#yangsongpresente

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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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Last year, the NYPD murdered one of our community members. On Sunday, November 26th 2017, 38 year old Yang Song died after a raid on her workplace in Queens the previous evening. Meet at her former work space: 135-32 40th Rd in Flushing, for a vigil to remember and lift up our fallen comrade and speak out against police raids against Massage Parlors. Please bring flowers and wear red. We will have paper and writing supplies for your to leave messages of love, remembrance and solidarity. ### If these massage parlor raids continue more workers will die, be incarcerated, deported. Stop criminalizing sex work. Stop criminalizing working people. Stop targeting parlors. Shame on the NYPD! Your raids are killing women! Your raids are destroying families, criminalizing survivors, deporting hard working people and terrorizing our communities! Get out of parlors and stay out! How can these massage parlor raids be justified when women are dying?! This event is endorsed by Lysistrata MCCF and The Sex Workers Project at UJC. Please let us know if your org would like to support/promote. ***We will have scarves on hand if you need to protect your identity, send us a message before the event.

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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。