In 1982, Sally and Marie and Joni began the work of forming the Alliance for the Safety of Prostitutes while they were all still working at Rape Relief. Since that time, Sally and Marie have developed the Alliance into an independent women's liberation group. Membership in ASP includes women who have grown up on the street, women who have been prostitutes, women who still work as prostitutes, and women who have a consciousness of the vulnerability to male violence that prostitutes face.

Women who belong to ASP share the common goal of working towards making the streets a safer place for all women, particularly prostitutes who they see as being the least powerful and most vulnerable because their work leaves them wide open to all kinds of attack from men. ASP works are exposing the myths surrounding prostitution and is fighting for the decriminalization of prostitution as well as providing counselling and advocacy.

One fight back strategy of ASP's has been to work with women on the street setting up "safety systems" whereby women who are prostituting can check for one another by watching which men each woman goes off with, getting the license plate number and watching for the woman's return. As well as publishing the monthly newsletter The Whoreganiser, ASP publishes a monthly "Bad Trick Sheet" which lists the descriptions of men who have attacked women working as prostitutes in Vancouver. This alerts women about known male attackers and removes the power of men's anonymity. In Vancouver as well as in several other major cities of the world, particularly port cities, prostitutes are organizing to fight back against those people who treat prostitutes as "society's disposable women."

Sally and Marie are both working class women. Sal is a prostitute, Marie is a woman of colour.

50% of street prostitutes are third world, native, black oriental, Asian

60-70% are single mothers. Many were sexually abused as kids, prostitution is not a glamourous profession: it is degrading and dangerous work done by women who are for the most part poor.