Previous Actions and Press Clips

Action Alerts and Campaigns

Our action alert to APAN members requesting their help with an epidemic of hateful CafePress products.
Result: Mixed. Many products were removed, but due to CP's lack of oversight, more products appeared to replace them.

Our original letter to the Nation requesting they remove the Bendricks ad.
Our subsequent email action campaign when they failed to comply.
Result: The ad quietly disappeared.

The press release announcing a "slave auction" in Los Angeles, with the proceeds to be given (without irony) to needy children and the homeless.
Result: Two phone calls cleared this up. Both charities declined involvement and refused the money.

Army of Me leads a quick action against pre-teen pole dancing classesat a studio in Los Angeles.
Result: The pre-teen offerings disappear from the company's website

Dragonfly leads another quick action against Stitches Clothing Storefor stocking a misogynist t-shirt.
Result: The shirt is removed from the store.
Public Appearances by APAN members
• CAROL's protestof a Pimp n Ho ball in Baltimore
• James goes to the House of Lords for a celebration of an Object UK anti-lapdancing campaign.
• one angry girl's two part two part interview with XM Radio's "Emma on the Loose"
• SM Berg interviewed on KBOOin Portland
• SM Berg speaks at In Other Words Bookstorein Portland
• Valerie presents "Experiences of the Sex Industrial Complex" at the NYC Anarchist Bookfairand FADGE Fest in Hartford
• COMING SOON: o.a.g. on Canada's SexTV
• COMING SOON: Jennifer's interview on KVEC
Newspaper and Magazine Clips by APAN members
• Estela's letters to the University of Connecticut
• Jackie's letter to Newsweek
• Jill's letter to the New Haven Advocate
• RGM's letter to the National Post of Canada
• Rich's response to the Parents Magazine suggestion that you "pimp your kids' Keds"
11 selections from S.M. Berg's published work
Published in the Portland Alliance.
Published in the Portland Alliance.
Published in off our backs
Letter to the Christian Science Monitor
Letter to the San Francisco Guardian
Letter to Willamette Week
Published in the Portland Alliance
Another Approach to Prostitution
Media Critics Blind towards Playboy
Published in the Portland Alliance
An interview with Robert Jensen
Published in the Portland Alliance