YouTube video by Alex Vitale
Sex Work NYC Policy Briefing
Here is the video recording of our briefing on sex work issues in NYC. youtu.be/xQM95Iw-OPk
23.02.2026 15:29 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to be showing our film @sexworkfilm.bsky.social in Cambridge next month.
19.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
When crime #s go down every local police official tries to take credit. But, these are broad national and international trends that have little or nothing to do w local police decision making.
19.02.2026 13:11 — 👍 72 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 1
Sex Work Policy Briefing
Join us Friday, Feb. 20th, 10-11:30 AM EST
With:
Red Canary Song
Decrim NY
The Ali Forney Center
NYC Councilmember Tiffany Caban
@psjpbc.bsky.social
@decrimny.bsky.social
@tiffanycaban.bsky.social
@alexvitale.bsky.social
brooklyn-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/84930585010
18.02.2026 13:02 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We are hosting our first ever virtual Sex Work Policy Briefing
This Friday, Feb. 20th, 10-11:30 AM EST
With:
Red Canary Song
Decrim NY
The Ali Forney Center
NYC Councilmember Tiffany Caban
@decrimny.bsky.social
@tiffanycaban.bsky.social
brooklyn-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/84930585010
18.02.2026 13:04 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
We are hosting our first ever virtual Sex Work Policy Briefing
This Friday, Feb. 20th, 10-11:30 AM EST
With:
Red Canary Song
Decrim NY
The Ali Forney Center
NYC Councilmember Tiffany Caban
@decrimny.bsky.social
@tiffanycaban.bsky.social
brooklyn-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/84930585010
18.02.2026 13:04 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Sex Work Policy Briefing
Friday, February 20th, 10-11:30 AM Eastern
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Featuring:
Red Canary Song
Decrim NY
The Ali Forney Center
NYC Councilmember Tiffany Caban
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18.02.2026 01:44 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Note that this is local police not ICE or CPD attacking these young people. Local police are working overtime to distance themselves from ICE/CPD. Don't buy the hype.
07.02.2026 14:14 — 👍 392 🔁 202 💬 1 📌 1
🎬 Audience reactions from SEX WORK: IT’S JUST A JOB at La Jícara Oaxaca (Jan 29). Powerful conversations, moved audiences, and voices that stayed with us. This is the power of storytelling. 💛
#SexWorkItsJustAJob #WorkIsWork #FilmForChange
01.02.2026 22:45 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
BORTAC is the SWAT for Border Patrol. Among other things, they failed to save students in Uvalde.
05.02.2026 12:42 — 👍 87 🔁 44 💬 0 📌 1
Excited to be showing our film (@sexworkfilm.bsky.social) in Pittsburgh this week.
Friday, 7 PM Kelly Stayhorn Theater.
01.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
PSJP coordinator Alex Vitale will join tonight’s virtual panel on abolition to discuss policing, incarceration and community alternatives.
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@mattytheglue.bsky.social
31.01.2026 17:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“I think it’s a big mistake to look at this as a problem of training… We are seeing the mobilization of a federal police force to carry out a campaign of terror for political purposes.”
Project coordinator @alexvitale.bsky.social on @aljazeera.com discussing recent ICE actions.
27.01.2026 18:12 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
NYC Folks: I'll be doing this event with David Stovall about his new book "Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago" Feb 9th at the NY Public Library: www.nypl.org/events/progr...
20.01.2026 14:23 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Great convo yesterday w folks in Fresno. Big uptick in requests like this.
25.01.2026 15:22 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I'll be in Pittsburgh on Feb 6th to show our film @sexworkfilm.bsky.social:
21.01.2026 02:21 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Excellent intervention from @kojokoram.bsky.social. Big fan.
15.01.2026 12:28 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Ha! Anyone know who made this?
12.01.2026 13:15 — 👍 47 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Professor Alex Vitale and Author of The End of Policing, discusses the significance of the NYPD Protest Settlement and the central role of organizing, testimony, and First Amendment protections. Learn more at protesttestimonyproject.org
@psjpbc.bsky.social @alexvitale.bsky.social
09.01.2026 14:39 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
After a flurry of right-wing attack pieces following his appointment to the Mamdani Transition team, Project Coordinator Alex Vitale also received some positive coverage, including this short video interview for Current Affairs. @currentaffairs.bsky.social @alexvitale.bsky.social
06.01.2026 19:34 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Researchers consistently fail to consider the true costs of policing when they evaluate its effectiveness. Traffic stops don't improve safety and have massive social costs.
02.01.2026 17:34 — 👍 30 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
When we dramatically expand police power, we should expect a lot more of this.
21.12.2025 13:30 — 👍 45 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
Wonderful screenings of @sexworkfilm.bsky.social in Oakland and San Francisco this week.
06.12.2025 19:22 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
December 2025 Newsletter
Policing and Social Justice Project
Check out our December newsletter. Subscribe now for monthly updates alexvitale.substack.com/p/december-2...
01.12.2025 20:49 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We won!!! We are proud to announce that “Sex Work: It’s Just a Job” was selected as Audience Favorite at the Workers Unite Film Festival! Such an honor to be recognized amongst so many important films. @workersuniteff.bsky.social
25.11.2025 14:54 — 👍 30 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
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Protest Testimony Project is part of the community engagement component of the settlement agreement addressing the NYPD’s response to the 2020 protests.
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European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance. Formerly ICRSE.
We are a network of 100+ member organisations in 30+ countries in Europe and Central Asia, working to support human and labour rights of sex workers.
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Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.
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Documentary centering sex workers’ voices in the fight to end criminalization, following the repeal of NY’s “loitering for prostitution” law. Prod: Tami Gold, Alex Vitale & B. Matias. 🌐 https://sexworkfilm.com
The G.A.N.G.S. Coalition’s mission is to end systems that target, surveil, harass, and criminalize the association of young Black and Latinx people.
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