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Q 70% stayed out of prison, and moved toward successful parole discharge
19 mothers were reunited with their children
30 women found permanent employment or enrolled full-time in school
A New Way of Life served as Board Member and Chapter Organizer for Sober Liv-
ing Network, organizing Los Angeles sober living homes to meet health, safety,
and ethics standards
Supported more than 60 formerly incarcerated
women in developing their leadership
• 14 formerly incarcerated women graduated from Women Organizing for Justice
leadership training retreat
• 35 formerly incarcerated men and women participated in a training on Human
Rights and the criminal justice system
45 residents of A New Way of Life participated in 24 interactive workshops on the
Prison Industrial Complex
10 formerly incarcerated women testified for the first time at a public hearing to
"Ban the Box" with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
• 3 residents of A New Way of Life began production of their own digital stories
Reduced barriers to reentry through grassroots
organizing and advocacy
• Introduced resolutions to be considered by Los Angeles City and County to "Ban
the Box," allowing job applicants with prior convictions a fair opportunity to
compete for public sector jobs.
A New Way of Life Executive Director Susan Burton was appointed to Governor
Schwarzenegger's Little Hoover Sentencing Reform Commission and Gender
Responsive Strategies Commission
• Advocated against proposed construction of "community" prisons for women
• Began partnership with UCLA School of Law's Critical Race Studies to bring legal
expertise to the "Ban the Box" campaign
A New Way of Life Goals and Values
A New Way of Life Reentry Project is a grassroots organization that has transformed the lives of over 200
Q0 homeless women since 1998,when the agency was founded as a sober living home for paroling women in the
O Watts area of Los Angeles. In 2002, recognizing the need for women to be reunited with their children,A New
� Way of Life opened a second home to house women with children. A New Way of Life now operates a total
� of 4 sober living homes for formerly incarcerated women and children who would otherwise be homeless, and
Qoffers a wide range of support services to help facilitate
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are role models who provide compassion, direction, and
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MISSION
A New Way of Life Reentry Project helps women and girls break the cycle of entrapment in the criminal jus-
tice system and lead healthy and satisfying lives.
GOALS
• Provide a clean, safe, sober-living home environment where women who would otherwise be homeless
and their children can feel welcomed and supported in their transition to becoming independent mem-
bers of the community.
• Offer education, job training and skill-building opportunities for women to build confidence, develop
leadership, and prepare them for self-sufficiency.
• Provide leadership as a community advocate for the rights of prisoners, former prisoners and their
families.
ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES
1. We believe all people, including prisoners and former prisoners, are valuable and should be treated with
dignity and respect.
2. We believe that prisons and punishment are not effective tools for positive change and that treatment
better serves the person and society.
3. We believe everyone who is given a chance, regardless of the past, can excel with community interven-
tion and support.
4. We believe in the power of mentoring to help people achieve their dreams. By motivating, supporting,
and creating opportunities for others to excel, mentors are valuable role models that build the confi-
dence and self-esteem of their mentees.
5. We believe in the ability to empower people by educating them about systems of societal dysfunction,
thereby transforming their understanding of themselves and their community.
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How To Defend Your Dollar
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
January 25, 2008
The purpose is not to injure our European neighbors'gov-
British special interests backed by the ECB's arrogant Trichet, ernments and financial authorities, especially multi-national
have declared war upon the U.S. economy through tricking the agencies, but to encourage them to return to recognizing the
foolish President of the U.S.A., his foolish Speaker of the House, benefits of civilized modes of cooperative behavior consistent
and the foolish Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, into with that 1648 Peace of Westphalia which governs all among
cheapening the U.S.dollar,while Trichet et al.brag about tricking the actually civilized nations of Europe.
the U.S.dollar into ruining itself.Were the U.S.A.to adopt my rec- This correction of the ignorant behavior of the present U.S.
ommended policy for defense of the value of the U.S.dollar,spec- President and Chairman of the Federal Reserve, is an indis-
ulators betting on Trichet's slyness,could be dumped into a taste pensable,included feature of any competent defense of the U.S.
of their own bankruptcy,an experience which would tend to pro- and its people from the currently onrushing,hyper-inflationary
mote better behavior from them in future weeks. breakdown-crisis now gripping the trans-Atlantic community
as a whole.Without the specific measures which I have stipu-
lated here,the U.S.A.would soon be bankrupted,and our peo-
The U.S. must dump the recent, foolish, pro-hyper-inflationary ple ruined,by the foolish policies recently adopted by both Mr.
policies of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben "Helicopter money" Bernanke and by the U.S.President and the foolish Speaker of
Bemanke,for a two-tier U.S.Treasury policy of uttering currency the House.
