Previous Actions and Press Clips

APAN members hard at work - victories large and small to inspire you

Action Alerts and Campaigns

• APAN's email campaign against offensive CafePress products
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.

• APAN's action campaign against the Nation Magazine
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.


• APAN's quick action against the "Charity Slave Auction"
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.


• APAN member's email campaign against S Factor

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


• APAN member's easy action against Stitches Clothing Store

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


 
All Naked Women are Created Equal

Published in the Portland Alliance.


Cathouse Got Your Tongue?

Published in the Portland Alliance.


Harms of Gay Male Pornography

Published in off our backs


Rethinking a Legal Sex Trade

Letter to the Christian Science Monitor


Letter to Herbivore Magazine


Another Approach to Prostitution

Letter to the San Francisco Guardian


Open Your Eyes, Night Avenger

Letter to Willamette Week


Media Critics Blind towards Playboy

Published in the Portland Alliance

Portland at Crossroads of Human Trafficking

Published in the Portland Alliance

The Quest to Be Human

An interview with Robert Jensen

Sex Trafficking Strikes Closer to Home

Published in the Portland Alliance