Two months after Arizona’s lame-duck, Republican governor, Doug Ducey, announced a statewide, multi-media campaign to promote the insidious, long-discredited notion that the Super Bowl causes a surge in sex trafficking, the office of his Democratic successor, Katie Hobbs, released an…
A coalition of sex worker-rights organizations will demonstrate from 5-8 p.m. today, Monday, Feb. 6, outside the Footprint Center in Downtown Phoenix as part of a “public and media education action” ahead of Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, now less…
Despite more than a decade of research, reports, editorials, magazine articles and even police accounts debunking the odious myth that the Super Bowl is a magnet for sex trafficking, this zombie lie remains catnip to local politicians, police and media…
Today, a coalition of organizations committed to sex workers’ rights denounced an ongoing statewide media campaign by the Arizona Governor’s Office promoting a dangerous, disproven myth: that the Super Bowl serves as a magnet for sex trafficking and prostitution. In…
The U.S. Department of Justice’s duplicity knows no bounds when it comes to the prosecution of veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin under the U.S. Travel Act, a Kennedy-era law intended to target organized crime. Case in point: the…
Afroman, the Rabelaisian hip-hop artist known for such hedonistic hits as “Because I Got High” and “Colt 45,” knows the best way to clap back at the sheriffs’ deputies who rampaged through his Adams County, Ohio home on Aug. 21…
Getting arrested for not doing much more than standing around may sound like the exclusive purview of repressive regimes like those in China, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Still, standing outside a Chase bank branch in Phoenix, or peacefully watching…
When the FBI arrested veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin on April 6, 2018, charging them in federal court in Phoenix with violations of the U.S. Travel Act, the federal government seized almost all of Lacey and Larkin’s assets…
In Toronto and Tucson, Auckland and Amsterdam, Las Vegas and Sacramento, and countless other cities worldwide, sex workers and those who care about their safety will gather Saturday, December 17, as part of the International Day To End Violence Against…
At a Dec. 8th meeting of the Arizona Human Trafficking Council, Gov. Doug Ducey announced a statewide media campaign to bolster a long-discredited urban legend: that large sporting events such as the Super Bowl serve as magnets for the sex…