on capital account. The general price of monetary emission by European speculators beware, the U.S. tiger is wounded,
the U.S. Treasury (i.e., by the Treasury, or Federal'Reserve but still has claws and teeth.Continue the stunt which some in
System)must be a two-tier policy:a.)One price for the open mar- Europe are attempting against the U.S.A.,and many much-too-
ket,at a significant number of points higher than the ECB,and greedy European speculators will wake up soon,much poorer,
b.)a special,protected price for long-term to medium-term cred- but a little wiser, in the morning. Were I President, I would
it uttered for the benefit of protected prime categories such as guarantee such effects by morning;Americans who do not sup-
household mortgages enjoying Federal bankruptcy protection, port my policy will suffer suddenly and badly enough that they
and regular(Federally or state-chartered)banks.The latter cate- will be"quicker on the draw" on the next weekend this prob-
gory should be priced as loans at between 1%and 2%per annum. lem might come up again.
The Homeowners and
Bank Protection Act of 2007
In August 2007, while many Americans were choosing where to corpse,have simply continued to bail out the banks,when what is
vacation,which movie to see, or which gender their Second Life required is a systemic change in our financial system.
avatar would be, Lyndon LaRouche acted to save the American Here are the essential features of the Homeowners and Bank
people, and the physical economy,from sharing the same fate as Protection Act of 2007:
the world financial system(i.e., death). LaRouche drafted a pro- 1 1. Congress must establish a Federal agency to place the
posed piece of legislation for the Congress,which would create a Federal and state chartered banks under protection, freezing all
firewall of protection for people, and banks, from the sweeping existing home mortgages for a period of however many months or
foreclosure crisis resulting from the collapse of the housing bub- years are required to adjust the values to fair prices, restructure
ble.His legislation,dubbed the Homeowners and Bank Protection existing mortgages at appropriate interest rates, and write off all
Act,is,still today,the only proposal on the table that will actually of the cancerous speculative debt obligations of mortgage-backed
prevent the millions of anticipated home foreclosures,and,impor- securities,derivatives and other forms of Ponzi schemes that have
tantly,reorganize the presently dead banking system as well.Other pushed the banking system into bankruptcy.
`official" proposals, as in the tradition of providing CPR to a 2. During this transitional period, all foreclosures shall be
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frozen,allowing American families to retain their homes.Monthly nation's largest state,California,has been declared to be in a state
payments, the effective equivalent of rental payments, shall be of "fiscal emergency," by the governor. The freezing of foreclo-
made to designated banks, which can then use the funds as col- sures, along with protection for banks, is the vital first step in a
lateral for normal lending practices,thus recapitalizing the bank- thorough economic reorganization.
ing system.Ultimately,these affordable monthly payments will be Follow-up steps would involve the Federal Reserve System itself,
factored into new mortgages,reflecting the deflating of the hous- being put through bankruptcy reorganization,and transformed into
ing bubble,the establishment of appropriate property valuations, a Third National Bank of the United States.As developed in Lyndon
and reduced fixed mortgage interest rates.It is to be expected that LaRouche's September 2007 draft platform for the Democratic
this shakeout of the housing market will take several years to Party,these actions shall be complemented by the creation,by treaty
achieve. In this interim period, no homeowner shall be evicted agreement among leading nation-states, of a new Bretton Woods
from his or her property, and the Federal and state chartered System,based on fixed exchange rates,and long-term treaty agree-
banks shall be protected,so they can resume the traditional func- ments for large-scale development projects on a global scale.
tions,serving local communities,and facilitating credit for invest- Through intense organizing by LPAC,hundreds of state and
ment in productive industries,agriculture,infrastructure,etc. local elected officials from around the nation have personally
3.State governors shall assume the administrative responsibilities endorsed the HBPA,dozens of city councils have passed resolu-
for implementing the program,including the"rental"assessments to tions in support, and it stands introduced into the legislatures
designated banks,with the Federal government providing the neces of, at this point of writing, six states, and is pending introduc-
sary credits and guarantees to assure the successful transition. tion in many more.But this is not enough.
In the four months since LaRouche put forward this proposal, I LaRouche said the foreclosure tsunami is occurring, not
250,000 families have lost their homes,an increase of 100010 above because of a mere housing crisis, or mortgage crisis, but the
the previous four-month period, and the central banks of the death of the entire global financial system.There is no resuscita-
world have injected an estimated $2 trillion of liquidity into the tion for this system--only a legislative firewall, created now, to
banking system,all to no avail.On the national stage,while there protect the general welfare,will work.The alternative,as the likes
is much discussion of LaRouche's proposal, there is little action, of Felix Rohatyn and George Shultz would enjoy,is a new British
although Senator Clinton's remarks point in a useful direction.As Empire,involving dark age and war,where the globalized British
the foreclosure rates mount,and home values plummet,cities and Empire is on top, and the masses of jobless, homeless people,
counties are finding their property tax base disappearing,and the lowing like cattle,are on the bottom.
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