莺歌和工人、社会活动者和其他盟友联合举办。红莺歌是一个为亚裔和移民的按摩店员工和性工作者争取权利的草根组织。

我们希望各位同情和怀念宋杨的人可以写一封支持信，支持者书信将翻译并打印，陈列于悼念会现场。请于23号前写好，以便整理。

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Queens, New York - Sex Workers, Massage Parlor Workers and their supporters will hold a community vigil, “Remembering Yang Song,” taking place at 2:30PM EST outside of her former workplace, 135-32 40th Rd in Flushing, on November 25th, 2018.

Last year, November 26th 2017, 38 year old Yang Song died after a raid on her workplace in Queens conducted by the NYPD. Organizers of the vigil are “horrified that the police continue to raid massage parlors in the name of ‘rescuing’ sex working people.”

Community advocates have stated, “If these massage parlor raids continue more workers will die, be incarcerated, deported. Stop criminalizing sex work. Stop criminalizing immigrant working people. Stop targeting massage parlors.”

As community members gather to mourn, and remember Yang Song, they want to emphasize that they want safe working conditions for all sex workers, massage workers, and immigrant workers. They want rights not police raids.

They want self-determination and an end to the criminalization of their labor.

This event is endorsed and supported  by:

The Support Ho(s)e Collective & Justice for Alisha Walker Defense Committee

The Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center

Lysistrata Mutual Care Collective Fund

Survivors Against SESTA

Survived & Punished NY

Womankind

Follow the hashtags:

#JusticeForYangSong

#RightsNotRaids

#CopsOutOfParlors

宋扬周年祭---社区缅怀纪念宋扬

     二〇一七年的初冬寒夜，十一月二十五日，三十八岁的宋扬在警察的计划缜密的围铺行动中，坠楼，二十六日抢救无效永远地告别了这个世界。时隔一年,社区按摩院从业人员，性工作者关怀人士，在宋扬生前工作地点四十路附件，集结纪念陨落的宋扬，严重抗议警方以“拯救失足妇女“的名义，对按摩院进行暴力执法

时间：11月25日下午2:30 on November 25th, 2018

地点：135-32 40th Rd in Flushing 法拉盛，皇后区

英语演讲媒体联系人：Red

中文演讲媒体联系人：张楷 /Athena 

社区代言人指出，“如果针对按摩院的警察暴力执法持续不断，更多的按摩从业人员可能会喋血街头”

停止抓铺

停止遣返

停止刑事化性工作者

停止刑事化移民工作者

停止针对按摩院从业工作者暴力执法

社区集会哀悼纪念宋扬周年祭的同时，强烈呼吁一个安全的工作环境，对性工作者，对按摩从业人员, 移民工人，他们需要的是权益不是暴力，他们需要的是自我目标实现而不是把她们的劳动非法，社区关切人士和多重社会组织希望纽约皇后区法拉盛和散布在全美，据不完全统计，九千多家的按摩院从业人员，你们的生存工作状态从来没有被人忽略和遗忘，如果有法律，移民，医疗，工作权益被剥夺和侵害的情况事件，如果受到警察的询问，骚扰，请大声讲出来，诚实的劳动从来就不应当受到鄙视和不公对待。

活动倡议和主办方如下：

The Support Ho(s)e Collective & Justice for Alisha Walker Defense Committee

The Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center 城市正义之性工作者权益项目

Lysistrata Mutual Care Collective Fund 丽诗塔塔关互基金

Survivors Against SESTA 幸存者反对赛诗塔

Survived & Punished NY  纽约幸存者和惩罚者

Womankind 妇女同心